The nursery children have been interested in learning about people who help us in our community. We had a visit to nursery from two police officers on motorbikes and the children who wanted to had a turn sitting on the bikes and then had a chance to ask the police some questions. Mary, our lovely lollipop lady came into the nursery to tell us all about what she does, and the children asked lots of questions. We were able to sing Mary a road safety with Ziggy song that we had learnt. We also had Mrs Grieve who is a nurse, and one of our mums, who came in and showed us what nurses who work in theatre wear and the children tried out some of the equipment. This week we went down to the local Fire Station for a visit and the children got to try on helmets, sit in the fire engine and learn all about what fire fighters do! Through these real-life experiences and imaginary play, we are learning how local shops and services provide us with what we need in our daily lives. Also, by exploring our local community, we are learning about the different roles people play and how they can help. Who knows what the future brings for these little people. We are having a visit from our local Coastguard soon to learn about all the work they do for us. 
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Healthy Lifestyles in Primary 5
In Primary 5 we have been participating in some sports taster sessions. We were joined by members of staff from Caledonia Gym who put us through our paces during a boot camp fitness session. We really enjoyed the plank challenge and the sprints. We were also lucky enough to have a visit from James from Cricket Scotland. We were shown how to play cricket correctly through a variety of different activities. Our favourite part of the session was the pressure circle where we had to use hand eye co-ordination skills to stay in the game. Phoebe and Aaron, our Sports Leaders have also been leading warm-up drills and stations during our class P.E lessons. We are looking forward to participating in the taekwon-do session later this week.
Primary 6 Activity Week
P6 activity week was over the course of 5 days, each day we took part in a different activity. Creative Comics visited our classroom from Dundee and we learnt how to write comic strips. We had lots of trips out of school to Botanic Gardens, Crombie and Monikie parks. Take a look at our photos for a taste of our activities.
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- On Monday Creative Comics from Dundee came in and we made characters and comics about the characters
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- My character was called Hobo Siwa, He travelled on the side of a train and met Rich Richard.
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- Raft building at Monikie on Thursday
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- Learning how to use our paddles.
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- We co-operated and built a raft – will it float?
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- Moving our raft and co-operating was hard work. It was really wobbly, we could have used more barrels.
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- I found the high ropes very challenging and scary but am proud of myself that I managed.
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- The climbing wall was easy, we climbed up the wall wearing our harness.
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- At the Botanic Gardens we looked at exotic plants. This is a pitcher plant which had lots of dead flies inside.
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- More pitcher plants. We looked at was inside, – black, mushed up insects.
Focus on Digital Literacy
Have you seen our posts on twitter? A group of P6 and P7 code clubbers attended Angus Council’s very first Tiny Teach Meet and presented the work Woodlands have been doing over the past 2 years with Code Club.
We attended Inverbrothock Primary school and heard great things from all over Angus and Woodlands was one of 8 schools presenting. We have been running code club for 2 years at Woodlands and this year we ran it as an after school club for 1 hour a week which was really successful, giving our children time to engage with coding languages such as scratch, html and css. Through codeclub.org we partnered with Susan from the Bank of Scotland in Arbroath who came along each week to support us with our coding. In code club we learned about sequencing, repetition and variables and as we worked together we were continually problem solving, building our determination, critical thinking and computational thinking skills. Many coders continued tinkering their projects once they got home and built new projects to show their peers the following week.
We can confidently say that code club has been a success, the children are keen to run it again next year and many of them are keen to be code club leaders.
To find out more: #tinyteachmeet Code Club Scratch
