Gordon Primary walking group have enjoyed the good weather, and looking at changes in the trees in and around the school.
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Battlehill Walk
The whole of Gordon Primary walked from school to Battlehill and around the hill for the third year running on Friday 6th May.
Primary 7SC led the way. The school stopped for a rest and snack at the shelter in the woods, before continuing on their walk. While there they had a chance to look at some of the young trees they had planted two years previously which are now growing healthily into young saplings and were just coming into leaf.
Staff and pupils agreed that it was good to do a whole school activity together.
Willow Weaving
Primary 7 pupils were very lucky to get the opportunity to find out about willow weaving and have a go.
Linda Lemieux, who lives in the South of England, has been making and selling baskets and other artefacts from Willow and rush.
She came into Gordon Primary and worked with the p7 classes.
She taught the p7s how to make a fish out of a willow frame, with rush woven around it.
She showed us how to gently bend the willow so it didn’t snap.
She also took groups of pupil into the school grounds to search for supplies of willow.
Thank you Linda! It was a fascinating day.
Nursery News
The nursery have been wrapping up warmly and spending as much time outside as possible .
They have been investigating ice, and finding out how it freezes into different shapes. They have also been finding out about freezing and melting.
In the nursery garden they are able to play in their own “igloo” and to build with blocks.
Mark Beaumont’s visit
On Friday 30th of October Mark Beaumont, a famous cyclist, visited our school. He was telling us about his great adventures around the world.
Mark cycled around the world completely solo, it took 194 days. He went to some of the most dangerous, war-torn countries like Iraq, the boarders of Afghanistan, Ukraine etc… He also cycled round some of the most beautiful countries to like India, France, America, South America and more.
He also mentioned the STV Scottish appeal where they made him swim and run through Scotland, two things he wasn’t very good at.
He also holds a Guinness World Record for going right from the top of Africa to the bottom. It took him 41 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes.
He also did a speech which basically said, ” If you set your mind to it you can do anything” which I thought was very nice
-Libby
Nursery Treasure Hunt
On the 25th of September the nursery pupils went on a trip to the school woods. To get there they walked across the zebra crossing and into the playground where they ventured into to the woods.
Joshua said,”I found a sparkly necklace in the woods.”
“There was a lot of pine cones in the woods, that we found.”said Riley
On the nurserys treasure hunt they found lots treasure like a belt, a pirate hat, a bag, clothes and gold.
Nursery News
In the nursery they have been learning about the exciting project of Pirates. Up on their wall there are treasure maps they have made themselves. They soaked their maps in tea to give it a brown effect. The nursery pupils have been outside to scrub the decks like the pirates would have done. This Friday they will be going in the school woods to hunt about for treasure. Hopefully we will keep you up to date about how their treasure hunt went.
By: Ailsa and Lauren c-m, primary 7 SC
