Blog to share learning of small, Scottish rural school
This week we’ve had a few K’Nex challenges, including designing a vehicle, a water mill and also a whole class challenge of working together to house Mr A.
Well done to Ben and Freya who best fulfilled the design criteria to go through to the Annan Cluster Final next week.
We’ve all being learning to recite a Scots Poem off by heart and had a class and then school Heat for the Annan Cluster Primary Scots Poetry competition. Well done to Donovan and Ben who were put forward for the Cluster Competition. Extra well done to Donovan who won his category.
Here’s some recordings that P5-7 made plus a couple of bonus tracks. One bonus track is Scots Wha Hae and the other is a very old recording that was on the recording device that I thought I’d share.
Enjoy!
Mr A
Here’s a video of the Scottish Country Dancing that Miss Irvine and Mr Archibald have been teaching to the whole school this session. P2-P7 had fun learning the dances to traditional music and also to Electronic Dance Music. Daft Punk were a particular favourite amongst the pupils.
The music in this recording is the song version of the Scots poem Scots Wha Hae! by Rabbie Burns which P5-7 learned during handwriting and Mr Archibald accompanied on the guitar. This poem is what Burns imagined Robert the Bruce might have addressed his troops with before the battle of Bannockburn. P5-7 have been learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence.
At the start of term P5-7 set targets which they resolved to achieve this year. They tried to make them SMART Targets:Â S specific, M measurable, A achievable, R realistic and T time bound. The pupils then scanned them and manipulated them using MS Paint, so that I could upload them below. They have been displayed in class and each pupil has a copy of these targets in their Homework Diary.
Back in better weather we made a little gif film of Greta Thunberg crossing the Atlantic:
At the start of December we went tree planting near Lockerbie next to the Water of Milk. This was the last stage of a project we’re next going to write about:
Today when the P6s and P7s went to the Tag Rugby Competition the P5s helped load the Rag Bags into the Rag Bag van. After they were all in the Van Man gave the P5s a bag of doughnuts for their excellent help. We got a doughnut each and they were really yummy!
By Lillia and Maisie
by the Fundraising Pupil Group
Our runners were in action last night at the Everholm in Annan. Well done to the girls team Ami, Emily and Brooke who came first in the P7 Small Schools Category. Also well done to the lads, Rio, Reuben and Conner who ran in the P6 category. As ever, all pupils were a credit to Brydekirk Primary.
The whole school has been learning about childrens’ rights. The convention applies to everyone: whatever their race, religion or abilities are.
By Maisie and Lillia
