Month: June 2023

Hello, today I am going to tell you about my induction days at Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart.

The school itself was quite big, sporting a shiny look. We met in A Hall with the rest of the P7s. After a bit we were taken to D hall to have an assembly that explained the school rules and expectations. Afterwards, we got our timetables, ties, and moving leaflet. I made my first friend in second period, who was called Kyran. In most of the classes it was a quick review of the rules for each class, and in some, a quick quiz about the subject. Just before 6th  period, the fire alarm went, and I noticed just how big the field and school was. At the end of the day, we made a “Rainbow Fizz” in science, but because we poured in our chemicals too quickly, it all spilt. On the second day, we wrote letters to ourselves at the end of first year in English. We had a bag to write on to order our lunch, which we did in SET (Student Enhancement Time), at the start of the day. I had sparkling strawberry water with a tuna mayo sandwich and a chocolate brownie for lunch. I hope to explore the menu next year. Along with the school, there’s also a leisure centre next door, which I think is used for PE sometimes. The subject I’m looking forward to the most is Home Economics, because I’ll get to take home the food I make. Originally, I was reluctant to go, because I didn’t want to leave my comfort zone, but it turns out Douglas Ewart wasn’t so bad after all. Now, homework might change that opinion, but it probably won’t.

The Head teacher and I took all the toys that were left over from gala day to the charity shop called Lift D & G – Community Exchange. Thanks to all the people who gave us  toys for Gala Day at Holywood School. You helped us to raise money and now you are helping the local community too!!

Brilliant!

 

by Daniel

 

Hi 😀

On Wednesday we started our induction days. We met at the picnic benches by the gate and the buddies took us to our first classes. There was different buddies for each house (Nith, Cairn, and Scaur). Heres some classes we did 🙂

-PE

Dodgeball, Who can build the biggest tower
with PE equipment, Jedi dodgeball, warm up
stuff, badminton.

-Maths

All about me (maths style), solve all about me
by the teacher.

-English

Writing ideas of what we think happened in
news stories based on headline, interviewing
a partner.

-Social studies

Geography- organising pictures.
History- picture on the board and circling
things that weren't made in that time, learning
about the moon landing and finding words to
do with it around the classroom.
Modern studies- word search about things to do
with the current environment, modern studies
bingo.
RE- writing down rules of the classroom,
answering questions that were in the 
textbooks.

-Health & wellbeing

Answered questionnaire about how we felt with
going to a new school on our phones and
submitted to office.
PSE (personal social education)- talked about
school rules and what to do when lost.

-Music

Played songs on the ukulele and the keyboard.
Made a poster titled "My Musical Journey"
about our experience with music.

-Drama

Team-building games where we make our teams
into a certain shape and drama games 
including wink murder.

-Science

We used Bunsen burners and went round 3-6
different stations. 
Learned how to draw scientifically.

-Art 

Drew insects and coloured them in with bright 
pencils or just sketched them.

-French

Played French games.

-ICT

Went off topic and spent 25 mins talking about
trees.

-Design & technology

The teacher was showing us how to speak
"French" and we didn't have time to make our
own boats to race so we used ones other people
learned.

Bye 😀 

My favourite classes are science, IT and DNT they are my favourite classes because they are practical.   All the classes were good and fun.   My favourite teacher was Mrs Little the IT teacher she was my favourite teacher because she is kind.   when we arrived at Wallace hall we met at the benches.   Our buddies took us to class.

Hi its Jullien and Rory and we are going talking about Week in the woods, On Monday we played some games with a bell and we played some sardines then we played music with woodland resources and then it was big break.

on Tuesday we examined an area of plants then painted them which was fun we also measured trees with pencils and people then found out what they were.

on Wednesday all the primary sixes made a pulley system to carry a rock then i rory) went and made a mud sculpture then played.

 

on Thursday we played games and made a den we also done that on friday

Hi its …..

Erin,

and today I will be telling you about high school. last week all the P7 went to high school for 3 days. I was in scuar Skye , rammmani , Freddie , and  Jackson, was also in Scaur.

we did English,health and well being, maths,and science , that What I remember that we did on Wednesday. 🙂

on Thursday we did,Music,RE (religious education),more English,History.thats what I can rember .

On Friday we had double PE and double science,modern studies,more maths, and English.

 

bye 🙂

 

 

I woke up at  7am and got ready I left the house at 7;54 to Erin’s then we walk down to the bus stop then we got to school and we went  I am going to tell you all the class went I did in all the three days math English science home economics  computers drama my  Favre  is drama and math .

We spent the last three days at Wallace Hall academy! We did a bunch of stuff we did allllll beforeee and YEA. Like SCIENCE and PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND LUNCH TIME. YEAH. We also had two periods of maths and THREE periods of English and we also done one period of Literacy which is basically English with a lot less writing. 🙂  My FAVOURITE part was the BUSSSS it was great heehehee it was like a FLYING CARPET BUT WITH SWEATY TEENAGERS INSTEAD OF ALADDIN. Speaking of a whole new world, HIGH SCHOOL IS SO DIFFERENT. (I’m sorry about the pun OKIII I couldn’t HELP ITTT) You have to do stuff like HAVE ASSIGNED SEATS and MEET FRIENDS and do PUZZLES.

OKI! That’s a WRAP. Like Mariah Careyyyy (I’M ON A ROLL– OMG AND AGAIN IF U GET THAT I LOVE YOU)

I BET you can’t tell the difference between me and ORI on this one hehehhee totally. C:

OKI BAY BAY!

Last week the p7s  were at high school for our induction days. In design and technology we done boat racing. In art we drew beetles with Mrs black. My health and well being teacher is Mr mac.

 

 

by Freddie

Monday: We had a big safety talk Then we played games and went back after lunch we went back for lunch and then we made musical instruments I made a drum and Niamh made a scraper.

Tuesday: We did flower perspective we thru a hoop and what ever it landed on  we water couler.

Wednesday:  We did trees where you measured them with a pencil you had to close one of your eyes and then walk back in till the pencil was the same size as the tree then you leaned it to the side and made someone walk to the end of the pencil and that was how tall the tree was.

Thursday: We did den building which was great mine was ok. we also played hole school games.

Friday: We did a maths scavenger hunt where you had to measure the weight of stuff then we made the dens again. And then more games we also helped with putting away some of the tents that people bowered.

Bye