A huge well done to our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at last night’s Rotary Club quiz, which was held at Park Primary School. Murray, Colin, Rebecca and Rachael faced some tough questions and opposition from other local primary schools. Although they weren’t placed on the day, we are very proud of their efforts and team work! 🤩
Meta Skills:
Focussing Fergus
Collaborating Cora
Communicating Cate
Sense Making Samira 
This afternoon P4-7 visited the Ryan Centre to enjoy a musical performance by a very talented clarinet choir. After taking our seats, the musicians entertained us with some music from the talented composter John Williams, which we managed to link to the Star Wars Movies!🌟
The 4 musicians challenged us to think of some tricky animal songs, which they replicated using their instrument. We watched in amazement as one of the musicians started taking apart her instrument while playing, the instrument got smaller and smaller and the pitch got higher and higher – we were very impressed. 😀
The performance finished with a super recitation of ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ which seemed to get the P4-7 crowd singing along to the music. 🤩
We had a lovely time in Stranraer learning more about wind instruments and enjoying a very special performance!🎵🎺
Meta Skills
Curiosity Carlos
Focusing Fergus
UNCRC Articles
Article 31 – Right to Play, Arts and Culture
Meta Skills:
Curiosity Carlos
Collaborating Cora
Communicating cate
Focusing Fergus
Articles:
Article 28 – Access to Education
Article 29 – Aims of Education
Article 29 Aims of Education
Meta Skills
Focusing Fergus,
Collaborating Cora
Curiosity Carlos
We were very proud of our two confident individuals, Jorgie and Colin last night. They stepped on the stage at the Ryan centre, in front of a packed audience and recited their Scots poetry word perfect, with great expression. It was a great evening of entertainment and both Jorgie and Colin represented our school so very well.
Well done to both our stars! 👏👏👏
Our Primary 6 and 7 pupils recently had an amazing time during their residential trip to Edinburgh .
They crammed so much into their two days away, and were so very well behaved. Several people commented on what delightful pupils they were and how they represented the school impeccably. Well done all – we are very proud of you . Many thanks must got to he staff for supporting the pupils when away. Everyone had the best time!
Have a look what they got up to here –
Residential trips are powerful because they combine challenge, independence and new environments, which naturally develop meta-skills such as resilience, self-management and confidence
School residential experiences support several rights outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) by providing opportunities for children to learn, participate, and develop independence in a new environment. During residential trips, pupils exercise their right to education (Article 28) and the goals of education (Article 29) through experiential learning and personal challenge. Time spent engaging in social activities also supports Article 31, which recognises children’s right to rest, play and take part in recreational activities. Together, these experiences help promote wellbeing, confidence, resilience, and positive relationships among pupils.
Boys and girls will be arriving home with their book tokens, so pupils can go and collect their £1 free book!
Today P4-7 welcomed back Niamh, the school’s Rugby Development Coach back to start a block of lessons to develop our Rugby skills. We started off with a game of ‘Capture the Flag’ which aimed to support our tactical thinking and ‘Switch’ to practise changing positions and avoiding opponents. 😄
Afterwards, we headed away from the comfort of the concrete to grass to practise some ‘contact’ activities on a soft surface. Pupils paired up to have a go at 4 different safe tackles. Niamh explained that being able to tackle and be tackled safely and effectively is an important priority in rugby and it’s important we can do this before we try a real game situation. 🏉
It was certainly lots of laughs and the mud only gave us a soft place to practise our new moves!😅
Meta-Skills
Adapting Alexander
Initiative Ivy
Leading Li
Collaborating Cate
UNCRC Articles
Article 31- Right to Play, Arts and Culture
Article 29 – Right to Education
Article 12 – Respect for Children’s Views
Today, P1-3 were very excited to welcome Ailsa Buchanan into school to talk us about her job as a Vet, especially given the number of aspiring vets we have in the school!🐾
Ailsa told us all about the skills and qualities she needed to become a vet. She explained that in order to be a vet, you must have a kind and caring personality and love animals! Which was great to hear for all our little animal lovers!😻
She brought with her some of her special vet equipment; stethoscope, thermometer etc. and explained how vets use them to help animals to feel better. Then, it was over to us to become vets, Ailsa brought with her some X-Rays from some attention needing animals and we had to work out what was wrong with the animals and why they needed help from the vet. We saw the X-Ray of a poorly pup who had swallowed a stone, some broken paws and a pregnant dog too!🐶🐱
A huge thank you to Ailsa from Academy Vets for taking the time to visit Primary 1-3. We absolutely loved hearing all about her job and the work she does to look after our furry friends! 🐮🐶🐱🐹🐰
Meta-Skills
Collaborating Cora – Vets often work alongside other vets/farmers, to work out what is wrong with animals. Being able to work as part of a team is crucial. there is absolutely no way Ailsa could do what she does alone, it’s all about teamwork! 😀
Focussing Fergus – Concentrating is a big part of veterinary work. We want our animals to have the best care to get better so being able to give pets our full attention and get the job done right is so important for Ailsa and other vets🐩
Communicating Cate –Ailsa explained that one of the toughest parts about being a vet is not being able to speak the animal’s language. What people don’t always realise is that despite this, animals do often try to tell their owners and vets what is wrong through different communications. Vet’s have the challenging job of trying to work out what is wrong with the animal. Vets also need to be great at asking pet owners the right questions to get to the bottom of things too!😀
Critical Thinking Chris – Often vets have big problems that they may not always know the answers or solutions to straight away!🤔
RRS Articles
Article 13 – Freedom of expression
