Well done to Isla Whalen who took part in a drawing competition during lockdown to drawing something good in lockdown. The competition was organised by her dad’s work.
Isla was the winner of the 0-4 section and received a £25 gift voucher for a store of her choice.
Isla’s big sister Erin also entered the competition. Although not a winner in her category, she did receive a gift for taking part.
Well done girls.
Two Outdoor Challenges
Over the remaining weeks of school, why not have a go at one of these two challenges. Please send any photos of your activities by Tuesday 30th June. Thank you
Click the link below for an activity to do with your family. Please email Mrs Howie the answers and, if possible, a photo of you taking part in the activity, which can then be posted on the school blog.
2: One Planet Picnic
As an end of term treat, why not plan a socially distanced ‘One Planet Picnic’:
What is a One Planet Picnic? What is different about a One Planet Picnic?
Why hold a One Planet Picnic? There are many reasons. Here are some we can think of:
If you would like more background information from Eco Schools, you can click on the link below for more information. However, remember to carry out your picnic according to the most recent guidance from the Scottish Government in relation to which Phase of the Route map we are in at the time of your picnic.
Please do send a photograph of your picnic!
https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/media/1562030/opp-guide-2018-final-210818.pdf
For the past few years, we have created a yearbook for our P7 Leavers and presented it to them as they have moved from Primary to Secondary School.
As we approach the end of term, we would like to take the opportunity to share this yearbook with everyone to help celebrate our P7s who are moving on to High School. We will miss you all very much
Thank you Miss Clendinning and Mrs Graham for creating the yearbook.
P1 have been taking part in a variety of activities about ‘Winter’ lately from ice investigations to an outside winter hunt, creating frozen Elsa hands, printing winter scenes, loose part snowflakes, drawing snowmen using Paint and some great abstract art. Here are just a few of our activities….
Here are this week’s award winners including some from the same families! Also this week, we were delighted to see the first two awards nominated by Mrs Gray for P.E this week. Well done all!
Primary 5 (group 2) had a fantastic time at Carlingwark Loch with a full day of Watersports – sailing, kayaking and canoeing! Pupils demonstrated perseverance, resilience and great teamwork. Mrs Dyson was proud of all their efforts.
Primary 5/6 have had a fun afternoon learning about Italy. They were split into groups and rotated around different stations.
Station 1: Tasting Italian food and comparing it to Scottish food – Bread Sticks, Ferrero Rocher, Italian Coconut Cookies and Chocolate Chip Biscotti.
Station 2: Looking at real Italian greetings cards and making their own using Italian language.
Station 3: Using maps to locate Italian cities and finding out how people travel around Italy.
Station 4: Researching Pompeii and finding out about the volcano by looking at photos and reading books.
Some comments the children made at the end of the lesson:
Lily – “I learnt that the people of Pompeii didn’t know what a volcano was”.
Nicole – “I learnt that Italians eat very strange food but they probably think our food is strange too”.
Archie – “My favourite fact was that people in Italy use different stamps at Christmas time than the rest of the year”.
Jake – “I enjoyed learning about and tasting new Italian foods”.
Yesterday the children from the nursery joined with P1 and P1/2 to do some Easter activities. Pre-schoolers from Birchvale Nursery joined us as well since this was a great opportunity to begin preparation for going to school. We all had a great time. It was lovely to see the different age groups working together and we hope that this is the start of more regular events like this.
Primary 5/6 visited Stirling castle for a class trip to learn more about the Wars of Independence and life in the 1300’s. They learnt about the way the castle was built, jobs in the castle, the royal family, food, weapons and the wars. Our tour guide, dressed as Sir Phillip de Mowbray was fantastic!
