June 24 newsletter

Heathhall School Improvement Planning 2024-25 (1) (1)Heathhall Standards and Quality Report 2024

Primary 3/4 had a fantastic visit to Heathhall Garden Centre as part of our learning about Plants.

We loved exploring the Garden Centre to find the plants in our Scavenger Hunt and then had fun creating our own clues for a partner. We learned the names of lots of new plants and how to look after them. We used our skills of observation to sketch a variety of plants found at the Garden Centre, looking carefully at the different parts of each plant. We sketched healthy plants and discussed the different needs of the plants. Everyone enjoyed refreshments in the tearoom before continuing our learning tasks.

Colin, the plant manager was very impressed with the questions we asked to learn more about looking after plants. We bought broad beans to carry out our own investigations back in school to determine all the different factors that affect the growth of a plant. We also bought Nasturtium and Sweet Pea seeds  in order to grow our own plants back in school.

Thank you very much to Mr Barr and all the staff at Heathhall Garden Centre for their hospitality, making us feel welcome and their help and support in making this a fantastic class visit!

A fantastic visit from the Vikings, Cathbad and Bjorn!

Primary 3/4 had lots of fun learning more about life in Viking times. We enjoyed dressing up, making a shield wall with our own decorated Viking shields, listening to Viking stories, playing the exciting Settlers game and sharing our learning.

Thank you Bjorn and Cathbad!

Today we were lucky enough to have the Bike Cinema at Heathhall Primary. We had created short films using MovieMaker which we were then able to view on the large screen.

We had to keep pedalling to make sure the screen stayed on.

Primary 7 have spent time planting lots of different plants. We are using our new grow box to experiment with different growing conditions.

We look forward to see all the different plants which will grow successfully!

Today in primary 6/7 we had a special visit,  from Kieran from the HALO trust.  HALO trust is a worldwide organisation which specialise in landmines.  Kieran came in to inform the class more on what the organisation does worldwide and brought in equipment to show the class.  As a class we really enjoyed this and it was great to have someone who is an expert teaching us about this topic.

All classes from P5- P7 had a visit from the NHS today. They were trained in how to administer CPR. This is an invaluable skill which could be needed one day.

Primary 6 were taking part in CPR training.   NHS staff came in to share with us how to administer CPR correctly and also showed us how to  help someone who is choking.

The weather was kind to us on Sports Day. Here are some photographs from the day.