Some P1’s to P3’s were really busy in Miss Anderson’s Food and Health.

On week one they discussed the different jobs that use Food and Health and the Skills that they would be using. They looked at the 5 main food groups. They also packed a healthy lunch box.

On week two they discussed foods they would eat at a specific time of year.

On week three they did some food tasting. They tasted Christmas food.

On week four they discussed Kitchen Safety and designed a kitchen safety poster.

On week five they had a healthy picnic in the hall with the other 2 Food and Health groups.

On Thursday 31st January P1- 4 had a special visitor. Corey came to play some Scottish songs to finish off their topic of Robert Burns. A few Scots songs he played were A Man and also Auld Lang Syne.  He then gave the girls and boys a wee treat of Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’ as well as ‘Baby Shark’. Everyone really enjoyed the visit form Corey.

In Skills Academy Mrs McKirdle did drama with the infants classes. They have been exploring scripts to develop characters, emphasising expressions and tone and they were reading short dramas and prepared scripts.

Here are some photos:

Primary 4-5 have been working really hard on maths. The maths they have been focusing on is multiplication and division. The class have been trying so hard to learn their times tables! Here is one of the pupil’s jotters!

This week people who got a F.A.R certificate for achieving got a wristband. Here are the certificate winners for this week. Well done everyone!

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Heathhall school have all been taking part in Skills Academy! There are lots of different activities you can do. This activity was creativity. In creativity you do different things like drama and script writing. Here are some pictures of creativity.

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Newsletter January – April 2019 primary 5 6

In Skills Academy with Mrs Boyd we were very busy.

On the first week we did sound effects. We had a script and we had to make sounds when someone read out the script.

On the second week we did Hot seating with our their favourite characters from a book or movie.

On the third week we created our own character. We had to think about how they act and things like that.

On the fourth week we created our own script and then on the last week we performed our script.

Also we played drama games each week.

This term the school have been doing Skills Academy on a Wednesday afternoon 1:20 to 2:20 but sometimes it’s to 2:50. The pupils were put into groups and then given a class to go to at the times listed. The people who went to the P5 classroom got to do food and health!

They had to research and come up with a French café and their  budget was 40 pounds for 30 people.  They also learned about allergies and intolerances they did a carousel about a food and why it’s not safe to eat it. In that week they also learned about bacteria growth. They were also sampling foods and using their senses to describe foods for example what the food tastes like, what the food felt like (in and out of the mouth), what the food looked like and what the food smelt like. Once they had got the food they had a sheet to fill in about what they think the food tasted like, felt like, looked like and smelt like. Here are some photos of them sampling foods: