Logan Gardens Plant Biodiversity

The whole school travelled to Logan Gardens today for a ‘Lost Word’ experience.  Kate, our ranger from the Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh, used poetry for an exploration of our local natural environment; looking at biodiversity in a different way.

The focus was on the book, The Lost Words, which is a collaborative project between writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris.  The Lost Words celebrates the relationship between language and the living world, and of nature’s power to spark the imagination. Robert Macfarlane has created a series of spell-poems – one for each ‘lost’ or underused word in nature – while Jackie Morris, inspired by her lifelong passion for Britain’s landscapes and wildlife, has painted  watercolours and used gold leaf to take the viewer on a visual journey of nature.  Every school in Scotland will receive a copy of this book as a result of a Crowd Funding project.

The children went for a poetry walk around the garden where Kate shared examples of poetry and art describing nature using figurative language.  The pupils were then set the challenge of using their senses to discover the nature around them, creating a word bank to share with the whole group of what they found.  The boys and girls also created natural sculpture artwork using foraged materials to represent their particular plant of study.

Everyone enjoyed the session and we were very lucky to have missed both the preceding hail storm and the following downpour.

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P7 – Keeping Us Safe

Mia, Katie and Jenna have been taking the initiative to work hard on their STAR Targets.  They arranged and presented a learning discussion to P1-3 on ‘stranger danger’.  They helped the younger pupils learn more about how to keep ourselves safe. The three girls were very informative and shared their street-wise solutions with the class to help us avoid any stranger danger situations.

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Generation Science

P1-4 travelled to Leswalt Primary School to learn about the Sun, Moon and Earth through a Generation Science production. They all giggled their way through the show as we learned about the Earth’s orbit of the sun and all of the different time zones around the world.

P1-4 are now full of fascinating facts about the Sun, Moon and Earth. Did you know you can fit over one million Earths inside the sun! Ask them what fun facts they can remember!

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Maths Data Handling Traffic Survey

Class 2 took advantage of the beautiful day and undertook a traffic survey in the village.  This is as part of our Data Handling topic in maths. Primary 2 joined us as participating in a traffic survey is one of their STAR award targets. We were able to see the volume of traffic in our village. We analysed our data results. We could determine that most vehicles were delivery trucks to the hotels during the morning and that there would be a greater volume of traffic at the weekend with visitors to the village for leisure. We predicted that there would be more cars just before 3pm when parents came to collect children from school.

We produced a bar graph of our results by hand and by using 2Simple software.  We were then able to compare the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.

While we were at it, we practiced our road safety using our Green Cross Code.

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Community Litter Pick

The whole school got their community spirit on as we set off to spring clean our village.  The children helped make everything spic and span by collecting any litter around our playground and village hall areas. Everyone pitched in with a great ‘can do’ attitude.  The children were able to discuss how litter damages our environment and harms wildlife.

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Maths Easter Egg Hunt

The whole school had fun on today’s Easter egg hunt challenge.   The Easter Bunny is a bit busy just now and doesn’t have time to do his maths homework.  He left a message for the children asking them to help him complete it.

Around the school there were 10 “eggs”, each containing one of the Easter Bunny’s homework questions. The boys and girls had the job of finding his eggs, making a note of his Big Maths question, and working out the answer.

The bunny was so grateful, that he rewarded everyone for helping him!

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Eggstravaganza!

The girls and boys displayed their creative talent today as they proudly brought in their decorated Easter eggs.  There was a wealth of concepts and designs that delighted the judges, Barbara, Dougie and Mrs Henry.

Primary 1-3

1st Prize: Jack Trafford – Underwater World

2nd Prize: Lotty Henry – Nemo & Dory

Primary 4-7

1st Prize: Innes McClurg: Carrots and Rabbits

2nd Prize: Mum and Dad Bunnies

Everyone who participated received an entry prize.  Well done to all.

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Dragon of the Western Seas Opera

P4-7 travelled to Sandhead school today to perform The Dragon of the Western Seas Opera with Sandhead, Drummore and Leswalt pupils.  After just a brief rehearsal the children quickly pulled together a sterling performance of the songs they had learned in the previous weeks.

These children’s operas, created and delivered by Scottish Opera, make learning exciting, challenging and creative and allow pupils to participate in a high-quality, day-long music theatre workshop, ending with a performance for parents and guests.

Everyone agreed that it was a truly impressive performance. The children have been inspired to open their creative and musical tastes to a wider scope.

Here is a synopsis of our opera:

In the year 1405 the great Dragon Throne Emperor of China, Zhu Di, has decided it is time his nation expanded its influence beyond the edge of the known world and into the mysterious Western Sea.

He assembles an enormous fleet of mighty ships with 28,000 crew, and fills them with all the treasure and riches of China. Enough to buy the gratitude and friendship of those unknown lands beyond the setting sun.

Only one man could be trusted to lead such a dangerous and important mission, the great Admiral Zheng Ha, the Dragon of the Western Sea!

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