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Glorious sunshine, delicious food and great company! Today we enjoyed a delicious lunch outside to celebrate the Queen’s official birthday. Barbara had organised our lunches in Union Jack bags with yummy Union Jack decorated cupcakes as a treat too.
Bet the Queen wished she had been able to join us!
On Wednesday 1st of June, Portpatrick Primary school set out in the glorious sunshine to help tidy our village. The boys and girls, accompanied by parents, grandparents and siblings, went down to the beach to collect litter along the shoreline. We were warmly greeted and encouraged by holiday visitors and their families. After making the beach spick and span for everyone to enjoy, the school progressed to the play park and the public areas at the heart of the village. We dutifully bagged and binned 12kg of litter, helping to make our village shine. This was a great learning opportunity for the children as the task supports the requirements of Eco Schools Scotland. Such whole-school activities help to cultivate the children’s social skills, developing their capacities for learning i.e. responsible citizens and effective contributors and aligns with the learning experiences and outcomes of the Health and Wellbeing curriculum.
Take a look at our happy snaps to see our little workers in action!
E & O’s relevant from Early – Second level
Representing my class, school and/or wider community encourages my self worth and confidence and allows me to contribute to and participate in society. HWB 2-12a
Through contributing my views, time and talents, I play a part in bringing about positive change in my school and wider community.
HWB 2-13a
I value the opportunities I am given to make friends and be part of a group in a range of situations. HWB 2-14a
On Tuesday we had the pleasure of a visit from Wayne Dixon and his dog, Koda, who are on a major litter-busting mission!
Together Wayne and Koda are walking around the coast of Britain and litter-picking as they go. He explained to us about how important it is to keep the world around us looking as beautiful as it really is. Some of the boys and girls in P1-4 wrote about his visit.
Maya P1
We asked Wayne lots of questions about what he is doing. He’s going to walk around the whole country with litter pickers and clean everywhere up! If people keep on dropping litter then he will be doing this job forever! He had a lovely big dog called Koda who is walking with him so he is not lonely.
Liam P2
Wayne told us about his dog. He is called Koda and likes to go for long walks too. They like to walk together. Koda was quite a big dog and he was mostly white. They’ve found lots of litter. People need to put their litter in a bin.
Rhian P4
Wayne told us about some of the strange litter they have found like take-away boxes, phone cases and hats! He wants to keep Britain tody. He likes walking because he used to go on walks with his dad. His dad died a few years ago but Wayne likes to walk in memory of him. Wayne and Koda have a tent to sleep in if they need to but he uses his Facebook page too and sometimes pubs and hotels let him stay there instead. He asked us to help out by putting out litter in the bin and telling everyone we know to do the same! We promised that we would.
What a delicious birthday buffet we enjoyed in school today to celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II! Union Jack bunting was hung around the dining hall and Barbara iced some colourful buns to keep in with the red, white and blue theme. Staff sat with the pupils to enjoy their lunch too. We sang Happy Birthday in honour of Her Royal Highness and raised a toast to her with our juice. We had a lovely lunch – I wonder what she had for her birthday lunch?!
P1-4 had great fun this morning enjoying some football coaching. Lots of skills were being developed; passing, dribbling and even some impressive Ronaldo and Messi style celebrations! Many thanks must go to Gary McKnight SFA coach for his input. The children will have another 3 weeks of this to hone those footie skills further!
An Easter end of term service was held in school this afternoon. Rev. Burns led the service and family and friends gathered with the children. He talked to the children about the Easter story and the relevance of Easter eggs in this. We all enjoyed singing some hymns then Mrs Ferguson took a moment to reflect on the term and just some of the wonderful achievements; Lockerbie Manor, Burns Federation Winners, Curling competition, Rotary Quiz, the Sport Relief Wave Runner and Winter football league to name but a few things.
Happy Easter holiday to you all – look forward to seeing you for an action-packed, fun term 4!
What’s Easter without some traditional egg decorating? The boys and girls put their creative talents into action this morning. What an arty bunch they are!
Barbara was given the unenviable job of judging. After some close inspection she decided upon a first, second and third from each class.
P1-4 P5-7
The winners’ names from each class were put into a hat and one was drawn out to win the Maltesers Easter Egg donated by Miss Whorlow. Lee was the lucky winner!
The boys and girls were surprised to find a unexpected visitor on their football pitch at interval today. No, not a world class footballer come to join their playtime kick-about but a rather bewildered looking hedgehog with a sore leg!
The children quickly alerted staff and Miss Whorlow donned some plastic gloves and popped the frightened creature into a newspaper lined box while Mrs Ferguson contacted the SSPCA.
Patrick, the name the pupils christened the little hedgehog, spent the next hour and a half in the relative quiet of the jotter cupboard until a lovely lady from the SSPCA came to collect him.
She spent some time with the children telling them what would happen next to Patrick – though it turned out he was actually a ‘Patricia’! She reckoned she was about a year old and was probably struggling to find food. She would need a full examination to find out what was wrong with her sore leg. Patricia headed off to a Hedgehog Sanctuary in North Ayrshire and she will be released back into this area in a few weeks. A happy ending!
Well done to Callum and Finn who won the Bronze medal for Boys’ Doubles at the Rhins-Machars Badminton competition yesterday!
P1-4 had ‘fun’ in Science on Tuesday making poop! They have been learning all about their bodies and what is inside! On Tuesday afternoon, they learned about the human digestive system!
The demonstration started off with making some yummy peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. We cut it with scissors to represent our front teeth. Then we used a masher as our back teeth. Then we used water as saliva! Nice! We repeated this action for a healthy banana and then added a drink of hot chocolate! The food went down the oesophagus and entered the stomach (zip lock bag). Here we added some acid (cola) and churned the bag with our hands. It then went into the small intestine (a leg of tights) where all the liquid (nutrients) left into the tray. Then the solid waste went into the large intestine which took the remaining liquid. After that we used a black bag to represent the rectum. Then the big finale – the food came out the anus (cut hole in the black bag!)
I don’t think they will now forget about the steps in the digestive system!
Lot of laughter and great fun was had by all!
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