On Friday 9th of June, the whole school set off for a day of learning and fun at Dumfries House in Cumnock.\u00a0 We were joined on our journey by P5-7 from Leswalt Primary.\u00a0 On arrival, the groups split off to participate in different activities.\u00a0 P1-4 went on a bug hunt, exploring creatures in the habitats around them.\u00a0 The children helped to construct a ‘bug hotel’ and visited the garden area to pot plants of their own.\u00a0 P5-6 explored the conditions plants need to grow.\u00a0 They then moved on to plant rapeseed in pots in the potting shed.\u00a0\u00a0The pupils also\u00a0considered what materials are biodegradable before creating their own compost gardens in a bottle to take home.<\/p>\n
Both schools came back together to\u00a0have free time in the adventure playground.\u00a0 The boys and girls then enjoyed\u00a0an\u00a0ice-cream before returning journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Friday 9th of June, the whole school set off for a day of learning and fun at Dumfries House in Cumnock.\u00a0 We were joined on our journey by P5-7 from Leswalt Primary.\u00a0 On arrival, the groups split off to participate in different activities.\u00a0 P1-4 went on a bug hunt, exploring creatures in the habitats … Continue reading “Dumfries House Trip”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}