We have arrived safely at Dalguise and have settled in to our dorms. We enjoyed our first 2 activities which were tree climb and problem solving.
For dinner tonight we had fish fingers and chips or chicken with tomato sauce and chips or vegetable chow mien and a chocolate cookie for pudding – everyone ate a good dinner!
We are getting ready for ambush tonight. The weather is dry and bright.
More photos to follow later this evening with a wee update on our evening activities.
Parents can stop panicking ! We are having fun! 🙂
Today we took part in a whole School Teams Call with the author Richard O’Neill. We learned how he plans his stories and publishes his books. He shared lots of the stories that he has written and let us ask lots of questions about becoming an author.Â
Our Hero Robots are built and our Competition Field is ready to practise on. We are developing our driving skills to move the sensors on our competition field. Lots of fun and class competitions to see who is the fastest and most accurate driver!
Amazing effort in primary 7 today! Fantastic costumes and most importantly, lots of books and reading!Â
We had loads of fun leading our houses in World Book Day activities across the school. Well done to Dunlop who won the book treasure hunt and Fowlds who won the WBD Kahoot quiz.Â
We continue to learn through the STEM labs to build and code our VexGo Robots.
Today we built our competition Robot Hero. This took a lot of collaboration and team skills to work through the instructions carefully to build the competition robot.
We have now have the competition field built and ready to start our Ocean Science Exploration coding next week.
Today we took part in the East Ayrshire School Sportshall Athletics Event. This took place in Loudoun Academy and gave us an opportunity to visit the school some of us will be attending in August.
We took part with enthusiasm, determination and a competitive spirit. Well done to all our fabulous athletes, especially our only 2 boys on the day who had to take part in every event! We were impressed with your stamina!
On Thursday we entered 2Primary 7 teams in the East Ayrshire Schools Cross Country Competition. We were very proud of our super ambitious runners! They ran 1400m with determination and speed. Well done to them all! There were some busy washing machines after this muddy event!
We have been learning all about the Fenwick War Memorial in our village. We walked along to look at it, record the names that are on it and take photographs. We then returned to class and drew line drawings and made a list of the names to carry out some research about the men who are named from WW2.Â
We invited Mr Stewart Finlay from the Kilmarnock Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland to talk to us about the 9 men who are recorded on the War Memorial. Their regiments, where the were killed and where they are buried.Â
We learned that 2 of the men have War Graves in our local cemetery and we have decided to visit them on Remembrance Day to leave flowers and a poppy.Â
Stewart also brought along his medals and some jackets worn by veterans after the war in the 1950s. Stewart shared his knowledge with us and stories of his life in the army.
We had a fabulous day of learning with Mr Wilson who came to teach us how to be Sports Leaders. We developed skills that we will be able to use throughout our lives. We took turns delivering coaching sessions and working together to plan lessons.Â
Thank you Mr Wilson for giving up your time to work with us, we had a fantastic day!Â
