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P5/6 Health Week Day 3 and 4

May 27, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

We have enjoyed our activities despite the rain :

Tennis with Kilmarnock Tennis Club :

Fitness and Nutrition with Sophies Mum -thank you for coming in to support our week and teach us all about a balanced meal. We have been challenged to eat a rainbow of fruit and vegetables !

We really enjoyed organising an orienteering activity for the infants and the ECC. We lead the activity and gave Mrs Ross the morning off!

Neil from Fenwick Striders came to talk to us all about running. We were inspired by his talk about Lachie Stewart a famous Scottish Commonwealth Champion. We then went outside and ran a mile.

Our last event of the week was the Hexagol. We love this and we even helped Darren and Grant tidy the equipment away – we needed muscle power and teamwork!

We have had a great week of activities and we are looking forwar to Sports Day on the 10th June.

P6 Bikeability

May 10, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

Congratulations to all our Primary 6 riders who completed their BikeabilityScotland Level 1 training today.

They have developed bike control skills in a traffic free environment and have learned how to be safe and resonsible cyclists.

Well done everyone !

P5/6 Volcanoes- chemical reactions

May 6, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

We created different types of volcanoes – cinder cone, shield and Stratovolcanoes.

We then folowed the instructions to create a chemical reaction to imitate a volcanic eruption.

We decided that our reaction was like a pyroclastic flow.

Our final experiment was creating an explosive chemical reaction using coke and mentos.

P5/6 Co-ordinates

April 19, 2022 User deactivated Leave a comment

We took our learning outside today and used the playground to explore co-ordinates. Pupils worked together to create a grid and plot different points on the grid.

P5/6 Fit on a Friday

March 25, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

Every week P5/6 enjoy a Friday workout to kickstart their learning. Today they chose Jumpstart Jonny -Everybody say Whoopa! 🙌 !

Followed by some fresh air and outdoor learning in the garden 🪴 ☀️

P5/6 Wellbeing Outdoors

February 9, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

RSPB Big Birdwatch

Today we went outdoors to enjoy some fresh air and connect with nature. We discussed the benefits of being outdoors to make us feel happy, relaxed and calm.

We took part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. Using our bird identification sheet we counted the birds that we saw in our playground. We were pleased to see robins, blue tits, crows, jackdaws, pigeons and we even spotted 2 chaffinches hiding in a tree.

We also learned how to identify birds by their calls when we came back to class. We used the dawn chorus “music” to listen to, while we drew and labelled what we had seen.

Amelia – “being close to animals and nature is good for your wellbeing”

Callum O – ” I enjoy fresh air and learning outdoors to improve my wellbeing”

P5/6 Outdoor Learning Day

Gallery January 26, 2022 eajudith.ross@glow Leave a comment

Well, what a fun day we had…

Whittling sticks.
Creating wooden characters and then telling stories.
Making toast on an open fire.
Boiling water in the ghillie kettles to make hot chocolate.
Outdoor Yoga.
Learnng to lash two sticks together – to make a Sword like William Wallace.
Creating and performing clan marches.
Sword Skill Practice
Sword Fights like William Wallace.

Thank you to Lorna from the LOST team for making our day so much fun and teaching us so many new skills. We went home filled with enthusiasm, a smile on our faces and a smell of outdoor fires in our hair 🙂 We will definitely sleep well tonight!

Here are some photos of us enjoying these activities…