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P5/6 Hampden Trip

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Today we had  a fantastic trip to Hampden Park. 

Read  all about our  day of learning: 

Striking Herstories

https://www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/

We started in the Scottish Football Museum where we were excitied to see the real Scottish Cup . We then visited all the stops on the Striking Herstories Trail, exploring and learning all about the history of Women in Scottish Football. We enjoyed looking at lots of the interesting artefacts and interactive activities.

Stadium Tour 

Next we took a tour of the stadium and visited the underground roadway where the team buses arrrive. We went to the home and away changing rooms (we all changed our shoes in here so that we could say “we got changed in the Scotland Football Team changing room”). We loved entering the stadium to the “Hampden Roar” and then being presented with the Scottish Cup! Thanks to Jim and Andy for telling us so many amazing facts and Megan for making sure our day was captured on film! 

AR26 / Brain Health STARS Training Session

https://www.ar26.org.uk/

Ronan from AR26 came to take a FIFA training session. We learned different strategies to use rather than heading the ball. We really liked spelling out the word BRAIN in teams, passing the ball to the correct letter. Euan, Mrs Ross’s son,was also there to help with this session as a football player and coach. 

Sophie from Brain Health Scotland came to talk to us all about our Intergenerational Topic and she was super impressed with our brain knowledge and how to prevent brain disease and take care of our brains using the STARS approach. 

https://www.brainhealth.scot/amazingbrain

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Heart Start / Concussion Training

https://www.hampdensportsclinic.com/

Katie and Seamus from the Hampden Sports Clinic delivered training as our last session. They taught us what to do to prevent and treat concussion and how to use CPR correctly. 

We had a fabulous day and came back to school full of excitement and lots of stories to share with our families and friends. 

Thank you to Mr Neal Ross at Hampden Park Football Museum for organising this exciting day of learning for us all.

 

P5/6 World of Work/ Science Week – Day 5

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SSPCA

Today Chris from the SSPCA came to talk to us all about the job he does at the SSPCA. 
We learned about who to call if we are worried about an animal in our community. We then had the opportunity to pretend to be in the SSPCA and work in teams to answer calls from the public and decide the best thging to do in each situation. 
Again, we had so many interesting questions to ask our visitor. 

British Army 

We then enjoyed a visit from Mr Brooks who came to tell us all about his career in the Army. He showed us photographs, let us try on his hats and even showed us the casing from bullets that were fired during training exercises. 

NOVO Technologies 

Mr Wynne came  to talk to us all about Telecommunications. One of  the messages that we took from the session was the importance of TEAMWORK. and choose something that you love doing and turn it in to a career. 

P5/6 Science Week Day 4 – NXP Technologies

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NXP Technologies

We were very excited to have Gavin Gall visit us  from NXP technologies to talk about his job as an electrical engineer.  We leared how computer chips are made and we had a look at some NXP chips. 
We learned all about the role his complany play in developing chips for cars.   We were set a challenge by Gavin to design software updates that we might use in our own chips for cars.  

P5/6 Science Week Day 4- Craufurdland

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Craufurdland Estate

Simon Craufurd came to talk to us about all the different jobs that happen on Craufurdland Estate. 

We practised carrying a tray of food with one hand like the waiters  in the restaurant do. Some of us were naturals !

We then learned all about safety equipment on the Tree Top Trials and what each piece of equipment does.  We had lots of interesting questions to ask Simon about safety and how the equipment keeps you safe. 

P5/6 Science Week Day 4

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Vattenfall Renewable Energy

Carol Kane from Vattenfall, which is Swedish for waterfall, came in to talk to us about renewable energy and the new windfarm in Ayrshire. We learnt lots of facts about wind turbines which links to Global Goal 13-Climate Action and the work we have been doing in class on renewable energy sources. She told us about the huge range of jobs, skills and careers that are available in Green energy.

 

 

P5/6 Teacher Take Over

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Today in P5/6 Mrs Ross put her  feet up and 2 pupils took over  the teaching  in class.

We have been learning about LGBT+ during our UNCRC Article of the week activities and we learned all about the origins of the Pride Flag and that  the  flag represents  Equality, Pride, Hope and Love.

One very confident Primary 6 shared their understanding ond knowledge of the different rainbow flags and taught us all about respecting, celebrating and supporting our differences.

We then learned all about NATO and what nations are included in this alliance.  We answered a quiz that tested our understanding of what we had been taught.

We all agreed that Mrs Ross better watch out ! There are some fabulous teachers in P5/6 !