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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 Health Week – Scottish Opera The Last Aliens

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Scottish Opera – The Last Aliens

What an amazing experience to sing at the Grand Hall with 3 other East Ayrshire Schools.
P5/6 performed with confidence and all staff were extremely proud of how smart everyone looked and how engaged everyone was with their performance.

Mr Houston even made a guest appearance to listen to us perform.
A fun and exciting way to promote our wellbeing during Health Week.

P5/6 Health Week Day 2

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Art students from the University of West of Scotland came to work with us today. They taught us about the importance of wellbeing and using expressive arts to promote positive wellbeing and linking it to nature and the world around us. 

First thing in the morning we went outdoors and listened to the sounds around us and used some breathing techniques to help us relax and connect with our surroundings. 

We then went on a nature hunt to find some natural objects from our school garden that we found intersting.

We took our objects indoors and used some observational drawing techniques to sketch our objects. 

After break we created our own paintbrushes using natural materials. We listened to some calming muisc as we designed and used our technical skills to create our tools. 

We then took a break for lunch and in the afternoon used chalk to sketch some large drawings inspired by nature in our playground. 

We learned how to make natural paint using water, flour and food colouring. We finally used our paintbrushes to paint our chalk drawings. You can see by the smiles on our faces how much we enjoyed this day. 

Feedback from everyone was that this was a fun, positive and calming day. Everyone was engaged with the activities and found their inner artist. 
The student art teachers commented again on our excellent behaviour, enthusiasm and creativity. 

P5/6 Health Week Day 1

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What a great start we had to Health Week today! We started our morning with a Karate Lesson with Sensai Liam from Senjokai Karate. We learned some warm up moves and karate drills and all about Japanese culture.  

In class we took some time out of our busy day to relax and have a Massage in Schools break in class. 
During lunch we had a visit from a very important potato! Super Tattie came to visit and we took some photos and had a conga through the playground. 

After lunch we helped the HWB School Improvement Committee by creating class worry boxes. We will deliver these to every class later in the week. 

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