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P6/7 Health Week Day 3

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Health Week
Day 3: Singing ‘The Lost Alien’

Today the Primary 5/6 and 6/7 pupils enjoyed a visiting the Grand Hall to perform the songs they have been learning for the ‘Lost Alien’.  The songs all focused on environment and the harm that is being done to our planet – in turn affecting the quality of life that people may experience. Excellent work has been put in by Siobhan Mcauley who is a freelance singer and also works for the Scottish Opera as she has been coming to the school twice each week to practice with the pupils. The pupils really did our school proud and all appeared to enjoy themselves and this has been an excellent opportunity to build their confidence and self-esteem.

P6/7 – Health Week Day 2

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Health Week
Day 2: Art, Nature, and Wellbeing

Primary 5/6 and 6/7 participated in a whole day workshop delivered by student art teachers focusing on wellbeing. They listened to a story all about the importance of taking care of nature (particularly trees) then participated in a discussion around the importance this has on ensuring we are healthy (both physically and mentally). 

The pupils then went outside to explore nature in our environment and to collect natural resources to make their own paintbrushes.

After this, the pupils discussed their natural environment and drew different aspects of their environment in the playground. They then discussed what they drew and how it makes them feel. The pupils learned how to make paint, helped make different colours of paint, then used the paint to colour their drawings.

Finally, the P7 pupils engaged in a transition discussion with the art student teachers about any worried they had about high school then created a ‘Class of 2023’ tree.

P6/7 Health Week Day 1

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Health Week
Day 1: Karate, Super Tattie and Mindfulness Club

 

Today the Primary 6/7 pupils enjoyed a visit from Sensi Liam who delivered a fun and full of laughter introductory session to Karate. The pupils learned lots of different moves inclucidng kicks and blocks by taking part in a variety of drills.
Following on from this session, all pupils have been invited to attend a 2 week no obligations free trial. Pupils who were interested should have a leaflet in their bags this evening.

 

The pupils were also surprised by a visit from SuperTattie the East Ayrshire School Lunches mascot who spent the play time in our playground.

Some pupils from our class who are in the Health and Wellbeing Pupils School Improvement Committee lead a mindfulness lunchtime club for pupils from across the school. They participated in mindful colouring and the classroom felt very calm and relaxed.

 

P6/7 Science

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We were learning about the heart as part of our human body systems topic. The children investigated how long it would take to transfer 5 litres of water from one bucket to another as our heart pumps 5 litres of blood around our body a minute. We identified healthy choices we could make to have a healthy heart and made a healthy heart poster.

P6/7 RRSA outright campaign

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To day we took part in Lesson 2 in the Unicef Outright Campaign. After watching a clip from Paddington we explored health systems so that children can experience their right to the best possible health, Article 24. The children investigated the terms linked to health and health systems and how we can protect ourselves against illnesses. We created a mind map of associated words and played bingo using health system terms.