This week’s skiing was as fun as ever especially with the snow coming on and off making the slopes that little bit more slippy. Still lots of smiles all round with pupils enjoying the experience, building confidence and encouraging one another thank you to the super staff at Newmilns ski slopes.
Our class focus for PE on a Friday is football. Mrs Hosie has been leading this block and has been excellent with the pupils, bringing in her excellent skill set with football as she used to coach the sport and currently referees the sport. Last Friday, our primary 7 pupils re-capped dribbling, learned different passing techniques and focused on accuracy when passing to the team. They put these skills into practice by finishing the lesson off with a competitive game of football.
Today Vicky from the EAC Health and Wellbeing team and Amy from EAC visited our school to see what we had in place to target period protection. Some of our Sanitary Samurai group spoke to them about how they ensure that there is sanitary provision within our school. Vicky and Amy were very pleased with our approach to period protection and were impressed with the Sanitary Samurais’ confidence in speaking about the subject.
Our class focus for PE on a Monday at the moment is netball. The pupils have been learning a range of skills linked to the sport and transferring them into conditioned game situations. Today, we focused on passing the ball to team mates (chest, shoulder, over-head and bounce passes) and we practiced attacking movements to get free from a defender. We finished our lesson by playing a conditioned game involving passing and movement.
Primary 6 and 7 have been taking part in the East Ayrshire Pupil Wellbeing Champion Training. This week they completed session 2 of 4. During this session they were encouraged to consider different strategies they could use to positively impact upon the younger pupils wellbeing especially if the younger pupils are feeling upset or angry.
At the end of this training all pupils will be trained and prepared to become Fenwick Primary School’s Wellbeing Bees as part of their Primary 7 responsibilities to promote wellbeing across our school.
Yesterday the pupils engaged in lots of meaningful, collaborative work. In groups, the pupils explored the UNCRC and discussed then agreed on the 5 rights they felt were most relevant to ensure a productive learning environment for primary 6/7 this year. They shared and collated each group’s ideas then, as a class, narrowed this down to 5 final articles which will be used as the basis for their class charter. The class charter will be created with all pupils and will set out the expectations within our class to ensure that we have a productive and safe learning environment. Finally, the pupils suggested different themes for our class charter display then took a final vote agreeing upon a nature theme (watch this space for their finished result)!
Next steps:
we will start creating our nature themed display of the class charter
pupils will work collaboratively to create a set of expectations that tie in with the articles they felt were important for their classroom
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