Today Mr Houston came to talk about our School Values – Honesty, Respect, Kindness and Ambition. We shared with him how we have been living our school values and what we have been doing to demonstrate them in our own lives.
He thanked us for being fabulous ambassadors for our school and praised the work we do in our leadership roles across the school.
Mr Houston also told us how important it is to carry our school values with us as and be true to our own identity and core values as we move on to high school.
Howard Pitman, a Park Ranger from Dean Castle Country Park came to talk to us all about his job and how to identify wildlife in our gardens. He taught us how to use footprint tunnels and night cameras.
Our favourite part of the visit was holding the different skulls and meeting Fiona Fox (who was an example of taxidermy- not real, so don’t worry)!
Today we enjoyed a visit from Derek, Craig and Adam from. Scottish Power Renewables. They told us all about their jobs and shared their knowledge of renewable energy with us. We enjoyed playing the fossil fuel or renewables game. We even got to try on some of the equipment.
Today we had a visit from Carol Kane from Vattenfall who came to talk to us about climate change.
We learned about the impact fossils fuels are having on our climate and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. Carol shared what Vattenfall are doing by expanding wind and solar power projects across Europe.
We enjoyed using the VR headset to explore inside a wind turbine and learn how it works.
What a great day to celebrate our love of reading for pleasure.
We designed book tokens, took part in a Footy and Booky online national quiz and took part in a book swap.
We designed front covers to win the wrapped book (we could only read a short blurb from the book and we couldn’t see what the book was) and we read in the hall which had been turned into a reading den.
We then had an online Teams call with Patna Primary to take part in a book cafe where we recommended books to each other and shared what we had been doing as a school and within our community to encourage more reading for pleasure.
This term we have been thinking of ways to support wellbeing in our busy playgrounds.
We went to the garden and found lots of equipment that we could use. We worked together to think of activities that we could plan for breaks in the different playgrounds.
We then shared the resources with different classes and taught them how to play together with the equipment.
We created expectations to share with the classes to make sure the equipment is played with respectfully.
We have really enjoyed learning some traditional Scottish Dances. We have learned the Gay Gordons, Flying Scotsman, Canadian Barn Dance, Strip the Willow and Dashing White Sargent.
We have also realised that ceilidh dancing is aerobic exercise!
We decided that we would like to teach our P1 buddies to dance, since they are also learning about Scottish traditions.
