We loved visiting Fenwick Parish Church today where Rev Kim shared what happens during christenings/baptisms.
Some of the children brought in pictures of their own and their parents christenings/baptism to show Rev Kim.
We got to ask lots of questions about the church, how people are christened and some children even found their names and their parents names in the church book!
P7 had a visit from Heart Start Scotland, where they learned how to save a person’s life. We learned how to put someone in the recovery position, safely deliver CPR, and access and use a defibrillator. Important lifelong skills to learn.
We have been encouraged to take our learning home and share with our families. Please ask us how to put someone into the recovery position.
Well done our fabulous Primary 7 and Primary 6 football team. We continue to make progress together as a team and today we travelled to Loudoun Academy to take part in an inter schools tournament and a friendly match.
We look fabulous in our Fenwick Team Strip.
Mr Houston complimented their team spirit, positive attitude and improving skills on the football field. Well done everyone! We are proud of you.
Today we said goodbye to our fabulous student teacher, Miss Wales. We have loved learning with her over the last 6 weeks and will miss her ‘call outs’, creativity and lovely presence in our classroom. Thank you Miss Wales for your dedication and engaging lessons, we have all loved having you and wish you well as you finish your last term at university.
We were delighted to enter a Netball Team to take part in the East Ayrshire Netball League Tournament at the Rose Reilly Centre in Stewarton. We entered a mixed team of P6 and P7 pupils and were delighted to come in 3rd place.
We demonstrated teamwork, sportsmanship and ambition. Mrs Ross and Miss Jackson were proud of the determination and netball skills that the team demonstrated.
We have been learning all about the design process in art with Miss Wales. Working in groups, we have been given a task to design a pair of trainers for different teachers in school. We read over the design brief for each teacher and then created mood boards on the laptops.
Today we used materials to design a dress inspired by our mood boards. We learned that creating and evaluating were part of this design process. The class was a calm, creative space today and we loved sharing our finished pieces of work with our peers. We even had lots of staff come in for a look at our work.
Primary 7 were absolutely delighted when, after the lesson, we learned that our fabulous student teacher , Miss Wales, had passed her placement and we celebrated with the arrival of our new leavers hoodies!
Friday was filled with sunshine and a day for learning outdoors!
We went to the garden to read and really enjoyed using our new outdoor library. Everyone took time to relax and read for pleasure for 20 minutes. Mrs Ross showed us the birds that had been singing in the garden while we were reading.
We then put our books down and played hide and seek together which we all agreed was a favourite part of our day – even the huge spider in the storage boxes that everyone hid in didn’t stop our enthusiasm.
Next we decided to take our P.E outside and try out the cricket skills that we have been developing with Miss Wales. After practising our batting and bowling we had a fun mini game. We definitely have some budding cricketers in P7! We used Significant Aspects of Learning (SALs) to identify skills that we could see while we were watching games from the side-lines.
We are hoping this sunshine lasts when we visit Dalguise next week!
Today, as part of their topic about Australia, Miss Wales taught the class all about the Sydney Harbour Bridge and compared the construction to the Forth Road Bridge. We learned about suspension bridges and steel arched bridges.
Miss Wales then gave each group a set of instructions with the requirements for their group bridge along with a ‘helpful tips’ handout.
Points were awarded after their time constrained construction for design, strength and teamwork.
Miss Wales was very impressed by our teamwork skills and by the strength of some of our bridges.
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.
