The sun is shining and really warm. We have had an exciting morning!
Group 1 headed off to canoe while group 2 went to the challenge course. We then swapped activities.
We loved seeing the frog spawn and we couldn’t believe there were so many frogs in the lake!
You can see how much fun we are having by the smiles on our faces. We had a delicious lunch of baked potatoes or sandwiches. Then a wee sit down for 20 minutes in the sun shine before we head off for the afternoon.
We will up date you later this evening after all our activities.
After a good sleep we were all up and at breakfast for 7.30am! Sausages, hash browns, beans and cereal was on offer and everyone made sure they filled up before we head off to our first sessions of canoeing and challenge course.
Nicole (our leader) got us all playing some warm up games. Then we headed back to our dorms to put on all our clothes for our activities. Mrs Ross and Mrs G did a quick room check! We are organised and raring to go…
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!
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.
P7 Led the whole school Scottish Showcase family friends and invited guests. We are proud of Fenwick Primary and ECCs children’s amazing talents. We were treated to songs poems and dances.
Primary 7 used their leadership skills to host the morning. They also had their own Burns Supper in between where we heard the Selkirk Grace, the haggis was piped in by our talented p7 Piper. We then listened to the Address to the Haggis. Then our laddies toasted the lassies and the lassies gave their reply. Gracie wrote the immortal memory and gave a confident recital of it. what a talented class we are!
