Dunlop House won the House Treat last month and the House, Vice and Sports Captains organised a sports themed treat afternoon to celebrate their success.
They organised Just Dance and Parachute games in the hall. In the playground they set out resources and led a variety of games and activities for everyone to enjoy.
The feedback from Dunlop House was very positive and they loved sharing their success together.
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.
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!
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.
