Mrs Hendrie and Miss Gray have had a busy afternoon constructing two new tents in the ECC garden to provide some shelter for the children while learning outdoors 🙂

On Thursday, four of our P7 pupils created designs of paths/swirls/mazes to be cut into the back grass at the school which has become overgrown during the school closure. The designs were amalgamated together and a grass cutter machine cut the grass in to the design yesterday morning. This initiative is very exciting as it will allow us to develop learning through landscapes, biodiversity and develop our outdoor learning curriculum within the school. It will also give our children a fun, natural environment to explore and to learn from.                                                                                                                        Yesterday Dominic, Archie, Freya A and Louie from last session’s Pupil Council and Miller, Freya L, Callum and Eilidh from last session’s Rights Respecting Schools group met with Natalie White, Outdoor Learning lead officer, George, the grass cutter and a photographer from East Ayrshire Council. These and other super photographs will be used to publicise and promote this initiative to all schools in East Ayrshire.                                                                                       We are delighted that Gargieston is leading the way!!

As the weather is so hot ,& pupils will be spending more time outdoors.

Could we please ask that sun cream is applied before coming to school.

Pupils could also bring in sun cream if they need to reapply it during the school day and a sun hat to protect them fully from the sun.