We are delighted to share the news that our school has received the John Muir Discovery Award.
An amazing 132 pupils participated in the award (74 boys and 58 girls), as well as more than 60 parents/carers and family members who supported our outdoor days. An incredible 2982 hours were invested in conservation activities for the Award in the school and village.
It’s been an incredibly busy year, here are some of the things we have done as part of the Award:
Explore areas of the village
Den building
Minibeast hunt
Dolphin House Residential
Big Sleep Out (Camping)
Litter pick (with Catrine Community Action Plan)
Plant sunflowers
Weed school gardens
Make bird feeders
Clean Crew within school (litter picking)
Autumn leaf mandalas
Plaster prints of animals tracks in the woods
Areas of interest bingo
Loose parts play in the outdoors with family members
Certificate celebration
Deliver a whole school assembly
Form a pupil lead Committee
The feedback from parents/carers and family members was super, take a look at their highlights:
“Watching the kids be excited about each activity and doing them alongside parents “
“Seeing the enjoy their day with parents at school with them “
“Spending time outside with my child”
“Getting to spend time with my child doing activities with her at school”
“Seeing kids develop imagination and engage in meaningful play. “
“Staff are awesome and friendly
“It’s good to see the efforts the school goes to and invited parents to take part “
“Really enjoyed my day today. Loved the activities and spending time with my kids in school “
“A great idea and a great day had by all “
“Seeing all the kids working together and the staff interacting “
A special thanks to every parent/carer and family member who turned up to support our Award days, come rain or shine! It is greatly appreciated.
What a brilliant day we had for our whole school John Muir Outdoor Day. Thank you to every single parent, carer and family member who turned out to help make our day a huge success. Each house took part in four fantastic activities, including den building, litter picking, gardening and making bird feeders.
Our John Muir Committee have worked hard this session to make sure that all of our Outdoor Days have been valuable for the children and community. As a school we have explored, discovered and conserved the school and local area as part of the four challenges of the John Muir Award. To find out more about the award click the link: https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/john-muir-award
A special thanks to Catrine Community Action Plan, Timbermills and Tesco for supporting our day with various donations.
Keep your eyes peeled for information on our final Outdoor Day in May!
Our committee had a busy day preparing for the whole school John Muir Day next month (April 24th). We created posters and invites as well as arranging who will be doing what. It’s set to be a fantastic day so keep you eyes peeled for more information.
We made the most of the beautiful frosty weather and got outside to explore. We collected ice from the playground and decided to use water paints on them. It created lots of lovely colours when the sunlight hit them.
We also chatted about the last John Muir Day and what went well and what we might add next time. Everyone loved the picture bingo and got very creative.
Avalon had great fun yesterday exploring the village for their second John Muir Day. The ‘John Muir Committee Group’ had organised a fun scavenger hunt and photo bingo task for us to complete. For the scavenger hunt we had to find a pine cone, autumn leaves, acorns, conkers and sticks/twigs. We were delighted to find them all!
For the photo bingo task we had to make our way around Catrine to get a House photo at each place on our bingo board. We had to get a photo in the woods, by the water, in a shelter, at the park, with an animal, with flowers, at the square and in a special place. We chose the nursery as our special place as it brings back lots of memories for us.
For our second John Muir Outdoor Day, Marneil had lots of fun completing a nature scavenger hunt. The pupils enjoyed exploring their local environment and were able to find pine cones, leaves, acorns and sticks.
They also enjoyed participating in photo bingo. All pupils took pictures with different things in their outdoor environment such as in the woods, by the water, with an animal and much more!
The pupils picked the woods as their special place as they had so much fun playing there with other members of their house.
Avalon were exploring the River Ayr area for their John Muir Day yesterday. We started off by discussing the good things about the area and things that could be improved. The children liked that there were benches to sit on and some great trees that they could climb. We spotted a heron in the water and even saw a man trying to catch some fish!
The children felt that there could be more bins in the area for people to put their rubbish in and that there could be some tables for people to stop and enjoy a picnic as it is such a beautiful place.
We had great fun exploring the area! We found lots of different types of leaves, some wild mushrooms and even some slugs. We made some casts of leaves and other natural objects that we found and worked together in small groups to make boats from natural objects which we set sail on the river.
It was a fantastic day!
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