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Nurture – Pond Dipping, Kelly Kettle Hot Chocolate, Toasted Marshmallows and Making Fire!

Today we visited the Lagoons in New Cumnock with Howie and Charlotte from Dean Park. They taught us lots about the pond life and how to use a Kelly Kettle with supervision. They even treated us to hot chocolate and a huge toasted marshmallow. Yum!

To finish, we tried our hand at starting a fire using flint and steel.

A great morning was had by all! 🙂

Nurture – Visualisation

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday the boys are being taught three different techniques to help manage their emotions.

Here are the boys this morning taking part in Visualisation where we imagine ourselves in a safe/favourite place e.g. the beach, the park or our own bedrooms.

We take some deep breaths to help ground ourselves and feel calmer 🙂

We are hoping the different strategies will help the boys over time.

Nurture – Howie Visit for Dam Building

Today, we had a fantastic time when Howie Pitman, the Dean Park Ranger came to talk to us about Dams, Flooding and creatures we might find in the River Afton.

Here are some pictures of the experiment we carried out measuring which material; big rocks, small rocks or sand was the best to hold back water. We talked about giving some advice to the men building the  flood defences at the river just now :0

   

 

Here was the time it took the water to go through the big black rocks…

 

the small rocks..

the sand…

and then the sock i.e. makeshift sandbag…