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P5 attend RHET Festival of Farming
P5 had a fantastic day at Dumfries House to celebrate the RHET Festival of Farming. We were treated to a range of workshops from various local providers including Butchery, Beekeeping, Food Processing, Wool Weaving, Soil Analysis, Prevention of Rural Crime, Agricultural Machinery, Dairy Farming, Pig Farming, Looking after Horses, Lifecycles of chickens, Sheep Farming, Arable Farming and Auctioneering!
We loved meeting all the animals, especially the Clydesdale Horses and the mischievous piglets!
Thank you to Dumfries House and RHET for a wonderful day enjoyed by all the Primary 5s! Have a look at our video to see some of what we got up to!
DIARY DATES SUMMER 2022
We are so excited to inform you all about our upcoming events! Due to COVID mitigations recently being reduced we have been able to plan fun opportunities for our children, during this final stretch to the summer holidays 🙂
CLICK HERE TO SEE DATES FOR THE DIARY Summer Term 2022
We are delighted that we can rebuild our partnership with Dumfries house who have kindly found space in their packed schedule for our P1-5 pupils for Farming themed workshops and play, despite having bookings from schools all over Central Scotland! This matches perfectly with our WORLD OF WORK theme, which this year was all about local opportunities, which includes our farming community.
P1a P1b P2 and P2/3 will enjoy the Springwatch workshop at the farm, meeting a variety of animals, learning how to look after them and all about animal life cycles, as well as enjoying time in the STEM playground and new park!
P3 P4 and P5 will be visiting the RHET Festival of farming days at Dumfries House, taking part in workshops where they will be learning about the variety of careers available in agriculture and rural life, as well as enjoying and meeting a variety of animals including horses, pigs, chickens, bees, sheep and cows.
Uniform Bank FRIDAY 29th outside MAIN OFFICE
Are your children growing out of their uniform? Don’t want to waste money buying new uniform so late in the school year? Why not visit the UNIFORM BANK this Friday (29th April) outside the MAIN OFFICE from 2.30pm onwards!
The Clean Green Schools Award team have been thinking of ways to recycle, reduce and reuse throughout the school. One of the ways they have decided to do this is through the development of a school uniform bank.
There will be sweatshirts and jackets available in a variety of sizes. Come along and pick up any items FOR FREE!
The uniform bank will be available on the last Friday of each month from now until the Summer break!
Friday 29th April 2.30-3
Friday 27th May 2.30-3
Friday 24th June 2.30-3
World of Work Week – Farming Visits
Our final day of World of Work week was extremely exciting as we welcomed local farmers into our school playground!
A huge thank you to Emma and Stevie Guild, Elaine and Allan Young, and John Murray for a fantastic day enjoyed by all pupils and staff. We are so grateful to learn about the career opportunities in farming and agriculture, as well as how farming hugely benefits our community here in New Cumnock.
Take a look at our video to see our amazing day!
World of Work Week – Author Visits
Before the holidays, all our children enjoyed learning about the world of work through a variety of visitors.
On Wednesday 30th March, we were visited virtually by 2 authors; Shirley Husband and Lindsay Littleson!
Shirley Husband is a local author who is known for her Harris McCoo books. Shirley and her illustrator Maurice Hynds created the Harris McCoo series of books based on art works by Steven Brown Art.
Shirley spoke about her career as a children’s author and her process for writing picture books. She answered lots of questions from our P1-3 children, and spoke about her journey into writing with our P4-7 classes.
Lindsay Littleson is an award winning Scottish author who writes middle grade fiction novels. Our P5 class were even studying one of her books last term… “The Secrets of the Last Merfolk”.
Lindsay did a long Q and A session with our P4-7 classes answering a variety of questions from pupils about her inspiration for writing, how she became a writer and her favourite books.
Thank you so much to both these talented authors for inspiring our children!
World of Work Week Day 2
Primary 6 have been enjoying learning about careers in law and the justice system. This was linked to their learning about Article 40 of the UNCRC that says:
A child accused or guilty of breaking the law must be treated with dignity and respect. They have the right to legal assistance and a fair trial that takes account of their age. Governments must set a minimum age for children to be tried in a criminal court and manage a justice system that enables children who have been in conflict with the law to reintegrate into society.
They hosted a mock trial, looked at the different parts of the court and the roles involved in a trial!
Primary 2 extended their learning from their virtual Windfarm visit with Vattenfall and RJ McLeod by making pin wheel windmills!
They were so interested in how windmills worked and their creations are absolutely fantastic!
Primary 7 used the Skills Development Scotland website to investigate which careers best suited their personalities. They answered THIS OR THAT questions which then generated a series of jobs that suited their answers.
