Unfortunately I was unable to attend this event on Momday but I received a couple of photos from a colleague at my previous school:

The children all shared how much they enjoyed their day at RBA.

The children all had an amazing time at the Science Centre today. Here is just a snippet of what they got up to:

I thought I’d take some photos of this stunning facility that we have had the pleasure of staying for the past 3 days.  Your children have been a credit to you, using polite manners and respectful attitudes. The staff have commended them for excellent listening and following instructions.  We have all had a blast! Now all the activities are done they are looking forward to coming home!

Be on the lookout for residential log books in bags so that you can share in your child’s experience!

Our last day and children are saying they dont want to leave.

We began this morning with some team building activities – ask your child the aim of each:

Then we had a very active session of UV dodgeball.

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• We then walked up the hill to plant a Scots pine to mark the time when Ochiltree PS came to stay!
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After a hot breakfast of bacon, scrambled egg and boiled eggs with toast and cereals we began our day with an hour session of archery. By the end of the session there were no arrows hitting the ground!

Activity 2 was a gymnastics in the gym hall. Unfortunately there was little opportunity as we had children from another school with us:

We thought you might like to see our accommodation at Inverclyde. Here we are chilling before going down for breakfast.  Ahhhh this is the life.

Each room has its own ensuite wet room!

We arrived safe and sound just after 10 and after a welcome talk we were straight into activities. We began with den building in 2 teams:

Next we went to the climbing wall. Apologies for photo quality as the sun was on the camera:

After lunch we went on a search and rescue to learn about survival:

Our final activity before getting settled into our rooms before dinner was a night line:

After all of this there was a lovely walk down to the beach with Mrs McCall, who had conveniently brought the school credit card and treated everyone to icecream! I had some very exhausted children by bedtime.

Our House Captains and Vice Captains led a session with their team members. They showed their house badges using the winning logo. In this session they were finishing posters and coming up with a team chant or rap. Here is our yellow team, “Coyle” hard at work.

We have been working on converting fractions into decimals using our knowledge of division. We worked in our numeracy trios to display this learning in different ways.

Over the past few weeks we have become authors, writing a story for our P1/2 buddies. The children were given the start of a story and it was their job to continue the story in the style of the author. The story was, “The Very Lazy Ladybird,” written by Isobel Finn.