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.

We shared our stories with our buddies and gave them our books to take home.

This week the learning has been initiated by the learners. Our Scotland IDL was looking into the fearures of Scotland which attracts tourism to our country. As Scotland is steeped in history, many of the children researched into castles. Here is the evidence of their creativity:

Thank you to everyone who puts such great effort into this learning – especially parents for providing the materials and receiving the final products.

Congratulations to Amelia and Olivia whose castle was chosen by an independent judge as being the best of the best. Well done girls!

Team work. Designing a time machine and other instruments/resources to help us go back in time.

Session 4 began with a timeline from the Stone Age up to the present day. As this time line was to scale it helped us to realise that although we think of the Romans and the Egyptians as ancient civilisations they are more recent than we think in the whole scheme of things.

In this session, we cleaned up all the evidence found in our dig.

Here’s what we found!

Now it was back to the stem room to categorise and log our findings.

In our 3rd session with Archaology Scotland we carried out an excavation of our playing field.

Here are the findings from the 3 digs: