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Robert Burns

On Tuesday we celebrated Robert Burns.

In the morning we listened to some Scottish poems – our favourite was ‘Crocodile’ by JK Annand. We then created our own acrostic poem choosing different words that started with each of the letters in the word Scotland.
In the afternoon we used strips of paper to create our own tartan design for our kilts that will be displayed on our Katie Morag display outside our classroom. We were all confident individuals at choosing which strip of colour we wanted to use each time. We added a black semi -circle to be the sporran and gold detail with our name.

Last week were were confident individuals mixing up icing in a bowl and using a spoon to create a Scotland flag design on a biscuit.

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Celebrating Robert Burns

We were all confident individuals, successful learners and effective contributors when working together to perform ‘A Red Red Rose’ by Robert Burns.

We learned the signs for the poem and then also added music to it. The Oak class put on a special performance for Ollie at Drake music.  He was extremely impressed by everyone. Well done Oak class.

We enjoyed our Scottish dancing, made mini Robert Burns shortbread and made Burns gift bags.

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Robert Burns Day with the Asteroids.

The boys had lots of fun celebrating Robert Burns Day. We discussed who he was and how and why we celebrate this poet every year.
We all enjoyed watching the Transition class’ Burns Supper and were amazed that Mr Nicoll could play the bagpipes!
We made our own haggis, neeps and tatties, made a kilt complete with a sporran and we even attempted to learn the Gay Gordons Scottish dance. We all enjoyed that! 🙂

 

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Scottish Activities Morning – IDL – HWB

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We enjoyed a Scottish activities morning in class where we recited Robert Burn’s Selkirk Grace before our snack of pancakes. We used rhythm sticks to tap out the rhythm of ‘Donald Whaur’s Yer Troosers’ and danced the St Bernard’s Waltz. We played boccia with tatties, instead of balls, and had fun welly whanging where we hurled wellies at a target. We played the Hokey Cokey my putting ‘oor richt airm in’ and sang Scottish children’s songs.

We played hopscotch in the garden and created a Robert Burns silhouette picture.

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Global Goals 2 – ‘Wonky’ Fruit Smoothie

The Asteroids were learning about ‘wonky’ fruit and the difference between ‘wonky’ fruit and the ‘perfect’ fruit you find in the supermarkets. We were learning that misshapen fruit tastes just the same as perfect looking fruit and so to help the farmers,  reduce waste and help the environment, we should try and use ‘wonky’ fruit when we can.

We looked at pictures of different fruit, identified them and sorted them into perfect fruit and wonky fruit groups.

We used ‘wonky’ blueberries, strawberries and over-ripe bananas in our smoothie. It tasted delicious!

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Highland Games

The Bluebells have enjoyed learning about activities that happen during a traditional Scottish Highland Games. We took turns trying out some of the activities. We tossed the caber, threw the hammer, played tug of war, threw the wellie and our favourite was hurling the haggis.

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Confident Individuals – Cooking Neeps

Following on from their neep preparation last week some of the Transition class used their neeps in their cookery class this week. They were Confident Individuals dealing with hot water and pans to boil their neeps before mashing them. They had to have a wee bit of haggis just to help the neeps go down! They confidently used the microwave, kettle and stove top along with different preparation implements.

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Confident Individuals – Drake Music

At our Drake Music time this week the Transition class were Confident Individuals. After our warm up things started to get more complicated! The class listened well and followed hand signals to make different sounds, some high and some low. They then followed colours and shapes to contribute to a class performance of Auld Lang Syne. We are all looking forward to next week!

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IDL – Numeracy

This week we went on a treasure hunt looking for theme pictures. Our theme is Katie Morag and we were looking for pictures of the characters and places from the stories. We went to the garden to see if we could find any. We were confident individuals exploring the garden to find all the pictures that were hidden.  Some of the pictures were big and some were small making them tricky to find. We had to look high and low to find all the pictures around the garden.

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Duke of Edinburgh

Everyone in the Oak class are being confident individuals and responsible citizens whilst working towards our Duke of Edinburgh award.

The physical section is where we are learning to improve and evaluate our performance through curling sessions.

The skill section is where we are learning how to create a tune and work with others to create some music together.

 

 

The Volunteering section we are cleaning up our community by taking part in weekly litter picking trips.

 

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