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Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing

Health and wellbeing – Expressive Art

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On Thursday 23rd February the whole school took part in a Danceathon. Miss Graham in P6b organised for a dance coach called Natalie to come and give dance lessons to the P4-7. We learned choreography to September from the movie Trolls.  We also went to the music room and danced to Just Dance. Some people dressed in dance gear.

We then performed in front of parents and friends who came to watch at the end of the day we also danced to a few Just Dance tracks and the P1-3 joined us.

Kirstie – The Danceathon was something different. It was really fun.

George  – It was lots of fun and it helped to keep us fit.

Olivia  – It was very entertaining and is a good way to keep fit.

Health & Wellbeing

Barrhead Cluster Badminton Big Hit Festival 31/1/17

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The Big Hit Badminton Festival 

On Tuesday 31st January 2017 P6a and P6b went to the Foundry on a bus to the badminton big hit festival.When we got there we went in to the gym hall where Carlibar and Cross Arthurlie  and other cluster schools were already there. We were split into groups then we went and did different activities e.g:- Clear the Court ,Coast to Coast, Chaos, Nettie Badminton, Relay Race.

We did around 10 activities in a carousel. We also met the mascot Nessie, everyone  was crowding him to get high fives. Later we did even more activities and practised our forehand and backhand shots and tried to get them in hoops.

Finally all the schools gathered together and we said thank you to everyone and they gave us Big Hit wristbands. Afterwards we were mostly tired and we travelled back home on the bus.

A big thank you to Mr McGunnigle for organising the event for us with Badminton Scotland.

Kenzie – ” the event was really fun and tired us out”.

Lewis – ” we learned new skills , like how to serve using backhand and forehand shots”.

Connor – ” I discovered I was better at badminton than I thought.”

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Health & Wellbeing, Sciences

Trip to Amazonia

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This week we went on our School Trip to Amazonia in Strathclyde Country Park. Building on our learning of how sound vibrations are carried we learned about different animals who live in the rainforest and how they communicate with each other. We even got to hold some of them!

 

 

“It was a really cool experience and we got to see animals we usually don’t get to see in this country.” – Lily

 

“I loved holding the animals.” – Gary

 

“I loved getting to see all the animals.” –  Aiden

 

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy & Mathematics, Religious & Moral Education, Technologies

RME Assembly

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Over the last few weeks we have been learning about celebrations in different religions. To do this we looked at weddings and the various aspects of these celebrations in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We tied our learning in RME to other curricular areas e.g. Technologies where we designed and built window frames.

 

 

We also used Weddings as our topic for our work in Expressive Arts. As part of this, with Primary 2 we turned our frames into stained glass windows just like you might see in a cathedral.

 

 

We then learned the song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift and prepared and performed a drama of a Christian Wedding at our learning and teaching assembly.

 

 

“It was really good fun and amazing!” – Emily

 

“I really enjoyed preparing and performing the drama of a Christian wedding.” – Lewis

Health & Wellbeing

Helping around the home

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This week we have taken time to develop different domestic skills in order to help around the home. This involved taking responsibility for washing, ironing, cooking and hoovering around the school. These are skills that will help us throughout our lives and support us to develop as Responsible Citizens.

 

“I now know how to use a hoover, which means that I can help around the house” – George

 

“Now that I know how to cook, I look forward to helping to cook dinner for my family” – Kirstie

Health & Wellbeing

Tennis: Ball Control

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Tennis Ball Control Rallys 1.12.15

 

Over the last few weeks we have been developing our ball control skills through different tennis related activities. Today we were progressing those skills by playing rally games with a partner on a small tennis court. This required us to use our ball control and movement skills, as well as polishing our forehand stroke.