Dams to Darnley Sponsored Cycle Friday 2nd June

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Dams to Darnley Bike ride

On Friday 2 nd of June p5, 6 and 7 took part in the Dams to Darnley bike ride. First we went down to the P.E hall and sat in our groups. Then we got a bag, a water bottle and a biscuit for the journey. We were told who our group leaders were. Then we went outside and got our helmets and bikes. We completed a bike check and then walked in our groups down the tram lines in the playground. We walked to the Jerry Park and then rode our bikes from there. It was a beautiful day for a cycle . We saw lots of walkers with their dogs and had to cycle safely past them.

Olivia – it was good exercise and was lots of fun.

Lily – I really enjoyed the cycle, the views were beautiful.

Kirstie – It was a really lovely day and everyone enjoyed it.

We finally got to the dams and we started to ride our bikes. We stopped at a grassy area and had our snack halfway round. We all loved it and would like to do it again.

We had lots of helpers, Miss Watt , Craig and other helpers from Bikeability. The campus cop came to help and took us safely across the roads. A big thank you to the Fundraising group led by Mrs Murdoch and Mrs Kaur who spent lots of time arranging this. We got sponsored for the cycle and money went towards the Solar Dome and Mindfulness garden.

Expressive Arts, Literacy and English, Sciences

Science – IDL – Food Chains

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For part of our science topic we made two posters. This linked with our literacy work and also our expressive arts work.

One was a food chain process . We researched information using the internet and made notes about the animals in our food chain. We used scientific vocabulary to create a food chain process.

We also used our design skills to create a food chain collage using a range of media.It was a really interesting topic and we learned a lot about animals and their habitats. It was really fun and they turned out amazing and everyone had fun.

Lewis – I liked the art part and I really enjoyed it.

Adrian – I liked the art when I made my Jungle food chain.

Connor-I liked the art food chain because it makes it look 3D and it was cool.

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing

Garden Party 2nd June

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Garden party

The fundraising group organised a Garden Party in Springhill and Auchenback primary school playground to raise funds to buy a Solar Dome and set up a Mindfulness Garden . It was on Friday 2^nd June 2017 at 2:30- 4:30pm.

First the fundraising group was helping set up the stalls. Once the garden party had started all the people helping went to their stalls. After everyone went to their stalls the parents came to pick the children up.

There were lots of stalls here:-  coconut shy, archery, crazy golf, African stall, flower stall, raffle, face paints, wheel of fortune, bake sale, candy floss, bouncy castle, fire engine, drinks maker, bouncy slide, duck derby, hook a duck, chocolate tombola, beat the goalie, tin o' beans  and a tea room. Our class was in charge of the bouncy slides . We made posters in ICT to advertise our stall.

Emily – It was fun to help set up and go round all the stalls.

Mia – the stalls were really good and we had lots of fun.

Connor – I enjoyed helping and going round all the stalls . I especially liked the bouncy slide.

Lewis – I enjoyed the bouncy slide and Miss Graeme’s brownies.

It was a great day the sun was out and we had lots of fun and hopefully raised lots of money. Thanks to everyone who helped us organise the Garden Party.

In literacy we wrote an invitation to the Garden Party.

Health & Wellbeing

Bikeability2 training March to June

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Bikeability 2

We have been doing Bikeability since March with P6b.

The Barrhead Cycle centre checked out all our bikes.

First we did some sessions in the playground where we learned how to perform an M check – to make sure our bikes were roadworthy.

We learned how to carry out a safe start plus the safe stop. Then we did the fast race and the slow race to improve control also we did an emergency stop.

After that we learned how to do left turn, right turn and a U-turn and we did overtaking a parked car. (We used cones as a car.)

Next we went out on the road for a few weeks using Tinto Drive and Pentland road. We practised other manoeuvres:- passing a side road, left turns, safe stop etc.

We had Craig helping from Bikeability Scotland and Mrs Burns and Mr Ogilvie helped during on road training. A big thanks to them.

We also learned about road safety, road signs and the highway code and sat a theory test. Our final assessment was on the 8^th June – we hope we did well.

Ross – Bikeability is fun and gets us outside in the fresh air.

Kenzie – I have enjoyed Bikeability, I have improved my cycling skills.

Jamie – It is interesting to learn the correct signals.

Literacy and English

World Book Day March

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On Thursday 9th March the whole school visited the Foundry in Barrhead. We took our £1 gift vouchers for World Book Day and each pupil collected a book that they had chosen.

Where’s Wally was the most popular book in our class.

On Friday 10th March we had an assembly where we dressed as our favourite characters. Each class also read out a piece of writing, Kirstie read her story, ” If I could travel in time .”

Thomas was Wimpy kid.

Mia was Cat in the Hat.

Ross was Gansta Granny and won the best dressed in P6a.

Kirstie was Annie.

Emily was Gabby Douglas.

Olivia , Lily and Paige were Hermione.

Kenzie was Pikachu.

Mrs Moody was Clipper the clown.

It was great to see all the different costumes that everyone was wearing.

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 31^st 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.”