Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing

Gymnastics

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We have been learning new gymnastics skills in PE this term. So far we have been working on floor routines, practising inversion, flight, different types of roll (forward, backward, teddy bear) and balancing.

We had success criteria for our routines to make sure that they included lots of different skills. We had to ensure that we had:

  • Starting position
  • 3 different types of roll
  • Inversion
  • Flight
  • Different levels
  • Different directions
  • Group balance

We have been really enjoying gymnastics so far. We have especially enjoyed choreographing routines with our groups. We are now looking forward to using more apparatus in gymnastics.

Health and Wellbeing

Bikeability

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Over the last few weeks we have been taking part in bikeability lessons in the school playground. Last week we started our first lesson on the road; it was quite scary but really exciting!

Firstly, we had to do our bike check to make sure that our bikes and helmets were safe to go on the road. We then walked our bikes to the road where we were going to do our practising. The manoeuvres we were doing were:

  • Left hand turns
  • Passing a side road
  • U-turns
  • Safe stops

We were constantly improving our skills by making sure we were in control of our bikes at all times and making safe starts and stops. There were some obstacles along the way because some cars passed us or were driving behind us so we needed to make sure we didn’t panic and that we signalled in advance. We are looking forward to practising right hand turns this week along with our safe starts and stops.

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 6 Try Bowling

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On Wednesday, Primary 6 were lucky to have coaches come to visit from Arthurlie Bowling Club. The coaches taught us how to roll a bowling ball considering the weight of the ball and the bias. It was very difficult at first as the balls were very light, but with plenty of practice our confidence grew!

 

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Jamie showing us how to position ourselves

We moved on to target practice where we were given points depending on which hole our ball fell into.

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This was tricky but we managed to get some points by the end of the session

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We would like to thank Arthurlie Bowling Club very much for giving us the opportunity to try out this sport.

Global Citizenship, Health and Wellbeing, Numeracy and Maths

Outdoor Learning and Active Maths

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We were challenged to ‘walk in the shoes’ of a child from Morija to help us understand the impact water shortages can have upon people.

First we were challenged to collect facts about average water consumption per person within different countries. We had to   walk for a mile to retrieve all the facts. Every time we collected a fact we had to carry another dictionary.

We discussed the activity and the possible reason behind the journey and we realised that the journey was half the distance a child from Moroja has to walk to collect water from the stream. The dictionaries symbolised education and the facts that whilst the child is collecting water they are not in school.

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Although we found the task fun because we were outside and it was active we discussed how hard it would be to do this multiple times a day and how it could affect a child’s health and well being.

 

We were then challenged to use our data handling skills to collate the data and create a graph displaying the results. We were shocked to discover that the average consumption of water in litres within the USA was 595 litres whereas in Ethiopia it was only 5litres. The UK’s rate was also very high.  We discussed how unfair this was and that the over consumption and wastage of water needs to be addressed.sam_1355 sam_1356 sam_1358

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy across learning

World Book Day – 3 March

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World Book Day was on Thursday 3 March. We had a lovely time when boys and girls from Miss Macdonald’s Primary 7 class came to read to us.

We heard a variety of stories such as Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Under the Skin and Jack and The Beanstalk. We also listened to poems from the Ring of Words Anthology. Mark and Elliot also SANG a book to us – Miss McDonald had a class!

Thank you to Jamie and Chloe, Elliot and Mark, Charlie, Victoria and Heather, Archie and Lauren, Ethan, Callum, and Cameron. We really appreciated you doing this for us!

Later in the afternoon, we had to take part in a scavenger hunt where we had to look for certain characters, animals and items, such as a happy ending, a mystery, a moral lesson which can be learned etc.,  in books and say where we found them.

It was an enjoyable day!

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