Teachers from Eastwood high school came down to join in with the activities today. Including Mr Williams! Miss Miller and Mr Williams went paddle boarding. That didn’t end well! (Mr Williams pushed Miss Miller off the paddle board)
Blind Trail
Max and Cameron went on a blind trail with their group. They had to use teamwork, communication skills and their senses to get through a maze, blindfolded, with some obstacles on the way!
Mountain biking!
Mary, Ashley and Matthew mountain biking this afternoon.
Low-Rope and Team building
Adam and Mia have been involved in team building activities this morning. It has involved them putting their trust into each other as well as their new friends.
Archery
Leon and Dylan’s first activity this morning.
Lockerbie Manor
We’re up bright and early and the sun is shining!
Everyone is looking forward to all the activities lined up.
Day 1 at Lockerbie Manor
Primary 7 reached Lockerbie Manor in happy spirits. We arrived just after 2 and the pupils took part in 2 activities today. Tomorrow we have 5 to look forward to! And the weather has been great!
John Muir Award
Primary 7 are discovering their natural environment and starting their journey to achieve the John Muir award. It was a good day to start as today is Outdoor Classroom day, and the right of the month this month is Article 29 ‘the right to be educated about respecting our natural environment.’
Primary 7 learned about John Muir himself and his life, and wrote down what they would like to explore in their playground and at the residential next week.
‘I want to look at ants closely and their behaviours.’ – Matthew
‘How tall can trees grow?’ – Dylan
Everyone has many things they want to explore, which gives us a good starting point.
Genetics with Dr Gibson!
Primary 7 were very lucky to experience a science lesson delivered by Dr Gibson from Eastwood High School. She came to our class to teach us about genetics and inheritance. We looked at how genes are passed down from parents to children. Dr Gibson taught us about chromosomes and we created our own dragon with different characteristics.
♥”This was the best science lesson ever!”♥ – Max Wengel
Primary 7 have lots more exciting science lessons to look forward to in Eastwood High School!
Fidget Spinner Investigation!
Fidget Spinners are the latest craze!
P7 brought them into class to carry out a fidget spinner investigation. We each recorded our times of how long we can spin our spinners at a 45 degree angle and did this 5-10 times and then created individual graphs. Mia discovered she was getting better after each attempt! She managed to spin it for 32 seconds on her first attempt and on her 10th attempt she managed to do it for 67 seconds!
