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Safety in the Park

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On Thursday 25th of August we had a school trip to Arthurlie house, in Barrhead for an educational event called  Safety In The Park.

Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.

First we were split into groups then we went to our activities.

Here are our top 3 favourite activities:

1. The first of our favourite activity  was when a man taught us about safety on social media. He showed us a pretend Facebook account and we had to point out things that were unsafe. For example,   the girl let strangers follow her, she told people where she lived and told them that she was home alone.

2. Our second favourite activity was when a man told us  not to drink alcohol and if someone over age bought a drink for someone under age they would have to pay £5,000!( WOW!). When we were asked questions and got the answer right. we got to try on the drunk goggles. They looked like ski goggles but when you put them on it felt like you were in a simulator.

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3. The last fun activity was when a woman told us to go to our next activity around the corner and a woman came up to us and said,  “I’m your next activity, come with me.” So we did. She asked us our names and if we did anything nice during the summer holidays. Then out of nowhere a police man came up to us and as soon as we saw him we would be in trouble, we knew we were tricked that was an experiment to see if we would walk off with her.(a stranger)

By Pippa and Daniel.

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Learning about The Human Body

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Our new topic, that links Science with Health and Wellbeing, is The Human Body. We have been exploring the Experiences and Outcomes to see what we want to achieve and then we have voted on what our preferences would be on how our class should go about meeting these.

Before the holidays, everyone did a project on a different part of the human body. We had to make it into a solo presentation and some people choose to do a power point while others made models and amazing information posters. There were lots of quizzes and mostly everybody walked out the door with a prize, so that goes to show how interested we all were and how much we learned!

It seems a shame that only Primary 5 benefited from all these facts. So for all of our readers, here are some fun facts we learned along the way:

FUN FACTS!

  • The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
  • Your heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
  • Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
  • Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square metres!
  • The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear.
  • Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
  • As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
  • The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.
  • It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
  • Your sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.

By Lana and Izzy

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Primary 5 Swimming

Swimming class!

 

Primary 5 have been attending a 6 week block of swimming lessons at Eastwood Swimming Pool. Some of us were more confident swimmers than others, but by the end of the 6 weeks, we were all a lot more confident in the pool. We learnt front crawl, back crawl and breaststroke. We were able to race each other a lot and we were even allowed to swim with flippers. One of the things we all loved about our lessons, was the end of each session when we were allowed to jump into the pool. This week was our final week and that means that we all got to play on the floats. There were small floats and big floats and there was lots of jumping into the pool this week. It was such great fun! Our instructors were really helpful and they taught us a lot over our 6 sessions. We hope we get them again next year! We had a great time and we can’t wait to go swimming again soon.

 

By Cayla and Leah

 

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