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Health and Wellbeing

Primary 1 Daily Mile

dsc00819 dsc00820Primary 1 started their Daily Mile walk today!

We will be completing a Daily Mile walk around the playground every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Research has shown that taking part in a daily walk will not only improve our fitness and wellbeing levels but will also make us more alert and ready to learn.

See the launch clip below for further information on this new initiative:

 

 

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We are active and healthy!

This week we all demonstrated our independence by getting ready for P.E all by ourselves. We know to carefully fold our school uniform into our PE bags and leave our school shoes at our chair.

We have been learning how to control our gross body movements and use the space in the gym hall safely through exploring a poem all about a little red plane.

I am learning to move my body well, exploring how

to manage and control it and finding out how to use it

and share space.HWB 0-21a

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Korin: “It is so fun to move all parts of your body!”

Stella: “We used our arms like the plane and moved fast and slow.”

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Coffee Mornings

LB_Summer_Coffee_Morning_Blog_2-582x329This week we hosted a range of Coffee Mornings for parents and carers.

The theme of this week’s coffee mornings was Transitions in a Young Child’s Life.

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In an informal setting with coffee, tea and biscuits we discussed the types of events in a young child’s life that can involve transitions and how to best equip both our children and ourselves for this change.

Many parents commented on how they now had a better grasp of what the word transition can mean, involving moving house, welcoming a new family member or developing new friendship groups.

Thanks to all the parents who made it along to the event. Remember to check our parental engagement and involvement booklet for up and coming events.

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Gingerbread Creations

The children in Calderwood Lodge Nursery class have noticed a lot of special food appearing in shops, houses and on TV at this time of year. 

 

One of the most exciting items of food we have noticed and wanted to explore further was gingerbread.

Karen introduced us to the story The Gingerbread Man in the book corner and we used musical instruments to add sound effects to the story.

We looked at pictures of gingerbread houses online and the Blue group worked with Nicole to decorate a beautiful gingerbread house.

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Miss Dunn also shared a gingerbread recipe and we all got our hands messy mixing the dough and rolling it before using fancy cutters to make our shape. We iced and decorated our gingerbread biscuits in nursery and took them home to eat. We bet the biscuits didn’t make it past the front door before there were only crumbs left to be seen!

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Crisp Autumnal Days

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We have been making the most of the dry, crisp weather in our outdoor learning area. With the leaves changing colour and falling into our playground we found some creative ways to play and learn with them. Some of us decided to make pumpkin pies using leaves as our ingredients, some created magical autumn castles and some even used the bamboo tubes to pour water on top of the dry leaves to investigate the effect.

No matter what the aim of our exploration was, we all certainly had fun with this very seasonal resource! DSCF0824[1] DSCF0821[1] DSCF0807[1] DSCF0798[1]