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Easter Carmuirs is Going for Glasgow!

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Easter Carmuirs have been completing a whole school project on the Commonwealth Games from January this year. As part of our Golden Time programme, the pupils have had the opportunity to try over 13 different sports ranging from ten pin bowling to softball. These have been running on a 4 weekly rotation and have proved to be a popular choice for pupils of all ages.

In individual classes, pupils have been completing personal projects; Primary 6/7 chose either Trinidad and Tobago or the Bahamas and researched the geography and culture. Primary 5/6 researched a Commonwealth country of their choice and completed a project about the athletes coming to Glasgow this summer. Primary 4 created their own mascots for Glasgow 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Carmuirs have also developed a Global Citizenship link with a school in Trinidad and Tobago. Mayaro Government Primary is a large school of 493 students, with a former student, Cleopatra Borel-Brown, representing the island in the Shot Putt event. We are currently developing this link with the pupils exchanging emails and letters. We plan to complete a joint project on leather back turtles on the island, Operation Trinidad, in association with Gillian Simpson from Zoolab.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Commonwealth Sports Day was a huge success! We had a great turn out from parents and invited guests, including Provost Pat Reid, Mr Webster from Falkirk High School and Yvonne McBlain. All pupils were involved in the preparation for this event, creating flags and banners to lead their house onto the field. Everyone performed fantastically, and in the end, Antonine were announced as winners, their trophy was presented to them by Provost Reid.

We have had pupils competing in a variety of sport festivals and tournaments this year. They had a great time at the Netball, Rugby and Athletics Festivals, the P7s enjoyed their Commonwealth Games at Grangemouth Stadium and some P5 and P6 pupils took part in a Triathlon event at Grangemouth High School. These events have been a great opportunity for our pupils, who have all behaved well and have been a credit to Easter Carmuirs.

Our Going for Glasgow project has been a fantastic opportunity for us to learn about the history of the Games and the countries involved in the Commonwealth. We have had so many great opportunities to take part in new sports and activities, allowing us to discover what Falkirk has to offer! We can’t wait to continue these sports as we enter a new term in August!

active schools, Citizenship, FalkirksGoingForGlasgow, health

Golden Time

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At golden time primary 7 have to go round all the classes and ask all the pupils what they want to do we have things like helping in the nursery and infants, craft, tennis, ICT, table tennis, netball, boxercise and bowling so it is pretty fun. We ask all the pupils to put their hand up to choose what they want to do it is very fun going round all the classes and asking then what they want to do because it is good to see what everybody likes to do we also have a golden cafe which primary 1 to primary 3 can go to and that’s what we do at golden time.

By Kirsten and owain

Active Learning, Citizenship, Literacy, Primary 7

Circle time in P7

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P7 have circle time every Thursday and we have circle time rules.1 of our rules are don’t talk when other people are talking, good eye contact, good listening and don’t laugh at other peoples comments. We do a game then a round then a activity and if we have time at the end   we do another game. Our games are usually something like elephant and mouse, splat, look up look down, novelty voices and the sun shines on. Our round is something like how we feel when someone wastes time…… or how well we concentrate in class…… and our activity is something like what’s on your mind or memory games and listening skills. We all enjoy circle time and would like to keep on having it.

 By Demi-Louise and Rebecca

Citizenship, Eco, Our Community, Primary 7, Wider Achievement

Whole School Litter Pick!

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On Tuesday 21st May 2013 the whole school had a litter pick day around the school and Glasgow Road. People came from Tesco and Falkirk council to help us. First we had to choose a partner. Then went around the park, the co-op and the football pitch behind the school. It was so dirty and there was lots of litter.  There were sweetie wrappers, glass, and crisps packets, plastic, Irn bru cans and Cola cans.

After playtime everyone meet in the hall. The primary 7s and primary 6s went to Glasgow Road. We split up into three groups. One group went along to the bottom end, another group went to the top end and one stayed in the middle. At the top and middle there was loads of rubbish like hats, scarves, gloves, spoons, forks, knifes and metal bars .After that we back to school.  We hope everyone uses a litter bin and is responsible for their own rubbish. Josh             

Citizenship, Our Community, Parents, Primary 7, Wider Achievement

World Of Work by P7

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On Thursday 9th May in the afternoon we had a World of Work event.  It was held in our school hall.  We invited local businesses in to talk about and perform their professions. Leading to the afternoon, I was excited and anxious; I was very interested in hearing the employees from local businesses.

Building up to the event, our tasks in ICT time were to find local businesses to contact them and to create an eye-catching poster to advertise the event. Just before the event, we were given a list of people attending.

I was very excited when we entered the room; our first station was a butcher just adjacent to us. They used complicated machines and utensils to shape the meat. Next was P.C.McInnes and he did a Q&A session about his profession. Next was a wood joiner, then Tony Bragg, who talked about how everything was quality checked before it happened/was, consumed. Next was Danielle’s dad who was a door supervisor. He talked about how he filtered out aggressive alcoholics and calm, collected people just wanting a good time. Finally, there were two gymnasts.

This was a great event and it was very interesting and I enjoyed it. The only criticism I have is that I wish it was extended to a full day rather than a full afternoon.  Adam

Art, Citizenship, Primary 7

Stop Racism

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Primary 7 went to the Falkirk stadium last year. When we were there we heard about a competion to try and stop racism. We got the choice to make a song, poem, poster, t-shirt and make a dance. All of p7 decided to enter this competion. Some made posters and some made poems we will be sending them away next week. The prize is a trip to go to Hampden Park for a day! Rene

Citizenship, Events, Primary 7, Research, World War 2

Callendar House Visit

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Last week primary 7 went to Callendar house for a World War ll workshop. We got to pretend that we were getting evacuated to the countryside. We got our own identity cards, luggage labels and our own ration book. We got on the train and got taken in by Mrs. Doobuyfull and her husband. They lived on a farm so that they could dig for victory and she wanted us to get up at 6:00am and work on the farm all day. At the end of the night she wanted us to go to bed at 7:00pm. After we pretended to be evacuated we got split up into 2 groups one groups went to see artefacts like the A.R.P. wardens helmet and bomb shells.   We had a great time and enjoyed ourselves!