Category Archives: Outdoor Learning

Odd socks, coloured cookies, sand monsters and friendship pictures…..

Musa and Kayden making multi coloured cookies with Mr Orr.

Working together to cook Kit’s family recipe of tuna rice.

After school yoga club in full swing.

Khadija using her fingers to communicate the date from our dairy board.

Kayden and Kit working together to build a lego city.

Khadija displaying how proud she is of her achievement at assembly.

Must playing the coin monkey game.

Kayoed working carefully to add paint to his canvas art work.

Khadija and Kareem painting at the table.

Musa and Kareem enjoying the sensory experience of the sand.

Khadija enjoying the sensory experience of our orbies.

Kayden and Subhan working together to plant potatoes for us to grow in class.

Kayden and Subhan collaborating again to follow a recipe for cooking healthy chow mein.

Khadija and Kayden enjoying our trip to a local cafe. We read menus, ordered our cake independently and paid by ourselves even collecting change.

Class 1 raising awareness and money for Down Syndrome awareness day by wearing odd socks.

Kayden displaying his artwork with a spotlight.

Ivo using his new story board to read about his visit to a fast food restaurant.

Kit building a shape tower.

Khadijah showing everyone her “mask”.

Must very proud of his achievements in our matching activity.

Khadijah using her new Moana story board.

Class 1 hard at work.

Kareem’s drawing of him holding hands with a friend.

Kit’s sand creature.

Shadows, playdough, tea parties and tacos….

Shadow manipulation with our new projector.

Kit enjoyed making play dough trains.

Khadijah enjoyed making hands to high five.

Musa exploring the sensory elements of kinetic sand.

Khadija and Ivo drawing and colouring in.

Kayden using our new magnet board to make pictures.

Ivo playing the time on the Starfall website.

Kayden building lego houses.

Khadija was very proud of her “K for Khadija”.

Ivo and Kayden working collaboratively at the drawing table.

Ivo enjoying our visit from the beekeeper and asking lots of questions.

Kareem and Kayden enjoying the  swings at adventure.

Miss Fortieth leading the way at the shops, picking up ingredients for our cooking experiences.

Kayden helping Khadia with her tricky maths work.

Ivo and Kareem working together to finish the washing up.

Khadija and Ivo trying on the beekeeping suit.

When he visited we asked the beekeeper lots of questions, saw some real honeycomb, studied a dead bee and tasted honey.

Kayden and Khadija worked very hard to prepare all the food stuffs for our taco party, they invited teachers along to join us.

Kit taking care of the plants in class 1.

Kareem mark making on the drawing board.

Kit playing in our class shop.

Teachers, Kayden and Khadija enjoying tasting the tacos.

Kit and Kayden working well together drawing on the mirror board.

Ivo enjoying reading the same story in different books, experimenting with text.

Kayden and Khadija waiting in the queue at the shops.

Kareem copying the writing on the board with the smart board pen.

Khadija watching and reading the snail on the whale.

Kit’s complex track design.

All of us enjoying a Michael Rosen story in the morning.

Kayoed brought in Miss Bunny to join us for breakfast.

Working together to make red velvet cupcakes.

Primary one children sharing their learning in science with Kayden.

Ivo celebrating his 8th birthday in class.

Kit is very proud of his complex train track.

Khadija and Kayden having a tea party with all the animals.

Kayden and Khadija making cards for loved ones.

Ivo and Khadija exploring shadow and light using the projector.

Animations, birthday celebrations and Valentine’s crafts…..

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Please click on the link above to see Kayden’s construction animation.

Khadija celebrating her 7th birthday with the class.

Khadijah using our new gross motor skill boards.

Kayden playing with the airport.

Khadija and Kareem playing with our new water space exploring a variety of science concepts.

Khadija getting her certificate at assembly.

Mrs Harker enjoying yoga with class 1.

Khadija and Gopal listening intently to the visiting storyteller.

Everyone hard at work.

Miss Forteith helping Musa roll out his dough.

Making chocolate twists.

Kayden using a calendar to plan out his month of February.

Khadija matching fruits with Mari.

Kit and Ivo baking cakes together.

Ivo and Kareem using problem solving skills to  undo all of the locks.

Kayden listening for the sea.

Valentines painting.

Kareem, Khadija and Kayden hiding under Miss Hunter’s desk.

Ivo relaxing whilst mark making.

We really enjoyed having our P7 storytellers visit our class.

Valentine’s flower bouquets.

Playing in dinosaur world.

Kayden showing us how he feels with the help of a  melon skin.

Haggis tasting, news reading, film making fun….

Ivo and Miss Hunter tasting veggie haggis on Robert Burn’s Day, Ivo said it was “yummy”.

Musa reflecting on his weekend playing in the snow.

Musa completing his number work followed by number correspondence work.

Ivo enjoying playing with our new ukulele.

Khadija enjoying our construction space.

We enjoyed reading the bear hunt so much we followed it up by watching Michael Rosen’s version on the smart board.

“I use the snake to tell me the colours to use” Kayden.

Khadija and Subhan playing snap.

Khadija enjoying a puppet show she’d made on the iPad.

Ivo strengthening his fine motor skills using the ‘bubber’.

Ivo colouring in his work.

Ivo and Khadija enjoying playing with their prize balloons.

Kareem doing his maths work.

Kareem and Kayden working collaboratively to build train tracks.

Kayden making a honey and lemon drink as he had a sore throat.

Khadija’s model for our new digital literacy project.

Ivo using his fine motor skills and inspiration from the smart board to inform his character design.

Kareem reflecting on his family holiday to Sudan using photographs during news writing time.

Khadijah using cotton balls and tweezers to develop her fine motor skills.

Ivo receiving star of the week certificate at assembly.

Kareem colouring in very carefully.

Musa using his purple folder to reflect on his learning.

Kayoed reading the construction book stories we have in our play space.

Kayden and Musa wearing their medals with pride, they won these for gaining ten stars on their charts.

Kayden’s titanic.

Ivo, Kareem and Musa playing outside at adventure in the rain.

Subhan was very proud of the minions cakes he baked and took back to Class 2.

Kayden making cheese toasties for his friends.

Ivo celebrating his wonderful piece of art work.

Kareem and Kayden swinging in the rain.

Kayden jumping from a height.

Kareem having fun splashing in puddles.