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A Try For Gourock!

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Over the past few weeks, Primary 6 have been taught Rugby tactics by coaches Brendan and Sam. The coaches have been teaching us the essential skills needed to play rugby.

We interviewed Hollie and she said “I have really liked learning how to pass and dodge”.

For the first month, Primary Six trained out in the school field. We learned the basic skills and techniques for passing the ball, how to tackle, a scrum etc.

Matthew showing off his tackling skills!
Matthew showing off his tackling skills!

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On Wednesday 1st October, a few schools competed against each other in a Rugby Festival for the boy’s trophy and girl’s trophy. After a few bumps, bruises and sprains, (and lots of fun!) it was time to announce the winners! All the schools had performed amazingly well, but there could only be one winner!

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The girls with their positive role models from Greenock Wanderers Woman's team
The girls with their positive role models from Greenock Wanderers Woman’s team

1st place for the girls was St Ninian’s Primary, great job!

Gooooooo Aimee!
Gooooooo Aimee!

It was a rough day for the boys as there were a lot of tries and bumps and bruises but they fought on until the end. The overall winners in the boy’s category was, in 1st place… MoorfootPrimary! Congrats!

Conor: 'Peter can't keep me down!'
Conor: ‘Peter can’t keep me down!’
The boys showing off their Rugby faces!
The boys showing off their Rugby faces!

Thank you to all the schools who competed in the tournament and a special thanks to Brendan and all the other staff who organised festival. We had such a brilliant day!!!

Our class celebrating after their tiring but rewarding day!
Our class celebrating after their tiring but rewarding day!

We hope you have enjoyed our first blog post!

The Journalists
The Journalists

The Journalists

Global Citizens – 90kg Rice Challenge

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Gourock Primary first embarked on Just Trading Scotland’s 90kg Rice Challenge earlier this year and has a dedicated team of pupils who market the fairly traded Kilombero rice to our school community.

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This has been a huge success and we have now sold 3 batches of the delicious Kilombero rice. Our Global Citizen group are very enthusiastic about the challenge and are passionate about selling because they believe they can make a huge difference to Malawian child’s life.

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The pupils have gained many skills for learning, life and work. They are only too aware of how important education is for creating opportunities in a child’s future and decided to produce a rice recipe book to accompany each bag sold, alongside an information leaflet which educates customers about the benefits of buying. We’re ready to receive our next batch!

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A ❤️ of learning!

Primary 6 were asked the question:

If you could do something you love for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Here are some of our responses…

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We talked about what we were passionate about, what our interests and hobbies are, what we wonder about and what touches our hearts.

Today we were introduced to GENIUS TIME.

We were asked to start thinking about a personal Passion Project that we could embark on, something we could really get our teeth in to. We were told we could build something, make something, create something, design something or collect something. Whatever we choose to do we must research it and then present it to an audience.

We have to take ownership of it.

There were so many ideas!!! We decided to think of some possible research questions we could ask to guide our projects. Here are just some of the ideas presented….

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We’re going to be using our research skills, organisation skills, reading non-fiction articles, developing questions, writing, preparing and presenting!