Group 8 went hill walking this morning. It was a tough walk in places, especially climbing up the waterfall but we had lots of fun sliding down the hill, jumping in the muddy bog and learning about the Scottish Countryside. It was definitely worth the view at the top!
As we near the end of our topic on France, Primary 6 were set the challenge of an engineering project. Using only newspaper, cellotape and staples build the Eiffel Tower in one afternoon. All teams new that they would be scored on: teamwork, noise level, design. height and stability of the tower. The race was on and all teams were working to the last minute. Two teams competed to be the
Our school had a fabulous afternoon playing against teams from Tannochside. Thank you for your great behaviour and super teamwork.
Primary 5 have been looking at the effects of smoking on the lungs. Here’s a note of the video clips we were talking about. If you’ve time take a look at these and we’ll have a chat about them on Monday. (youtube) How smoking wrecks your lungs must see this (Daily Mail) Watch what smoking really does to the lungs (youtube) Smoking and its effects on health – stop today
Our children climbing the crags at Ganavan Beach.
Group 1 and 2 having fun on the slope this morning!
Enjoying some free time before our night activity starts!!
There was lots of active learning in the playground as Primary 2 pupils used chalk to draw grids and find the coordinates. It helped pupils remember to start along the bottom and walk up to find their grid reference. We made it into a game and if they landed on a drawing they were frozen to the spot.
Pupils have learnt how to work in small groups building a tower out of plastic cups and plates. Easy you may think but they also had to do it in silence and quickly learnt how to give directions using body language and hand signals. Everyone did a fabulous job in completing the task! The class are also becoming experts at trying out the different massage techniques on each other and
Here are the children enjoying more water activities followed by some free time in the games room and on the football pitches.
