Keeping Scotland 🏴 Beautiful – Marine Art Litter Competition. 👍🏻Well done to our Eco & Outdoor Learning team for producing this fantastic piece of artwork to raise awareness about the detrimental effects of plastic in our sea to marine life. HUGE thank you also to our janitor Mrs McGown for all her help in getting our design ready for our competition deadline. ⭐️ 👏🏻
Today our Eco & Outdoor learning team learned about the ‘Upstream Battle’ and detrimental effects of marine litter. We took a walk around our school grounds to try and identify how litter in our area might get into the River Clyde and came to the conclusion that it must be via drains. We are looking forward to raising more awareness about re-using, reducing and recycling!
Last week, Primary 4 conducted a traffic survey on Old Edinburgh Road as part of their learning in relation to Information Handling for Maths. The road doesn’t look that busy in these photos but there were actually lots of different colours of cars to count, even Flynn’s mum’s! We now know that when we are doing a survey we need to concentrate really well so that our results are accurate.
Yesterday it was so beautiful that we stayed outside all afternoon having fun with an orienteering activity. Lots of running around, teamwork and drawing maps for other groups to follow.
Primary 5 recently enjoyed a trip to New Lanarkshire Mosque. They were given a tour by the Imam to allow them to put their learning in a real life context. They also learned about the 5 pillars of Islam and particularly enjoyed their juice and crisps at the end! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to accompany us and special thanks to Mrs Lees and Mrs Reed for
Aitkenhead Primary School is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects. Greenspace Scotland is working with Groundwork to provide support to communities in Scotland. Three groups in every Tesco region have
Here are a selection of photographs from our potted sports this afternoon (more to follow). The children all had a great time competing for their team and their house. They will find out the results at our assembly tomorrow!
In pairs or trios some of the pupils in P6 wrote plays to create an alternative twist in the plot of ‘Why the Whales Came’. Over a couple of weeks they wrote different acts and included stage directions. This week was their chance to be directors and on Thursday had an hour to practise before their plays were performed to the class. It was a brilliant day and we were lucky
Primary 6 pupils were asked to create a fun fitness circuit which would help younger pupils to practise a range of activities. In small groups Primary 6 chose an activity and the equipment needed. We had a practise run, trying each others activities and then thinking of adaptations that might be necessary for Primary 1 pupils to be able to succeed. Back in class we wrote instructions describing how to
Today we have been writing instructions on how to keep fit and went outside to set up a fitness circuit. Each group chose their equipment and set up an area in the playground. After ensuring their activity worked they explained it to the rest of the class. Next we had great fun rotating around the activities. Back inside we spent the afternoon writing instructions and hopefully soon we will be
