Eco And Outdoor Learning Leadership Academy
The children have been very busy planning and preparing their own outdoor learning activities. They are now ready to be tested at our next Leadership Academy! Well done everyone!
The children have been very busy planning and preparing their own outdoor learning activities. They are now ready to be tested at our next Leadership Academy! Well done everyone!
Here are the children enjoying some fresh air, exercise and a good chat with their friends! We’re hoping to go a bit further afield in the coming weeks. Watch this space!
This week Primary 3 have been learning about our human bodies. We have been finding out about our skeleton, what it’s purpose is and naming the different bones we have. Today we learnt about the longest bones in our bodies which are in our arms and legs. We measured the humerus, ulna and radius bones in our arms and compared with our friends. We learned that our longest bone is
Today these children had to climb up four different parts of a high rock. They learned how to ensure their safety harness was secure and problem solve the best way to tackle each climb. They worked in partners and individually.
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.
Here are the children enjoying more water activities followed by some free time in the games room and on the football pitches.
The children have completed a range of activities both on land and water. They have been on safari, rock climbing, walking, canoeing and skiing plus more!!
After some ups and downs during our Clyde in the Classroom project, today was the final farewell to our trout. In a colder location (the old library office) our second batch of eggs successfully hatched and many survived to be released into the river.
Yesterday, Primary 5 went on an educational excursion to New Lanark World Heritage Site. It was to enhance their interdisciplinary learning about life as a child two hundred years ago, compared to the rights of a child across the world now in the twenty-first century. They impressed the tour guides with their knowledge of how Robert Owen was ‘ahead of his time’ and performed well in the 1820s classroom. The