Category Archives: Outdoor Learning

Community, Expressive Arts, Food and Health, Leadership, Nursery, Outdoor Learning, Sciences, Whole School

Our Entries for Chryston Horticultural Show

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Good luck to all pupils whose work has been entered in the garden show. Some of the entries are featured below.

Our garden club have entered the inter schools challenge where they had to create a garden produce display (3 shown),  create a Mr Potato Head (2 shown), display 3 potatoes (not shown) and show their heaviest potato (not shown).

Pla and P1b created lovely krispie cakes and the three best from each class have been entered.

Our focus on food academy baked and decorated cupckaes and the best three are shown below.

IMG_2558Several classes created greetings cards and their own creations for the show.

Mrs Charles worked with pupils to arrange vases of garden flowers.

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Enterprise, Food and Health, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Outdoor Learning, PE Activities and Sport

P4-7 Leadership Academies 26 August 2015

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Our senior pupils had a great time in their academies today. Their first task was to discuss and agree on 3 outcomes they want to achieve this year and start to plan how they will be successful. We will share these outcomes with you very soon!

It was harvest time for the garden academy. Mrs Quinn showed the pupils how to dig up carrots, onions and potatoes and they also started weeding the flat beds. Many of the sunflowers planted by P3 last term have grown tall and strong. They look lovely in our garden. I wonder what they will cook in our learning kitchen with their produce?

Our focus on food academy baked cupcakes this morning and decorated them this afternoon with the support and guidance of Mrs Martin, Mrs Ritchie, Ms Gillespie, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Duncan. Thank you Mrs Home and Mrs Armour for donating cup cake items today! We had a great time!

IMG_2546I was delighted to choose the top three designs to enter the Chryston Horticultural Society Annual Show on Saturday. Good luck!

Eco committeeThe eco committee worked hard to develop their ideas for school improvement. Mrs Grant was very impressed!

Fairtrade CommitteeThe fairtrade committee created designs for their own logo and came up with some great suggestions to raise awareness of fairtrade and fund raise at the same time. Mrs McDaid thinks that her team will do very well this year and she has been amazed by their great ideas. Well done!

IMG_2538The Pupil Council were designing school mascots today. I wonder what the winning design will be? Mrs Fisher will reveal this exciting information very soon!

IMG_2540Ths sports leadership academy worked hard with Ross Sweeney, (Active Schools Co-ordinator), Mrs Green (Parent) and Mrs McCluskey (Classroom Assistant). They spilt into 3 teams to plan a “Road to Rio’ Running Challenge for P4-7 pupils during lunchtimes. They have many events to lead this year including our nursery and primary sports days.

Our enterprise committee have many great ideas for whole school events this year such as a junior master chef challenge and a talent show. I am confident that Ms Brunton will lead her leaders to put on some fantastic events this year!

 

Outdoor Learning, Parent Forum, Primary 5, Sciences

P5 Garden Event

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We had an amazing turnout from parents for our open event last week. The children and their parents/grandparents enjoyed painting their plant pots together. They then had to choose from a selection of herbs and vegetables to plant. They could chose from coriander, dill, oregano and many more. The vegetables available to plant ranged from red chillies to sweet peppers and shallots. The class were so involved in what they were doing and the children really enjoyed having a member of their family there to help and support them. The children will now take their plant pots home and look after them over the summer holidays. Thank you so much to everyone who came along and we hope you enjoyed it!

Outdoor Learning, Parent Forum, Primary 3, Sciences

P3 Parents Open Event Part 1 (Garden)

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P3 were amazed at the turnout for our final Parents Open Event on Mon 15th June.

Parents, guardians and pupils had previously planted sunflower seeds back in February.  The pupils have then been caring for their sunflowers at home and have now brought them to school for planting.  We were very pleased with how well the children have taken care of their plants and how tall they have grown!

The winner of the tallest sunflower goes to David with a sunflower height of 144cms!  Well done!

Pupils tied their sunflowers to the railings or sticks for support and made sure they used some compost and water to help them grow.

 

* Responsible citizen, Community, Food and Health, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Outdoor Learning, Primary 2/3, Primary 4, Whole School

P4 Eco-Day Activity

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Today we sorted and counted the litter that P2/3 had collected from playtime. We then created a graph and it showed us the types of litter that had been dropped and we could see how healthy or unhealthy we are being!

Screen Shot 2015-06-19 at 12.05.57We noticed that crisps and sugary snacks  were a popular snack choice and fruit was the least popular, when we think it should be the opposite.

However, we did think that our drinks are quite healthy as we drink a lot of milk and water.

We were shocked at how much litter was on the ground and we encourage other children to use the playground bins. Thank you!

 

Modern Languages, Outdoor Learning, Parent Forum, Primary 3

P3 Parents Open Event Tomorrow

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Parents and guardians of P3 pupils are invited to bring in their sunflowers for planting in the garden at tomorrow’s open event.  That is if you can carry them as I have heard many are now too tall to move!  We look forward to seeing you at 9.30am in the garden and at 10am we shall be inviting you to try some Spanish tapas along with tea, coffee or juice in our learning kitchen.  The pupils have been learning how to take orders in Spanish so please have a go using the phrases we will have left on the tables for you!

Hasta manana!  See you tomorrow