{"id":9906,"date":"2025-05-15T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2025-05-16T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:25:11","slug":"primary-5-learners-build-campfire-to-inspire-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/05\/15\/primary-5-learners-build-campfire-to-inspire-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 5 learners build campfire to inspire writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9907\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/05\/15\/primary-5-learners-build-campfire-to-inspire-writing\/p5-campfire\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1747319034&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0028985507246377&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P5 campfire\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9907\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/05\/15153331\/P5-campfire.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Primary 5c headed to Cathedral&#8217;s forest area, just outside the school grounds, on Thursday 15th May for some outdoor learning linked to their current topic, The Scottish Wars of Independence. After learning how to build a campfire, the children discussed the sights, smells and sounds that soldiers would have experienced when camping out before battle and created a bank of rich vocabulary which they&#8217;ll use to write a diary entry of a soldier. During their time together, our young learners enjoyed some traditional Scottish food, including oatcakes, but also couldn&#8217;t resist toasting marshmallows over the fire as a special treat!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 5c headed to Cathedral&#8217;s forest area, just outside the school grounds, on Thursday 15th May for some outdoor learning linked to their current topic, The Scottish Wars of Independence. After learning how to build a campfire, the children discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/05\/15\/primary-5-learners-build-campfire-to-inspire-writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}