As you can tell, June is a really busy month at Rochsolloch Primary School! Today our P7 pupils were representing the school at the annual Wear Yellow Walk at Strathclyde Park.
The children collected sponsor money for St. Andrew’s Hospice ahead of taking part in the walk today. St Andrew’s Hospice employees have visited our school regularly in recent years, where the children have learned about the cost involved in providing the fantastic care offered to residents of Airdrie and neighbouring areas.
The class had a wonderful time in the incredible weather, retuning to school this afternoon proud and exhausted in equal measure!
Fantastic job P7.
North Lanarkshire’s ‘Beat the Street’ competition comes to an end tonight, and it’s fair to say that the pupils of Rochsolloch Primary School really got involved in this initiative! We’ve been walking lots both in school and at home, and we must be fitter than ever!
Our pupils understand that, while it was a competition, ‘Beat the Street’ was designed to encourage families to be active, to enjoy exercise together, and to be responsible when travelling in our local environment.
This picture shows some of our school winners, who were awarded gift bags for a variety of reasons including:
- Taking part in the challenge enthusiastically outside of school
- Reporting broken Beat Boxes and keeping school staff up to date on responses
- Committing to the spirit of the initiative both in and out of school
- Being a role model for others during whole school walks
We are extremely proud of every pupil who has been active this month in supporting this initiative. Let’s hope the walking keeps up, even when the Beat Boxes disappear!
Our regular walking expeditions are really beginning to have a positive impact on the health of our pupils, with many of our boys and girls keen to push themselves to walk further and further each time we are out.
As you can see from these pictures, our Nursery Class are also doing a lot of walking at the moment, and it’s always wonderful to see how well our older boys and girls are able to take on the responsibility of looking after our Nursery children.
This term, Primary 3 have been combining their Outdoor P.E. with Science. The children have been walking to the local park, where they have been looking out for signs of the changing season, clues for wildlife that might be living in the area, and for minibeasts or insects.
The children suggested that we looked for minibeasts in shaded areas, perhaps under rocks. They found a host of interesting minibeasts, and the class were able to identify whether they were insects or not, by examining the tiny creatures closely and counting the number of legs and body segments. When they got back to the classroom, Mr Innes used a Spotter’s Guide to help the class identify the large beetle in the bug viewer as a violet ground beetle (after the children had given their hands a good wash of course!).
On Monday afternoon, P3 hiked to Brownsburn Local Nature Reserve as part of their ‘Into The Wild’ topic. Although the children found that the park is not yet showing any signs of Spring, it was an absolutely glorious day to get some extra exercise, with the pupils pleased to take their weekly walking total well above the 2 mile mark.
The class are already looking forward to returning next week, when they will be looking closely to see if anything has changed as our weather slowly begins to warm up and the plant life gets a few extra precious hours of sunlight.
As you will have read in our Newsletter, our pupils are getting out and about twice a week to walk a mile together.
Studies have shown that this regular exercise can have an extremely positive impact on attention in class, with our teachers already reporting an improvement! Keep it up boys and girls, you’re doing really well!
'Aim high! Give it your best try!'
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