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EYC OUTDOOR LEARNING

Another October fun filled day in the forest for the EYC children! Everyone was SO busy. We created our own paints with the mortar & pestle using berries and leaves; practiced our balancing and jumping skills on the big log; played circle games and tig; climbed trees; compared sizes of branches and trees; created lots of mud pies; shared a story and found lots of interesting mushrooms and fungi! Everyone is learning to respect the boundaries set and watch out for any risky business!! We had so many sensible children alerting the ladies to danger! We talked about slips and falls, the high river after all of the recent rain, broken glass, jaggy trees and stinging nettles! ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿชต๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ„๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ•

 

EYC & P1- Forest School Learning Approach

On the 7th October the EYC and P1 experienced the great outdoors all day long as they took a forest kindergarten approach to learning! Armed with toilets, tents, tarps and tasty lunches they explored the sights, sounds and smells around them. As they played the children were developing their fine & gross motor skills, risk awareness, listening skills, sensory awareness, maths & numeracy skills and language & literacy skills! A busy and fun day was had by all! ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ•

P5/4 Term 1

Primary 5/4 have had a busy first Term. We have been creating our Class Charter, learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects, place value and practising our new spelling words. Some of the children have been enjoying completing lego challenges and we have been learning through play-based learning activities.


P5/4 demonstrated some of our spelling activities during our first open morning and enjoyed playing place value games with parents during our second open morning.


Primary 5/4 (with help from some of p6/7) were given a range of challenges including building a boat from lolly sticks, marshmallow towers, lego pyramids, paper tissue aeroplanes and spaghetti bridges. They then had to use their measurement skills.

Term 2 Here we come …. Keep an eye out for what we are going to get up to this term!

Dolphin House 2022

P7/6 along with a few pupils from P5 had an amazing week at Dolphin House! Over the week, they were working towardsย  their John Muir Award and using his 4 key objectives :- Discover, Conserve, Explore and Share. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฌ๐ŸŒŸ

Our first day at Dolphin house involved some archery, we had lots of fun and settled in well.

We had a productive second day hill walking. ๐Ÿ” We got to experience some breathtaking views throughout our walk and appreciate what a beautiful country we live in. ๐Ÿ˜ Some very tired children (and adults) this day! ๐Ÿคฃ

 

A lovely evening rock pooling at Dolphin House๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฆ€

We had a fabulous day paddle boarding and canoeing! ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿฝ๐ŸŒŸ

A night walk through Culzean castle and then a disco for our last evening at Dolphin House! We had so much fun!๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿฌ๐ŸŒŸ

Our Final Morning doing The Trout run ๐Ÿ˜†

P7/6 Term 1

Welcome to Primary 7/6!

Our teacher this year is Miss Baillie and we have 17 pupils in our class.

This term our topic is World War 2. We have been reading Goodnight Mister Tom as our class novel.

In numeracy and maths, we have been focussing on bar modelling, angles and time.

This term we also had the opportunity of going on a residential trip to Dolphin House. We have been working towards the John Muir Award with the key elements of โ€˜discoverโ€™, โ€˜exploreโ€™, โ€˜conserveโ€™ and โ€˜shareโ€™. Whilst at Dolphin House, we got to experience activities such as archery, orienteering, rock pooling, movies, hill-walking, geology, quiz, paddle boarding, canoeing, night walk, disco and a trout run!

Keep an eye out for all the fun we are going to get up to in Term 2!

Here are some Photos of what we’ve been up to in Term 1.