{"id":503,"date":"2017-05-16T07:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/?p=503"},"modified":"2017-05-16T07:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:04:25","slug":"lets-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/2017\/05\/16\/lets-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spinning plates- see the concentration on their faces!<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday morning Primary 5 and Primary 6 had an action packed session learning some of the skills used by circus performers.<\/p>\n<p>We all had a fabulous time and the fun began as soon as we arrived! Within the first few minutes we were spinning toothbrushes round our fingers!<\/p>\n<p>Then when Cunningsburgh pupils joined us we were split into three groups which then rotated round the three circus workshops.<\/p>\n<p>There were opportunities to practise acrobatics, hula hoop skills and spinning plates!<\/p>\n<p>We were having that much fun that the time simply flew by.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snapshot of how we got on&#8230;&#8230;some of us better than others&#8230;&#8230;but we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.<\/p>\n\n<p>The people who instructed us were great fun and very talented<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1406-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby and Katie throwing and catching each other&#8217;s spinning plate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We tried out a variety of tricks with the spinning plates.<\/p>\n\n<p>Having fun with \u00a0hula hoops-spinning them round our waist, foot, arm and even neck!<\/p>\n<p>At the acrobatics workshop we tried some tricky manoeuvres and had to place a lot of trust in our partners.<\/p>\n\n<p>Everyone agreed it was super fun and we were all proud of our achievements in such a short time. Some of us were lucky enough to be going to see the The Let&#8217;s Circus performances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinning plates- see the concentration on their faces! Last Thursday morning Primary 5 and Primary 6 had an action packed session learning some of the skills used by circus performers. We all had a fabulous time and the fun began as soon as we arrived! Within the first few minutes we were spinning toothbrushes round &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/2017\/05\/16\/lets-circus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Circus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/dunrossnessp56\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}