We made gingerbread houses for our Senior Citizens party.
December 20, 2016
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Category Archives: cooperative learning
September 6, 2016
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Sitting Bull
Primary 3-7 were given the challenge of working as part of a group to research the life of a famous Native American. Thomas and Scott decided they wanted to find out more about Sitting Bull. He was a famous Plains Indian and Chief … Continue reading
September 6, 2016
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Geronimo
Mairianne, John and Ardan worked as a team to find out about the famous Native American Geronimo. Geronimo lived a very eventful life trying to preserve the Native American way of life from being destroyed. The group were very creative … Continue reading
September 6, 2016
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Pocahontas
Ronan and Vaila worked as a team to research the life of the famous Native American Pocahontas. They worked very well together using the internet and topic books to find out the story of Pocahontas. Vaila and Ronan were able … Continue reading
May 20, 2016
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Northmavine Schools Joint Project
We had a fantastic day at Ollaberry Primary School. We really enjoyed all the learning activities with the bairns from Ollaberry and Urafirth School.
May 16, 2016
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Collaborative Learning
It was great fun having the pupils from Urafirth school here for the day on Thursday. 🙂
May 2, 2016
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Northmavine Schools Project
On Thursday we had all the children from Ollaberry and Urafirth Primary School here at North Roe School as part of our joint project ‘Around the World’. We were learning all about South Africa, France and the Netherlands. We had … Continue reading
May 2, 2016
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The Netherlands
Nynke’s mum Saskia came into school to tell us all about the Netherlands. Saskia is from a village in the Netherlands called Hallum, she brought in lots of beautiful pictures of the Netherlands to show us. The children loved seeing the pictures … Continue reading
May 2, 2016
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The Gumboot Dance
Joy taught us the South African Gumboot Dance. The Gumboot dance was created by men working in the gold mines in South Africa. The men wore rubber boots (gumboots) in the mines, they were not treated well by their white bosses. … Continue reading
May 2, 2016
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African Drumming
The bairns had so much fun African drumming with Joy Duncan. 🙂
May 2, 2016
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South Africa
Thank-you so much to Mona and Sven for coming in to talk to us about South Africa. Mona is from Shetland but she worked as a midwife in South Africa for many years. Mona and Sven both lived in South … Continue reading
May 2, 2016
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France
The children were so excited to see Mrs Cook again. Here are some photos of the children singing French songs with Mrs Cook. There was lots of laughter from the primary 4-7 group, their song had lots of actions to go … Continue reading
April 27, 2016
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Architecture workshop
Last term we went to Ollaberry Primary School for an architecture workshop. Architecture students from Strathclyde University in Glasgow were there with lots of exciting activities prepared for us to take part in. We had a fantastic day with all … Continue reading
January 28, 2016
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The cup challenge!
We had to work as a team using our problem solving skills to build a tower of cups without touching the cups with any part of our body! We used an elastic band and 4 pieces of string. We had to … Continue reading
