What a glorious day!
We went up the Sound Brae and cut in to the Quoys Burn and walked down it. We took time to listen to the relaxing sounds, to smell the amazing variety of smells and to really look around at all the different colours and things we could see. It was very chilled out. It is a private garden so we had to be respectful and use quiet voices, this helped add to the excitement of it all.
Then we went to the playpark and the bairns had some crazy time running around! After a little play we walked down to the road and saw where the water goes under the road. We took time to blow dandelion clocks. We followed the burn down to the stoney beach and talked about where the water started and where it ended up.
A big point that I made to the pupils is that they should always have a grown up with them when visiting the beach or the burn as playing beside the water can be dangerous.
Our outdoor learning sessions we cover a lot of areas of the curriculum and give experiences to the children that are just not the same as learning in the classroom.
We have been looking at Meta-skills at Sound School. Some of the Meta-skills that this walk included are:
- focusing
- communication
- collaborating
- feeling
- curiosity
- sense-making
- critical thinking
One of our school values for this term is happiness. There were certainly a lot of happy bairns today.
