On Wednesday, the Primary 1 children all visited the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. We were learning about SWAF – these are the 4 things that all living creatures need to survive.
S – Shelter
W – Water
A – Air
F – Food.
We thought about bears and what they need to survive. They need shelter like a cave or a tree. They need water from a river, stream or pond. They need air which comes from the green leaves of trees and lastly they need food. Bears eat honey in the trees, fish and berries and fruit.

We played some games where bears had to find all the things they needed and take them back to their homes.
We went for a special walk to find Edward the bear. We didnt find him at first but he had left us lots of clues about what bears need to survive.

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On our special bear hunt through the woods we saw a badger sett.

Eventually we went back to our picnic and found Edward Bear and his friends! We enjoyed our teddy bear picnic and then went to play another game with Betsy, our special helper from the Botanics.

In this game we learnt about the bears finding shelter but there was a woodcutter (Betsy and then Marley!) who chopped down the trees and we learnt that all bears need shelter and that people need to look after the bears homes.

The last thing we did was make a bear island. We had to find all the things that bear would need to survive. We made shelters from twigs, found leaves for air and found nuts for food.

These are our favourite parts of the day –
Ava – I liked everything because it was like a journey in the woods.
Nina – I enjoyed playing the game with the bears.
Sarah – I liked following Betsy and learning about bears.
Emma – I liked playing the bear games.
Jess – I enjoyed playing the game where the bears had to find their SWAF things!
Isla – I like Betsy teaching us!
Keira – I liked going around the trees finding the clues to Edward bear. I liked being a tree and a bear.
Evie – I liked going on the hunt for Edward bear.
Daniel – I liked being part of a team.
Marley –
Dionne – I enjoyed following Betsy around the gardens and learning about SWAF.
Grace – It was frun to go on a trip with my class.
Ryan – I liked playing the games
Esther – I liked EVERYTHING!

We really hope that the children enjoyed their trip and learnt a lot about SWAF!

Article 28 – the right to an education.