This weeks highlights.

Dadirayi: Learning our celebrating success song and the actions to go with it.

Robyn: I enjoyed learning about measure.

Demi – Leigh: I liked maths and doing the song this week.

Caitlin: I liked outdoor PE and doing the races.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed learning about the Scottish Parliament.

Olivia: I enjoyed learning the song.

James: I liked doing Minecraft to build the Scottish Parliament.

Mya: I liked doing Minecraft and doing the Scottish parliament.

Evie: I liked doing outdoor PE.

David: I liked outdoor PE.

Evan: I liked doing teamwork with Aaron on Minecraft.

Leia: I liked doing the song.

Kaitlin: I liked yesterdays PE.

Beach bonfire

At the bonfire we got to play and toast marshmallows,we buried Mrs Aitken in the sand. We had a tug of war and group 3 won the tournament. We had lots of diffrent activities like football, rugby, the swings,walking in the shallow water and ball games.

Packing up

It’s our last morning in Oban and the bus leaves at 11 o’clock today and we will be going home to Bathgate .

We had to strip the the beds this morning and take our cases down to the car park .

The experiences

We had alot of fun at Oban and we enjoyed it alot. We enjoyed all the activities even though some were very cold and muddy. We enjoyed the food and the rooms with our friends.

We thank the staff for their help and they were  nice to every single pupil in Primary 7.

time to go home …

written by Zoe and Aaron

Tired this morning we all ate breakfast chatting quietly! That was following a very late night after swimming and chips…

Today some of us did coasteering, orienteering, canoeing and bushcraft(they are away all day!) or climbing.

Weather today is quite windy so the water looks choppy ! It is also a bit sunny too which is nice….

Lunch time for us today ranges from cheese, jam, tuna or ham sandwiches. We also have an apple a chocolate biscuit and a bottle of water. We can choose from about 4 flavours of crisps.

activities will commence again at 2pm !

written by Emma, Sarah and Rebecca

This morning after an amazing breakfast we headed out with Mrs Aitken’s group to do canoeing and bushcraft .When we arrived we got in to groups of three for canoeing.

We canoed along a loch to a tiny beach where we landed successfully.There we split in to our two groups and made shelters pretending we had been ship wrecked and our group’s shelter won -yippee.We ate our lunch in our shelters feeling like explorers.Then we got into groups of four to make fires, we made our fires with cotton wool and a flint.That was really fun.

We had a great day.

written by Kiera and Ellie

So today in Oban we went Gorge walking it got cold (Liam turned into a motor bike as he was chattering so much).  It was fun, it was good.  Gorge walking is walking up a river using the stones to climb over, slide down, jump off.  We slipped so much and David was floating away at one point. Callum turned into several differnt animals and demostrated his wide range of accents to get us through it.  Viggo started steaming when he got back on the bus.  Daniel was the cheif pool finder.  Isla sang songs to entertain everyone and managed to find lots of ways to make Louise laugh.  Lucy loved it…sliding 🙂

Madeleine got cold but kept with us and Casey kept Miss Holwill safe.

By David and Liam

This afternoon we went Coasteering.  First of all it was fun and enjoyable.  Basically you walk along the coastline, on the rocks in the sea, to get to a point and then you jump into the sea.  As a warm up we walked to an island.  At one point we were walking really close to the edge and the sea kept splashing up on us as it was bouncing of the rocks.  The jump at the end was very deep….a top tip don’t trust the barnicles.  It was cold but Miss Holwill heard lots of this is the best activity every and its amazing.

After dinner we had the Stramash Great Egg Challenge.  It consisted of lots of fun team races and challenges.  At the end we were all given scores which we exchanged for materials to create a hard protective case for an egg and we named it ‘Timmy the Talking Tube and the Holy Pine Cone’.  We then put them through a series of challenges, Timmy got to the second challenge where unfortunatly he met his fate with a flag pole.  RIP Timmy.

By Daniel and Viggo.

Hello from Oban!!!!!!

In our group today we climbed up a large mountain of rocks and used our fabulous team, The Awkward Fam, spirit!!!

Isla managed to fall and swing like the monkey she is and Louise and Madeleine made it to the top!

Viggo embraced his inner mountain goat while Liam shot to the top and Callum used his Can Do attitude.   

Casey and Lucy climbed and helped each other find hand and foot holes.

Daniel climbed numerous times to the top and David was pushing himself to do his best

The boys found a nice Mountain throne to sit on.

Thank you weather gods for blessing us with sun, we shall write again soon xx

Writen by Isla Ross and Louise Kirk

Morning update:-)

Mrs Aitkan’s group went orienteering  ,great fun went in lots of ditches and laughed lots.

Just had our lunch and heading out shortly to go gorge walking.

Miss Holwill’s group have been climbing and this afternoon they are going costeering.

Miss Elliot’s and Miss Bollen’s group are away canoeing and bush craft for the day.

Mr Jeffries’s group have been gorge walking and look pretty cold and they are orienteering 

A Busy day so far

written by Jessie and Gemma

We had a good and safe journey to Oban we had a  stop at the green welly stop.When we arrivied in Oban we had a meeting with the staff they explained what we were going to do.  Once we had settled into our rooms the staff took us for a walk around the area.  As a warm up we took part in team challenges.  We were trying to untangle ourselves after we had all joined hands randomly.  Dinner was brillant!  After we went climbing up hills, dodged cows, saw Mull and then rolled/skidded/fell/laughed and walked down.  Only a few scratches.  Once we arrived back we had a chance to get used to our rooms, had a little supper and then went to bed.  We can’t believe how much we have done already..looking forward to today’s activities – anyone fancy gorge walking?

By Christopher and Jamie

We had a fun but busy first week back last week in P3a! These are some of the things we got up to…

Firstly we did some snapshots of our Easter holidays to help us in our writing.

We also learned about exclamation marks and where we use them in our writing.  We are looking forward to putting them in our writing to show where someone may be shouting, to add expression and to show surprise.

We described our favourite character from our class novel ‘Mr Stink’ and used words and pictures to say why we liked them.  We are really enjoying reading Mr Stink!

In maths the pentagons and pyramids were working on their 8 times tables and we were using strategies such as drawing an ‘array’ and using ‘repeated addition’ to work the answer out.

The spheres were working on the 4 times table and testing their problem solving skills with a range of questions.

Nathan got a new reading book and has been practicing reading new words and did very well!

Achievements

Table of the week – Brooke, Ammie-Leigh, Callum and Murray.

Dojo winner- Farrah

Maisie won a first place medal and second place medal in golf!

Charlie and Murray have been learning new moves in Karate.

We are starting our new topic about Farming this week and look forward to sharing our learning with you!

Welcome back after the Easter break P5. This week’s blog tells you about our holiday highlights and what was good about coming back to school.

In the holidays we had lots of eggciting adventures:

Mya – I went to Caitlin’s house and we made chocolate cake.

Demi – Leigh – I went to my aunties house, watched a movie and my sister was there too.

Leia – I climbed Ben Ann, it was nice at the top.

James – I went to Edinburgh Dungeons.

Dadirayi – I went with my cousins to Hot Flames and I liked the chocolate fountain.

Isla – I liked seeing my sister in the hotel.

Evan – I liked going to Harry’s house and seeing his puppy.

Ava – I loved going alpaca trekking, I got to walk an alpaca.

Annabelle – I went to Mill farm and I loved going on the Go-Karts.

David – I liked going to the cinema and I saw the Boss Baby.

Aaron – I went to my Dads I woke up at 5.54am and played the Xbox.

Our first week back school has been busy too. This is our highlights.

Emma – I liked PE because we are doing teamwork games.

Grace – I enjoyed playing Minecraft and building the Scottish Parliament.

Caitlin – I liked doing measurement in maths.

Evie – I liked learning our celebrating success song.

Erin – I liked writing this week on How to Trap a Dragon?

Sophie – I liked the first day of school because I was bored during the holidays.

Olivia – I enjoyed seeing all my friends and Mr Cunningham again.

Kayleigh – I enjoyed writing about how to trap a dragon.

Logan – I liked writing.

Robyn – I liked learning about the Scottish Parliament.