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.

The Junior Choir will showcase its work on Tuesday from 3.45 – 4.15p.m. The children should bring a snack and water. We will meet in the Pod for this. You will be able to come in to the hall at 3.30p.m.
There will be NO CHOIR on Tuesday 28th June.

The Senior Choir will showcase its work on Friday 24th June from 12.30 – 1.45p.m. (approx). There will be an after school rehearsal on Thursday 23rd June, and it would be fantastic if all members could attend. We will have our dress rehearsal on Tuesday 21st from 1.20 – 3.00p.m. The pupils have been amazing, I’m sure you will all enjoy the performance!

We have trialed one of our Potted Sports Courses – Scott’s group has learned a number of lessons about what they had planned. Both the hurdles and golf will be too difficult for the assigned class – Primary 2B.
We have been learning about the EU Referendum, and have been debating whether or not we should remain or leave the EU. Some of us found it very interesting and some of us not!
We had to design a poster and slogan – this was also related to the EU. We also wrote news reports – Geo’s group interviewed David Cameron, and he transformed himself into David Cameron for this!
In maths we revisited symmetry – we worked on lines of symmetry – horizontal, vertical and diagonal. This was more challenging.
Next Tuesday some of us have our interviews for the House Captain Team – we are feeling excited, but nervous too!
Next Friday it’s the Golden Club event, and all of us will attend this. Our slot is at 11.45 – 12.10p.m.
Those of us involved in the Senior Choir Showcase will perform scenes from We Will Rock You! next Friday afternoon at 12.30p.m.

Have a good weekend!

Junior Choir – Parents and friends are invited to our showcase on Tuesday 21st June at 3.45p.m. We will perform the songs that we have learned this term. The senior helpers are also going to sing a song! This will last about thirsty minutes.

Senior Choir – Parents and friends are invited to our showcase on Friday 24th June at 12.30. Sasha says – ‘This will be epic!’
This will last about one and a half hours – a phenomenal rock experience!

Junior Choir next year will be on a Tuesday after school and the Senior Choir will be on a Thursday after school, as Mrs Innes is only teaching on a Tuesday and Thursday next session.

We are nearly Primary 2!
On Wednesday we visited our new classrooms and met our Primary 2 teachers.
Nina – It was great because I met new friends!
Harris – I liked learning new stuff.
Emma – I liked meeting my new teacher, Miss McDougall.
Jess – I liked making masks for our new classroom. We made a Fantastic Mr Fox mask.
Keira – I liked Mrs Clark teaching us about friends.
Maddison – I liked seeing new friends.
Dionne – I liked it when I learnt new things.
Alex – I liked playing in the sandpit with Freya and Ava.
Ava – I enjoyed meeting new friends and I enjoyed gym with Mr Jeffries.
Elise – I enjoyed playing in the sandpit and doing my work.
Esther – I enjoyed playing in the dolls’ house and meeting Mrs Clark.
Isla – I liked my teacher, Miss McDougall, because she is so lovely and she teaches us everything and when she asked us to do things we did them.
Liam – I liked the sand.
Marley – I liked playing in the tent and making a gruffalo.
Sarah – I enjoyed playing in the house with all the cooking stuff.
Ryan – I enjoyed playing with the sand.
Grace – I like Mrs Clark teaching us about making new friends.
Daniel – I enjoyed playing with the bricks.
Evie – I enjoyed playing with the playdough.
Alysheeya – I enjoyed playing with the dolls’ house in my new classroom.
We are all very excited about our new classes and all the new things we will learn in Primary 2.
We are really looking forward our trip to the Botanic Gardens on Wednesday too.

Caterpillar news – they are in their cocoons!

Article 28 – The right to an education

Playground Pupil of the week – Nina for being kind and helpful to her friends in the playground.

On Wednesday we ‘moved on’ to primary 7 for the day. Miss Elliot will be our teacher next year. We completed the Skittles challenge. This involved us sitting in a circle and choosing two random Skittles. We then had to answer the questions on the board that related to that colour. Ramsay chose a purple and orange skittle – the questions were about my friends and favourite school subject. The others were red, yellow and green. The question for red was our favourite TV programme or film. The yellow question was favourite food or drink. The green question was our favourite singer or band. After you answered your question you were allowed to eat the skittle!
We did lots of interesting work with Miss Elliot, and we are looking forward to next session!
On Thursday we began working on leadership and team-working skills related to a Potted Sports activity. Firstly we spoke about what Potted Sports are, and then we had to compete in sports devised by Mrs Innes. Our task is to teach and lead a session with one of Mrs Innes’ drama classes.
We began working on this today. We are working in groups to complete this task. We have prepared our potted sports course – and have had to think about the different skills of throwing, catching, shooting and running. We have been allocated our classes and have sorted them into teams. We have begun to create name labels for our team members and prepare score cards. Next week we will trial our course and then lead the session with our assigned classes during week beginning 23rd June.
As almost all of the primary seven pupils are spending this week at Bathgate Academy, we are having a Karaoke Cafe in the drama hall for Golden Time. We will also have craft and i-pad time during this, so that there is a wider range of activities available.

Another week in the life of primary 6A!
Have a good weekend everyone!