We really enjoyed orienteering activities during health week.
P4/3 and P2
P4/3 football debate finale…
Following our football debate we prepared and delivered scripts, designed flyers and posters, counted and verified the votes and we have collectively reached a decision. Football is ………………………..staying!! Well done to the ‘FOR’ and ‘AGAINST’ campaigners, you gave very well presented speeches with strong arguments to our infant classes, Mrs Gibson, Mrs Kerr, Miss Benson, Miss White, Mrs Woodhouse, Miss Henderson, Mrs Riley and Mrs Hendrie. Votes were quite close with 33 – 21 in support of keeping football. However, the story didn’t end there. We are very happy that football is staying but we also realised that changes need to be made. As a class, we chose 4 rules, drew up a contract and asked all infant pupils and staff to sign it. We will review this again in 2 weeks to discuss whether the changes have worked and whether or not our rules need to be tweeked. We have thoroughly enjoyed our real-life debate and cannot wait for our next one!
P4/3 investigate sea pollution
As part of our topic we have been investigating the effects of sea pollution. We were shocked and saddened at how our careless behaviour and actions can destroy an eco system. Our fish, Freddie, was faced with oil, grit, toxic waste, animal waste, litter and other sources of pollution, and he saddly took his final breath at the end of our lesson :-(. Please note that no animals were harmed in the making of this experiment – Freddie was a sponge in disguise :-)!
We discussed how we can prevent sea pollution and came up with an action plan.
Primary 7
It has been a very busy term so far. Our school show has been decided, auditions held and parts given out. This years school show will be Pirates of the Currybean. Rehearsals have began and a date for our performance to be confirmed.
Our class have been involved in an anti-bullying performance and workshop which the children really enjoyed watching and taking part in.
We have had a visit from Drama Box and the children enjoyed their session learning to project their voices, take part in improvisation and act out feelings and emotions.
The class are currently taking part in Futsall and Judo as part of their P.E but have also taken responsibility for their own P.E lessons by planning lessons in small groups which they can lead with the class. They have looked at warm up games, skills and how to organise teams and games.
The children have been learning about pollution in our seas and oceans and ways we can help to reduce the effect we have on them, as part of their transition work with Stoneyburn.
The children have been learning to use different mediums to create art work. We are focused on sketching at the moment but have also looked at clay modelling.
In Science we are looking at electricity and circuits. The children have worked on identifying insulators and conductors, creating series and parallel circuits and using their knowledge to create models.
P5/4 read and relax.
Today we decided to head outside and have some “r n r” – read and relax.
Everyday we read a book of our choice for 15 minutes.
“I feel relaxed and ready to learn more after read and relax” – Elle
”I like finding new words in my book to share with the class” – Lewis
You can read and relax anywhere. I wonder where we’ll be reading next.
P4 waste minimisers
Today we went to Stoneyburn for our last transition for this session.
We continued to look at waste minimisation. We started by watching some clips from Newsround that showed us that flytipping is on the rise. We discussed why we thought people dumped their waste and what affects it has on the environment.
We then went out into the school grounds to see how much waste there was. There was a lot of litter around the woodlands. We couldn’t believe that we found bricks, wooden slats and even glass bottles that people had dumped there.
In the afternoon we formed teams and had to design a poster or PowerPoint to persuade people not to dump their waste but to use bins or recycle ♻ them.
We had a fantastic time and hope we get to join up with the primary 4s from stoneyburn again soon.
P3 transition day trip to the Transport Museum, Glasgow
P3 children from Greenrigg and Stoneyburn schools made the journey to the Transport Museum in Glasgow today. We learned transport can be powered by wind, horse, steam and electricity. We saw so many different modes of transport including a Penny Farthing that was made in 1890.
P4/3 star writers of the week
I am very proud of these amazing young people after reading their arguments for and against football in school. They were very persuasive and showed real belief in their views. This has been the toughest week ever to pick star writers as the standard was so high. I can’t wait for our next debate!
P4/3 debate
We would like to restore harmony to our playground during lunch and play time. We have had a few complaints about arguments breaking out over football and it became such a big problem that we have decided to take action! We are in 2 camps – For banning football and for keeping football. Our action plan was to
- Discuss our reasons for what we believe
- Write a statement to present our argument to the P1 and P2 classes, Mrs Gibson and Mrs Kerr
- Create a campaign using persuasive posters and leaflets to support our cause
- Take a vote and stick to the results until the end of term.
Our debating team FOR football (to which McKenzie became the natural leader)
- It would make people sad if football was banned and they’d have nothing to do (Cate)
- If your dream is to be a footballer or a gymnast you might fail if you can’t practise (Payton)
- It’s not fair for people who want to play (Kayla Sinnet)
- In my perspective it should stay because it’s fun and healthy (Cate)
- It’s one of the fittest sports (McKenzie)
Solutions:
- We should do what the big end do and play on different days (Kayla Swan)
- We can make up our own rules (Kimberley)
- I think the school should get astro turf so there are less injuries (Jayden)
- P1 &P2 can play against P3 (Jayden)
- Teachers should pick the teams (Kayla Sinnet)
Our debating team AGAINST football:
- I feel football should be banned because people argue about which team won (Abbey)
- I think people keep on getting hurt too much (Ben)
- I think the ball goes out the pitch a lot and hits people. There is a lot of shouting (Scot)
- Ban football because it’s very noisy when people play football and if someone who wasn’t playing got hurt no one would notice (Brendan)
- I think football should be banned because players shout at other players and make up their own rules about free kicks, teams and penatlies (Aiden)
- I am sure that there are more games when there are arguments (than no arguments) enjoying the game (Sam)
Watch this space for the conclusion!!
