Caring
Miss Connor and Bramble clan introduced our red value stag – Caring. Caring is part of the Red House.
Resilience
Miss Stark introduced our green value stag – Resilience. Resilience is part of the Fallow House.
Integrity
Miss Burton introduced our yellow value stag – Integrity. Integrity is part of the Roe House.
Belonging
Leven clan & Mrs Bates introduced our navy value stag – Belonging. Belonging is part of the Sika House.
To celebrate the learning we have been exploring in our IDL Olympic and Paralympic topic we were very lucky to have a visit from Josh Manson.
Josh spoke about his experiences being a wheelchair basketball player, ran a basketball training session and even gave us a go at manoeuvring a wheelchair.
Click here to explore photos and videos of Josh’s visit and the amazing MacKintosh Clan taking part in the activities!
Josh Manson Visit 30.9.24 Wheelchair Basketball
Huge thank you goes to Josh for all he did to support our learning and help us celebrate this interesting topic!
We have created a Sway to give you more information on all of our Family Learning and Parental Involvement opportunities including Stay and Play Sessions and Family Learning Events. This will be added to throughout the year.
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Tay clan were very proud to share their literacy learning with families this week. We were very excited to demonstrate what and how we have been learning in our writing lessons and the progress we have made in our writing. It was a lovely afternoon. Thank you to everyone who attended.
We also enjoyed listening to our new class novel ‘The Land of Roar’ which hooked us into our new literacy theme for this terms learning. We got comfy and relaxed on the carpet with pillows and sat ‘ by the fire’ (YouTube works wonders these days!) to listen to an imaginative story. Afterwards, we took inspiration from the story and created maps of our own imaginary worlds. We loved delving into our imagination, where anything is possible!
This week in Schiehallion we’ve been writing Halloween poems. Our aim was to write riddle poems using six clues to describe a Halloween object. The reader would then have to guess what they think the poem is about.
We used our descriptive language skills that we developed last term to help write our clues. I think you’ll agree that the clan did a great job, and that the poems are a very enjoyable read.
Baird Clan have begun to get in the Halloween spirit this week by creating our own spooky characters! We started with a game of “table wars”, with each table giving examples of Halloween related vocabulary until only one table was left. We then created riddles in pairs or independently as a way of focusing on describing objects without using their names. Finally, we created our own monster characters and used adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe our creations. Next week, we will use our monsters as the basis of our own spooky stories.
In Ben Lawers we have had a wonderful time doing lots of activities around Halloween. We created Halloween poems in writing in the form of riddles and had a lot of fun guessing each others. In numeracy we have been solving and making our own Halloween code breakers, solving problems and matching the answers to a codex to reveal spooky words. We have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, who shares a birthday with our clan member Aarudh, and created Halloween versions of some of his most famous pieces. Finally we have loved creating a “Halloween Hut” outside our classroom full of our own crafts and sharing our Halloween costumes this Friday.
