It has been a very busy and productive week in P7/6. The class felt a lot smaller ( and quieter) as our P7’s were away on their High School transition days, embarking on the next leg of their journey.

The week kicked off with a very successful trip to The Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. The sun shone for us as we started our garden treasure hunt, where we had to find various flowers and items within the gardens and take photos of them or draw them. The sun was still shining when we had lunch so we were able to have a quick game of football in the park opposite the gardens. After lunch we got to take part in a work shop about the reproduction of plants, some of us got to dress up as flowers, a bee, stamen and stigma, which all represented the different parts of a flower. We then had to recreate what happens when a bee is attracted to a flower. It helped us to understand the process of pollination better.

On Wednesday Eve, Katie, Adam and Aiden took the Burton-mobile for a trip to Dobbies Garden Centre. We applied for funding from Dobbies to help us with our school grounds, in the hope that we could create a welcoming colourful, relaxing, place within our school playground and we are pleased to announce that we were awarded £600 worth of gardening equipment. Eve, Katie, Adam and Aiden have been displaying their green fingers by creating a small garden in our playground so I thought they would be the perfect children to go and have a wee trip to Dobbies to see what type of plants and equipment we could spend our money on. They all knew exactly what they wanted and came back with a very extensive list. We look forward to getting everything delivered and making our school playground a welcoming place. If anyone would like to help with this small project we would really appreciate your help.

On Thursday we got a visit from the SSPCA to discuss what animal cruelty was  and all of the children had very good questions to ask our warden. We ended the session with a game of snakes and ladders that related to animal facts.

Our P7’s all arrived back safely from their new high schools and had lots of stories to tell us about their time away. It sounds like they all had an amazing time and are all ready to make the transition to High School.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.

Miss Anderson