Category: Interdisciplinary Learning

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RSPB Visit

Primary 4 were very lucky to be the first class to welcome our visitors from the RSPB to our school.

We had lots of discussion about habitats and what we can do to help animals who want to live (or do live) in our school grounds.

We went on a walk around the school to look out for habitats which we have and we got to keep record of how many we have and how many points we scored.

Our school got 119 points and we were only missing 2 habitats! We were very proud of our score and really enjoyed being out to explore our school, even if it was very chilly!

Here are some photos of us all having fun:

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Christmas Fayre 2017

On Friday we held our annual Christmas Fair, organised by our Parent Partners Group. The choir opened the event by singing some Christmas songs and all the classes had taken part in Enterprise projects which they sold at the fair. Our nurture groups, outdoor club and parent craft club also had stalls. Our P7 Young Leaders came along and worked at some of the stands and even set up their own nail bar. Thanks to everyone who organised the event and to all those who visited and donated to school funds.

 

 

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Club Wild Veg Sale

We hope you’ve noticed how amazingly the vegetables in our school garden have grown.  they are all ready to be harvested and club Wild with Ms Young and Sarah-Jane will get picking this week.

Next Monday (2nd October) the Club Wild pupils will be at the gate selling the produce for their group funds.  Please stop and have a look, chat to the kids about the veg and buy some delicious home (or rather school)-grown veg for supper.

 

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CLUB WILD – Our fantastic Outdoor club

Giving wildlife homes in our school grounds!
This school year has been great for getting wildlife into our school grounds.
 
We recorded an increase in the numbers of birds and different species of birds as we undertook the Big Schools Bird watch in February. This is down to setting up a bird feeding area and making sure that we provide food throughout the year.
 
We  were so excited to see a family of blue tits use a bird box that we had put up in the spring. Check out the video of mummy and daddy birds feeding their young.
 
We were also very surprised and excited to uncover a nest of shrews who had made their home in the wooden building at the back of the playground. It shows us that all the different things that we are doing to make the playground more interesting will bring wildlife that we can watch and understand.
 
We can still do more!
 
Club Wild have been thinking of all the habitats that we have within the school grounds and writing our own Biodiversity Action Plan to increase the variety of animal and plant species. We started this by making habitat heaps, a log pile and a rock pile. With these we hope to attract newts, toads and frogs, spiders and other insects. We will probably see birds looking in our heaps for food too.
 
What an exciting year for all of us in Club Wild! We look forward to coming back after the summer holidays and giving more species homes in our school.
 
Club Wild, Mrs Young & Sarah-Jane
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Medieval Market Stalls

Our P5 pupils with Miss McLaughlin and Sarah Jane are preparing for their Medieval Marketplace showcase on June 28 at 2pm.

The fantastic team of joiners from McTaggart Construction, the company building the new houses behind the school, have stepped in and built us these fantastic structures and we are so pleased with them.  McTaggart also came to speak to us at our DYW week and are coming next week to dig holes in the playground for some new projects.  A great example of community partnerships.  Thanks to all.

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Pootering about on a Mini Beast Safari

This week at Club Wild we had great fun making pooters, finding and soaking up mini beasts. Pooters are a great way to examine mini beasts up close.
We made them by first making two holes in the top of a jar, taking two lengths of plastic tubing (15 and 25cm long), securing some gauze over the shorter one. We put yellow tape on the end of this tube and red tape on the end of the other longer piece and put plasticine round the holes to make our pooter air tight.
Now we are ready to pooter! Red to catch bugs and yellow to sook. It was funny to see how fast the bugs zoomed up the tubes and into our jars. Under logs in the playground we found beetles and woodlice, spiders and spider mites, millipedes and centipedes and we got to see the detail of their body parts, their legs and watch them move all before we set them free.  
Club Wild, Mrs Young and Sarah-Jane
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Gardening Help Needed – 9 June from 11am onwards.

As you know, as a school we have been working hard this year on developing our outdoor space to make our school look and work better.  All pupils benefit immensely from exploring, playing, learning and developing in the outdoors.
As we are nearing the end of the school year there are a number of jobs in the garden we want to get finished before the long break and we need your help,
On Friday 9 June we want families to join us in getting some jobs finished in the garden, including building a compost bin and painting the shed.  We would start from about 11am and pupils can join in when they finish school.
I really hope you can find some time to help out, please let us know if you can make it, many thanks.
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