What a quick week in primary 1. Both our trips went very well. The children seem to have really enjoyed them and have learned a lot – lots of chat and play related to our trips back in the classroom. The children were very well behaved outside of school and I’m really proud of them.
There was great excitement when we set off in the bus for Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway on Tuesday, some of the children said the bus ride was the best bit! We had a super journey on the steam train, eating our lunch in the old fashioned coaches and making sure we had our tickets ready to be punched by the ticket inspector. We got off the train to watch the steam engine change sides to pull us back again. In the museum, our lovely guide, Mina, let us go into lots of trains and told us information about them. Our favourites were the Royal Mail train and the Glasgow underground train.
On Wednesday we were off out again – to the Loch this time. We were met by two National Trust Rangers who played games with us to teach us about bird migration. The games were good fun – it was really hard to reach South Africa without any mishaps on the way! We eventually all made it though. Lots of worms came up to see us as we were trampling on the ground, the Rangers let us hold them and told us all about how good the worms are for the soil and the part they play in helping things to grow. We all enjoyed learning outside and we are very lucky that we have such lovely outdoor spaces near to the school.
Around our trips we have been learning the ‘oi’ sound, we are continuing with subtraction and have been looking at size and measure. We have also been writing reports, we wrote one about our Spring walk last week and another about our trip to Bo’ness this week.
Have a lovely long weekend everyone.
From P1B and Mrs Kennedy
