Nurture class had so much fun at the careers fayre! The children loved exploring the police cars, fire engines and ambulance up close. They enjoyed chatting with the officers and had great fun trying on some of the uniforms. It was a brilliant hands-on experience and a very exciting day for everyone.
P3 Careers Fair 👩🚒👮♂️
Yesterday, P3 had a very fun and exciting day taking part in our Careers Fair. We enjoyed learning about lots of different jobs and the skills people need for their careers.
P3 met people from a variety of careers including emergency services, makeup artists, beauticians and even a Scotmidworker, which was especially exciting as some of us visit the shop every day!
P3 particularly enjoyed learning about the emergency services and loved having a turn using the firefighter’s hose. It was a great hands-on experience😁
This was followed by a fun play afternoon hosted by our Digital and Play Committee. P3 enjoyed taking part in the different activities and getting creative.
This week, our Nurture Class had lots of fun taking part in Health Week. The children enjoyed trying lots of different activities throughout the week and had a great time keeping active.
We learned some new skills in judo, took part in marathons and active games, and had lots of fun trying circus skills too! The children especially enjoyed having the chance to try new activities and challenge themselves.
Well done to everyone for taking part and making Health Week such an enjoyable week!
We have had the best Health Week.
in the last day we started with an important talk from the Police. We will think about our behaviour outside of school and make sure we are respectful and think of others. It is important to look after our local community and to think of our actions and how they can impact others.
We also had a talk from Mrs Cooper all about our feelings and some strategies we can use to help us if we are feeling sad, upset, worried or angry. We especially liked the breathing technique she taught us. Thank you!
We ran a mini marathon outside and had to run at least 3 laps of the grass. Lots of us managed more than that. We were rewarded with an ice pole to cool us down afterwards.
To end our fantastic week we had a session with the dancing instructor. We played a corners game where we had to do specific dance moves and then we used those moves to perform a short dance. We loved it.
P7/6 have had a phenomenal time during health week!
We have enjoyed judo, bowling, a trip to the community garden, making smoothies and fruit kebabs, gymnastics, football, pickle ball, fitness, strong man and circus skills!
We also talked about our mental health and what constitutes our ‘happy place’ and took part in some health-themed team quizzes. We all agreed it was a brilliant week!
On Tuesday, P3 had a fantastic day taking part in lots of fun Health Week activities!
We started the day outdoors making delicious s’mores by melting marshmallows over the fire. P3 really enjoyed toasting the marshmallows and making their tasty treats.🔥
We then made our own smoothies using the smoothie bike and created healthy fruit kebabs. P3 had great fun choosing different fruits and learning about healthy food choices.
After this, we enjoyed a walk to the community garden where P3 completed a scavenger hunt, searching for different items on their checklist.
Later in the day, we had an exciting visit from the circus where P3 learned some fun circus tricks and practised new skills.
To finish our busy day, we enjoyed a silent disco filled with lots of dancing and laughter. It was a wonderful day full of fun and teamwork! 🎪🍉🎧
Day 2 of Health Week has been just as busy as day 1.
In the morning we had a visit from Childsmile. It was very interesting and we learned lots about looking after our teeth. We were very shocked to learn the amount of sugar is some of the drinks we like. We are going to try to make healthy choices about what we eat and drink, especially less sugar for our teeth.
We then had a slot working with Destination Judo. We had to take our shoes off before going onto the mat and we all wore a Judo jacket. We had fun with the warm up, playing games, we also worked with a partner rolling, wheelbarrowing and carrying each other on our backs. We then learned how to do some holds and throws. We all worked really hard.
In the afternoon it was our turn for the silent disco. We all had our own set of headphones and could listen to the same music. Mrs Gaffney was DJ with a mic that we could all hear. We picked our favourite songs and had fun dancing.
Our last activity of the day was the much anticipated football. We loved having a chance to develop our dribbling and shooting skills out on the kick pitch.
Today P3 enjoyed an exciting visit to Stirling Castle as part of our current topic. We had a fantastic day exploring the castle and learning more about its fascinating history.🏰
During our visit, we were given a special tour by the castle jester, who shared lots of interesting facts and stories about life in the castle many years ago. P3 loved listening to the jester and learning through fun activities and storytelling.🃏
We explored different parts of the castle and discovered what life would have been like for the people who lived and worked there. This helped us to make links to our classroom learning and deepen our understanding of our topic.💭
Everyone represented St Mary’s brilliantly by showing excellent manners and showing our school values!
P7/6 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the museum of flight as part of their World War II topic.
We enjoyed a super workshop with National Museum guide Eva where we got to see artefacts from WWII including uniforms, silk maps and compasses which were hidden in buttons to avoid detection. We also got to try out code breaking and try on some uniforms of the era.
Next we enjoyed a guided tour around the airfield with David and Ken. We visited the air raid and blast shelters, museum – Fortunes of War – and hangars which contained lots of interesting planes including the WWII fighter planes Spitfire and Messerschmitt and the ultimate luxury passenger airplane – Concorde.
We enjoyed boarding Concorde and learning about luxury, super sonic flight. We got to look in the cockpit and discovered at top speed it could travel at Mach 2 – over 1300mph!
We also got to see a WWII unexploded bomb that landed in Edinburgh!
After lunch we tackled the assault course and enjoyed some spectacular weather! The airfield last saw an aircraft land in the 1980s when the Vulcan arrived from the Falklands War. Even though it is now mainly grassed over, it is still easy to see the former runways, when it was in daily use in both WWI and WWII!
Many thanks to National Museums and the brilliant staff at East Fortune for such a memorable day!
What a great start to our Health Week. For our first activity this morning we could choose to make either a fruit kebab or a smoothie. The fun part was using the smoothie bike! We chose the fruit we like and added it to the blender. To blend the fruit we had to cycle. They were delicious.
We then had outdoor fun playing at the trim trail and we made s’mores! We got to melt our marshmallows over the fire and put it between chocolate digestives, they were delicious.
We then had time with Showtime Circus! We used lots of fun equipment. We learned how to use hoops, flower sticks, scarves and plates.
To end the day we went on a scavenger hunt at the Community Garden. We found murals, fairy houses and dens. We loved going into the Dark Wood. We then had a play at Ennis Park. What a fantastic day!
