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.
We have been bathed in glorious sun this week and our smiles have been shining too as we have played and learned with, and from, each other.
We have built castles in the sand and have learned about mixing colours in our sensory play with beautiful coloured sand. Our focus on beautiful colours has also extended into our Literacy studies, where we have been learning about colours in the world around us. Colour has also been a focus in our Art activities where we designed our own Elmer the Elephant paper mosaics with vibrant colours.
We have also explored the sensory sensation of the water tray on the Trim Trail and enjoyed the challenge of arranging blocks in the Outdoor Classroom into patterns of our own making.
Primary 1 have had another fabulous learning week!
On Monday we learned all about Pentecost and how the Holy Spirit is all around us. We made our own Holy Spirit headbands.
As well have caterpillars 🐛 in class we have been learning all about the life cycle of butterflies 🦋 and we used this to inspire out artwork. We discussed how butterflies 🦋 are symmetrical and created our own butterflies 🦋 . We had lots of fun creating our butterflies.
A special visitor made a delivery 📦 to our classroom, a dragon 🐉 looking for help with Fairyland. The dragon left us lots of fairytale books 📚 to read and asked us to red them and created our own fairyland. Primary 1 decided to start with Jack and the Bean Stalk. We enjoyed listening to the story, exploring the pictures in the book and we used the ideas to create our own giant and beanstalk 🫘 🌱.
During the week we also got to enjoy watching the Teachers v Pupils netball game, we enjoyed cheering on our teacher.
On Thursday we had a super afternoon at the school careers fair, we loved meeting parents who came in to share what they do as a job as well as people from the emergency 🚨 services. This was very interesting and lots of fun! Thursday afternoon was also “play afternoon “ Which the Creative and Digital committee had planned, it was great to be able to bring in toys from home and share why we like them with our friends.
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.
Last day of Health Week and it’s was another busy one. We started our day with a session with PC Sean. This was lots of fun as well as giving us lots of information about how to stay safe and how the police can help us. We also got the opportunity to investigate some equipment and police uniform he brought along to show us.
Next up for us was a mini marathon 🏃♀️ 🏃 we found this challenging but fun, we enjoyed running with our friends. We talked about how it’s very good for our health to do something that challenges us.
As well as looking after our bodies we also need to look after minds and we enjoyed our Mental Health session where we talked about what we could do when we are feeling sad, upset, angry or frustrated and what makes us feel happy and safe.
Let but not least, our last session of the week was Dancing with Next Steps. Some of us thought we didn’t like dancing but our faces said differently and afterwards we all agreed it was lots of fun.
Back with a bang 💥 this morning as we had a session with our Active Schools Coordinator. We were learning tennis 🎾 skills, running and moving in different directions, bouncing balls 🎾 and then using a tennis racket .
After break we walked up to West Calder bowling club where we learned all about playing Bowles 🎳 The walk was far but we all did very well and everyone tried their best. Bowling was fun and we were glad the rain stopped for us as it was outside in the grass. Some of us had been to indoor bowling before but this was a lot different.
In the afternoon we had a gymnastics 🤸 session. For some of us we have been to gymnastics 🤸 before but for a lot of us this was our first try. Some of the moves were tricky but we used our perseverance and had lots of fun doing it.
We did extra walking today along the Polbeth river, we talked about what animals might live in this area.
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! 🎪🍉🎧
