It has been an amazing, fun (and tiring week)!  We have been learning all about being healthy and how to have good wellbeing.  Read on to find out what we did each day.

Monday – Relax Kids came into school and we learned how to be relaxed and calm by taking part in lots of different games and activities.  We also learned all about teeth; molars, incisors and canines.

Tuesday – We started the day with yoga and finished the day with Synergy Fit (this was exhausting!).  In class we were learning about God’s Loving Plan for us all; how to show love and to celebrate families.

Wednesday – For Walking Wednesday as a class we went on a long walk all around the school grounds, we went to parts of the playing field many of use have never been to before, everyone was tired after this.  In the afternoon we learned some golf techniques and then completed the Tough Mudder course (this was a very wet experience for all but ended up being the highlight of the week for most of the children!).

Thursday – We were thoughtful on Thursday and used our Keep Connected unit from the Building Resilience Pack to help us to develop our Two-Way conversation skills when there is conflict or a difference of opinion.  We then learned some Taewkon-do moves, some new dance moves from St Margaret students and finished the day with the amazing Parkour (this was the other favourite activity).

Friday – Today we had Fun Friday, we had our Fun 31 time, assembly and then watched the teacher/pupil Netball and Basketball matches.

I’m sure you’ll agree we have had a very busy week!!

Have a restful weekend.

Mrs Currie

 

We have had a great wellbeing week in P5D.

We have enjoyed getting to take part in and try out some new sporting activities this week as well as learning about the human body.

Some of our favourite activities were; Parkour, Taekwando and football.

“I liked football because I learned new tricks!” – Emily

“I liked Parkour because we got to swing on the bars!” – Maliha

“I enjoyed Parkour because we got to balance on the bars!” – Ola

We were also learning about the importance of looking after ourselves and recognise that it is important to take some ‘me’ time.  We enjoyed our relax kids session where we were giving and receiving back massages and focussing on our breathing to help make us feel relaxed and calm.

A highlight for most of us was our sponsored Tough Mudder! We had an obstacle course to complete which had lots of different challenges on the way. The rain poured and we got VERY wet and muddy but this added to the fun!

“I enjoyed Tough Mudder because I like getting muddy!” – Sophie D

“I enjoyed Tough Mudder because it was fun running in the rain!” – Ethan

We were learning all about the human body and it’s systems. We learned about the respiratory systems and the circulatory system. We enjoyed doing a science experiment to help us understand how our lungs work.

“Learning about the lungs was fun because we got to make our very own pretend lung in an experiment!” – Hasan

“I enjoyed making the lung because when you made it actually worked like a real lung!” – Levente

This is something that could be done at home so why not give it a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1zvN0HlG-c

In amongst a very bus wellbeing week, we also had our class trip to Dynamic Earth. This was also a brilliant experience and we learned lots of new things.

“I really liked the part where there was an earthquake, lava and the ground started to shake!” – Andrew

“I liked the dome movie learning space!” – Ethan

“I liked when we went into the time machine!” – Emily

“I liked when we watched the 3D video and were on a flight in the rainforest!” – Maliha

“I liked when we went on a plane and bumped into a rhino and I liked the ice room!” – Sophie R

 

Have a great weekend.

Relax Kids

Lucas: we played a game, when the lady lifted up the elephant or the chipmunk you had to act like it.

Shea: we stretched.

Freya: there was a ball and it went out and in and it done it as the same time as us.

Anna: we were doing back rubbing, we were in a line and we had to back rub.

 

Outdoors Play

Logan: we tried to get the ball in the hula hoops and someone could steal the balls. I was in the yellow team but we didn’t win.

Cordelle: you steal from the other team if you ran out of balls.

Rojin: we played on the trim trail, I went fast on it.

Yoga

Roma: we done a butterfly, you have to put your feet together and then you flap your legs.

Paul: we done boat pose, you lie on your tummy and put your feet up and try to hold your feet up.

Carter: we done a gorilla pose, you have to swing your arms at your chest.

Freya: we were doing the bird pose, you lie on your tummy and put your feet up to the sky and make a triangle shape with your hands and hand and try to lift your legs up without shaking.

 

Health Week Maths

Layla: we had to take the skin off bananas and cut up pieces – two of them.

Celine: you made the banana in half, half needs to be the same size.

Shea: you then cut it into quarters – you cut it into 4.

Scott: then we eat the bananas.

Jane: we had to sort the food from the very hungry caterpillar story. We sorted it in healthy, unhealthy or in the middle.

Rojin: the apple was healthy.

Amelia: cupcake was unhealthy.

Anna: cheese would be in the middle because if you eat too much then it can be unhealthy.

 

NYCOS

Carter: someone had to sing if you have the ball. If I had the ball other people would sing ‘Carter has the ball’ and I would sing ‘can you catch it Shea’ or who I wanted to catch it.

Shea: you had to make a circle and someone was sitting in the middle and there was a drum. Someone played the drum and the person in the middle had to guess who was playing the drum.

 

Synergy

Pati: 1 person would spin the wheel and it had a number and the lady told us what to do. I done star jumps.

Lucas: We I spun the wheel it landed on air punches.

Layla: we didn’t have time to get to 24!

 

Food Tasting

Roma: we were eating food. We ha watermelon, it is a fruit. It was very yummy.

Pati: we had carrot. It is a vegetable and it was good.

Logan: we had cucumber, it’s a vegetable. It was delicious.

Anna: we had raspberries, it is a fruit. They are my favourite fruit.

Cordelle: we had mango and it’s a fruit. It was delicious.

Lucas: we had red pepper. I liked it a little bit. It was the first time I tried it.

 

Tough Mudder

Amelia: we had jump over the seats.

Roma: you needed to go under the parachute.

Cordelle: you went in and out the tyres.

Carter: you had to go through the bamboo sticks.

Paul: you had to jump over benches.

Anna: we went over 2 tunnels.

Shea: it was raining, it was wet.

Jane: my trousers got muddy!

 

Taewkondo

Michelle: you had a partner and 1 person had a pad. The other person had to run over and punch the pad.

Mara: you had to kick the pads. I kicked the top of the pad. My partner was Jane.

 

Dance

Carter: at the end you had to jump and do a cool pose. I done a hand stand.

 

Our Highlights

Scott: my favourite was tasting the food. My favourite was the carrot.

Michelle: I liked tough mudder because you got messy.

Mara: I liked tough mudder because you went under the parachute.

Celine: My favourite was tasting the fruits and vegetables because it was healthy.

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This week and last week have been very busy. Last week Primary 7 pupils were at transitions and this week we had sports week. It has been great so far, so here are some of our own opinions on this week and last week.

Isla: I have enjoyed health week so far. All the activities were really fun, but my personal favourites were Parkour, Tough Mudder and golf. Tough Mudder was tiring but fun and I liked doing it with my buddy.

Rachel W: I liked parkour and Tough Mudder and St Margaret’s transition week.

Grace: Here are my favourite things about transition week and sports week. My favourite about transitions was doing art with Miss. Plenderleaf. My favourite thing about sports week was doing the apple swans with Mrs. Conway.

Chi-Chi: I didn’t go to the St. Margaret’s, but the favourite parts of my own transition was biology, art and music. My favourite thing about health week was parkour and tough mudder.

Paige – Over the past 2 weeks, it’s been crazy.

In health week, my most favourite 2 activities were parkour & tough mudder. I’ve also enjoyed learning about substance misuse.

During transition, I loved meeting new people and moving all around the school to learn different things.

Louise – over the past couple of weeks we had a transition to St.  Margaret’s academy, this week we had health week. My favourite part of transition was meeting new people and I also really enjoyed sports day. My favourite  part of health week so far was parkour and tough mudder. I really enjoyed doing the tough mudder with my buddy .

Vanessa – I enjoyed the past 2 weeks because they were both very exciting!!! The first week on Tuesday 4th June til Friday 8th June we had transition at St. Margaret’s Academy. We did our subjects, had a sports day and had a mass on the last day of our transition. The second week/ this week it was Health Week. From Monday to Friday we had fun activities like Fit and Flex to Tough Mudder and Bootcamp to Parkour. This week has been amazing and i can’t wait for the next weeks to come!! xx

Kerrigan- I have really enjoyed the past two weeks, especially with our transition and camp, this week we have had health week which we had a sponsorship for our tough mudder which afterwards we got to do it again with our buddies, transition at St. Margaret’s we had lots to do with our buddies taking where we needed to go ,camp had a lot to try also our dorms seemed to be a paradise for spiders!. I can’t wait for the weeks to come.

Gaby -I have really enjoyed the past two weeks because of the visit to St. Margaret’s academy but this week my two best activities were tough mudder and parkour

Lucas: At St Margaret’s I loved the sports day that we had on Thursday where we had stuff like softball, football, swimming etc.

Oskar: At transition in St Margaret’s  I enjoyed the whole day of PE, my favourite thing was football and swimming.

Lewis: At St. Margaret’s we did a lot of different subjects and my favourite subject was science and PE on Thursday we had sports day and my favourite  sport was swimming and basketball.

Lucas: At heath week we have been doing activities and my favourite was football.

Oskar: At the first day in St Margaret’s we went in the morning to the main hall to our houses (Aiden) and then they told us our classes, our first activity was Health Technology we made subway rolls in my class we have 26 children altogether.

Lewis: This week is health week and so far it has been really fun we have done parkour football and many more wonderful sports. On Friday is the last day of health week and for every P7 is the last health week in St Ninian’s and it has been a fun last health week.

Lucas: On Thursday we did parkour for one of the activities for health week.

Oskar: This week we did parkour and tough mudder and it was really raining, then we did it with our buddies.

Taylor, Zara & Rebecca:

Transition were so much fun. We all had to make our own way there then we had to go into one of their halls, were we found out our house and class. There are lots of classes that we had to go to. Like science, were we had to get the Bunsen burner and get wooden sticks and dip them in metal solutions. Then we needed to hold the stick over the flame and it changed to a colour! Some of the colours were red, orange and purple.

In art some classes had to draw 3d shapes, patters and designs using different colours. St Margret’s theme for there was the Woman’s FIFA World Cup and all their classes were based on it. Like in maths, we had to work out how many games 3 teams would have to play, if they had to all play each other. In English we had to guess what each poster of sports was meaning.

Everyone had lots of fun!

Health Week

In school we have had so many different coaches come in, parkour was so much fun because there were big metal poles and we had to climb up them and jump off the top of them. We also enjoyed the Tuff Mudder activity were we had to run 2 miles with obstacles all along the way!

Maxx: At St Margret’s I enjoyed swimming and sports day, I made many new friends my favourite subjects were science, Maths and English

Maxx: For Health Week my favourite thing was parkour we got to jump about and do tricks I tried to do the Kong over a box.

Kalin: I enjoyed doing water polo in the pool at St Margret’s.

Kalin: my favourite thing for health week was making a swan out of an apple.

Joseph: my favourite thing at St Margret’s was maths RE and making new friends.

Joseph: My favourite thing about health week was parkour because I like jumping from high places.

Rachel M: My favourite thing during our transition week to St. Margaret’s was the water polo on sports day.

Rachel M: My favourite thing about Health Week was parkour.

Harry: My favourite thing about health week was the golf because I found it really fun. I enjoyed maths at transition.

Loui: My favourite thing about health week was football and parkour. I enjoyed moving around different classes at St. Margaret’s.

Lukasz: My favourite thing in Health week was football because I enjoy doing sports. I also enjoyed sports day at St. Margaret’s, especially swimming.

 

Teacher Comment:

Primary 7 have had a fantastic Health Week! Photos to follow!
A reminder that Thursday the 20th June will be our leavers’ event. The pupils voted for an evening of bowling and food at Deer Park. Pupils should arrive to start their first game on bowling at 6pm sharp. If there is anyone who cannot make their own way there please let us know as soon as possible.

Wellbeing Week has been a great success in P6/7 this week. We have experienced a range of lessons and activities that promote a healthy lifestyle focusing on physical, emotional, social and mental wellbeing. See Twitter for some photographs and videos!

Here are some of the highlights:

Beth – I enjoyed the dance session with St Margaret’s.

Lorena – I enjoyed the Tough Mudder.

Matt – I am looking forward to the House Basketball games this morning.

Cole – I liked the Tough Mudder.

Thomas – I am looking forward to the basketball games later on today.

Bea – I enjoyed Tough Mudder with our P1 buddies.

Ivana –

Toni – I enjoyed making apple swans with Mrs Conway.

Caiden – I really liked playing golf.

Ethan – I enjoyed football.

Ailie – I enjoyed the dance lessons.

Brooke – I enjoyed tennis.

Mirren – I enjoyed Parkour, it was climbing and jumping on heights.

Neve – I enjoyed food technology, we made chicken skewers with tzatziki dip.

Abi – I enjoyed parkour.

Ambra – I really enjoyed golf.

Aria – I enjoyed hand massage.

Lauren – I enjoyed playing tennis.

Haseeb – I enjoyed making chicken skewers.

Joshua – I enjoyed football.

Ryan – I enjoyed golf.

Daniel – I enjoyed parkour.

Lorenzo – I enjoyed cooking.

Jay – I enjoyed doing Tough Mudder.

Harley  – I liked Tough Mudder.

Try out this 5 minute exercise routine at home tonight.  Good luck.

• Jog on the spot for 1 minute
• 10 star jumps
• Jog on the spot for 1 minute
• 10 squats
• Jog on the spot for 1 minute
• 10 rocket jumps
• Jog on the spot for 1 minute.

Well done if you have completed this.

This week has been so much fun, 

Here are some of the exciting things we did: 

 

House Captain Elections 

This week some P6’s were in the running for House and Vice Captain. And the House Captains are: 

Calder: Captain: Marcella   Vice: Joseph 

Glasserton: Captain: Mark   Vice: Mirren 

Whithorn: Captain: Evie    Vice: Jan 

Galloway: Captain: Adrin   Vice: Brooke 

Pupil voice: 

Ambra: We did the house/vice captain event . 

Neve: We got told who the house captains are. 

Ailie: We tried for house captain. 

Mirren: I got vice captain for Glasserton and it was really exciting!. 

Brooke: I got vice captain for Galloway and I was really happy. 

 

P1 buddies!!!!!! 

This week we also took our buddies down to P1 for the first time. Everybody was so happy and so were their buddies.It was a little emotional for the parents. 

Ryan: I enjoyed being with my buddie at P1. 

Joshua: We got to take our buddies to primary 1. 

Jay: We got to take our buddies to P1. 

 

Scotish Education Awards 

MRS PURDIE WON!!!!!!!!!!  

Mrs Purdie won the Scotish Education Awards. Two of our P6 pupils went with her, Lauren and Jan, everyone was so happy that she won. 

Lauren: I went to the Scotish Education Awards and Mrs Purdie won the head teacher award. 

 

 

Thank you for reading our blog and we hope you have a great weekend!!!!!!  Remember it’s Wellbeing Week next week so come prepared for indoor and outdoor activities all week.

From P6/7! 

Written by: Ailie & Brooke