Group Challenge

We have been learning about Florence Nightingale and the important work she did to improve the conditions for soldiers in field hospitals.

We learnt that she was called The Lady of the Lamp so we made our own and added an origami candle to help us remember the story.

For the team challenge each group was given some paper, scissors and glue and 20 minutes to work together to produce a lantern with a candle remembering the skills they had learnt earlier.

The teams worked very well and every group managed the challenge and tidied up in the time given!

Each member of the group had a job and the team leader made sure everyone contributed.

The children enjoyed hearing about Florence Nightingale and they were surprised to learn that hospitals were once unclean and nurses were untrained.

Voting

P6/7 have been designing bags for their enterprise project.  They came up with lots of lovely designs.

It wasn't easy to pick one as there were lots which were really nice.  We had to pick one of the warm colours and one of the cool colours.

Everyone got a piece of paper and a pencil and they had to write down the number of the design they thought was nicest.  We are excited to find out which one will become the bag.

P6/7 Leaders

P6/7 are taking groups of children throughout the school to do activities as part of their leadership course.  This involves teaching others lots of different games and sports.

We have had our first session and the children thoroughly enjoyed the lesson.

There were warm-up games and then there was skills training.

To finish the session there was a game of rounders.  This is the first time many of the P1/2 children have played rounders and it was great entertainment to watch.

I'm not sure everyone completely understood the rules but P6/7 were great at helping them take part in a very positive and fun way.

Hydration Workshop

We had the hydration team in for a visit.  They came along to tell us how important it was for us to drink plenty of water.

They asked the children to guess how much water was in a banana.  There was a lot of different ideas about that!  There was far more than anyone expected.

So we tried to squeeze the water out... but didn't manage it, even when lots of people tried.

We squeezed really hard and shook the banana as hard as we could.

Two people even tried at once, and that didn't even work!  

We were told the water was stuck because the it is held in by cells just like in our bodies.

Then there was a volunteer needed for drawing around.

Lots of people had a go at the outline.

Then we took the outline person and put them on the board.

Some more volunteers had to guess how much water was in a human being if they were filled up from their feet like an empty vessel.

We made some good attempts at guessing the amount.

And to finish our workshop we had a little challenge to see if we could drink two water bottles of water every day.

So remember your water bottle every day and we will see if we can manage the challenge.

Burns Supper

P1/2 have been working hard to produce table centres for the school's Burns Supper.  

We recycled the stands we used for the MacMillan Coffee morning and made them into tartan tubes with thistles and mice instead.

We chose mice because we have been learning to say the first verse of a Robbie Burns poem: To a Mouse.  We learnt the poem as we worked at our table centres.

When we had completed our table centres we took them along to P4/5 who were organising the event.

Everyone had made a great effort to add decorations.

P4/5 were very pleased with our efforts.

We went through for our dinner and we had to go to our seats to start with.  We weren't allowed to drink our cup of Irn Bru which was on the table.  It was for the toast.

We all got ready for the Address to the Haggis.

P4/5 did a tremendous job of learning the poem to say for us at the beginning.

They even stabbed the haggis in true Burns Supper tradition.

Then P1/2 stood up and said the first verse of To a Mouse which we had learnt.  They were brilliant!

Then it was time to eat.

Personal Achievement

Working with P3/4

Half of the pupils from our class went to do a language lesson with P3/4 one afternoon.

They had good fun working with the older children and learning about similes.

Each group created a rainbow and presented it to the rest of the class.

The children had to come up with a simile for each colour.

The rainbows have been displayed so everyone can see the good learning that the classes did together.