Canal Dipping

As part of their RSPB Wild Challenge award, P5/6, P6 and P7 went to the Forth and Clyde canal and selected a safe spot to see if they could discover what thrives under the surface!

The swans were quite interested and visited two out of the three classes.  

P4 came with Mrs Stevely and had a go too!  

 

RSPB Wild Challenge

 P5/6, P6 and P7 have all been working towards getting a bronze Wild Challenge Award from the RSPB. Each class has to complete 6 challenges in order to get the award.  Three of the challenges encourage the children to help nature and the other three are about experiencing nature. 

They’ve built big hotels, made hedgehog homes, created mini ponds and gone canal dipping too.  

I shall add some photos of what they’ve been up to soon! 

Our Wonderful Wild Space

Look what happens when the grass isn't cut on our grassy pitch...wow! A proper meadow has appeared. There was a fox lying in the sun when I was in and the whole place seemed so peaceful and untouched.

🌿🌳 Acrostic Lockdown Nature Poetry🌳🌱

As a home learning task the children were asked to write an acrostic nature poem.

Here is Declan W's- the first to be submitted.

Damsel flies on the water
Enough there to feed the otter
Can't get enough of these glorious sights
Lazy evenings during the light nights
All the birds sing to tell us it's dawn
Now I get up with a stretch and a yawn

Lockdown-your work

During lockdown, I have received images of the fantastic work our pupils have been doing and I shall share them here.

Draw a bird and its birdsong!

Birdsong

As school is closed due to the pandemic, I have been trying to improve my technical skills on the computer.
I shared an Eco task with the P4-7 teachers-to watch out for birds, choose one and draw/paint it and then also paint its birds song. The first to be returned was from Mrs Campbell's class and here it is-what a powerful song! I love it!

Eco Topics 2020-2022

Some members of the Eco Committee met and selected the next two topics to be worked upon along with the mandatory topic of Litter and they are (drum roll...) Energy and Global Citizenship!
We went through all the responses from the school on the Env Review and made a shortlist of 4 Topics. Each child got two votes and that’s how we selected our topics. Next will be the Sustainable Development Goal.

During an indoor playtime today, Ria made this delightful card from reusing and recycling materials. It’s fantastic!