Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

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Room 17 have been combining our work on reusing and recycling with our numeracy work looking at shapes.  We’ve reused lots of empty packaging to make big building blocks.  This has given us a great opportunity to explore 3D shapes. Some of us thought the best bit was knocking down our towers and some of us enjoyed the smells from the packaging. We also reused empty bottles and old newspapers to make a skittles game.  We had lots of fun playing skittles.

Walking The West Highland Way

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You may be aware that our recently retired ‘Headie’, Caroline is currently walking the West Highland Way with her daughters as part of a joint fundraiser for Friends of Orchard Brae and Remember My Baby and she has shared these photos of their journey so far!

It certainly looks like they are having a great time on their adventure and so far have raised almost £1500 which will be spilt between the two charities.

If you would like to sponsor Caroline and her family on their journey, please follow the link below:

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/carolineStirton2…

Budding photographers

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Last year, Room 19 entered the ‘My Place Photography Competition’. Pupils were encouraged through the competition to explore their surroundings and share photographs. Room 19’s photos are being displaying in a public exhibition, you can see their photos here:

https://myplacescotland.org.uk/mpp-gallery/?ag=secondary&ye=2021&mi=225

The group took photos in school and out in the community using iPads.

I am sure you will agree there are some fantastic photos in the group.

Well done to all

Outdoor Learning does water play

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Over the last few weeks classes have been exploring water in Outdoor Education lessons.  We have poured, splashed, sprayed, puddled about and giggled.  Everyone found a way to play with water that they enjoyed.  Throwing large bucket of water around the playground and watching it fall and then make a loud splat noise was the grand finale for most classes. We hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed playing with water.

A busy start in Room 15

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Room 15 have been incredibly busy these last few weeks!  Alongside building relationships and establishing routines, we’ve also been hard at work.

We’ve launched ourselves into our ASDAN projects – exploring friendship for PSE as we get to know our classmates, and planning a social event for our Transition Challenge work (ASDAN work is a legitimate reason for an end of term party, no?).  We’ve used technology to vote for our social activity and prepare a music playlist, and we’ve made decorations.  We’ll be continuing to build on this over the coming weeks.

We’ve had bucket time sessions where we build our focused attention skills.  It has been brilliant to see the progress our class are already making with focusing on the bucket.  Check out the rainbows we painted for our first stage four activity (independent work task)!

We’ve also introduced a life skills session to our timetable, where we’ve been sharing responsibility for our classroom and increasing independence with skills relating to cleaning and tidying up.

Last week we made the most of the fabulous weather and took our snack outside – a lovely opportunity to enjoy those friendships we’ve been building since we came back.

Redecorating Room 14

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The boys of Room 14 have settled back to school well but our classroom was a wee bit boring. 

So what to do?

Create some art and make the class our own. Here are some pictures of the boys creating their very own coats of arms to decorate the class and make it their own.

They have also been busy picking, planting and watering the tatties in the polytunnel so tasty tattie treats are on the way!