Entries from February 2012 ↓

Today P6/7 visited the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh as part of our rainforest topic. We learnt about the features of the rainforests, the different layers, rich diversity and importance of the rainforest. We explored plants such as bamboo (which can be used to makes cloth, apparently!) orchids, Dutchman’s Pipe (which gives off a smell of [...]

Belhaven Hill School kindly invited West Barns to take part in a football match against their upper school pupils this term, which the pupils all enjoyed today despite the drizzly weather! Pupils enjoyed the chance to play against, and mix with, the Belhaven pupils, and we’d like to thank the school for offering us this [...]

Following on from P6/7′s success in orienteering and 6-figure grid references, we have been learning about OS Map symbols. We’ve played some active games including; 1) Map Symbol Relay (two teams trying to match map symbols to map features in as quick a time as possible) 2) Map Symbol Charades (very difficult – try acting [...]