Home - Fifty Things To Do. Latest News « Outdoor Learning. Congratulations to the S6 pupils at St David’s High School – This years winners of the S6 Outdoor Learning Challenge. A great event with a variety of outdoor learning based problem solving, navigation; leadership and team activity, Our special thanks to all the staff and schools who attended this year and assistance from the Active Schools [...]
The P7 Inter-school Orienteering Festival takes place at Vogrie Country Park on 8th May 2014. The main aims of the Festival are to: Have fun! Promote alternative physical activity in the outdoors Provide an opportunity for P7 pupils to compete in the sport of orienteering Further increase pupils’ understanding of maps – learning skills such [...] Fantastic work from all the S5/S6 pupils from Penicuik High who joined pupils from Secondary Schools in East Lothian on Pupils Winter Hill Walking Skills weekend based in the fantastic Cairngorm National Park.
Click here for more images Safe travel on [...] completed their Level 1 NICAS Award. Its been [...] Find us outside! Last week, once I had done lots of smaller warm up activities on the way to the playground, we did the main activitity of the day. While studying fractions, my class had managed to find 1/2 or 1/6 etc of a quantity on paper indoors but started struggling with finding 4/5 or 2/20 etc. Some of their answers were so way off it showed me that some pupils really didn't understand the concept and some were just following the instructions to divide by the denominator then multiply by the numerator. Some pupils had answers larger than the total quantity and couldn't understand why this was wrong...so back to practical equipment...and outdoors... I set up a team race activity in the playground. Each team were seated in a huddle so they could discuss the maths involved and 2 pupils per team were selected to race together each time again allowing discussion.
Each team was given a bucket filled with beads (stones would be good too). Make your own outdoor seats. I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!