Primary School

Amazonia

On Thursday 2^nd May P1-3 visited Amazonia near Glasgow.  Their topic this term is the Rainforest and the visit allowed them to experience what it would be like to be in the Rainforest. They learned more about the different layers of the Rainforest and animals that live there.  Everyone was very interested in what we can do to help endangered animals.  One of the highlights of the day was getting to hold some real animals.  There was a tarantula, snake, cockroach and tortoise. The animals felt different to hold than you would imagine.  Everyone had a fantastic trip and learned lots of new things about the Rainforest.

“I enjoyed seeing the tarantula and the snake. It felt very weird”.

Jake Dean

“It was fun visiting Amazonia. I learned more about the rainforest.”

Heidi Fielden

“I saw a scary parrot.”

Ruairi Skinner

Primary 1, 2 and 3

Primary 1, 2 and 3 have been learning about the Rainforests in the final term of this year. To celebrate our learning, we ended our topic with a Rainforest Café. We used food that grows in the Rainforest to create a menu for our café. Primary 1 made guacamole, Primary 2 made fruit salad and Primary 3 made fruit kebabs.

We decorated the open area and laid out tables with green tablecloths. All the pupils got to taste all the food and the teachers served some Rainforest Punch. It was a super way to end our topic and everyone enjoyed the café.

“We made guacamole. We mashed up the avocado. Then we put in some cut up tomato and added some lime juice. Later we had it at the café. It was very fun!” (Johnnie P1)

“I got to sit down at a table and eat the fruit kebabs. They were delicious! I also tried dry mango. It was nice but very chewy!” (Macy P2)

“We had a wonderful Rainforest Café. We got to taste all the food we had made when we were done. I had a great time! (Marlie P2)

 

 

P4/5’s Enterprise Project – Sunflower Kits

P4/5 spent some time learning about product design and running a business through the enterprise part of their farming topic. They put together, advertised and sold ‘Grow your own sunflower’ kits, trying to keep these as eco-friendly as possible using what they have learned on the school’s Green Flag journey. They also had a visit from Arnprior Pumpkins, to learn more about how farmers are diversifying and further develop their understanding of the roles and features of a business.

The Sunflower Kits proved to be very popular and sold out, resulting in a profit! £77 was spent on buying bee, bird and butterfly friendly plants for our wildlife corner, and the other £67 went towards subsidising the excellent class trip to the Royal Highland Show.

P6/7 Pop up Carnival

Primary 6/7 had great fun during the Kippen Street Fayre where they created a Pop-up Carnival for visitors as part of their Enterprise and Developing the Young Workforce topic. They devised the games and organised stalls as well as advertising and promoting the exciting games and prizes on offer. The games were: ‘Buy to Burst’ a darts game, ‘Higher or Lower’ a card game, ‘Hoopla’, ‘Beanbag Buckets’ and ‘Shoot to Win’ a timed basketball shooting game (which proved extremely popular, with parents and former pupils competing fiercely for a rather lovely black and gold basketball!) The whole P6/7 class was involved throughout the afternoon, running the stalls and the ticket stand, as well as giving out prizes to our winners.

The class received great support from the Kippen School parents, students and the wider Kippen community. Despite the worries over the weather, we managed to raise over £100 for Contact the Elderly, a charity our class has been collaborating with throughout the year. Our Letter Writing campaign is aimed at combating loneliness in the older generation and the class has been writing to their pen pals over the last year. With the money raised at the carnival, we now plan to hold a Tea Party where we will be able to finally meet our incredible pen pals!

Another Green Flag for Kippen Primary

We were very proud to be presented with our 4^th Green Flag by Eco-Schools Scotland. It is a whole School effort to successfully achieve this award. Well done to the Eco team and Miss Alexander for leading the submission to renew our green flag status and for all of the other responsibility groups for contributing to the submission. The Eco-schools Scotland team commented on the work done with partners (Terracycle, Forth Environment Link, WWF, Burnside Woods and the Marine Conservation Society), the Day in the Woods project, John Muir Awards, the on-site Rag Bag and waste free lunches week. “The Eco-committee and staff appear to be doing a fantastic job keeping the School and wider community informed of the eco work being done via assemblies, Twitter and the Eco-noticeboard”

We celebrated the Green Flag status by having an afternoon of fun outside, clearing and planting in the wild corner, sports and ice lollies on the multi-court and lots of games at the P6/7 Carnival. The houses, Nevis, Lomond and Ledi rotated round the different activities and enjoyed the summer sunshine.

Another Green Flag for Kippen Primary

We were very proud to be presented with our 4^th Green Flag by Eco-Schools Scotland. It is a whole School effort to successfully achieve this award. Well done to the Eco team and Miss Alexander for leading the submission to renew our green flag status and for all of the other responsibility groups for contributing to the submission. The Eco-schools Scotland team commented on the work done with partners (Terracycle, Forth Environment Link, WWF, Burnside Woods and the Marine Conservation Society), the Day in the Woods project, John Muir Awards, the on-site Rag Bag and waste free lunches week. “The Eco-committee and staff appear to be doing a fantastic job keeping the School and wider community informed of the eco work being done via assemblies, Twitter and the Eco-noticeboard”

We celebrated the Green Flag status by having an afternoon of fun outside, clearing and planting in the wild corner, sports and ice lollies on the multi-court and lots of games at the P6/7 Carnival. The houses, Nevis, Lomond and Ledi rotated round the different activities and enjoyed the summer sunshine.