Area

by MrsWallace | Apr 17, 2024

In Primary 6 we have been learning about area. We explored how to find the area of compound shapes in the context of being a carpet fitter or joiner. In our groups we had to find the area of the rooms of a house and make a plan of this on the floor with masking tape....

Roamers Wood, Theme 5: Spirit Worlds

by Megan | Dec 18, 2023

Theme 5: Spirit Worlds    We designed and drew our tree spirits on pieces of slate and drew cave style paintings of something we enjoyed at Roamer’s wood or something in the wilderness.    We toasted marshmallows and ate biscuits, popcorn and blueberries.    We did a...

Roamers Wood: Theme 4 Tracking and Hunting

by Audrey | Dec 11, 2023

Theme 4: Tracking and Hunting    Session four was about tracking. We were working in our clans.    -We built trails using the symbols we had created in class for other clans to follow.   -we identified animal foot prints.  -we followed another Clan’s trial using a key...

Roamers Wood, Theme 3: Shelter

by MrsWallace | Dec 1, 2023

Theme 3: Shelter    The main activity of this session was to build waterproof shelters. We did this in our clans.    The other small activities we did were; baking bread on a fire, cooking popcorn and testing the how waterproof our shelters were. To do this we poured...

Roamers Wood Session 2

by MrsWallace | Nov 20, 2023

Theme 2: The Woodland Supermarket    The theme for our outdoor learning was the woodland supermarket and we learnt about some ways they made materials back in Torak’s time.    There were three stations:  Station one – we were squeezing apples to make apple...

Roamers Wood

by Megan | Nov 17, 2023

Theme 1: Clan and Family    We made clans and named them after trees in Roamer’s Wood and then we learned about our clan’s tree.    Next we went up to the tree alphabet and learnt all about the solar and lunar calendar and how trees  relate to it.      After that we...