Edinbarnet's Cheer and Dance Team - WDC Dance Festival

The boys and girls of Edinbarnet's Cheer and Dance Team have been working extremely hard over the past 4 weeks!  Our 4 week block of dance came to a fantastic end when we participated in the WDC Dance Festival held at the new leisure centre in Clydebank.

We spent time ensuring we knew the skills and technique of Cheer leading.  We learned the names of arms, jumps and positions.  It's not as easy as it looks you know!  

Miss McKelvie couldn't miss a photo opportunity!

Meet the members of our wonderful team:

 

Cheer leading involves fast and sharp movements.  Cheer involves lots of peel offs where the dancers start a series of movements on different counts.  This means we have to work hard to ensure we know our music and counts!  With cheer mixes being so fast and upbeat the children have to ensure that their performance and energy level match the music.  This takes hard work an dedication which Miss McKelvie certainly got from this bunch.

They looked amazing and their performance was outstanding.
 I am one proud teacher!

Amazing Things

Today Edinbarnet attended Amazing things, as 3 of their projects were short listed. We were short listed for the John Muir Award, Edinbarnet Editors and Learning through Play Fairyland. Six of our pupils were chosen to show case their amazing learning.

As always the children made their teachers beam with pride. They were confident, informative and professional.

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We were delighted to have the support of some of our parents today. It meant so much to the children and teachers involved.

Although we didn't win the overall prize, in our eyes our pupils are always winners.

A Visit from the University of Georgia

We were so honoured to have a visit from the University of Georgia today! We felt very privileged that they wanted to come and visit our learning environments and meet our pupils.  We spent some time planning the visit, so that we could showcase our many successes.

As always, Miss Connolly beamed with pride as she listened to the children greet our visitors in a variety of languages, share their experiences of our pupil groups, and share their learning.

 We got them some traditional Scottish treats to taste and try...we think they liked them!

                                               

 Our visitors were sung to in Gaelic, and were welcomed in Spanish, Gaelic and English. I think they were suitably impressed with our children's Language skills.

 We then had some children from the Edinbarnet Editiors, John Muir Group, Eco Group and STEM ambassadors share their roles and responsibilities within the school. They spoke confidently about what the vision and aims of their pupil groups were and gave descriptions of their work so far.

 Primary 3 showcased their learning of George's Marvellous Medicine. They covered all curricular areas through their novel study. Our visitors were really impressed with their facts, live science experiments and raps!

 We then visited Primary 1 to have some fun with Learning through play. The children were developing their phonics skills this morning by choosing how they wanted to learn. They were impressing our visitors by challenging themselves to create sentences and questions with their phonics sound of the week. However, they didn't limit themselves to writing them, they built them with snap letters, and even created them with sparkle foam!

 Our last stop for our visitors was to be taught some coding by our Primary 5's. Primary 5 are confident using scratch and taught our visitors how to build a games using code. I was amazed by their professionalism, patience and explanations.

Our only complaint about our visit was that it went so quickly, we ran out of time! We are very grateful to the University of Strathclyde for linking us with our visitors from the University of Georgia. We hope this is a connection which will continue to grow.