walk around The Snipes with Primary 1

The pupils enjoyed walking around The Snipes as one of the teaching assistant's brought along their two dogs. The pupils showed an interest in walking the dogs along the river as they watched them begin to dive into the water. The staff member explained that they were going for a swim. Whilst walking we talked about how we would need to walk down some steps to get to a cave and to see the boats stationed on the harbour. As we got down the steps the pupils saw the caves and one pupil said "wow they are really big, do you think a bear lives there". We continued to walk where the pupils enjoyed having running races seeing who could run the fastest by encouraging one another to know where the beginning of the race was and where it was going to end. One pupil supported their peers by including every pupil and discussing the areas of "we will start at this small tree and the race will finish by that taller tree". 

We turned ourselves around and walked back up the steps counting to see how many there were. As a group we counted to the number .  The pupils enjoyed finding sticks to walk along with saying "it is my walking stick". We walked all the way around the field throwing sticks to the dogs and talking about what sights they could see such as "the sun is hiding behind the clouds.