Macduff Primary School pupils enjoy activities as part of Health and Wellbeing Week
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PUPILS at Macduff Primary School took part in a series of activities to promote the school's health and wellbeing week.
Four days of activities were organised by Aileen Clark and her P5-6 class as part of a project for pupils of all ages at the school.
They ranged from pétanque to rugby and from street dance to high-intensity interval training led by experts from the local community.
Deveronvale Community Football Club sent coaches and their new special mascot. Pupils were even lucky enough to have Scottish Taekwon-do coach Steven Thain, from Keith Martial Arts, put them through their paces.
Healthy fruit for smoothies and snacks were provided by the Co-op, Tesco, TPS Fruit and Veg and Refresco.
The smoothie bike, which was a great success, was provided by Sustrans, through Aberdeenshire council.
Coram Life visited with their annual educator-led workshops where the pupils met Harold the giraffe.
Macduff Primary's head teacher Helen James said: "It's not unusual for a school to do a health and wellbeing week, but because of the disruption of the last few years, this was our first in a while.
"So it was a restart really, going from scratch again, but it was really amazing because it reminded us how well the school is supported by the community. Everyone stepped in to get involved, we only had to ask.
"Local companies were involved, we had donations of fruit for healthy snacks, Sustrans gave us the smoothie bike and Coram Life timed their annual visit to coincide with the week.
"Different children enjoyed different things. Rugby was very popular, taekwon-do was very popular and they loved the street dance.
"It was great to finish the week with an assembly where we were joined by Deveronvale Community Football Club's mascot – although I'm not sure it was the calmest assembly!
"Aileen Clark and her class deserve credit for organising everything and managing to get everyone enthused and drawn into the magic of it."
