Today year 6 children experienced a morning of yoga.  All sessions were guided by a qualified yoga teacher from Italy, who was experienced in giving yoga for kids classes in various schools around Italy.  This activity offered various benefits for children including better concentration, relaxation, creativity, imagination, confidence and self-awareness.  Children learned about the importance of this sport, as it helps in coping with the stress of life such as exams.  It also helps in controlling ones emotions. 
 

Apart from the yoga session, children also had the opportunity to attend for an interactive session about healthy eating, the rational behind it and examples of healthy food.  This couldn’t be better expressed as the children were given the opportunity to taste some samples of healthy food – vegetarian lunch.
 

The session was concluded with a power point presentation and a discussion on Denmark as one of the yoga instructress was Dannish.

A barricade of coloured shoe boxes that cordoned off part of Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta, came tumbling down on Monday, 9th November as school children marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

About 150 primary students from 10 state colleges shouted out in delight as they tore down the "wall" of shoe boxes they had patiently "built" just moments earlier and exchanged the messages inside.

They also released 99 "borderless (but biodegradable) balloons" to the sound of Nena's song 99 Red Balloons.  Each one had a message attached to the string encouraging the person who finds it to contact the school in a bid to spark communication with the students. The symbolic event was re-enacted across primary schools in all the 27 EU member states in order to encourage dialogue between Europeans.
 

Mario Schiavone, who was a journalist and editor of In-Nazzjon newspaper at the time, shared his experience of covering the event with the students. Mr Schiavone was in Germany with 13 other journalists when they heard commotion on the east side of the wall: "Checkpoint Charlie was closed but a Thai journalist persuaded an American officer to sneak us into a truck with his soldiers and the two of us crossed over".

They slept on the benches in the streets for two nights but were rewarded with a great story when the people began to breach the wall on the third night.
 

The director general at the Directorate for Educational Services, Micheline Sciberras said freedom was a fundamental right for all humanity and should be fought for and cherished.

"We are free to roam like these balloons and so should all the people. We should refrain from allowing walls to come up between us in our daily lives and never fight and leave one another out," she said.

Information is taken from- http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091110/local/school-children-demolish-colourful-wall accessed on Tuesday 10th November.
 

This educational outing was organized by both year 6 teachers, following a Social Studies lesson about Maltese stone.  When we arrived at ‘The Limestone Heritage’, an introductory audio-visual presentation was shown in the state of the art auditorium. It was about the use of limestone in Malta over the centuries. Afterwards, the children got an in-depth guided walk-through of fifteen zones of exhibits found in an unused old quarry.  This was done by the use of a pair of headphones and an accompanying cassette player.  This proved to be an awesome experience, especially when we faced a 30-foot high waterfall.

We also discovered the mysterious yet full of character Maltese houses.  After that, we took a break and relaxed in the citrus grove, where peacocks and other Maltese fauna roamed about freely. 

Finally, the children attended a workshop.  It was a stone carving session.  Each child was given a piece of stone and they had to carve a design such as a Maltese cross, a flower or an animal.  They kept it as a souvenir.  Last but not least, we moved to the museum which was housing a collection of authentic tools.  This outing was a memorable experience where everyone learned a lot of new and interesting things.