First Day at Alltnacriche
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Ardeonaig 2018
Day 3
This is the local adventure, we went up some of the Perthshire hills, it’s really fun and you get to learn about the environment around you.
For the last full day we all had a camp fire and Mrs Radford sang lots of song and we sang with her.
Morlich and Voil did the high ropes today. Morlich had a challenge and it was to see if you could walk across the first, second or third balance beam, but when you came down you sat on the first balance beam and leant back andhung upside down like spiderman.
These are some team challenges, crate climbing and our short rope course. Team challenges devolp our team work, the short rope course got us ready for the high rope course, SCARY!? In crate climbing we worked as a team while some of us belayed and put crates on the crane to take them t.o the climbers.
See you all tomorrow.
By Jon, Rebecca and Molly
Day 2
These are some of the other things we did. Some of the pictures are of the High Ropes, Hiking and Crate Climbing.
Today for our meals we had sweet and sour chicken for dinner.
For breakfast we had a selection of stuff.
For lunch we made our own sandwichs we had lettuce , cucumber , egg mayonaise , salami and cheese.
Today we arrvied at Ardeonaig and we have done some fun activities like archery, crate climbing, spiders web, team challenges and we are looking forward for more activities tomorrow!
In the Sports hall some of us played dogeball while others were playing table tennis and pool in the games room. Or you could watch a movie in the lounge.
We had steak pie and sweetcorn for dinner, it was quite tasty we also had ice cream for pudding!
It is quite big, all of the rooms are named after scottish clans! The bedrooms are quite big!
We have activity groups for outside and they are all named after Scottish lochs!
By Sarah and Jack!
We made it here. Great place, lovely house and views. Here’s a sneaky photo. Watch this space for some more pics coming soon. Don’t forget to leave some comments.
Edinburgh 2017
More pics from our visit. Thanks to all the parents for your comments, we love reading them out when we are away.
Day 2
Today was awesome we went to Edinburgh Castle , the National Museum and Dynamic earth. All is good .😄 We really liked Dynamic earth: 3D showings and Arctic room. We also liked the fashion area in the museum and the animal area as well. Owen really liked the technology section. (By Aila, Isla and Owen)
Day 1
Good journey down, saw some amazing sights in Deep Sea World.
Settled in to the hostel after a slight change to the rooms
Had a bit of time before dinner then a rush up to the Royal Mile for the ghost tour, which was scarey down in the vaults.
Got back to the hostel just after 9 and straight to bed. Another early start tomorrow!
Alltnacriche 2016
Day 3
Our final report 😢
More fire making and bread making, zipping, roping, kayaking, canoeing and gorge walking today. A sunny morning but a bit cooler in the afternoon.
Some pics of all the fun we’ve had:
First we collected different sizes of sticks and we had to build the fire and light some moss and blow on it, then we got the thin twigs and put them on top. Then the medium sticks then the large sticks. Tom taught us how to make bread. We had a choice of flavours and fruits to put in. You needed milk powder, flour and water to make the dough.
The zip wire (top) and the ropes course (bottom)
Day 2
This was some of us on the ropes course.
Some of us did the zip line and we were running on the air. Some people did water sports, some did making bread as well.
This as the other thing we did, the gorge walk. This is a picture of a group before the toilet flush …
This is us after the toilet flush! What happens is that a couple of people sit at the top of the river and they make sure there are no gaps so no water can come in, to make a dam. The others sit under them. The top group wait until the water is high then they stand up and the ones below get soaked!
This is the view from the bottom of the zip wire. Our group broke the record for most goes on the zip wire because we listened really well and got organised, even with one injured person on the team.
We’re here!!!
Today we did a very long walk with Dave up a hill. We saw amazing views and lots of unusual beasties, like maggots and beetles. We played a camouflage game and beat the teachers. In the evening we played land grab which is like real life risk.
The dinner was nice, we had a choice of roast chicken or fish.
We had a late snack of hot chocolate and a flapjack.
See you tomorrow, don’t forget to add comments.
from P6.
Kindrogan 2016
Friday- Today we are packing and clearing our rooms getting ready to do our last activity the night line. After we are off on our way home see you soon 🙂
Thursday- In the morning we checked the traps we caught 2 mice called Dave and Coby. Later we did low ropes it was loads of fun and it was a very nice day. After low Ropes we had lunch then we climbed up Kindrogan Hill it was very steep and there was a huge bog which we nearly lost a shoe in. At night we had a campfire were we played games and sang songs and ate popcorn which was cooked on the fire.
Wednesday- On Wednesday we did thee cataran trail walk in the morning and when we got to the woods we tried to light fires but only some people got fire and if they did it went out 🙁 Next we did the LEAP OF FAITH dun dun duuunnnn Well done Mrs McBride for doing the leap of faith! At night we set mammal traps and today (thursday) we are going to check them, so hopefully they have things in them.
Tuesday- Today We Did Pond Dipping And Crate Climbing. And At Night We Did A Victorian House Trail We Found A Creepy Stuffed Eagle In The Library.
Today we arrived safely at 12:30. We then found our rooms and after we went out onto the lawn because it was an amazing day!
Afterwords we did team games and then we had CAKE!!!!!!
After a Tea of BANGERS UND MASH after words we did orienteering in the dark 😮
We’re all really excited about going to Kindrogan next week. Watch this space for updates.
Kindrogan 2015
Day 5
Some more pics from the last few days. Thanks for all the comments, we really enjoyed reading them.
Day 4
Finlay has not been eating as much porridge as usual (only two bowls!)
Shoutout to Tony and Fiona for cooking great breakfasts!
The leap of faith was excitingly scary because the totem pole wobbled and the pizza box was tiny. The aim was to hit the piñata as hard as you could to try and get the sweets out.
Logan says hi. Finlay,Robbie,Abbie,Jen,Emily and Gene say hi too.
The Victorian house trail was long and confusing but everyone finished it. Afterwards we had to draw/make a Victorian family. One group drew them and another made them out of snow, one of the snow people/dogs made was Jim.
We found out about the Catarans who stole cattle from all the crofters in raids. We pretended we were being raided and the last people to get down lost cattle.
In the evening the moon up close through the telescope looked like a beehive.
And we all finished off the trip with some campfire songs and some popcorn.
Natalie, Hannah and Rachael have been really great tutors!
Day 3
Cooked breakfast was the best, especially the bacon and tattie scones. Finlay liked the porridge – all three bowls.
Lots of invertebrates were caught during the pond and river dipping including, ‘Barry, Garry, Larry, Brian and Dave’! Picture to follow.
In the crate climbing the record was 11, set by Eleanor and Fraser. The worst was 2, by Callum and Lucas but they enjoyed their manly hug.
Our arty sides came through in the environmental art activity. Some of the things made were: penguins, Olaf, food, a garden gnome, a snake, the local river and a mini Eco world.
Unfortunately the traps were empty, we’ll try again tomorrow.
The night hike started off scary, especially with Mrs Paterson hiding in the bushes, but with torches on and everyone making a racket we were more scary than anything else on the hill.
Contributions by Logan, Finlay, Emily, Robbie and Gene.
PS fab cakes, love ’em.
Day 2
Big breakfast and an early start for the climb up Kindrogan Hill. Good fun and we made a scientific survey of the temperature, humidity, wind speed and altitude using various scientific instruments. On the way down we made shelters in the woods. After all that there was a welcome stop for tea and scones before heading back out to tackle the low ropes course. Setting small mammal traps tonight, hopefully we’ll see something in them tomorrow morning. (Having trouble uploading pics, watch this space)
Day 1.
After a good journey in the sunshine with the children singing all the way we arrived in time for lunch, got the beds made then outside for team building tasks.
In the evening we went orienteering in the dark, great fun.
Kindrogan 2014
Aaaarrrgghhhh
Day 4 by Abigail Jonker and Dionne Sandison
Hello everyone,today we had lots of fun.To start off the day one group went raft building. We tied lots of planks of wood together and put barrels underneath to keep us afloat. We were split up into teams and had a race on the loch.
Next we did some crate climbing where we stacked up crates as high as we could climb them.The highest score in group A was fourteen!
Before bedtime we had a campfire and reflected on all the things we had done in the past week (most people enjoyed getting covered in mud!We enjoyed last nights night walk where we were split into groups and had to walk on a trail without an adult! We heard some scary noises on our way but turns out it was just Mr.Craig!).We also toasted marshmallows and played around in the front yard.
We are missing you all and are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.xxx
Day 3 by Ariana Black, Leo and Dionne Sandison and Amy Armour
First off, we looked to see if there was anything in our traps. We found … A wood mouse and a field mouse. Unfortunately the wood mouse got away because there was a hole in the bag.
After that one group was sent to face their fears at one of the high rope obstacles called “the high V” where we climbed up a tree using ladders and there were two ropes, shaped like a v and we had to grasp our partners shoulders and walk along the ropes, with nothing to hold onto but our partners! After making it a few steps, most of us jumped off into the middle, hugging each other tightly, others just fell and bashed into each other, but we were well protected and nobody was hurt.
We went river dipping, we got really wet but found loads of animals. We found a stone fly coming out of its skin. Some of the group saw larvae and nymphs through really good microscopes.
Leo and Dionne say happy 8th birthday Chrissie, hope you had fun.
Days 1 and 2 by Lucy Connor and Andrew Arthur
After a good first night’s sleep we needed our big breakfast to give us energy for the walk up Kindrogan Hill. On the way we discovered a tree with needles that smelled of (lime flavour) starburst, an abandoned cemetery, frogs, toads and newts. We ate wood sorrel leaves which tasted like apple. We also found out about ‘drop spiders’, the size of a dinner plate, they also burn your skin if they bite. They only come down from trees if you are noisy.
We learned a story about Kindrogan house and the graveyard of Kindrogan’s early citizens.
Most of us got stuck in the boggy path at the top, some dived in head first!
We made shelters in a pine wood using all the natural resources we could find. Our shelters were tested by the teachers pouring water over them when all the members of the team were inside. Mostly everyone got drenched.
We have just set traps for mice and voles, the traps are full of food and bedding and are at an angle to let rain and urine out! We hope some of them will be full tomorrow.
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On Monday we arrived in good time, had our sandwiches then found our rooms and made our beds. We had to be double quick to get out to the kit store for waterproofs and wellies.
We did team games and low ropes in the afternoon. After a big dinner we learnt more about John Muir and created our own mini national parks.
Winners of Commonwealth Games Poster Comp
Congratulations to all ten winners whose posters are shown above.
It was extremely difficult choosing only ten as the standard for all the entries was so high.
The winning posters will be professionally printed and hung in athletes’ and officials’ bedrooms in the athletes village in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games 2014
Kindrogan P7 Visit
Day 4
In the morning we went on a bus ride to an old village which had been abandoned during the clearances. We dressed up as the people who used to live there. We learnt about their diet, way of life, their houses and why they left. It was very cold there so they must have been freezing when they lived there.
In the afternoon, we did the leap of faith which is a big jump. Then after that we did crate climbing. The leap of faith made some people scared but the crate climbing wasn’t as scary.
In the evening, we went on a night walk and it was snowing really hard. We also had a snow ball fight and we got ambushed!
See you all tomorrow about 3:30.
Published by Hayley, Jennifer and Ivy
Day 3
In the morning we did river dipping, and found what kinds of bugs live in it e.g water nymph or the great diving beetle (who ate the rest of our bugs).
Then in the afternoon we went pond dipping and found some killer beetles and fish but because they were not invertebrates (invertebrates are animals without a backbone) we had to let them go. Then we put them in a petri dish and looked at them from under a microscope. It was really scary because it made it look gigantic.
We learned about habitats, diversity, metamorphosis and adaptation. We found out that the river is more diverse because it has a bigger variety of animals in it.
In the evening Duncan’s group set traps for mammals and will find what they have caught in the morning.Rich’s group did the egg challenge but they all died. Last night Rich’s group caught a vole when they did mammal trapping.
Written by Hayley, Jennifer, Ivy and Sophie
Day 2
Tuesday was loads of fun(apart from wet socks).
First we built a National Park out of natural resources like twigs, stones, leaves, pine cones and snow. We all managed to make a brilliant National Park.
Next we learnt how to make a fire out of lichen, twigs, cotton wool and Vaseline. Most people got a flame using only a flint.
In the afternoon we all went on a walk up Kindrogan Hill in the snow, most people got wet but it was worth it . We got told ghost stories in a cemetery half way up. Near the top we made shelters out of logs.
After supper we did an egg challenge where you drop an egg out of a window. It was fun making a parachute out of newspaper. Some eggs cracked some never.
by Jodie and Jennifer
Here are some pictures:
Day 1
Everyone is having a great time and have already learned about orienteering, national parks, GPS and humane mammal traps.
After a slight hiccup on the journey down (locked public loos in Stonehaven) we made it through the sleet to a very warm and enthusiastic welcome from the Kindrogan staff.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon in the snow orienteering and doing the low ropes course.
After a really nice three course dinner we went out into the night to navigate by GPS and to trap small mammals for study tomorrow.
Watch this space for photos …
Cinderella and Rockerfella Rock Ellon
Parents were treated to a really special Christmas present yesterday when they came to see the P6, P7/6 and P7 Panto, Cinderella and Rockerfella. The show was fantastic. Parents and staff were very proud of the whole team effort and were amazed at the talents shown by the children. Both performances had a great atmosphere and all parents came out with big smiles on their faces.
The children also showed off their creative talents with a display of Cinderella models they had made. They chose to make either a shoe, a palace or a means of transport to the ball. The models were made with recycled material and showed inventiveness and creativity.
What’s Been Going On in the Pupil Groups This Week
The Ellon Primary School Blog/Web Development Group have been interviewing people and taking pictures of all the other pupil groups this week. Here are some of the things they found out.
The Health Group are busy making posters for Fruity Friday.
Rory and Louise from the Library Group said, “We have been sorting the books out by their numbers, making posters for our do’s and don’ts, and we are thinking about painting the room too.” They also say it is very very FUN!!!
The Grounds Development Group was measuring the playground to plant plants and to plan a new playground. There is a lady coming in to help them.
We are still learning how to use the blog properly so watch this space for more news and hopefully some photos next time.
