Author: Mena

Have you heard of Soundtrap before?

Soundtrap is a free online app where you can create your own music or make a podcast. All you need to do is create an account and then you can login anytime you want!!! Every Wednesday Roo and John from Soundtrap come in to teach us thing about Soundtrap like ways to make a podcast or a movie soundtrack.

Here are some of my songs!!!

Hope you liked listening to my songs!!!

Bye Mena.

On Wednesday the 21^st of April, P5-7 went to a place called Rock UK in Newcastle ton for three days. Although there were many activities to choose from, we could only pick seven and that made our three days there have a jam packed schedule. The activities we chose were Raft building, Open canoeing, Abseiling, Stream adventure, Kayaking, Climbing and Zip line. The swimming pool, low ropes and scavenger hunt were activities that would be included in our visit anyway.

The bus that would take us to Rock UK arrived at Holywood at 11:00am which meant we had to wait a while for it to arrive. Before we went to Rock UK, we had to pick up the pupils from Duncow since this residential was a joint residential. The journey was roughly an hour. It felt long! Holywood and Duncow arrived around lunch time. Everyone went to their cabins then came out to get their lunch.

Once we had finished our lunch we had to get changed into something we could get wet because our first activity was Raft building. We walked to the Sports hall to meet our instructor. Her name was Lucy. Lucy led us to the loch where most of our activities would be held. When we got to the loch, we had to put on a helmet and split into two groups of seven. My team had Lucy as our instructor and the actual team had Nancy, Anneliese, Nia, Becky, McKenna, Grace and myself. To make our raft, we had to collect our materials. The things we needed were, six lightweight logs and four big barrels. The raft was built in a square that had two logs laid across the middle but close enough to the side that the barrels underneath wouldn’t push through. The four barrels would be placed two on each side under the logs in the middle. Before we went into the loch, we had to put on some buoyancy aids and get a paddle. Once we had done that, the group pushed the raft into the loch and then climbed on one by one. Lucy gave us many fun games to do whilst we were on the raft such as making a Jacuzzi with our feet on the inside of the raft. We also played a game where we had to swap sides with another person on the opposite side of the raft.

The next activity was open canoeing. We had to partner up with someone in our group to be in a canoe with. My partner was Grace. Once we were in the water we played a game called consequences where there was a consequences canoe. The instructors would give you a problem and if that problem occurred to you then you had to move to the consequences. Here is an example… if you have a birthday in either January, February or March, go into the consequences canoe. Since my birthday is on March the 21^st I had to go into the consequences canoe. The next game was more of a challenge where you and your partner had to try and tip the front of your canoe as high as you can. Unfortunately Grace and I leaned too far to one side and we flipped our boat over and fell out. Despite the water being cold we still climbed back in and this time purposely tipped the canoe over again. We were also very warm so the cold water was soothing and cool rather than cold. It was funny!!!

After open canoeing, we walked back to our cabins and changed into something dry and warm for the scavenger hunt and low ropes. Once we had changed we went down to the kitchen and had our delicious dinner which was lasagne. Everyone got a bowl of ice cream and strawberry sauce if we wanted it. Next we walked up to the low ropes  and split into teams for the scavenger hunt. Each group had to add an extra item to scavenge for. My group put in that you had to get an instructors autograph. Then once we had collected as many things as we could find we went into the low ropes for a wee bit. We then walked back to the kitchen and had our supper which was a cup of hot chocolate and a chocolate bar.

The next morning after breakfast, my group had abseiling first thing. My partner for the first time I went down the abseiling tower was my best friend Nancy. Here is a picture of us abseiling down.

Hello,

It is Nia and Mena and today we are going to blog about Easter day. 

We done lots of activities such as egg designing, eggcersices,  bouncy egg obstacle courses, Kahoot quiz and pin the bow tie on the rabbit. At the end of the day some people got prizes for the best designed egg, the fastest person to do the egg obstacle course, the closest person to pin the bow tie on the rabbit. 

Here is a photo of Easter day.

Thank you for reading goodbye.

Dear the bestest friend in the world,

I’m so excited for you to come back from New Zealand. I hope you’ve had a great time. This is just a wee note to tell you how much I miss you. I’m so happy for you that you’ve had so much fun and I’m also just letting you know how jealous I am since you got to go to a cat café!!!!! They all looked so fluffy and adorable and it was so cute that they ate out of your hands. Missing you lots. Cant wait for you to come home

From Mena

HeLlo,

HeRe Is OuR fIrSt QuEsTiOn AnD aNsWeR.

SaM: DiD yOu ReAd A bOoK iN tHe EaStEr HoLiDaYs AnD wHaT bOoK wAs It?

MeNa: I rEaD a BoOk CaLlEd CoDe NaMe BaNaNaS bY DaViD WaLlIaMs.

MeNa: WhAt DiD yOu Do DuRiNg ThE EaStEr HoLiDaYs?

SaM: I aTe AnD I wAsHeD aNd I sLePt.

SaM: WhAt ArE yOu HaViNg FoR dInNeR/TeA?

MeNa: I tHiNk I’m HaViNg LeFtOvErS fRoM lAsT nIgHt FoR mY dInNeR.

MeNa: WhAt ArE yOu HaViNg FoR dInNeR/TeA?

SaM: I dO NoT kNoW.

SaM: Is ThIs BlOg FuNnY?

MeNa: YeS iT iS.

ByE

Dark with small, bright lights,                                                                                                        Lots of this is stretched out far,                                                                                                        Nobody is there.

Diamonds are raining,                                                                                                                              No thing is able to live,                                                                                                                              Blue mist covers it.     

On big Thursday, in computer science, we went onto a website called hour of code and we played a game called compute it. Compute it is a coding game where you go through different levels trying to work out the python code. You have to use the up, down, left and right keys to solve the grid puzzle. There are sixty tow levels and the levels get harder the higher up you go. Me and my partner Miller got to level forty-eight and at home I completed all the levels without any help from the app. Afterwards it gave you an online certificate to either print out or screenshot. I screenshotted it and I was very chuffed with myself, so was my mum, dad and sister.

 

Bye

Hi Anneliese and Mena here, 

Today we will tell you about our topic about the body. We have learned about the skeleton and muscles and now we are learning about the digestive system. There are 6 parts to the system, The mouth –  it chews the food and saliva help dissolve food so it can go down your oesophagus. Your oesophagus – it’s a muscle that helps push food down to your stomach. Stomach – It produces an acid called enzyme which helps break down your food to push it into your small intestines. Small intestines – absorbs the liquid from the pulp and dissolves it even more.

 

 

Hi Mrs Jardine, 

This is Mena and I just wanted to say that for the photography competition the judges did have a tough decision and last Thursday Mr Walker came in to tell us the results… In the junior section Miller came first place and in the intermediate section I came first place as well!!! I was so surprised when Mr Walker said my name and I was actually shaking with nervousness and happiness. Here is my photo…

I hope you like it. I’ll catch up to you soon

Bye Mena

Have a guess about what my blog will be about. Yes, you guessed it, the human body! Duhhhhh. We have just started this topic today and we are starting off with the skeleton. A Kahoot testing our knowledge about the skeleton started off the class. There are 207 bones in your body and 7 bones in your neck. Your toes and feet bones are the strongest bones in your body and the collarbone in the bone that is most easiest bone to break.  

 

bye M