Holywood Hullabaloo

What is Holywood hike?= Holywood Hike is a event that you have to get a pedometer and count your steps. And reset the pedometer to zero again and record all the steps everyday.

 

When does it happen?= UNKNOWN

 

What to do= When you reset and add it up you are trying too get enough steps that it will cover the gap to the edge of Scotland.

 

Most important thing= Is that you do NOT reset before half 2.

 

Pedometer: A pedometer is the thing that counts your almost every step. S it is satisfying to press the reset.

 

 

By Charlie & Erin

 

what is Holywood hike? = Holywood hike is wen the hole school gets thnomters and we have to beat a number. by half 2 your  teacher records your score then you trie to get a better score the next day you have to trie to get to the top of Scotland by the end of the week.

 

By Hayden sonny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

This week at holywood we are doing the holywood hike which we are walking from Holywood  to johnogroats he top of Scotland  the whole school in total have to walk 349 miles which is 349 ,000,000 steps . at the end of each day we get our steps written down in each class and they get added up . after a week of walking we celebrate on the Friday night in the hall all family is welcome . you bring a dish and celebrate . this is the start of it this morning we have been doing 15 mins round the playground and 10 minutes of copying miss Macintyre

this week we are doing the Holywood Hike. The total is 99,999 that we have to get to the  highest point in Scotland is Shetland island ‘s We start from the bottom to the highest point in Scotland

and in the afternoon at half two we get the score.

 

 

By Jack and Ebony

this moring we were starting the holywood hike. miss Macintyre was doing wake up shake up with us. we went out side for 15 minutes I am at 4094. it is to rais money for the school. we were doing allsorts of stuff  it was fun.

 

by kye

Today we were given pedometers to count our steps because we began the Holywood hike! We are going through the bottom of Scotland right to the top (John O’Groats.) We have to walk an astonishing 349 miles to reach the highest point in Scotland! It takes around 10,000 steps to do a mile but 3,490,000 steps to do 349 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I would walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more and then I will have walked 1000 miles…… DA DA DA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aannnnnyyy way… we hope we will be able to do it! On Friday we are going to do a crossing the finish line event, so if you want to you can bring a meal for the buffet for dinner. We are going to play lots of fun games!

By Euan and Kaylan

On Wednesday the 2nd of May, primary 5-7 went to Galloway Activity Centre at Lock Ken. Everyone was really excited and couldn’t wait to get there. When we arrived we hauled our luggage to our rooms and had a look around our rooms. Paul slept in the room with Hayden, Gavin and Euan. Ebony and Kaylan slept in a room with Georgia, Merissa and Mrs Queen.

Laser quest was the first activity we did. It was awesome!!! We had really good teams and it was awesome!

After Laser tag we did the slip and slide and we were introduced to wet suits. They were a nightmare to get on! Here is what some people thought of wetsuits:

Paul- When they are soaking wet they are so hard to get on but when they are dry they are easy to get on. I don’t think they keep you warm at all!

Ebony- They are really hard to get into and when they are dry they are quite easy to get on and the waterproof jumper/coats were easy to get on but hard to take of.

Kaylan- They are really hard to get on! They are really easy to get of though. On the first day they kept you warm but on the second day they didn’t.

Georgia- They were horrible and sticky.

Kye-They are tight and annoying to put on.

Dylan-They were ok to get on.

Greg-They were really horrible.

Dakota- They were so hard to get on and I didn’t like them.

Merissa- they were wet and hard to get on.

Miss Stapleton-I didn’t really mind them.

The slip and slide was very very fun! One side was faster and the other was slower. There was a lot of rocks under the slide and they hurt sometimes. But otherwise it was really fun! The next day we did water sports in the morning. Paul was with Euan, Kaylan was with Georgia and Ebony was with Miss Stapleton. You needed to put on a wetsuit to go paddle boarding and then you waded into the loch and got on the board. After paddling sitting down for a while we were allowed to try standing up. It was not that hard but it was a little hard. Then we went on the giant paddle board with Liam (our instructor) and he was singing pirates of the Caribbean. Then Sonny fell in and everyone started jumping in. Then it was sailing and Paul was with Ryan and Sonny, Kaylan was with Euan and Georgia and Ebony was with Mrs Queen and Lewis. Kaylans boat kept nearly tipping! We also did the climbing wall and archery. Paul, Sonny and Hayden all made it to the top of the climbing wall and did the zip line down.  others abseiled. Archery was really good to. On the 3rd day we did the swing again. It was 9 metres high and you have to pull the rope to swing down at the top. The only way we can describe it is being like on a rollercoaster and when you drooped you left all your organs at the top of the swing. Kaylan said it was her favourite activity and she said it was awesome. The bubble football turned into bubble war and people were rolling everywhere in their ball. We got filthy. We also did laser tag again and it was just as fun as the first time.

By Paul, Ebony and Kaylan

 

 

We were at loch ken from Wednesday the 2nd to Friday the 4th. The first thing we did was laser quest was get our guns (not real guns just very low powered laser guns  )we all ran out to a small woods and hid from the other team(the blue team was dominating aka my team).  we had a instructor called Liam give us the lasers and hat that when shot turned red for a few seconds if you got hit 10 time you were out.

by Euan and Georgia 🙂

On Wednesday we the p5 to 7 went to Loch ken for 2 nights and 3 days the first thing we did was laser tag it was amazing we shooting like mad red team was loosening all the rounds blue was wining all the game it was a good activity then we went to the slippery slide it was fun but the wit suits wore hard to put on and get of but it was worth it then we had dinner then the 3D swing it’s the biggest in Scotland!!!

by Lewis

 

P5-7 went on residential and it was our first overnight trip. We were excited and a little nervous. Charlie thought the food was brilliant but Jack thought it was not that good – neither of them liked the chips, Mrs Dawson’s are better. The beds were lumpy and scratchy but the activities were brilliant. This what Charlie thought the lazer tag was fun but the swing was beter . This is what I thought THE about the trip the swing was brilliant.