Holywood Hullabaloo

today we were doing cross country because we have enterd a contest to do it . it is really hard in the mud .Elliot fell in it so if you dont like runing dont run just walk.

Our February technology challenge was carried out by around 27 families and machines came in all shapes and sizes. Pupils used Lego, Mechano, junk boxes, cardboard, wood and metal to create amazing catapulting machines.

Some machines proved to be small and powerful, others large and complex but all met the brief and fired at our medieval wall.

I have been reading the posts on the blog and they are very interesting. However, it would be great if pupils would read over their work to correct spelling and CAPITAL letters.

Place names

People’s names

Titles

At the start of a sentence

PLEASE start putting in your capital letters.

Thank you,

miss dale   🙁         Miss Dale 🙂

For the last few weeks in mathes we have been working on map reading. We needed to decide a route around the castles in Scotland starting and ending in Dumfries. My route was from Dumfries to Ayr to Stirling to Falkirk to Mull to Edinbrugh to Stonehaven to Kinross and back to Dumfries. The skills I was using were map reading, measuring in cms and using a scale.

By Jack Storey

In maths we have been using atlases to show the shortest route to different castles in Scotland. From Falkirk to Mull to Kinross and to Dumfries. My personal route took 760KM and cost £76 plus £20 boat fair. We were measuring the atlases every centimeter equaled 20 kilometer.

By Lewis McNish

Recently in maths we have been doing measure. The group im in (Descarte) we were doing km and cm. we got gave a selction of castles that are in diffrent parts of scotland and a map of scotland. There were places like falkirk , ayr ect. 

By Axel

I read Tudors and traitors there are four different story’s in this book it is a very good book it is about a nice girl called Ellie Who goes to work in a castle. The people there are not very nice and she hated working there. Also working at the castle was a boy called Lambert, he lied about who he really was. One night  the guards came to get the kings daughter Ellie and take her to her father. The king wants her to spy on people in the castle. Ellie told him about Lambert and promised to find out the truth about him. The following day she found out that the cook cooked himself a feast, she rushed to tell the king.

The next story was about  a man and his son James who wanted money. The man pretends to kill James by stabbing him but James was protected by a plank of wood. Which the dagger went into. He removed the plank when he as in the coffin and his mum pretended to save him by retiring a spell in a strange Egyptian language. James opened the coffin lid and jumped out the coffin. His dad held his hat out and every one emptied there pockets. A woman from the crowd with wild hair looked in the coffin and found the plank with the dagger in it she told the crowd that it was all a trick. Suddenly the crowed snatched the  fathers hat witch held all the money and he was smacked by the end of a sword. James was kicked by a dirty boot and  james mums purse was taken. The family all hid. a man stepped out of the shadow of the doorway. He intoduced himself as a jester and took james family to the castle so they could show king henry how the trick was done. The king  loved it and the crowd all got up and cheered. King henry challenged james father to a game of cards and king henry lost, several times. Name whispered to his father that he should let the king win because he hates  to lose so he did. James father lost everything but james grabbed some  gold no one saw they set off  around the county. They used the gold to buy a carriage.

This is your  reading passport, you can pick one up at the blue table in the library.

By Paul and Greg