Today P3/4 were visited by Hagar the Viking for a Viking Workshop. This session was funded by our parent council (A huge thank you from us all).
We learnt about Viking clothing, food and their gods. We dressed up as Viking and played a Viking game called Molkky. We re-enacted Viking marriages, wearing horned helmets which were only used for important ceremonies. We also re-enacted Viking battles as vikings were also know as raiders and pirates.
Following our session we were presented with a Young Viking Historian Award Certificate.
Today we were visited by Roger Hill from the charity DH9 Foundation to donate a defibrillator to our school in partnership with the Wee Emma’s Defib Campaign. They have donated defibrillators to all primary school in Dumfries and the surrounding area, as well as all secondary school in Dumfries and Galloway.
On the 29th of November my school had family fun night. I had a great time and I also ran a stall. We also sang Scottish songs and in the end we raised over £500 pounds. Lots of people came. My stall raised £48 and I loved it.
Primary 1/2 and Primary 3/4 were fortunate to have a visit from the author Chae Strathie. He is well know for writing: Gorilla Love Vanilla, Dear Dinosaur, Jumblebum and many more.
He read us both Dear Dinosaur and Gorilla Loves Vanilla. We created our own dinosaur made out of food and a Ice Cream Sundae made of many unusual ingredients. Chae also sang a song about wiggly worms.
3 Fridays ago, the whole school did a STEAM challenge for a roller coaster made out of artstraws, a paper cup, a ping-pong ball, sellotape, cardboard and scissors. (It won’t let me insert the image of it, sorry)
My group had finished our’s first so Me and Cameron made something out of the spare bits, meanwhile the rest of our group decided to colour in the base of the roller coaster.
In the end we all had a pretty good roller coaster, as well as a really good miniature village which Me and Cameron had made out of the spares.
I loved our little roller coaster, but now it is packed away, probably crushed by the other ones 🙁 .
