Exploring the Castle Grounds with Stornoway Playgroup

On a slightly wet morning Andrew (who has just started work as the Outdoor Learning team on a modern apprenticeship) and Tim met the young people of Stornoway Playgroup at the Golf Club for an adventure exploring the Castle Grounds. They enjoyed the cover of the trees to shelter from the showers.

All the young people were given a magnifying glass and we explained how to use it. This caused great amusement when they realised they could make other peoples eyes much, much bigger. Quickly they discovered they could use them to look at things and for small things.

Although the waterwheel wasn’t working they enjoyed looking it and it will give us an opportunity to visit again.

Exploring the water wheel building with Breasclete school

On a snowy day after the young people had visited the Creed Recycling Plant to look at how waste is managed they joined Tim. We headed out for an outdoor journey ending at the water wheel building in Stornoway Castle Grounds. After exploring the building and learning about overshot water wheels and how a head of water is created to run the wheel. We had lunch in the water wheel building. We then explored round the area ready to create a three dimensional map using the natural materials we could find, this obviously needed to include snow …

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