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Week 12- Minibeast Mansions Callum

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On Friday the 20th of January the whole school went to the woods. About a quarter of the school cycled that includes me. I had to stop because I ripped Blair’s bag on my tyre. Mrs McKinnon and I had to cycle about twenty metres fast to catch up with the rest. Luckily they stopped for us to catch up with them. We went to make a mini beast mansion.

        When we got to the woods we got into groups of five. I was in a group with Cara, Rhianne, Ross and Stewart. After we were in our groups, we had to pick a part of the woods to make our mini beast mansion. I was in a claustrophobic space.

        We didn’t have any materials to make the mansion just things that were on the forest floor. We were making the mansion of bricks. But then it was just bricks. So we had to demolish it. Then we started to think about the rain and what was the best place to go if it was raining. After all that arguing we found a shelter then started to build our mansion with sticks and pine needles. Five minute afterwards it was time up. So we had to walk to Williams’s house to get our bikes. When we arrived back at school when we were in our classrooms for Ten seconds the bell rang to go home.  

By Callum.

Minibeast mansions, Woods

Recount of Woods Day 12- James

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Last Friday we went to the woods on our bikes. We went there because we were going to make minibeast mansions.

When we got there we sat down in our outdoor classroom. Mrs Lennie told us what we were to do. We had to make minibeast mansions. We split up in to our groups and went to find bit of land to start building.

It was not long until we were building. We did not have a boss. We were just a good working team. Our minibeast mansions are just about finished and we found it enjoyable. Then we headed back to school.

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RECOUNT OF WOODS – Andrew

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On Friday we went to the woods. The cyclists went on the the cycle path and the walkers took the walk path. I was walking because my bike needs its chain oiled up because they were rusty. When we were going to the woods we needed to walk in the fields because the trees had blown down on the path. When we reached the woods we went to our base. We went to the woods to make a minibeast mansion. We got into our groups and the people in my group were Maia, Katie, Adam and Stewart. At first we all tried to look for a safe place for our minibeast mansion so they wouldn’t get stood on. We eventually found a place. It was a broken tree. We picked the bottom part of the tree. At first we dug a hole and we got sticks for the roof and then we put these big chunky leaves and started making a roof with it and we started to collect more of them.  Adam, Maia and Stewart got sticks for us and I was thinking that if you put lots of sticks at the front you could make a gate and so that’s what we did. After that we needed to go back to school. It was funny because the walkers wanted to beat the cyclists to school and the cyclists wanted to beat the walkers to school but me and the walkers won because they had a longer path to go and plus they need to change into normal shoes again.

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Visit To Skinflats Woods Day 12- Bruce

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On Friday Bothkennar went to Skinflats Woods. Some people brought their bikes and the rest walked.

When we all arrived at the woods, we got told we were going to build minibeast mansions. Mrs Lennie showed us a few pictures on her phone that some people had done. One was all different floors and the other one was just a pile of logs on top of each other so the minibeasts could go into the little holes. Mrs Lennie told us we couldn’t use glue or anything like that. All of it was to be from nature. My group was Kyle, Lauren, Macensey and Holly. Kyle was doing a great job collecting all the equipment that we needed. No one took charge and Kyle made little beds for the minibeasts. Holly and Macensey were putting the shelter together. Kyle went away to collect a few sticks for the shelter and I was inside the minibeast house but our house was so magnificent a mouse moved in! Mrs Sneddon was trying to take a picture but we never got it.

Mrs Lennie called us back to base. The walkers had to go to get back on time and the cyclists. When we were walking back, Miss McCarthy made us run for a count of ten. When we got back at school we had five minutes left, after two minutes the cyclists made it. So the walkers got to the woods and to the school faster than the cyclists did.

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Recount of Visit to Skinflats Woods Day 12 William

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Last Friday we went to our woods we had to build minibeast mansions. Some people walked and some people cycled, I cycled. We built minibeast mansion to help the insects from dying so quickly. We split up into groups. In my group, I had Blair, Dean, Skye, James and me. We went searching and I found a tree that had fallen down and I thought it was a Scots Pine tree. It had needles and so I thought it would be sheltered so our minibeast mansion didn’t fall down.

We all went searching for twigs, bricks and soft bark. Skye was our captain she told Blair and Dean to get shelter. She asked James to collect bricks and I had to get damp wood. Luckily When Mrs. Lennie came to look at our minibeast mansion she found an old pipe. Ske put the pipe in to good use. Ours kind of looked like a minibeast playhouse. I thought our group got on well.

On the way home we left the same time as the walkers and they beat us to the school. I liked this week very much!