Skiing in the Ptarmigan Bowl

This week has been so fun. I enjoyed everything we did, except one thing- sleeping. I did not like sleeping because I wanted to do more of the fun things like skiing. I loved breakfast and dinner. My favourite meal was chicken with pasta- that was yummy. Even though I didn’t share a room with Gracie I still loved the people in my room. Thankyou to all the helpers and Mrs Maclennan for organising this trip. From Sophie Greig.
This was written and handed to us on Thursday evening – how lovely to receive such a letter!
We have had a fantastic week of fun at Abernethy. The snow on Cairngorm mountain was perfect and so much progress was made at ski ing. We guess there will be some early bedtimes tonight!

Caitlin, Michael and Finlay,after a day of skiing, about to board the Funicular down the mountain.

Today the marble runs were completed and tested. Unfortunately, none of the groups managed to create a run that would last for 1 minute so we agreed that the slowest marble would be the winner. Each run was also assessed on it’s structure and design.

There was a tense but exciting few minutes as each marble run was put to the test.
The winners were…..
In Mrs McRitchie’s group – Emily, Caitlyn, Maddie, Dylan, Lauren and Grace’s design with a time of 3.36 seconds.
In Mrs Hunter’s group – Olivia, Lauren, Erin, Faye, Ben and Logan’s design with a time of 4.44 seconds.

All groups enjoyed the task and have ideas on how they would improve their designs.