“Troot in the Shed 2014” underway at North Walls!

Thanks to Mr. Erskine who braved a force 8 gale yesterday morning during his crossing to the island of Hoy, the North Walls school was able to kick off the project.

About 200 eyed ova  are now being looked after by Mr Stout’s pupils and should be hatching during the first week of February, if the temperatures hold.

No later than this morning, I received an email from North Walls, including a lovely report from Matilda along with some photos:

Troot in the shed

On Wednesday 22nd of January, Mr Erskine came to North Walls to tell us about troot in the shed.

First of all he split us into groups. Group A was the people that hadn’t done the project before and group B was the people who did it last year.

After that the 2 groups went to different tables to look at the displays. Group B went to the table about sea troot as they hadn’t done it before. Once we had looked at all of the display, group B did a quiz about troot while group B watched some videos.

It took Group B quite a while to finish the quiz so group A learnt how to remove dead eggs from the tank using a turkey baster.

When both the groups had finished their activities, group A went into the library to read about fishing. Once they were out, Mr Erskine showed the older ones some real troot!!! One of them was cut open so we could see what a troot’s guts do. Group A got curious so they came in. But by the time Mr Erskine opened the troot’s stomach most of them felt quite sick!!!

Mr Erskine then gutted the troot and Mr Stout said maybe we could eat one of them!!!!

We had lots of fun learning about the troot and we can’t wait to start the project!!!

Matilda

Dissection of a brown trout

Practising removing a dead ovum with a turkey baster

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