We love our new Play Park – Thank you Evie and Rendall Community Council – 17th Aug

17th Aug 2021 Thank you for the new benches Evie Community School Parent Council.

19th August 2021 – We are enjoying exploring nature in the wild garden – thank you to the families who helped clear some tracks and improve the area.

 

 

 

 

 

25th August 2021 – The class chose the Junior Road Safety Officers for the year.

31st August – 1st September 2021 – Outdoor Education with P6

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st September – Orkney Active Schools – Young Leader training P5 and P7

7th September – Orkney International Science Festival – Learning about marine plastics as a live presentation from Macduff Aquarium was a good opportunity to see Cedric the flapper skate rescued from a mermaid’s purse that washed ashore in Orkney.

8th of September 2021 We learned about electrostatic charge in experiments led in a live presentation by Orkney International Science Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

8th September 2021 Young Leader training with Orkney Active Schools for P567 – using space

 

 

 

 

 

 

17th September  – Holly from the Orkney Native Wildlife Project helped us learn how to explore and investigate which animals are in our school grounds. We decided where to set the ink tracking devices.

21st September 2021 – We borrowed some books from the Orkney Library van today: Booky McBook Face.

 

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Every school day this month, a pupil is drawn at random to reveal the Christmas Advent activity for the rest of the school. On the 1st of December, we made paper chain decorations and on the 2nd Christmas cards.

 9th December 2021: We had a visit from Dan Lee (archaeologist) and Richard Irvine (anthropologist) as we learned about Orkney’s Energy Landscape. the children chose to add the turbines we can see from our classroom to the energy map. https://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/06/10/orkney-energy-landscapes-project/

 

Primary 6 got their Dynamic Youth Awards on the 13th December 2021 for their Outdoor Learning in term 1.