The younger class are learning about Lighthouses this term. In Engineering, the children worked together with the older class to create wingsuits and ziplines to help the lighthouse keeper get to the lighthouse without using a boat. They had to think about materials and how they would join them together.
We have had a busy start to term, as ever.
The Nursery children have been exploring stories. They made houses for the three little pigs and told the story of the billy goats gruff.
P1 – 4 children have started their Lighthouses topic. Here they are weaving some baskets:
P5 – 7 have been exploring periscopes:
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We visited the library van and chose new books:
Holly from the RSPB / Orkney Native Wildlife Project came to present a child to the winner of the competition for a poem in Orcadian dialect:
