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Term 4, The Big Splash

Marine Conservation Society

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P6 had a great afternoon with Tara from the Marine Conservation Society. She mainly talked about the leatherback turtle which is an endangered species of turtle because humans keep eating their eggs and because we are polluting the sea with plastics which they eat and which kill them.

Tara  told us that we need to be careful not to drop any plastic/litter on the beaches because the turtles could eat it and die.

We played a game with Tara to see how long it took different pieces of litter to dissolve in the sea.

Alana said, “I’ll never leave any littler on the beach again.”

Katie told us that she didn’t know how many different species there are in our seas.

Iona said, “I thought it was very interesting and it made me feel guilty at what I throw away.”

Reporters: Abbie and Rebecca.

Term 4, The Big Splash

Personal Topic

As part of the Big Splash Fortnight our usual class homework has been replaced with a model or poster on anything sea-themed. Pupils have chosen to do dioramas, models, drawings, powerpoints or just posters by themselves.

“I enjoyed being able to be creative and choose how I’d like to lay things out. However I was very annoyed when all my hard work on my power-point deleted.” Iona explained.

“I like how we can take our projects home and do what we like with them!” Carly said.

“I liked how we got to pick what subject we were focusing on, I think everyone made a better effort because it was something we were interested in.” said Sophie.

All the projects were full of detail, very interesting and eye- catching.

Reporters: Ewan and Grace

Term 4, The Big Splash

Ayr and Troon Ports

Today Primary 5 came in to talk to us about the Ayr and Troon Ports. They used the information they had learned from their visit from Mr Hume, who works at the Ayr Ports. P5 showed us the PowerPoint Mr Hume had used so we could learn from it. We split the class in half so we could have a better chance to learn more, but each group did the same thing.

P5 told us that a port is, where ships can load and unload cargo like coal and shredded wood. They also told us how each cargo was loaded and unloaded onto the ships. For example, the shredded wood gets picked up by a tractor and gets bagged then is placed onto the truck, which then drives onto the ship.

It is also where ships like cruise ships, cargo ships, ferries and sea explorers can park.

Abbie said, “I enjoyed learning about the different ships that come in and out of the port the most.”

We definitely all learned something from the visit and the P5s did a good job presenting the talk!

Reporters: Katie and Alana