On Friday it was very Frosty and beautiful when we were doing our daily walk. It was very cold.
When we were doing the walk Isla and Alisha found a leaf and it was a very frosty and icy leaf. There is a photo of it above this piece of writing!
By Alisha and Evie. 🙂
Yesterday we played a Halloween dictionary game we had to see if we could beat our teacher
First we had to look at the word on the white board and we had to look in the dictionary to see if we could find it first and if we found it we would have to jump up in the air when we got it.
Evie found it the most times and we beat the teacher with 6-3. YAY!!!!
Have a nice day
By Isla and Evie
This term the P6/7 class have been learning about Fair Trade.
We tested different types of chocolate and we had to guess which one was fair trade.
We had a dark chocolate square each and we rated it 1-10. then we had another dark chocolate square and rated it 1-10 then we guessed which one was Fair Trade.
We did the same for milk and white chocolate, there was Green and Blacks and Mackies dark chocolate, then Galaxy and Green and Blacks milk for the milk chocolate, then there was Milky Bar and the Co-ops White chocolate.
Fun fact: did you know that Galaxy and Milky Bar are not Fair Trade?
Galaxy won with the highest rating from the class. Yum yum!
By Isla Willmore P6 and Evie Henry P7
On Friday the 13th of September
A lady from Inverness came to speak to us about The Shoebox Appeal.
She told us that you can put items such as hats, gloves, soap, toothpaste, toys and sweets as long as they are in there best before and it is not chocolate.
She also explained to us a story about a little girl and her mum they lived in a house with no electricity or water and she had to walk 25 football pitches to get to school.
She said that there was a boy that was in hospital because his mum was sick and he got a shoebox and he was very happy because he got haribows in his shoebox.
By Arianna & Isla
Today Mitchell took his tortoise ‘Darwin’ in to show primary 6/7.
She likes to eat lettuce and we got to stroke her. She felt really bumpy .
Holden stroking Darwin. By Isla and Lorns
On Friday the 30th of August 2019, we had a Skype call from a guy called Jaimie Menzies he also had a lady called Oliva helping him.
He works on the RV Investigator with a team. They are on the RV Investigator for 26 days.
At the start of the video call we saw pictures of the ship inside and outside. After that we saw a little video of them working on the ship.
We saw the outside of the ship and how they know how deep the ocean is and how they get the rocks up. They showed us the machinery and the sounds under the water.
They also have a place to relax with a play station and also they can watch movies, they were watching Moana the movie. By Amelia and Arianna.
On Thursday the 29th of August 2019 Primary 5,6 & 7 went up the pit hill to bag up the paets.
It was hard work but we managed it. We each bagged around 5/6 bags each.
We also had a long walk up the hill and then all the way back down again.
We all had a good time up there. By Amelia and Morgan
This week we had a visit from Jon Pritikin. Jon Pritikin is a motivational speaker and body builder from California. He rolled up a frying pan and snapped the handle off. He also picked up Sadie and Ashley with a steal rod. Then he told us a sad story about a boy who couldn’t speak and got bullied At the end he revealed that he was the little boy who got bullied. Then to finish of he bent the steal rod in his mouth.
On Wednesday we had all the Secondary’s make cakes for the afternoon teas. They even had gluten free cakes.
On Thursday we had a trip to the Aith Peat hill with Mr. Garrick. We were raising the peats into jenga towers. Geordie got really messy. He was up there until home time. He was determined to finish digging and casting peats.
On that same day Mr Lei after being with us for two years and it was time for him to leave, so we gathered in the dining hall to say goodbye to him. We will miss him and we have loved having him here teaching mandarin and Chinese culture. By Charlie and Willum.
This is Jon Pritikin.
The sun might not have been shining, but the weather did not hamper excitement from the pupils in primary 1 and 2 today, as they set off on their day out to Burra.
Our brilliant bus driver George, assisted by some very knowledgeable navigators in the front seat, drove us to Burra and firstly dropped us off at ‘The Hen Hoose’ where Wendy runs her Burra Bears business from. She showed us inside her workshop, all the knitwear and fabrics she uses to make the bears and also the processes required for the finished product. We saw the 3 different sizes of bears she makes and we collected Mrs Moffat’s bear she had had made.
Next, we walked over to ‘The Outpost’ where Margaret met us and we got to see emus, tortoises, goats, rabbits, pigs and wallabies. We got to feed the animals and the bairns were highly amused at how the goats and pigs fought over the food.
We then followed Margaret to the Bridge End Hall where we enjoyed our packed lunches and had time for games and free play.
George then drove us to Bannamin beach where we spent a lovely afternoon paddling in the sea (brrrr!), finding interesting objects, climbing up among the big stones and playing on the beach. After a fair amount of “de-sanding” our feet, we got packed up and headed back to the bus.
We had a super day in Burra and would like to say special thanks to George, Margaret Inskster and our helpers Julie, Caroline, Jacqui, Catherine and Carla.
On Wednesday P5,6,7 went to an art exhibition at the mareel. We watched a film about people’s collections and what they collect. Whalsay and Aith primary school drew what we collected and that is now at the café bar at the mareel. After we finished at the mareel we went to the sixteen exhibition and they put posters up about peoples lives at sixteen. When looking at the sixteen exhibition we went to have lunch at islesburgh.
When we finished having our lunch, we went to Ocean Kinetics and looked at what everybody’s jobs were. Most of us liked the plasma cutter. The plasma cutter is when they cut the metal into anything. You had to wear special goggles or it would hurt your eyes.
When we finished up at Ocean Kinetics we went to the playpark then we went back to school.
By Alisha and Gene
