On Friday 4^th of May we had a school trip to the Dunrossness Primary School to learn about sustainable development education (S.D.E).  We each had our own events that we were going too. Me and Brydon were going to the same things which were International Education and Learning about Tigers. When we first got to Dunrossness all the schools went into the school hall and the Dunrossness bairns talked about what the display boards were about. There display boards were very bright and colourful with pictures! We all got to look around and learn what the Dunrossness ones had been doing. The other schools that were there were Bressay, Sandwick and Tingwall.

 At 10:15 we went to our first event which was an International Education workshop with Davy Cummings. We had to split up into groups and I was with some Tingwall bairns. First of all we had to imagine the earth as if there were only 100 people. We had to think of the amount of people there would be from each continent, would have a computer or a TV, would be Christian, would have clean water, have a house, have a family, would be white or black, how many would have beds and how many would have food. Davy Cummings showed us a video to see if we were right about are predictions. I don’t think anyone was completely right but some of the answers were quite shocking. 

We also had to watch a video about Bad things that happened in the earth including Terrorism, Pollution, War, Global Warming and Famine and  Rainforest Cutting down.  In our groups we wrote down about how we could maybe change 2 of the Bad things. Our group chose Terrorism and Global Warming. We had some ideas but they maybe wouldn’t be that big that it could stop the Terrorism and Global Warming.

 After that we walked back into the Hall and went and got piece from the Fairtrade Tuck Shop stand. All the Chocolate Chip cookies were gone so I had a Caramel Bar.

 Brydon and I had to ask a Dunrossness bairn where the P7 room was because that’s where our next event was. It was down a couple of corridors and we would never of had make it if we hadn’t of asked anyone! She showed us where it was and we said thank you. Brydon and I were kind of late because we were the last of our group that turned up! Our next group was Learning about Tigers! Mrs Blackadder who was teaching us told us her name and told us we had to dress up as Tigers to have the full understanding of how they felt! I put on tiger breeks, Tiger top and a tiger hat! We all looked at scrapbooks that the lady had made and had to imagine what the rainforest would look like. She told us about how she knew a man who had lost 3 fingers after being attacked by a tiger. The man who took the picture was so scared he fell of the elephant that he was on taking pictures! Then another man had taken a picture of the man falling of the elephant! Afterwards she told us a story about Tiger cubs whose mum got shot. We all had to lie on the floor with our eyes closed and think about the story in our head.  She finished the story and we had 10 minutes left so we had to act out the story. I was the tiger mum who got shot! Mrs Blackadder thought we did a good job! The bell rang and we helped Mrs Blackaddder take her tiger toys and costumes back out to her car.

Me and Brydon went back to the hall and met up with the rest of the Burravoe bairns and we all went out to get our pictures taken in front of the Dunrossness Schools rainforest that they had made! The bus was waiting outside for us so we went on the bus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfGolVS5TfQ 

 

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