Burravoe Primary School

Gloup and Cullivoe visit 

Today I cycled to school and went inside. Everybody was getting ready for a visit to the Gloup memorial, this was because we have been doing some local history topic. Soon me and everybody else were ready to go with our snack. Although we also needed to drive to Gloup so we all sorted each other into all the cars, I went in Mrs Hays with Thorfinn. The drive to Gloup is about a 35 min drive, we also passed Mid yell and Cullivoe on the way. Eventually we got close to the Memorial then walked about 200 meters and soon we were all reading the names on the statue. The Gloup Memorial Is a statue of a woman holding a baby looking out to sea, and this is because on June 20th, 1881, the Gloup disaster happened. What the Gloup disaster is, is every year (they stopped doing this after the Gloup disaster) there was something called the Half fishing, basically one week they choose a bunch of good sailors and fisherman and the next they might already be taking there Sixareens (boats for six people) down to the beach and rowing away into the deep sea they also went about 40 – 60 miles out. The year that this happened they decided to do the Half fishing at Gloup so on that morning of the 20th of June they set out they also believed that it would be a nice day but far out there was a big, big storm. Only some men survived but most didn’t, and all the boats were severely damaged. That day a lot of families and children were left without dads and maybe even older brothers. After a Quick recap of Mrs Hay telling us what happened, we ran down the hill to the beach where once the men had laid their boats ready for the Half fishing. Later we also had a small visit to Cullivoe school for snack and a play, we stayed there for about an hour we also talked a bit more about the Gloup memorial. Then we left and got back to School. 

This is my Pong game called Pong-trampoline it is made in Scratch. Here it is so you can play it right now.

The lonely Tree 

Benty was a boy who loved forests, but one of the forests close to where Benty lived was his absolute favorite. That night Benty didn’t what to go camping in the forest because his dad was coming home, and Benty thought that his dad might be tired. Then 15 minutes before Benty’s dad was meant to come home Benty’s mam told him he had to go to the forest to camp. Benty was angry, he felt lonely because his dad was not there. Then a tree hugged him, and he hugged the tree then he was stuck on the tree 2 minutes later he realized he couldn’t move. 

Today we walked to Littlester Loch. First we set off with our water proofs and gloves and wellies.

This is a photo just before we left the school. It was a mystery walk we did not know where we were going. First we walked towards the Littlester Loch, then we got to the top of the hill and then we went down we looked and we heard the stream it was pretty loud we listened to it for quite a while. Then we walked on to the hall and stopped for a bit it started getting a little hotter because it was really nice weather that day then we walked past Lily’s house we all stepped in some icy puddle’s then we reached the Loch. We went a bit further then we went on the grass and down to the lake. Then just a little bit further we could see ice on the Loch we ran through the grass then picked up some ice. I skimmed the ice on the Loch when the ice hit the ice on the Loch it made a cool sound. Here is the photo of me skimming a big piece of ice. After we got back we had snack outside I had half an apple we were talking about were our milk and water was but then Laura came with Hot Chocolate it was yummy.