Burravoe Primary School

On Wednesday the P7s went to Mid Yell Junior High School for Transition. We took Miss Breyleys car because there are only 3 of us. We had to sign in at the desk in the visitors book. Lydia and Ming were also signing in at the same time so we all walked to the P7 room and sat down at the tables with our team.

Our first task was to think up some ideas for the opening ceremony for sports day. Mrs Johnson put on a timer of 5 Min’s and 14 seconds for us to write down our ideas. We each got given a number to have a task to do. I was number 3 so I was the scribe. After the timer stopped we sat and told the other groups our ideas then Mrs Lawson wrote them down on a big bit of paper for us to vote on later.  We all decided that we were going to walk around in a circle with our teams in the ceremony with the Scottish anthem playing behind us. The team leaders also had to wave the flag.

Our next task was to make a flag for us to wave on sports day. Our team decided that we were going to have the American flag but instead of the stars on the flag we would put a pineapple because our team is called The American Pineapples! We all got a large sheet of fabric and we decorated it. I started to cut out red strips for the red stripes on the flag.

We had piece which was different sorts of fruits! Megan showed me around the school, the bell rang so we headed back to the P7 room.

Mr Williamson came to talk to us about the final arrangements for sports day. We had originally planned for the sports day to be outside but it was such bad weather that it had made the pitch all muddy so we changed it to be in leisure centre. We also had to change some of the activities so that they could be inside.

We had a bit of time after he left to finish our flags. We had to stick on the pineapple and some more stripes then we were done!

We went for dinner which was either Pasta carbonara or stew. I had the pasta. Outside we played Kenny but we had to go in when the bell rang.

Inside the teachers split us up into 3 groups of 5 and had different tasks for us to do. Ms Boulay had a french game for us to play, Mrs Johnson had Jenga with different things written on them that we had to do (like 20 star jumps or say what our favourite song was, etc) and Mrs Coutts had scattagorys except it was the colour of the olympic rings. Our group went to Ms Boulay first. We played a game like snap except in french but all the others were so fast that I only got 1! At jenga there were 2 tiny towers so there wasn’t going to be a lot of around 1 tower. Me and Harry were at one tower and Jack, Lydia and Michael were at the other. Harry took out a brick that said we had to move the tower 1 metre away from where we first were and that took a bit of faffing about! At my last shot I (of course!) made the tower fall down! The last group was the scattogorys with Mrs Coutts. All the groups were having a competition to see who could get the most points. Our team got 23 and won! After that we left and went to the shop.

We were aloud to get a sweetie or an ice cream at the shop so I got a cornetto! We went back to the school and it was 20 minutes till home time so we did maths while eating ice cream!

We went to Mid Yell for a transition day. We went in and sat at our teams table. We got material to make flags for our opening ceremony at sports day. We made a third of it red, a third of it black, and on the other third we put a eagle. It was the Egyptian flag. We came up with ideas for the ceremony like having 5 rings taped together to make Olympic rings and a torch. We went for break then when we came back we finished our flags and cleaned up. When we did that we worked on our audio. We got it recorded then we downloaded it. We listened to each others and evaluated it. Then it was lunch time. We had food then I met an old friend outside. When the bell rang we went inside. We looked at how sports day was going to happen. We split into 3 groups and went to a teacher. First I had Mrs Johnson and we did what we were happy and not happy about going to Midyell. Then we played jenga. I moved on to Mrs Coutts and we played Olyimpic Scatigorys.  Then I went to Ms Boulay to do Olyimpic themed French. We had the countrys layed before us and medals. We had to get the right country and medal. Then we went home and did some maths.

This Wednesday was transition in Mid Yell Junior High School. First we had to get to Mid Yell, Once we were there and in the school then we had to sign in. After we signed in then we went into the P6-P7 classroom, all of the P6’s had to go into a different class for the day so that we could do our transition stuff.

The first task was to plan an opening ceremony for Sports Day in 5 minutes and 14 seconds all of our groups came up with very different ideas. We all voted for different ideas and then jumbled them all up so we had a mixture of the ideas which we voted for. Then we had to make big flags in our different groups ( the groups are all different contrys). Me, Peter and Bryden’s group are called The Kyrgyz because our group is based on Kyrgyzstan. We had to make our flag out of a red sheet and yellow fabric, we attached our flag to bamboo sticks with cable-ties.

After we had finished our flags then we had to record an audio claip to put on our groups blogs.  We had to find information which we then had to record so that we could add it into our blog. Then we had to go for dinner I had a baked tottie with cheese on top and grated carrot. We got a bit longer on our blogs then we got to do different activities.

One of the activities were seeing how many different places you could think of with one of the coloures of the olympic rings in their name e.g. one of the olympic rings are green so I could say Greenland. there were other things that we had to think of like different names if animals e.c.t.

One of the other activities to do were French places and medals and the last activitie was jenga with forfits on every block so once you had removed a block then you had to do whatever it said you had to do. Once we had done all of the activities then the winners of the olympic rings sheet were announced  then we went to the Linxhouse shop. We got to get ice creams there but Brydon got a sweetie. Then we went home.