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We had an amazing trip to Sumburgh Airport this week!

The airport staff showed us parts or the airport including the offshore terminal part of the building where the helicopter passengers have their safety briefing and get suited up for the journey. The bairns were able to try on and explore the suits they wear and also the life jackets, the oxygen button was very popular!

We had time for snack in the newly refurbished cafe area and the bairns were presented with an activity book from the staff to keep them busy until the next part of the visit.

The highlight of the morning was the unexpected surprise of getting to go aboard a real plane and sitting in the pilot’s seat! We all got our boarding passes and headed through to departures, just as if we were heading away somewhere. We all had a think about where we could go, Orkney, Aberdeen or Lanzarote? The buttons on the plane were a bit of a temptation and I half expected us to start trundling down the runway…… Thankfully we stayed put!

The Airport fire alarm went off so we all had to head out of the building and walk up to the upper carpark for safety until we got the go ahead to return to the building. Unfortunately because of this the last group that was due to go aboard the plane didn’t have time before our bus departed but we are hoping to organise a visit so they too can have the experience also.

Transition this week has included morning break with buddies and a visit to see the P1/2 classroom and say hello to Miss Hunter. The bairns explored the room and it’s resources, seeming quite at home.

 

Fun and games with Claire and Bookbug on Wednesday included rhymes, songs and stories.

A mysterious delivery arrived at nursery this morning and the bairns were all very curious to see what was in the big red bucket!

A brown crab, green crabs, spider crabs, a big dogwhelk, sun stars, star fish, scabby mans heads,  lobster and a squat lobster were all there ready for the bairns to explore.

Hard, soft, rough, smooth, squishy, slimy, spiky, sharp, nippy and scary were all words used to describe the sea creatures. Some of the bairns held some of them on and others stood well back but lots of questions were asked and they wanted to know about them all. They were most fascinated with the star fish and sun stars as their mouth is underneath and their eyes are at the end of each leg.

 

And finally a bit of a round up of what else has taken place over the week. They are a busy bunch!