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Stirling Trip

June 12, 2018 User deactivated 1 Comment

On Monday the 28th of May p7 to s3 went on a trip to Stirling. We went on the Northlink and then drove to Stirling the next morning. On route to Stirling we went to Blair Drummond Safari Park. In the safari park they had lots of fun rides and they had dodgems. They also had a big playpark and sand pits. There was a zipline and pedal boats. Before we left the safari park we went on the ‘drive- through’ safari and that was really cool. Lots of people chose the Safari park as their favourite activity.

We then continued our drive to Stirling which took us a further 30 minutes. When we got to Stirling we went to Frankie and Bennys for our tea.

Our favourite parts on the trip were: the go karts, trampoline park and safari park because they were all really fun and enjoyable.

Our favourite restaurant was Jimmy Zhengs and Frankie and Bennys and our worst restaurant was the Filling Station.

Overall we really enjoyed the trip and we would love to go on another one!

By Annie, Kirsty and Kyran

John Muir

John Muir (Kergord)

March 27, 2018 User deactivated 1 Comment

On Monday the 26th of March 2018, P7 went to Kergord to complete part 2 of their John Muir experience.

First we went on the ferry to Laxo to meet up with Pete Richardson, he was going to take us to Kergord to explore the woods and wildlife. When we got to Laxo Pete had to make sure everyone was in the proper attire (waterproof clothing). Then we got into the bus then Pete put some music on but it was very loud, so we all did some karaoke, it was funny.

At Kergord we got out the bus and walked through a sheep field and guess what… we all went in the wrong woods, even the teachers! We were the first people to go in the wrong woods (in the John Muir experience). So we had to climb back over the fence and go over to the correct woods.

After finding the RIGHT woods we walked up to this tiny platform of grass, where Pete instructed us to put down our things and roll onto our stomachs. We had to stick our noses in the ground and smell the earth.

After we breathed in the smell of the earth and grass we had to leave our stuff in the clearing and follow Pete. He took us for a hike all around the woods. But not just any hike, we had to jump over streams, climb through trees and walk across fallen tree trunks etc.

After we completed these tasks we walked over to our bags and pack lunches and took them with us so we could eat them in a old house. We had to climb over bridges and in water to get to the old house. When we got there we opened our lunches and had half of what was in them. While we ate our lunch Pete told us some stories about John Muir.

After that we went into our co-operative groups and we had to build a fort out of things you would find in the woods (Sticks, leaves etc). Pete told each group to go to a certain part of the woods and build our shelters.

This group had Sky T.V. (Do you get the joke? ^)

After that we went back to the house and ate the rest of our lunch, Pete had also lit the fire so we would warm up. Then we went around and looked at the groups forts, there were five shelters all together.

Just before we went back to the bus we played the worlds best game of hide and seek. After we played it we went back to the bus took off our waterproofs and got in the bus to go back to the ferry.

We all really enjoyed going on this John Muir trip and would probably want to go on it again.

By Aaliyah & Eleanor.

Music

African Drumming at the Shetland Music Festival

March 20, 2018 Sanna Elizabeth 1 Comment

On Wednesday, 14th of March we went to Mareel to participate in the Shetland Music Festival.

After going to Mareel on the bus we walked up the stairs and into the cinema. The screen was showing footage from a camera in the auditorium (where everyone was playing their instruments).

Each class got a row of seats to sit in whilst watching other classes, before performing themselves. After listening to a few classes songs and eating our snacks Joy gave us a choice of having coloured fabrics as headbands, skirts or other things.

Later on we learned that we had to go and play because our bus would be there soon.

We went out of the cinema into a long room where you could look over a wall and see other people getting juice, coffee and tea (or other things). The room had two couches and a few tables. We only stayed in the room for a bit before going through a door and walking into the green room to get ready. Although it was called the green room, the only thing that was green was the couches. There were instruments on shelves and a piano in the corner. On the walls were grey cuboids that looked like mattresses. We went through a door and down some stairs to fetch our drums from a storage cupboard. Next we headed to the stage curtains to wait for the people on stage to finish.

We then headed onto the stage and there where two judges and some other people sitting on seats watching.

We began to play Salsa Jagbe, we started off quiet and began to get louder which built up suspension. We went through the whole routine without any mistakes except for speeding up at the end when not supposed to, but it didn’t matter because the judges didn’t know that!