We had another fantastic outdoor science lesson with Mr Rose. Using pouters, we explored our school grounds to see what different types of mini beasts called it home. We were quite surprised just how many we found! We even found a ‘Garlic Snail’ and yes, it really did smell of garlic.

Another ‘ One off Wednesday’ treat. This weeks lessons were on Rainbows and Orcas.

Primary 1-3 and 4-7 all worked together to plant some seeds to grow some herbs ready to sell at the school’s annual CCC (car wash, car boot, cafe) on Friday 15th June. The children used the knowledge they have learnt during their science lessons about what a plant needs to grow to help these herbs thrive. They also used this opportunity to recycle some plastic bottles, using them as planters. So far, they have planted chives, parsley, coriander, chillies  and mint.

On Friday, 2 of our lovely ladies noticed one of their classmates was all alone in the playground and just as good friends do, they went to see if their pal wanted to play. All was happy in the play ground. The girls show off  their ‘I am a good friend’ stickers they were awarded.

This week Woody delivered a One Off Wednesday on Swordfish. We learnt some really interesting facts and our fun activity this week was making a hand print swordfish using 2 colours, one hand, no thumbs and some goggly eyes. What fun. keep an eye out for the finished products (once they’re dry).

Last week as part of Mr Rose’s lessons we went on a little walk up past the school and the church. We looked at all the beautiful wild flowers that grow in Sandness and we used a very old Wild Flower Encyclopedia to identify the flowers and categorised them into colours and number of petals.We even ate some too!