{"id":9372,"date":"2018-06-01T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2018-06-01T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:08:01","slug":"p3-visit-to-the-kelpies-helix-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/2018\/06\/01\/p3-visit-to-the-kelpies-helix-park\/","title":{"rendered":"P3 visit to the Kelpies & Helix Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went to visit the Kelpies.<\/p>\n

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We learned that Kelpies used to live in water and they would appear as beautiful horses to attract people closer.\u00a0 If you touched them, you would stick to them and get pulled into the water.\u00a0 Once you drowned you would be eaten!<\/p>\n

The Kelpies are called Duke and Baron (Duke has his head down and Baron looks up towards the sky).\u00a0 They were based on real Clydesdale horses (called Duke and Baron).\u00a0 The artist’s name is Andy Scott.<\/p>\n

Clydesdale horses are bigger and stronger than other breeds.\u00a0 They used to pull boats along the canal!<\/p>\n

Each Kelpie has 464 steel plates.\u00a0 We worked out that must mean there are 928 steel plates altogether!\u00a0 It took 7 people to build the Kelpies over 90 days.\u00a0 They are 30m tall.\u00a0 They were built in 2013.\u00a0 When they opened there was a big party and the real<\/em> Duke and Baron came too!\u00a0 They each left one of their horseshoes behind as a gift.<\/p>\n

The best way to view the inside of the Kelpies is to lie on your back.<\/p>\n

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In the afternoon we visited the Helix Park.<\/p>\n

There was a massive slide which everyone loved!\u00a0 It was a bit scary though.\u00a0 Lots of us challenged ourselves when we felt a bit scared of heights!<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we went to visit the Kelpies. We learned that Kelpies used to live in water and they would appear as beautiful horses to attract people closer.\u00a0 If you touched them, you would stick to them and get pulled into the water.\u00a0 Once you drowned you would be eaten! The Kelpies are called Duke and … Continue reading P3 visit to the Kelpies & Helix Park<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,3348,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-posts","category-home-page","category-primary-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/livingstonvillageprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}