P5 took part in a water challenge while we were at Low Port. Because our new topic is Conservation we have been talking about precious resources like water. We learned about how difficult it is to get water in other countries and we were really sad to learn that many children in  other places to not have access to clean water like we do. We learned that many children need to walk for miles and miles to collect water and this can mean that they do not get to go to school for as long, or at all!

We were given different materials and containers to try to solve the problem of transferring water without wasting it! We thought it was very, very challenging. Most of the people got wet but it was great!

Here is what we thought:

‘Everybody was really wet.I didn’t like taking the water from one bucket to the other because it was very tiring.’ – Nicola

‘We had to cooperate to make it work, also we had to make plans. It tested our strengths. I liked the pipe challenge because we got wet and I like getting wet.’- Arsh

‘It was really cold and fun.’ – Owen

‘I thought it was challenging lifting the water.’ – Kieran

‘I liked it because we had fun’ – Richelle

‘We were freezing. I liked it because we got to have fun and be with our friends.’ – Amy

‘We had to get lots of water up the hill. We used pipes to get the water from the top of the hill to the bottom.’ – Elle

‘I loved being blindfolded and seeing how other people live. I liked trying to get the water to different places and I found getting the water down the pipe very difficult.’ – Joseph

‘It was cold and freezing but I still liked the water challenge.’ – Amina

‘My hands were numb, very numb’ – Olivia

‘I was soaked.’ – Tom

‘It was fun but SOOOOOOOO COLD! When we were doing the pipes we worked as a really good team to get water into the bucket.’ – Billie

‘It was very hard because we had broken equipment and one of the buckets we had to put the water in had holes in it. It tested our knowledge. Water is VERY precious.’ – Nia

‘We had to take 20L to the top.’ – Joshua

‘I learned that my group can work as a team’ – Katie

‘It was sooooooo cold.’ -Chloe

At the end we thought about the water that was wasted and considered ways to conserve this precious resource. Some of us did not like the challenge because of all the water that was wasted by our team but some teams did not waste much at all!

We will definitely remember how lucky we are to get lots of water in Scotland and try to conserve as much water as possible. Miss Solomon does not think the tap in the classroom will be left running  ever again!