Sketches

Copies of our video are still available from school if you haven't got yours yet! - price £3


Here are the videos of our Broons and Oor Wullie sketches from our ceilidh.


The Broons in Chess Madness




The Broons in Nappy Change




Oor Wullie in The Spy





Electric rap

Final performance!

We delivered our final performance of our St Andrew's ceilidh on Tues 13th at Gilbertson Day Centre. The audience were very appreciative and we have been well rewarded with sweets!

Here are some photos of the event.

Singing Ally Bally Bee

The audience listen to us singing about The River Clyde.

Paw Broon looks shocked at the Bairn's antics!

Donald where ARE your trousers?

A tune on the whistles.

Rapping

Auld Lang Syne

Champions

Jay had more badminton success.

Ross and Jay share a BB football cup

Our St Andrew's ceilidh

We held our St Andrew's day ceilidh in the school hall on 29th November. It was well attended by parents, grandparents and friends. We all took part and performed our pieces with enthusiasm! All the rehearsals and hard work were well worth it judging by the reaction from the audience.

We have also performed it to the lunch club at the Salvation Army hall where it was a great success.
See some stills from our video of the dress rehearsals below. Hopefully more pictures to come!


The quality of the video in the hall was not great, especially for the Broons and Oor Wullie sketches so we will try again in a smaller setting and may get some footage from the Gilbertson Day centre when we perform there next week.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to us! Our One Planet picnic post on this blog has won us a prize in the Eco schools One Planet Picnic competition!
Our prize will be announced on the blog after Monday morning's assembly.
update: Our prize is a trip to the crab processing factory in Stromness. Date and time to be arranged but won't be this term as we are so busy!

Remembrance day.

We remembered our troops by observing a 2 minute silence at 11.00 am on the 11th of the 11th. 
We also made crosses with poppies and wrote some poems which are displayed on the wall outside our classroom.

Football medals

More medals! These were for being part of the under 11 Orkney football squad.

Halloween!

We got a shock when we looked in the mirror on Halloween! We didn't recognise ourselves! Can you tell who we are?

Renewable energy

This week we have been looking at forms of renewable energy. We had a talk from Orkney energy advice last week and learned how advanced Orkney is in developing renewables. It makes us quite proud to be part of something so important for the planet. 

We all listened really carefully to the information that
Elizabeth from the Energy Advice Centre gave us.

We made our own wind farm in the classroom and tested different energy forms with a special piece of equipment. It had different attachments and indicators to try. There was a buzzer, flashing lights, cogs and a meter to measure how much energy we created.

our wind farm

This one tested solar power.

This one is for testing wind power

and this one is a water turbine - some of us got quite wet testing this one!

You can see us testing them and some of the results we got in the video below. Some indicators worked better than others.

We did a short wind survey by using an anemometer which measures wind speed. We tested 3 different locations around the school - the back playground, front playground and the courtyard. The front playground recorded the highest reading on the Beaufort scale. We found that the wind was coming in gusts, especially in the courtyard. It made an interesting graph when we were finished!

Measuring the wind

We decided that Orkney is a good place for a wind farm as we get plenty of wind!

Another form of energy produced in Orkney is wave power so we made our own Pelamis models from pieces of tubing, plastic and elastic bands. We tested them in a basin - some were successful but some sank because the plasticine we used to seal the tubes was too heavy.

Following instructiions

measuring carefully

a model ready to test

testing is successful for this one!

Some items don't use batteries or need plugged in to power. 

Sunshine buddies use solar power

This radio is solar powered and can be
wound up by hand

We made a dynamo torch from a kit

There's a handle to wind it up.

Black History Month story telling

Last week we had a special visitor from Kenya. Her name was Mara Menzies and she visited as part of Black history month to tell us some stories from her own culture.
It was a very dramatic presentation and she involved everyone in her stories. She had bright, colourful costumes for everyone to wear and she showed us the different ways to put them on.
She selected people from the audience to act out parts in her stories and even had one pupil 'flying' on her back!
You can see from the slideshow below how much we all enjoyed her presentation. 
She brought some things to show us too. Some were made out of dried gourds and there was jewellery with intricate and colourful beadwork.
It has given us some ideas for story telling next term when we look at Scottish and Orcadian folk tales! I wonder if we can present a story as entertaining as hers!

One Planet picnic

Today we went to Muddisdale to have our Eco schools One planet picnic brunch. We are trying to raise awareness of minimising waste and protecting the environment by using local produce where possible. We used some Fairtrade goods as well in our menu. We made sure we didn't use anything that had to be thrown away afterwards and took re usable plates, cups and bags to transport our food. 

Mixing the ingredients for banana oat scones.

The scones look good enough to eat!

Mixing the batter for the pancakes.

Adding the egg.

Cooking away nicely!

Time to turn this one!

We took our food to Muddisdale for brunch and spread some rugs and tarpaulins to sit on as the grass was still wet!
We had strawberry milk made with Orkney milk and Scottish strawberries, Fairtrade orange juice or Scottish water to drink.
The pancakes were made with Orkney eggs and milk. We had butter and homemade gooseberry jam on them. The bananas were Fairtrade and the oats came from Scotland. We played some games while we were there too.

Enjoying our food

Is there any more?

A plate and cup tower competition sprang up!

I think ours is higher!

 

Careful!



Whoops!




In this game we had a red team and a yellow
team. We needed to work together to try to
knock the other team's balls off the tarpaulin
and keep our ones on!

 

The red team won!



This is a version of duck, duck goose. We used
the names of continents and had to spell them
out before we ran.

In a huddle counting to 50 so that the hiders
can find a hiding place in the game sardines.



Hunting!



Is there anyone in there?



Can we get in there too?



The champion hiders took ages to be found!

Thankfully after all that hiding everyone was found safe and sound and we all returned to school!
Here is the recipe we used for our banana oat scones. 

We made posters of our menus. You can see some of them on display outside our classroom.

 

 

We wrote some reports of our picnic when we got back to school. You can read some of them by clicking on the Wiki link at the right of the page.