Monday, 29 November 2010

Just a flavour of our ceilidh


Our Ceilidh gave us a great opportunity to communicate our literary and musical heritage to a guest from another country in Europe. Vesna , a young teacher from Slovenia has been working with the class and has been sharing her life in Slovenia with the children.

The Slovenian flag was on display
at the Ceilidh alongside the Saltire.
Vesna tasted locally made cheese, Scottish shortbread and fudge thanks to Molly Hay's mum and Mrs Stanger!Yum!
Vesna commmented on how similar the cheese was to local cheese made in Slovenia and said it was lovely to taste.
We have to say a big thank you to Vesna for being behind the video camera for the whole Ceilidh! !

























Friday, 26 November 2010

Our Ceilidh



Wonderful stuff class 4/5!
You presented a great afternoon of traditional Scottish
entertainment.
It was very clear that much work
at home had been
put into producing such
confident performances.
It was lovely to have so many family
members in the audience.
A special thank you to Mr Cant for
playing for us.
The sound of the pipes is always special.
Photographs and video clips will be
posted soon.


Friday, 19 November 2010

Children in Need 2010

Class 4/5 generously filled the
P1 bucket with coppers.










Spots before our eyes !

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Tag Rugby Sessions Term 2










Great side pass!
Fantastic try!
Good catch!
swerve
communicate










Each session of our six week block
Tag Rugby taken by Bruce Ruthven
is full on action and fantastic fun for
over 50 minutes! Great too for
working on skills such as listening,
communicating and cooperating.
We also get those last rays of warming
winter sunshine. Although there is
no time to feel cold during the
action packed sessions!

We were very lucky
to have Grant McKelvie with us today who coaches
the Scotland under 18 squad at
Murrayfield in Edinburgh and is part
of the Scottish Rugby elite training group.

Mr McKelvie commented at the end
on what a super group of young people were
there and how impressed he was with
the commitment and performance.

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Create a Character Challenge





We were set a challenge to design
and make a character mask.
By setting up a simple circuit or
a parallel circuit
the nose or eyes
of the mask had to light up
and switch on and off.
All challenge groups had a
successful outcome, Well done!
Any ideas for character names?

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Views from a playground...one



Around the playground we have noticed that the whitebeam trees seem to have loads more berries on them this year.
Have other parts of Scotland noticed the same?

Monday, 27 September 2010

...views from a playground two




We wanted to find out more about the link between compass points and angles.
In the playground we gave each other instructions using direction words and angles e.g turn 90 degrees clockwise or turn 270 degrees anti clockwise.

Not everyone had noticed the 8 point compass painted in the front playground before!

We recorded which direction we were facing to start off with and when we had finished .We also recorded what we were looking at e.g.
facing SE and turning 45 degrees clockwise I face S to the school building.

facing SE and turning 45 degrees anticlockwise I look E across the Peedie Sea over to the Power Station and St Magnus Cathedral.

"If I face SE then turn 360 degrees I'll be facing my house!" (P4 pupil)








Thursday, 23 September 2010

Tag Rugby Practise for the Rugby Festival at Picky


Pupils from
P5,6 and 7 are taking
part in the Tag Rugby
Festival at the
Pickaquoy Centre
on Friday 24th
September along with
other schools from across
Orkney.
P5 had a short practice
today.Some of the P4's
joined in.






Listening to and following instructions...




Remembering the rules...





Strong solid rocks
Tall ,long and wide
Oval heart and star shapes
Never yielding to wind and water
Eventually turning to sand




Pretty perfumed petals
Lovely pink coloured flowers
Arising from the earth
Never harmful
Tempting for the bees
Supper for the caterpillars

Tough twisted trunk
Rough bark
Enormous
Elderly but still strong



Tall branches
Reaching up to the sky
Ever will they grow
Everywhere there are trees
Strong



Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Electric hairdo!















I don't think static electricity is doing much for our hairstyles!

More balloon tricks...



Can you explain the science behind what is happening in these pictures?