Happy Hallowe'en!

We did some Hallowe'en activities at the end of the week. On Thursday we made Hallowe'en pictures. While we were doing them Mrs MacNab put on some spooky music. Some of it made us scared because we could imagine scary monsters chasing us. We learned that music can be used to change people's mood. The music made us feel scared, then Mrs MacNab put on 'Ghostbusters' and we all felt happy and started dancing! The music had changed our mood.

Here are some of the spooky pictures we created.

In Golden Time some people chose Hallowe'en activities.

Some people dressed up ...

... and lots of us made bats with Mrs Stanger.

Happy Hallowe'en!

Food Miles

We have been finding out about food miles. This means how far the food has travelled to get to our plate. We were very surprised that some food had travelled so far.

This is us researching where the food came from.

We made cartoons showing how the food travelled. Some food had to go a long way on a plane and a lorry and a boat. They use lots of petrol so it is not very green. We found out about food in Orkney - it hasn't travelled so far to get to us. We even got some Orkney food to taste - yum yum.

We made a display to teach other people about food miles. P3 and some of the other staff came to see it.

Here is our display:

We used this plate of food and worked out how many miles the food had travelled.

If the lamb was from New Zealand, the potatoes from Israel, the carrots from South Africa, the milk from Bridge of Allan and the strawberries from Spain the food would have travelled more than 20 000 miles to reach our plate! We were very surprised at this.

If the lamb was from North Ronaldsay, the potatoes from a farm in Tankerness, the carrots from Baillies grown in Deerness, the milk from Crantit Dairy in Kirkwall and the strawberries from Birsay the food would only have travelled about 66 miles to reach our plate.

Here are some cartoon strips showing the different journey the strawberries might have made if they came from Spain ...

... or from Birsay.

Here are cartoon strips showing the different journey the lamb might have made if it came from New Zealand ...

... or from North Ronaldsay.

You can click on the pictures to see them a bit bigger if you want to.


We hope you have learned something from this - we did!

"You should think about where your food comes from."

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PE Event at Picky

One of our class went to a special PE event at Picky. She said it was really fun!

We hope she is going to teach us some of the new games she learned.

Last week of term 1

We had a very busy week at the end of last term. The biggest event of the week was when we hosted a food tasting event in our class tourist office - look out for another blog entry about that soon.

In RME we designed new buildings for St Magnus. One group said that the task had gone well because they had communicated well and they all had jobs to do but some groups found it quite hard to work together. Then in PE we had a competition using the games skills we had been working on all term. Everyone played well and was sporting and there were some very close games. Everyone agreed that the winning team won because they worked well together and communicated well. We realised that we know how to work well in teams at PE - we need to try to work better in teams in other places as well.

We enjoyed PE on Friday - Mrs Cromarty had set up lots of fun activities for us to do. Mrs MacNab was sorry that she didn't have her gym shoes because she said it looked such fun she wanted to join in!

Maths was a bit unusual this week because we went outside for it. We made a human clock, and then when the rain got heavy we went into the hall and had maths relay races!

In music we learned a new song very quickly - we even managed to play instruments to accompany our singing. Mrs MacNab couldn't believe that Mrs Holdernesse taught us the song today - she said it was so good that she thought we had been practising for weeks.

Do you like our puffins?

Here are some of our puffin paintings.

They're all up in the corridor at school.