Make a Difference Day

Wednesday 19th May was Glaitness School's 5th Make a Difference Day. Events were held around the theme of biodiversity. Here's our report about the day.



For MADD5 we made bionimals. They were made out of things you find in nature. We had to hand them in for a competition. They were all very good.

Here is Jessica's bionimal. It won a prize!

Here is a slideshow of photos of the other bionimals made by class 3/4.





In the hall we looked at everyone’s bionimals. Some of us played a game about road safety. We got leaflets, bookmarks and stickers for walk to school week.

There was a quiz about compost. There were 10 bags with things in them and you had to say if you could put them in a compost bin or not. You could lift up a piece of paper to see the answers. Did you know that you could put oranges and cardboard in your compost bin?

There were footsteps with questions and you had to write answers on stickies. There was a reading corner with lots of books about growing plants and things.

We built bird’s nests with grass, sticks, feathers and paper and then we put a toy bird in it. There were whistles made out of wood. James did tons of impressions – he even managed to make it sound like a cow and a horse!

In the middle of the hall you could make pictures out of nature. There were sticks, stones, leaves, flowers, feathers, pine cones, seeds and beach grit. There were lots of good pictures.

There were hoops to sort different animals into. We put stickies onto bees to show the parts.

We made fortune tellers and took them to Muddisdale and used them to help us know what to find, like different shapes of leaves and leaves that have been eaten.

Here is a slideshow of photos from the Make a Difference Day event in the hall.





Muddisdale was cool! We found lots of green beetles on docken leaves and we found a juicy, green caterpillar but we didn’t eat it. Birds would like to eat it though.

Mrs Rendall had a big white sheet and we did a tree shake to see what fell off then we put the things we found in a little jar to magnify it. We found little orange eggs on the docken leaves and we found out they were the little green bettles’ eggs. We put them in the magnifier and then we put them back into their habitat.

Lee’s Dad came and took our picture and it might be in the newspaper next week.

We did the Great Plant Hunt for Kew gardens and we also all had to find something which began with the same letter as our name. Some were really hard - like J and K!

We found out we shouldn’t pick the flowers because then there won’t be new flowers so it is important for biodiversity that we look after our plants and animals and trees.

Here is a slideshow of photos from the walk to Muddisdale.