Showing posts with label marine litter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marine litter. Show all posts

Friday, 16 July 2010

The SPECTACULAR class assembly.

Our class assembly taught people all about the dangers of marine litter and how it could damage humans and wildlife. It also taught people about keeping safe at sea. We heard it described as AWESOME and SPECTACULAR afterwards. We were very proud!

We held a raffle at the assembly and raised nearly £200 for the lifeboat. We wrote a song (words and music) and performed it too.

If Mrs MacNab ever works out how to edit the video, she will put it on here! In the meantime, here are some photos from the assembly.




Presenting the money to Mr Cooper from the RNLI.

Sunday, 23 May 2010

An important message about marine litter

We are not happy about the damage marine litter does, so we worked with Ms Mackay to make an animation to tell you about it.



An animation by Class 3/4 to tell people about the dangers of marine litter


Do you know how we made it?

First we had to plan the story and make the creatures.

  
Next we recorded the animation.

 
Then we had to decide which instruments to use for each creature.



We rehearsed ...


and then Mr Geddes recorded us.



We hope you enjoyed learning about our animation - and that you learn from the important message in it.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

First week of last term

Time is flying and we're already into the last term!

We had an exciting start to the week when the Stunt Riderz came to our school on the first day of term. They did lots of stunts to show us and had a high jump competition.



We started our new topic which is coasts. We are finding out about marine litter and we're learning how to make an animation about some marine wildlife. Here we are planning our first characters.



Here we are looking at some photos of wildlife which has been killed by marine litter. We are very angry that this happens.



Mrs Whitworth told us that a fulmar can have about 60 pieces of plastic in its stomach. Yuk. We don't fancy eating plastic for our tea!


In maths we practised multiplying and dividing. We enjoy playing games to practise our times tables.



We made our own 'canoe families' because we have a link with the Kwu'sukna?qink Canoe Family in Pentiction in the Okanagan region of British Columbia as well as with Outma Sqilx Cultural school there.

We had to make banners for our canoe families.


We did football twice this week (twice in class - some people play it every day in the playground too!) - we're doing a few weeks of football for PE with Mrs MacNab and we also had Highland Football Academy on Friday with a coach from Ross County! He taught us some ball skills and we did some team games to practise our skills and fitness.


 
It's been a good start to the last term.