Myth masks

We spent quite a few weeks last term working on making myth masks in small groups. We had to be able to work in a group with other people which some people found very difficult at first,l but everyone got much better at it the more we did.

First we had to draw some designs for the masks.

Then we started to draw out the masks and stick cardboard, bubble wrap and rolled up newspaper on them - do you think they look good?

Then we built up papier mache ...

... we painted them ...

... and then used darker colours of paint to make them look better.

Last we used things like feathers, wool, fur and even goats' hair to  add decoration to them.

Here are the finished masks. We're going to use them in drama next term.

Do you know who they all are?

Ancient Greece and lots of maths

We seem to have linked almost all our work to Ancient Greece and maths this week.

We had a Greek food tasting on Tuesday. Most people tried something new and got a sticker. One pupil tried everything! Mrs MacNab was very impressed.

Some people really didn't like some of the food, especially the octopus and olives. Mrs MacNab didn't like the octopus either! Mrs Stanger said the olives were the worst.

We had bread, white grape juice, red grape juice, black olives, green olives, figs, octopus, goat and sheep's milk cheese (feta cheese), Greek butter beans, loukamis (like Turkish delight but very very sweet) and honey sesame seed snaps.

Do you think they are enjoying the food?

In Drama we worked in groups. We used props to help us make up stories. The props all became characters - like a Scottish person (kilt), dragon (wings) and lots more and then we made up a story using all of our characters. It was fun.

Here we are hard at work writing.


In maths we have been learning about length. P3 have been estimating and measuring in metres and finding out if things (or people) are longer than about a metre, about a metre or shorter than a metre.

P4 have been measuring in centimetres and measuring objects with curved sides.

We did Ancient Greek maths and helped Pythagoras, a mathematician from Ancient Greece, prove his theory about right angles triangles.

In PE we are still practising for the class Olympics. We did javelin and Boccia this week. We had to measure how far the javelin went - so that was maths too!

We measured using a very long measuring tape.

Can you see what we are measuring with here?

P4 made the fish and they are all about a metre long so we could use them to measure the javelin throws.

 We used a measuring tape to see whose balls were nearer the jack (white ball) in Boccia.

P4 have been learning the 6x table - here we are practising it and testing each other (using timers).

We used Greek water clocks this week to time our talks (that's in a different blog entry). Abbie thinks we should use the 5 minute water clock if anyone loses 5 minutes of Golden Time next week. Mrs MacNab hopes we don't have to use the clock!

Here are some pupils using timers to test to see if the Greek water clocks are accurate (correct).

Would you like to use a Greek water clock instead of a watch?

We've adopted a dolphin!

We've adopted a dolphin. We weren't sure what animal to adopt so we split into groups and each group researched an animal that Mrs MacNab gave them.

We then had to do a short talk about our animal to persuade other people to vote for it. We used a Greek water clock to time the talks.

When we counted the votes the bottlenose dolphin had the most so Mrs MacNab has adopted that for us.

Did you know that we learned about democracy from the Ancient Greeks?

The Greek word demos means people!

Here is more information from Dani and Alanah.

Alanah wrote:

Our class is going to be adopting a bottle nose dolphin and we will be taking a toy one home. Its name is Rainbow and it has two or three babies. It lives near Inverness and she is a girl.

Dani wrote:

Our class is adopting a dolphin called Rainbow. She is a bottlenose dolphin. We will also get a little toy dolphin. You might see Rainbow if you go to Inverness and it also has a baby but we don’t know what it’s called yet but we might find out.

Here is Rainbow having fun. We think it is one of her babies with her.

Photo ©Charlie Phillips/WDCS

We will tell you more about our dolphin when we find out more. We hope when Rainbow's toy dolphin arrives it has some exciting adventures with our class.

Thanks to Charlie Phillips of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society for letting us use his photo on our blog.

Happy St Andrew's Day

P4 wrote an acrostic poem for St Andrew's Day.

St Andrew’s Day

Cool weather

Old castles

Towns and cities

Lovely countryside

Absolutely beautiful

Nice, friendly people

Do come and visit!



We hope you like it.