Wonderful Walliwall - part 2

We had a great time at Walliwall. We did canoeing and lots of team challenges. Can you guess what the best bit was? You'll never guess......


Mrs MacNab couldn't guess either. It was when Neil (one of the instructors) put his hat behind his ears! It was so funny - he looked like an elf!

Here we are ready for canoeing. We wonder if the pupils in our link school have been out in a canoe or if they have to wait until they are old enough to join the canoe family?

We practised maths because we played 'What's the Time, Mr Wolf?'  It was really fun.

We had to collect coathanger fish.

No, she didn't fall in....

..... everyone had to put their head in the water to say hello to the fish.

This challenge was where we had to get a ball to go through the pipes without dropping it. It was hard!

We had to get the whole team across the lava and water (with crocodiles in it) using 5 crates and 2 planks of wood. Nobody got eaten by the crocodiles.

Here we are carrying the canoe over obstacles. We had to work together to manage it.

More challenges.

Building a shelter that had to be waterproof and windproof. How would you build yours?

Lunchtime - I think we've earned it....

This is the metal bar challenge - we had to get the metal bar down to the ground. It sounds easy but everyone's fingers had to be touching it the whole time. We had to work very well as a team to make it work. Mrs MacNab tried it when the teachers went to Walliwall - she thought it was difficult.

Here's a slideshow of all the photos from Walliwall. It's quite long!

Can you trust information from the internet?

We've learned a lot of interesting things from our coastal Show and Tell this term. Joe did a great talk about lighthouses this week and brought in lighthouse painting and model lighthouse he had made. That made us wonder how many lighthouses there were in Orkney. We looked it up on wikipedia and discovered there were 7 - but we're sure we can name more than 7!

We learned that you can't always trust information on the internet - just like when we looked at the tree octopus website.

We think there are lighthouses at Hoy High (Graemsay), Hoy Low (Graemsay), Westray, Sanday, North Ronaldsay, Copinsay, Brough of Birsay, Cantick Head (Hoy), Auskerry and Shapinsay. That's 10 that we can think of. Have we forgotten any?

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An active week

We've had a very active week, with Walliwall and Sports Day (despite the afternoon races being postponed to next week).

As well as those exciting events we had a visitor this week - Cara came to visit us! She's 10 months old, and we were able to see if our ideas about what a 10 month old baby can do were correct. She was cleverer than we had expected - and mischievious too. She enjoyed playing a game where we took turns at handing her a toy and then she threw it for us to pick up!

We were surprised that she could understand so much - when Mrs MacNab asked Cara for the toy,Cara held it out to her. Here she is with her proud big sister.

We did some problem solving with money. We were very pleased that we worked everything out correctly.

Can you estimate how many groattie buckies are in the bottle? They were all collected on North Ronaldsay.

How many do you think you could find?

We finished making our 'under the sea' corner in the classroom - we're hoping the parents will get to see it after the class assembly (on Tuesday 22nd June). Do you like the jellyfish and sea urchins?

Under the sea is a great place to work.

After sports day afternoon was cancelled, it was raining too hard to go outside to play at lunchtime, so we got the dressing up clothes out......

We had FUN!

We enjoyed taking photos of other people dressed up too.

What would you dress as?

Sports Day

We had a fun morning of activites over at Picky. The races in the afternoon had to be postponed because of the rain - they'll be held next Friday afternoon instead.

In the morning we went out onto the track first. We did a relay race with some unusual batons to pass!

We supported each other ...

After that, we went inside to play parachute games. It was great!

Here we are playing sharks and lifeguards. 

 This is the mushroom.

 We also did other games and played Westray dodgeball.

We're hoping for dry weather for next week.