Awards

At the end of term everyone in the class received 2 awards. Some people are missing from the photographs, but we all got our John Muir Discover Award and also a Dolphin Diploma from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS).

Here are some of the class with their John Muir Awards.

We spent the whole of the 4th term working towards the John Muir Award. There were 4 parts of the award - Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share. To get the award we had to Discover, Explore, Share and Conserve a local place. We chose to do this as part of our coasts topic and visited Scapa and Birsay beaches. We learned about the plants and animals that live there and shared the information with people at the class assembly, by making PowerPoints and on the blog. We helped look after (conserve) our places by doing a Bag the Bruck and by teaching other people about marine litter and why it's important not to have any as it can do a lot of harm and kill wildlife.  We taught them at our class assembly and we also made an animation. We also learned a bit about John Muir who was Scottish but then lived in America and did lots of work to help conserve wild places for everyone to enjoy.

Here are some people with their Dolphin Diplomas. We were awarded them by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

For our awards we had to learn about whales and dolphins (and answer questions about them). We also had to do work to help look after them. We taught people about the dangers of marine litter and we also adopted our own dolphin - Rainbow.

Please help wildlife and don't drop litter!

We enjoyed working on the awards.

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.