Week 7 and our tourist office

The class have been making good use of their tourist office this week, with lots of role play going on. The tourist office staff have to advise tourists from different places about how to get to Orkney, how to get around in Orkney, where to stay and where to visit. They're making a great job of it and Mrs MacNab is impressed with the way they go about it.

Next week some people are coming to visit the tourist office!

We've been doing some work on food miles - look out for a blog entry all about that soon.

In maths we're still working on multiplication and our times tables and some people are doing division as well. We're also working on time.

P4 enjoyed their problem solving session and managed to find lots of different strategies to solve the problem they were set.

Our Tourist Office

We've been making progress with our class tourist office. It's been set up, although it's not quite finished yet.

Do you like puffin corner?

This is P4 making brochures about transport to and transport in Orkney. P3 made posters.

We used the computers for designing covers for our topic jotters. We used WordArt to make them. They were really colourful.

We also used the computers to do research about transport for the brochures and posters we made.

Next week we're going on 2 trips, to see some accomodation that tourists stay in. We're going to visit a hotel and the campsite and we're really looking forward to it. We've started making questionnaires so we can find out lots of information while we're there. We hope it doesn't rain on those days!

Our first class trip

In the pupils' own words ...

On Tuesday the first of September we went to the Tourist Office.

The manager showed us around.

She told us about what tourists ask like where you could stay, places to eat, where they could visit. We got lots of information. They had lots for sale in the gift shop.

 
We got lots of leaflets and books and maps to take back to class for our tourist information office.
 

   
We all enjoyed our visit to the tourist information office.