Under the sea ...

Under the sea is a nice play to be .... to think, or read.

This is the under the sea corner in the classroom. We have this because we are studying the coast this term. In Golden Time craft we are making things to go under the sea. What do you think we will make?

Here we are in Circle Time playing a game. Do you think we managed to pass the keys round without making a sound? We had to try it with a tambourine too.

We're doing some work with Mr Giles in drama this term. It's great fun!

We're all hoping to build our confidence at performing so that we are confident when we do our class assembly later this term.

Trip to Scapa

Last Wednesday we went to Scapa beach, We went by bus. When we got to the beach we got off the bus and sat on the sand and we got colour cards to look for your own colour. Next we were looking for an interesting stone if you found one you had to explain why it is interesting. Then the teachers got a Nature detective book we had to tick the things we found then we had our snack. When we finished our snack we played a game. When the P3 went back to school the P4 did a Bag the Bruck we got about 70 pieces of rubbish. I was happy because it was fun.

by Magnus


Last week we went on a trip to Scapa beach. We were going there to learn about the coast. We were all given a different colour of card which we had to match it to something in the environment around us, we gathered lots of matching things and put them in trays so we could take them back to class and look at them.
We played a food chain game that was really fun. It was about the midges chasing the otter, the otter chasing the salmon and the salmon chasing the midges.
I helped my class “Bag the Bruck”, we bagged around 70 things from the beach.
Mrs Whitworth came with us and she taught us about birds and seaweed and how to protect the environment.

by Ronan

Biodiversity at Scapa

We went to Scapa today to see what we could find there. We have been investigating the biodiversity - the variety of life - of our coast.

The weather was better than we expected - although the wind blowing the sand meant we got sand in our hair!

We looked for things of different sizes and colours.

Sometimes looking very closely at small things was the best way to see the variety of colours on the beach.

We enjoyed a snack break in the sun (even though the weather forecast said we should be getting sleet).

We were 'Nature Detectives' and marked what we found in our record books.

Mrs Whitworth from the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) taught us a game about food chains. It was fun!

  

P4 did a mini 'Bag the Bruck'.  

How many marine animals do you think might have been killed by this bruck? 

We collected about 70 pieces of bruck - mostly plastic and rope - and a CD! We were quite surprised there was so much as the main ECO Orkney Bag the Bruck was last weekend so the beach was cleaned then.

We had a great morning out - and in the afternoon we spend time investigating and recording what we had found. We had found evidence of around 23 types of life at Scapa including birds, shells, seaweed and crabs.

We are going to be making powerpoint presentations about the biodiversity we find at the coast and we will put them on the blog so that everyone can learn about it.