Games galore and painting with light.

It's been another busy week in P3/4.

In Drama we were exploring using our bodies. Here is a sculptor putting the final touches to his scuplture of the Statue of Liberty.

Here is a state of a ballet dancer. People are touring the gallery looking at the scupltures.

In PE we learned a new game called Boccia. It's pronouced 'Botcha' and is a throwing game. The Ancient Greeks invented it.

We did some running too - this is us trying different starting positions like kneeling and lying down.

Here we are in the library. We go there every week to borrow books.

This is P3 working on problem solving in maths. Everyone said it was a really hard problem this week.

Some P4s made a game to practise telling the time in different ways. They made a box for it, typed out the rules and then played it with other pupils.

We sorted times into order and were very pleased we managed it with both digital clocks and analogue clocks.

We got a new game for the whiteboard to help us with telling the time.

This is us doing health - we were writing all the things a good friend should be. Some people were allowed to go and steal ideas from other groups!

Here we are researching Greek gods.

In Golden Time some people painted these pictures. Do you know what they painted them with?

Bere bannocks

At the end of last term we made bere bannocks. We went to the kitchen in small groups with Mrs Stanger to make them and everyone made some.

We cleaned up afterwards.

We cut up the bere bannocks and buttered them, then had them at our food tasting event.

We took some through to let the kitchen staff try them. We were worried about what they would think because they are all so good at cooking. They really liked them and Louis said they were the best bere bannocks he had ever tasted.

Mrs MacNab said they were the best she had ever tasted too and she liked them with the rhubarb jam from Shapinsay.

Happy Hallowe'en!

We did some Hallowe'en activities at the end of the week. On Thursday we made Hallowe'en pictures. While we were doing them Mrs MacNab put on some spooky music. Some of it made us scared because we could imagine scary monsters chasing us. We learned that music can be used to change people's mood. The music made us feel scared, then Mrs MacNab put on 'Ghostbusters' and we all felt happy and started dancing! The music had changed our mood.

Here are some of the spooky pictures we created.

In Golden Time some people chose Hallowe'en activities.

Some people dressed up ...

... and lots of us made bats with Mrs Stanger.

Happy Hallowe'en!

Food Miles

We have been finding out about food miles. This means how far the food has travelled to get to our plate. We were very surprised that some food had travelled so far.

This is us researching where the food came from.

We made cartoons showing how the food travelled. Some food had to go a long way on a plane and a lorry and a boat. They use lots of petrol so it is not very green. We found out about food in Orkney - it hasn't travelled so far to get to us. We even got some Orkney food to taste - yum yum.

We made a display to teach other people about food miles. P3 and some of the other staff came to see it.

Here is our display:

We used this plate of food and worked out how many miles the food had travelled.

If the lamb was from New Zealand, the potatoes from Israel, the carrots from South Africa, the milk from Bridge of Allan and the strawberries from Spain the food would have travelled more than 20 000 miles to reach our plate! We were very surprised at this.

If the lamb was from North Ronaldsay, the potatoes from a farm in Tankerness, the carrots from Baillies grown in Deerness, the milk from Crantit Dairy in Kirkwall and the strawberries from Birsay the food would only have travelled about 66 miles to reach our plate.

Here are some cartoon strips showing the different journey the strawberries might have made if they came from Spain ...

... or from Birsay.

Here are cartoon strips showing the different journey the lamb might have made if it came from New Zealand ...

... or from North Ronaldsay.

You can click on the pictures to see them a bit bigger if you want to.


We hope you have learned something from this - we did!

"You should think about where your food comes from."

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PE Event at Picky

One of our class went to a special PE event at Picky. She said it was really fun!

We hope she is going to teach us some of the new games she learned.