Festive Fundraising

We are entering Orkney's Dragon's Den competition this year, taking on the challenge of running a class business and making and selling a successful product. To raise money to help us fund this, we decided to make candle holders out of recycled jars. We have been decorating them in different ways, some with a Christmas design! 

These will be on sale at Parents Evening (Thursday 1st December) and the Lion King performances (Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th December). They will be sold for a donation towards our project.

Amazing Africa!

We have been learning about Africa as our topic this term. It is a continent which is made up of 54 countries. We have been learning about some of the countries and the differences between them. 

Some of the children in places like Zimbabwe and The Democratic Republic of the Congo live very different lives compared to ours. 

We are very lucky to live with our families in Orkney.

Brilliant Buns.

On Tuesday we made buns using the bits of pumpkin we carved out. We followed instructions on a recipe to make the pumpkin buns. We had to cut the pumpkin into small pieces and cooked it. 

To make the buns we mixed butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, salt, baking powder, eggs and some other ingredients together. 

We made 24 buns. They were so delicious. 

We have copied the recipe into the comments below if you want to try them yourself.

By Gary

Fantastic Pumpkins

On Monday we carved pumpkins for Halloween. There was groups of four people. We drew our plans on paper first. 

One group carved a cat with shapes around it. The next group did a clown face and the last group did a pumpkin face with spider shaped eyes that was also being sick. Yuck. 

We saved the white bits from the inside to make pumpkin buns.

By Keira

Exciting Enterprise!

Primary 4 and 5 pupils are going to be entering an enterprise competition this year called Orkney's Dragon's Den. We will be creating a business plan, with a product or service that we hope to sell in order to make a profit. In class, we have been sharing loads of ideas on what we could create. We have also been discussing which charities we would like to raise money for through any business profits.

Lorna, from The Social Enterprise Academy, came to visit us and tell us a little bit more about enterprise. We are all really looking forward to becoming entrepreneurs!