Rugby

We've been developing some rugby skills. We got a 3 sessions with John Cairns, the rugby development officer and now we are learning more about the sport in our class P.E.

The girls were lucky and got to attend an all girls rugby afternoon in Kirkwall. Jade Konkel and Helen Nelson, two women who play for Scotland, were there to help with the afternoon. We also met some of the Orkney Dragons. It was great.

Watch this space ORFC...

Cool Charcoal Creations

Today, the P6-7 class taught us how to create these cool, window style, charcoal creations.

We stuck masking tape on to create our own window design, made clouds and a landscape with the charcoal and lots of smudging, then used a rubber to highlight certain areas of our picture.

Here are some of P4-5's designs...

 What do you think? They will be displayed in the school dining hall.

Rugby fun!

We have been getting some rugby sessions from Orkney's Rugby Development Officer, John Cairns.

Last week, we tried some ball handling drills and today we had our first shot of tackling. We all had loads of fun!

Jayne Venables from Orkney Island's Council came to speak to our class about recycling.

She told us all of the things you can recycle at home, and gave us a sticker for our bins to remind us. We saw videos on what happens to Orkney's recycled aluminium cans once they've been sent to England. 

There are five main household waste recycling centres in Orkney and all the rubbish collected from these goes to Chinglebraes Waste Transfer Station (it is just out of Kirkwall, on the main road that takes you to Orphir).

Eco Committee

As part of our homework, we designed a logo for our class Eco-Committee. We are going to be finding ways for the school to be more eco-friendly through turning off lights and helping recycle for example.

We each voted on our favourite design to be used as the class logo.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...

We have been learning about the 3 R's in our new Sustainability topic. We have been thinking of ways we can reduce the amount of waste we produce, reuse things more than once and also what happens to our recycling.

We made our own recycled paper using paper that was ready for recycling. We are still waiting for it to dry out so hopefully by Monday we will have our own, funky paper to take home. Fingers Crossed!

Super Snowy Days!

Last week, we thoroughly enjoyed having fun in the snow whilst it was here!