Spring Sunshine

Friday was such a wonderful day we could not face being stuck in the warm classroom - so we moved our classroom outside. 

We did reading, maths and writing in the wonderful warmth of the sun and moved the tables into the shade for the afternoon so that we didn't overheat. 

Viking Invasion!

This afternoon the P4-5 pupils had an invasion from a group of rather angry looking Vikings! 

Watch out Orphir!

Snowy Success for our Daily Mile

We didn't let the snow stop us doing our 'mile a day' challenge. We wrapped up warm (but soon over-heated!) and put on our wellies to complete our daily mile. It'll take more than snow to stop us, the sun even came out which was a nice surprise!

Fantastic Friday Visitors!

Today we had a wonderful visit from Katie and her mum Sarah! It was so lovely to see Katie again and learn about how much she has changed and developed. We all had questions and found out that she loves to eat almost anything and really enjoys the swimming pool!

We played games with Katie, she loved the picture puzzles and took along her shape toy we bought her last year. She is very good at it!

Katie seemed to enjoy the songs we were singing to her. We read her the story 'Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose' and her favourite page was the duck!

Winners!

A MASSIVE congratulations to the boys and girls in Primary 4/5 who won Orkney's Dragon's Den competition last week with their recipe book. The class company, Swadge, have worked incredibly hard to make it a success and we look forward to the launch event on Saturday!

Presenting to the Dragons

Swadge

With our trophy and certificate back at school!

Love Food, Hate Waste!

One of the charities we chose for our enterprise project fundraising was Orkney Zerowaste. Part of this charity focuses on reducing wastage in the home and is called the Love Food, Hate Waste campaign. Mary (from Love Food Hate Waste) came along today to show us some examples of recipes which use up left-overs or ideas to help cook meals that will save you money.

Finding ways to use up sausages and sausage meat... meatballs!

They smelt delicious!

The children made sweet chilli meatballs with tomato sauce and spaghetti. They were all delighted with the results and looking forward to getting home and tasting their meals.

We look forward to our 2 sessions next week. 

Thank you Mary and Orkney Zerowaste!

Data collectors

We have been learning about gathering and presenting information.

We made Venn diagrams using hoops and items from the classroom.

                                                               Red things/blue things

Yellow things/books

Pencils/rubbers

We have looked at various typed of graphs, charts and diagrams that are used to display data.

In class, we chose a topic that we wanted to gather information on. After asking our peers and collating the results, we decided on the type of graph that would be most suitable.

The Market Research Team for Swadge have even made graphs on the laptop to represent some of our findings.