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!

Bye Bye Buddy and Ta Ta Twinkle!

For their last day with us before Christmas, Buddy and Twinkle 'child-proofed' themselves so that we could carry them around all day. We each took turns at taking them to lessons, assembly, golden time and watching a movie. 

I think they had a fun last day! 😊

Festive Friends

We have been very lucky and received visits from our class elves again this year. We love when Buddy and Twinkle come to join us. We even had a visit from Santa (because the elves were mischievous!) and saw photos of him in our classroom on the SantaCam CCTV!

They've been up to all sorts in the classroom... hiding in our Christmas tree, hanging from our advent calendar, sitting in our chairs (even Miss Archibald's) & making a mini elf library.

Here they are playing scrabble! 

Poor Buddy is not very good at remembering his spelling patterns sometimes.

Snowball fight! I think they missed the snow when it all melted.