Friday Golf

Last Friday we had a great opportunity to go to the Golf Club and learn some golfing skills from the Golf Club members.  It was very cold but we thoroughly enjoyed it.  We got the chance to try putting, chipping and doing some long shots.  It was good to have a go at this after our club golf.  There is training on Monday night which we can go to at the Stromness Golf Club if we’re interested in furthering our skills.  Here we are at the Golf Club with the member s and Mel Douglas who was up for the weekend. 

 

 

Sharing our Learning

This week we have been sharing our learning with Primary 3.  Like us, they are learning about living things so we researched a type of Orkney wildlife, created either a PowerPoint, poster or leaflet and presented it to a small group of P3’s.  It was a super chance for us to share our learning with P3 and have them ask us some questions about Orkney wildlife.  P3 thought the P5’s spoke loud and clear, had interesting facts and good pictures in their presentations.  P5 thought that P3 were an excellent audience who were patient, listened well and asked good questions.

 

Well done P3 and P5! 

Caterpillar Watch

Our caterpillars are now hanging down from the lid of the tub.  This is a sure sign that they are ready to make a chrysalis.  They have been hanging all day so we think that they may make their chrysalis overnight.  Hopefully we will get the chance to see one of them ‘spin’ and make their chrysalis.  Check back for another update tomorrow! 

Humungous Caterpillars!

Our caterpillars have increased vastly in size and we think they are going to make their chrysalis soon.  As you can see they have eaten lots of the food on the bottom of the tub and what they haven't eaten they have mashed up!  They have moved to the top of the peedie tub and were beginning to hang down when we left school today.  We had hoped they would spin their chrysalis’ when we were at school but we are looking forward to checking them tomorrow morning!   

Monday Madness

We’ve had a busy Monday today!  We had our final Tag Rugby session.  We joined up with P4 to make a bigger group so that we could play more games against each other.  We did some warm up games and then practiced our ‘line’ to try and make sure that members of the opposite team didn’t have any gaps to run through. 

We have really enjoyed our Tag Rugby sessions and have made really good progress with our Rugby.  Mark is impressed with how much we have come on and said we will be in a good position when we start next time!

As Tag Rugby finished our Bikability began!  This week we focussed on learning about checking our bike to make sure it was all in check and some general cycling tips.  Mr MacLeod and Mr Johnston went through the different parts of the bike and how we can check that each part is working correctly.  We also had to check our helmets – if you can fit more than 2 fingers under the strap then the helmet is too loose!  Some of us are needing a bit of help at home to adjust the straps before our session next week.  Mr MacLeod also set us homework to revise how to check the bike and is going to see how much we can remember next week!

Bikeability Reminder

Just a reminder that we begin our Bikeability tomorrow, Monday.  Pupils need to take their bike to school and their helmet.  We will be doing the course for the next 6 weeks. 

 

Meeting Martin Brown

We had a great opportunity this week when we were able to go and meet Martin Brown the illustrator of the Horrible Histories books.  He was a great presenter and we had lots of fun.  He told us about drawing pictures and how we needed to believe in our own drawing ability and that just because it doesn’t look exactly like a horse doesn’t mean it isn’t a horse!  It was really interesting to hear him talk and it was brilliant to see him drawing!    

Terrific Tag Rugby

We had another great session of Tag Rugby on Monday.  We are really improving our skills and we are seeing a difference in our game playing.  We played some games to warm up and then we played ‘stadium ball’ where we had to try and work in pairs and tag the other team.  After we had done this we played a game of tag rugby.  We had to really work as team and make sure that everyone had taken the chance to score a try. This meant we were trying to pass to each other and include everyone in the team.  We are looking forward to our final session next week. 

Cuddly Caterpillars

 

Last week we welcomed the arrival of some cuddly caterpillars!  They arrived in a little tub with some food.  They are growing like mad!  Over the next week they will get even bigger and will eventually make a chrysalis.  When this happens we will transfer them to their lovely ‘butterfly garden’!  Keep checking back for photos of their progress.    

Tiny Tadpoles to Fast Froglets

As you can see our tadpoles are growing like mad!  They are getting bigger and are zooming around the tank.  We’ve put in a big stone so that when the begin to get legs they can get out of the water and onto the stone!  We are hoping to release them into the pond soon! 

A busy fortnight

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks in Primary 5!  On Wednesday 29^th April Lindsey Taylor from RSPB came in and helped us to do a Bioblitz around our school playground.  We counted the different types of wildlife we saw and found and recorded them on our results sheet.  We were quite amazed at how many different types of wildlife there was in our playground alone.  We are now going to work on cleaning and developing the pond area as part of our conservation topic. 

On Wednesday we donned our wellies and headed out to start cleaning the pond area.  We took most of the duck weed off the top of the water, checked for any litter and removed some of the overgrown grass from the pond too.  We made sure we placed any vegetation on the side of the pond so that any pond creatures can crawl back into the pond.  The pond is already looking much clearer and it will hopefully be ready for our tadpoles soon. 

On Thursday we had some special visitors to our classroom!  Eileen and her Dad took in her pet rabbits to show us.  They were very cute and cuddly!  We enjoyed holding them and watching them in their carry box.  It was interesting to hear about how Eileen cares for them and how much responsibility it is. We were very lucky to be part of the baby rabbits naming and were delighted to meet ‘Strawberries’ and ‘Cream’ along with ‘Waffles’!  Thank you very much to Eileen and her Dad for taking them in to let us see.