GORGE WALKING!

    Gorge walking is so FUN!

  We started by getting our kit     ready then getting on the mini-   bus and driving to a burn that     led into a gorge.

  
Then we got to crawl through a     tunnel that went under a road     and came out onto the gorge.





  





We climbed down the gorge and on some high bits, we got to abseil a down  with a rope.
When we got down a bit the view   was like a scene from the jungle   book.Then we got to a hill above   a rocky beach.

  We got hot chocolate and played   a game called 'Meerkat Manner.'

Then we started the climb back up and when we reached the top we got to crawl under the road     again.

Hoy 2016 Coasteering by Zoe and Lucy

On June the 16th P6 went Coasteering courtesy of the Hoy outdoor education centre.The instructors were called Kate E , Kate R and Chris.

The groups were:

Chris                                  Kate R                        Kate E

 Owen                                  Nell                                Lucy
Ruben                                 Caity                              Abi
Aiden                                  Eileen                           Menna
Dylan                                  Leigha                          Emily
                                            Martha                          Zoe


These were going to be our tent rooms but we didn't go camping because of bad weather.

There was 2 jumps 1 for shallow water and 1 for deep water.
The one for shallow water was technically a belly flop and the one for deep water was a jump when you cross your arms like an Egyptian mummy and jumped in like a pencil.

Kate E's group got a test swim in the water to get used to it.
They swam to a rock to get ready for their first jump. The people in Kate E's group shouted thing as the jumped in such as   "Tire marks tire marks!", "Lets go bowling!", "21!" "Watermelon!"

They went in a cave a explored for a few minutes. Zoe didn't enjoy this because she needed the toilet! This is a quote from Lucy who was in Kate E's group, "I liked it because we got to do a belly flop and just swim in the sea I would love to do again!"

We got to learn about different sea creatures. For example, we learnt that the teeth on the limpet is called the rasping radula.We got to squeeze limpets and  water  came out a hole in the top of the limpet.

Then we walked up the hills to the buses. We were soaking wet. The boys got changed it the blue bus and the girls got changed in the trailer. Overall, it was so fun and we would all do it again in a heartbeat. "Hoy was one of the best things I have done in my life!" said Zoe


By Zoe Adamson & Lucy Tulloch

Canoeing in Hoy by Leigha and Eileen

                                     canoeing

When we were in Hoy we split up into two groups one group went to do a gorge walk which will be talked about in a different post.

This post is made by two different individuals who were in different groups and so had different  fun experiences.

Hi I'm Eileen and I was in the first group to do canoeing. We had to take a bunch of stuff in our kit bags which included: a spare change of clothes, a towel, a jumper and our water bottles. We had to wear a buoyancy aid and water proof trousers and top .

We had to go in partners or a three. I was partnered with my best friend Nell and we NEARLY fell out 5 times. It was kind of scary when we nearly fell out but it was also fun because each time it happened we got a rush of Adrenalin which made it even more fun. One of those times A CERTAIN SOMEBODY  pushed our canoe and we nearly fell out. We learnt to steer and go backwards and turn around. We had a mini race spinning around. We went up river and at the end we got hot chocolate outside.It was fabulous and I would absolutely totally do it again. 

Hi I'm Leigha and I was in the 2nd group that did canoeing . we didn't bring that much important stuff apart from a buoyancy aid and oars.Once we got the equipment together we made rafts with canoes,straps and wood  to put the two canoes together  and the piece of wood went in the middle between the canoes then the straps went round the middle seat and the piece of wood to keep them together. When we set off it was really windy but when we finished we had a rock tower building competition on the beach,as I was dismantling mine to restart, my finger got caught under a rock and got cut badly but Caity gave me stuff to put on my finger so it wouldn't get infected and when we got back to the center I put Savlon and a plaster on it. Even though i got a peedie bit hurt I had lots of fun canoeing and would definitely want to do it again.

P6 Hoy Trip 2016 Canoeing

              Canoeing

Whilst in Hoy, p6 have done a variety of activities. One of those activities was canoeing.

So we split off into two groups, one went gorge walking and the other went canoeing. I was in the canoeing team .The instructor Kate R showed us what to do and once we were confident enough, we got in our canoe . The boys [Dylan, Owen, Mr Cowan] sped off super quickly. They were pro and the girls [Zoe, Abi and Lucy] were pretty good too. But then there were me[Nell] and Eileen and we nearly fell in about five times. It was great fun. 


 

Nell

Coasteering

 When we got from the hostel to long hope we got given a wet suit, wet socks, wet gloves and a helmet. We got changed and started to walk to the beach. When we got to the beach, Chris went through some of the safe jumps to get into the water. Chris jumped in first then Ruben,  Aiden,  Dylan & then Owen. Then we had to swim through lots of seaweed to get to a rock so we could climb up it. Chris climbed the rock first then Ruben zoomed up it so quick he was up there in seconds then Owen found a different way up then Aiden just went up the same way as Owen went.  Dylan tried and tried but he could not get up it, so he had to swim around the rock where we were. Next we swam round to a big rock that you can jump off, it was really fun. Then we went in a cave that Chris didn't even know about so Chris said go in. We had to swim in it at the start of the cave but after a while we had to walk in the pitch black to find the end of the cave. Eventually, Chris found the end of the cave and said for us to walk back out.

by Ruben & Aiden 

BUSHCRAFT IN HOY

In Hoy, p6 did bush-craft. Group 1 did shelter building while group 2 learnt how to make a camp fire.







 P6 have learnt that it is quite tricky and dangerous to make a camp fire because you have to gather lots of dry sticks. When we got the fire going we took out marshmallows and toasted them over the fire.

  






When we were making shelters, it was hard and we had to work as a team to get huge, heavy logs to were we were building our shelter. We used leafs, logs and trees.

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Primary 6 Hoy Trip 2016 Lymess Museum

On Thursday the  16th of June, primary six  went to the Lyness museum  and we went on a hunt round the museum for different facts and in the museum there were some really cool rooms like the oil tank, and the pump room . Some of the facts we found out are that woman used to make steel circles to use as protective fencing and the air raid shelter is made out of  concrete and metal. We saw an old railway, a boat repair building and the old oil tank. That was the tour of the museum thank you for reading.

By Caity and       # EMILY !

Are stay in hoy hostal!!

The place that we stayed at in Hoy was the Hoy hostel. It was about a ten minute walk up the hill from the boat.

When we got there it looked really small but the inside was huge.After we put our bags by the hall wall and got used to our   surroundings  we got to know the staff. They all are really nice. 

We got into gropes of 7. One grope went on a tour and my group went to get kit then we switched. We got shown our rooms. Me, Zoe, Lucy and Leigha got the disabled room which meant we got the biggest room.

It was really fun. I wish i could do it once more.

-Martha