Fraction powered dolphins!

This week you need to click the picture to go to the fractions game.

Don't forget to read your book for Friday when we will be beginning filming for the book reviews.

Spelling champions!

The stats are in and the numbers are crunched.

 We played with spelling whizzes from around the world and the same table group.

We cheered each other on, we improved and moved up the levels and we have a class champion!

Redland part 2

Our final parliament has been held for this session at which the woeful situation at our border with Green-land has been discussed. Due to the current economic climate we are unable to send a negotiating party to the borderlands at the moment. We wish the Green-land folk well within their own country for the time being.



Preparing for The Tempest

We have had a few sessions with Mr Giles in preparation for the performance of The Tempest we will be involved in at The St Magnus festival. At one sessions we served and were served as and by 'snooty' waiters, when suddenly all the food magically disappeared - just take a look at the diners' faces!!!

This week the director Andi Ross, and Chris Patfield, who is a performance artisit, came to work with us.

Spot the ball.

Working together.

Working on a roll.

Controlling the movement.

We have lots to think about and practise for next time.

Our favourite books

Our favourite books!

For world book day we brought in and shared our favourite books. There was a good mix of fiction and non-fiction, old favourite picture book and books originally published on the internet, modern day classics and perennial good reads. Two of the books had been made into films and a couple had been Christmas presents. It was nice to see one of our most prolific readers with a book from the Kirkwall Library too!

Thanks for sharing - hope it has given you a bit of inspiration to seek out a new book or author or re-visit an old favourite from your early years.

Scapa Flow 1943

Our map of Scapa Flow is finished and will be on display at parents evening.
Each section of the map shows how well defended Scapa Flow was in 1943.

The south isles.

Cava and Fara

Flotta - covered in anti-aircraft balloons!

Our key to the map - top secret information during the war.

Stromness and Graemsay showing the Ness battery location.

Our operations HQ.

World War 2 Radio Play and Scapa Flow HQ

We have published our WW2 radio play on our wiki. 

We hope you enjoy it!

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

Meanwhile back at operations HQ we annotated our map of Scapa Flow with the help of Anne Bignall from Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership. We even added the route we will be taking next week on the MV Graemsay. Here is hoping for good weather!

We found out just how well defended Scapa Flow was in many different ways. There are very few photographs of Scapa FLow at this time. Can you guess why?

There were lots of anti-aircraft balloons deplyed as well as nets and cables stretched across the entrances to the Flow. We will be visiting one of the places where the forces were stationed next week - the battery at Ness near Stromness.

We will post some photographs of our boat trip and our visit to Ness battery here on our blog