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

March 3rd - World Spelling Day and World Book Day

This week we have lots of big events! March 3rd is going to be extra busy!
On World Book Day we will be bringing in favourite books to share with each other. The books should be carefully chosen - they might be picture books from your early years or library books which you are reading at the moment and can't put down! Is there an information book you like to look at over and over again?

If you are stuck for reading inspiration have a look at the World Book day website for kids. There is a page of videos of trailers, talks and reviews - lots of interesting books there!

Check out one of the trailers here...



We are also preparing for World Spelling Day.
You can practice at home as well as at school!

Fairtrade fortnight

This week we will be thinking about Fairtrade. We are going to take part by decorating faitrade cotton bunting and sending it off for the attempt to break the world record!  We will put some pictures of our beautiful bunting here soon.

Do you know what fairtrade is? We will be finding out how it works by playing a trading game this week.

Have you bought any fairtrade products this week?

Fractions are fun!

If the game is blocked on your computer just use this link instead - Fractions are fun!