We had a very special visitor today!

Today, we had a very special visitor in our class. David Bellamy is the grandfather of one of the members of our class and is a very famous botanist. He came to talk to us about living in a rainforest because we are studying rainforests at present and we have lots of questions we would like to have answers to. David told us lots of facts and made us laugh a lot! He also brought many interesting items to show us - we especially liked his blowpipe with its poison-tipped arrows! It was great fun to meet David and listen to him and we would like him to visit us again soon!

David showed us some very interesting slides and items from the rainforest.

Look at us! Osprey is holding a blowpipe, Eemit is holding a quiver which would have poison-tipped arrows in it and Seed-burd is wearing a toucan feather headdress.

David and some of the class are sitting in front of the colourful pictures we have made of the rainforest.

Seed-burd is wearing a very unusual headdress from the rainforest. It is made from lots of feathers from toucans, and is held together by a twine made from stinging nettles.

David and his son Rufus showed us a blowpipe which is used in the rainforest to kill monkeys and toucans which the people eat. It uses poisonous arrows and Rufus blew two of them into the classroom wall! We were all very impressed!

At the end of David's visit, he had his photo taken with our class and a range of rainforest animals!

Norwegian Easter Traditions.

Many people read books, particularly murder mysteries.
We call them "Easter crime".
"Easter crime" is also shown each day on TV.
Our Easter eggs are like small, decorated cardboard boxes, shaped as eggs.
They are filled with chocolte and sweets.
We usally decorate our houses with Easter chicens and decorations.
Many Norwegians go to their cabins in the montains.
Many Norwegians go crass-contry sking during Easter.
typical Easter food is "qick-lunch" (similar to Kit-Cat),
oranges and everything with eggs in it.
And also hot chocolate.

Horse : Easter

Horse:

When I was younger, I believed in the Easter Bunny.
The Easter Bunny put chocolate eggs in my window shelves during the night.
This is not a Norwegian tradition, but my parents told me about the Easter Bunny anyway.
When I read my "Easter crime" books, I eat what I get from the Easter Bunny.
My family and I spend the vacation at our cabin in the mountain.
We go cross-country skiing a lot.
In the evening we play games or watch movies.

Easter :)

A Special Visitor

This afternoon, we had a visit from an author called Jonathan Meres. He talked to Primaries 4,5,6 and 7. He was very funny and made us laugh a lot.

Red Nose Day

On Friday, 13th March, it was Comic Relief Day or Red Nose Day. All over the UK, people dress up, wear red noses and do lots of silly activities to raise money to help those who are not as fortunate as them, in the UK and in other countries in the world. We wore red clothes, some of us had red hairstyles and we wore our red noses. We all donated money to the Comic Relief Fund for the privilege of attending school dressed in red. Can you recognise us?

Special Visitors

We were visited recently by some headteachers from The Netherlands. Here we are working on some online activities about money as we are having a Financial Education Fortnight. Our special visitors were very interested to see what we were doing. They thought our classroom was very bright and they were surprised to see that we have lots of pictures and posters on our classroom walls because, in their country, the classroom walls have only a few pictures on display.

Kailworm is a Highland dancer

At the Burns Supper we watched some of our pupils doing Highland dancing. Here is Kailworm, dressed in her beautiful Highland dancing outfit, with Stirling Bear. They are standing in front of Scotland's flag, which is called "The Saltire".

Primary 5 lead the Burns Supper

Our Primary 5 class led our Burns Supper. They are sitting at the "Top Table". Golden Eagle has a toy horse because he was reciting Robert Burns' famous poem "Tam O' Shanter". In this poem, the main character, Tam, rides his grey mare called Maggie.

Yester's Burns Supper

We had a special Burns Supper at school to celebrate the 250th birthday of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. At our Burns Supper we eat the traditional food of haggis, mashed potatoes and mashed turnip (tatties and neeps). The haggis is led in by a piper who plays a traditional Scottish tune on his bagpipes. Here is Richard, the piper, who was a pupil at our school a few years ago.