We had a great time during our outdoor education experience in Rousay.  We did team challenges, had a BBQ and had a sing song and story telling around the campfire.  We camped on the school pitch.  We were joined by secondary pupils from Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre on Saturday and we did coasteering and canoing and had a paddle at the beach.

We planted our Jubilee trees in the community garden.  Duncan's mum very kindly helped us.

Erin thought planting trees was fun and very relaxing!

We are preparing raised beds in the community garden to plant our Jubilee trees.

Demonstrating our rugby skills at the Tag Rugby Festival.

As if having their own publishing company wasn't enough P4-7 are now starting their own production company!  We are learning about what makes a story newsworthy, how to gather news from reliable sources and what different audiences want to know and see.  In groups we plan to go on to seeking out our own news stories and produce our own news programme.

Work has begun in the Community Garden.  We have prepared the soil by weeding and digging and have planted carrots, beetroot, parsnips, radish, lettuce, onions and turnips.  We are starting out cabbages in small pots before planting out and we plant to have a weird and wonderful veg section too, with colourful carrots!  We will also be planting seed tatties.  We plan to sell our veg as part of a small enterprise project.

Duncan and Erin did a fantastic role play depicting a peer pressure situation.  Pupils gave some great advice to the two characters and made some really great points about the situation.

Wind energy is used a lot in Orkney                                   L'energia eolica è molto utilizzato in Orkney

Especially In winter to keep people warm                          Soprattutto in inverno, per tenere la gente calda

By poweriNg radiators                                                       Alimentando radiatori

anD electric fires                                                              e gli incendi elettrici

A wind turbine is used to power energy                             Una turbina eolica è utilizzata per l'energia

especially iN Orkney                                                          di alimentazione soprattutto in Orkney

There are 13 winD turbines                                                 Ci sono 13 turbine eoliche

Solar panels are used more and more                                  I pannelli solari vengono utilizzati sempre più

Each year in Orkney                                                            Ogni anno in Orkney

EspeciaLly in the summer time                                            Soprattutto nel periodo estivo

solAr energy is to take in heat from the                             l'energia solare è quello di prendere in calore dal

sun well not exactly heat moRe like rays                             sole non ben riscaldare più esattamente come i raggi

Energy in Orkney is                                         Energia in Orkney è

fasaNating very                                                                 fasaNating molto

Exiting to learn about it                                                     Uscire per conoscere lo

Renewable energy                                                              energie rinnovabili

Is Great                                                                            è grande

sorrY I repeated myself                                          Mi dispiace ripetere

By Tamara Taylor