Enjoy your holiday

Hope you all have a nice Easter break and I look forward to seeing you all again next term.

Walk down the street

We had a very short walk along the street today to have a good look at Stromness - we went to Julia's to warm up with some hot chocolate and a tasty tray bake.  Here are some pictures of us enjoying ourselves.

Show and Tell

We had lots of lovely news today and have seen lots of nice things during show and tell.  Murray got an extra big round of applause because he decorated an Easter bunny for everyone in the class.  Here we are enjoying our personalised bunnies.  Thank you Murray :)

Eclipse

SPS had great fun experiencing the solar eclipse today.  We had a few different ways of doing this; pinhole camera's, welders glass, eclipse glasses, colander and a welders mask.
Despite a lot of cloud cover, the children were able to get a good view of the moon passing the sun.

Visiting Author

Claire came to visit our class today and answered a lot of questions about her job as an author and illustrator.  The class listened really well and asked lots of sensible questions.  We are making a book as a class and Claire has helped us.  She also kindly gave each child 5 postcards of Moppie in different places in Orkney.  Later the children used these cards to help them with their own art projects.

Solar eclipse

On Friday morning, as the children come to school, there will be a solar eclipse occurring. On Thursday we will discuss how to protect your eyes during that time by highlighting

• You should never look directly at the sun
• Sunglasses will not be a suitable way to protect your eyes if looking at the eclipse
• Any damage caused could be permanent 

Please help to spread this safety message to keep everyone safe on Friday morning. 

Red Nose Day Fun!

Our school did a brilliant job of raising money for Comic Relief on Friday.  We had 'make your face funny for money', stalls, face painting, nail bar, cake sales and a talent show.  Here are some pictures from the day.

P2 Book

P2 are working with Eden's mum Claire to make a class book.  We are sending 'Moppie' on a journey around Stromness.  The children have written the story, put it in the correct order and are now working in pairs to create a rough draft of the pages.  We have seen some excellent team work and brilliant ideas.

Today's numeracy and a wee reminder

Today Primary 2 were drawing funny monsters and had to write a dividing sum related to their monster e.g "My monster has 4 legs, how many monsters would there be if there were 16 legs?"
We swapped monsters and questions to solve each others problems.  Some of us did this mentally, using a number line or putting cubes into groups.

Wee reminder:

Auditions for Friday's talent show will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) in our classroom.  We will then choose 2 acts to put forward into Friday's talent show.

World Book Day!

We have gotten off to a good start.  Primary 2 have had the chance to show off their characters to each other and the wholes school.  We all met in the hall this morning to show off our costumes.

Strictly...

Today we were treated to the winning performance from Orkney's Strictly Come Dancing.  Mr MacIntosh and Mrs Aberdein were in costume this time and thoroughly entertained the school.  They have helped to raise a fantastic amount for charity. Well done!

Spelling

Today we have been working on words that have i with magic e.  Children worked in small groups to come up with words in that group and some used class dictionaries to check their answers.