Magnus 900

Along with the rest of the school, we have been participating in some activities to learn a little bit about St Magnus.  We invited local storyteller Tom Muir in for a story telling session with some of the children.  Tom told us the story of St Magnus and we have been talking about St Magnus' bones ever since. 

Tom emailed us some photos of the bones to look at. 

This led to discussions about going on a trip to St Magnus' Cathedral to see where the bones were found and to the Takerness Museum to see the box they were found in.  The morning group were lucky to have Tom onsight at the museum when we were there to tell us a bit more about the wooden box that was found in the Cathedral.  Fran Hollinrake the Custodian of the Cathedral met us there to give us a tour and tell us more about how St Magnus became a Saint.  Here are a collection of some of the photos taken on our trip. 

 

One of the things that we noticed on our trip was the shape of the building.  We have been working in our groups to create our own mini cathedrals using the blocks.  We are also going to be making our own stained glass soon so keep an eye on our windows over the next few weeks. 

 

We would like to say a big thank you to Tom and Fran for taking time out of your days to share your stories with us.  Also thank you to all the parents who were able to join us for our trip. 

Library Trip

Today we went a walk to Kirkwall Library with Class 5/6. The weather was wild and windy but we still had lots of fun with our buddies. There were lots and lots of books to choose from and we enjoyed listening to the stories. When we got back to nursery we had a bit of snack and planned what we might like to do together in the coming weeks. Some suggestions were to play outside, play with the toys in the nursery, go for more walks, continue our underpants stories, do some painting, challenge each other to build and create, go to Muddisdale, have a party!

Keep an eye on the blog to see what we get up to next.

 

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

Thank you to all the families who helped us find materials to help us learn a bit about Fairtrade. 



We spent two weeks learning a little bit about what this means and the children really picked up on the theme of being fair.

We watched youtube clips about what fairtrade means and about where our chocolate comes from. 

Freddy and Flora

A day in the life of a cocoa farmer

We looked closely at the fairtrade logo.  One of our children described it as "The blue is the sky and the green is the fields.  The bit in the middle is the farmer."  Our peedie man below is demonstrating the farmer saying 'yes' just like in the logo because he is getting treated fairly. 

     

We had a look at different products to see if we could find out if they were fairtrade or not.

We wore our fairtrade stickers to remind us to have a look at home for fairtrade items and some of us brought in a few items for our friends to look at. 

We noticed that our bananas for snack were fairtrade. 

We went on a walk through the school to see if we could spot some of the fairtrade work that the bigger classes were doing. 

We create a chart of items that were fairtrade and ones that are not.  This led to some deep discussions about the types of food we have at home. 

We finished our week by baking some fairtrade chocolate chip and banana muffins. 

There is a display of all our learning from this week just above the caddie coat pegs at the entrance of the nursery.  You can find the recipe that we used in our baking up here as well as the children's thoughts on what they learned about fairtrade. 

World Book Day 2017

We have been celebrating World Book Day in Nursery Today with the children in Class 5/6. The older children read lots of the Underpants Stories to us and we had lots of ideas for making our own Underpants Story. We also got given our World Book Day tokens this week, these can be exchanged in the Orcadian Book Shop. The Nursery age books this year are:

Peppa Pig Loves World Book Day & Everyone loves Underpants by Claire Freedman

 More information about book day, resources and activities can be found at the

World Book Day Official Website

 

Photos of the Thursday Afternoon Children enjoying the underpants stories with Class 5/6

 

The Tiger who came to Tea.

Monsters Love Underpants

 

 

Aliens Love Underpants

Aliens Love Dinopants

Pirates Love Underpants

Dinosaurs Love Underpants