Past Projects and Activities
Class 7 John Muir Award
Primary
7 pupils have completed the John Muir Discovery Level Award. To
see photos and download a leaflet that they have produced go to the John Muir webpage.
Class 5 Recycling Raps
Class 5 have produced raps about
recycling rubbish. Click
on the
following links to hear them.
Global
Freeze by Andrew, Robin, John |
RRR
Rap by Ruth, Camron, Ewan |
JJJ
Rap by Jack, James, Jeff |
Rubbish
Rap by Becky, Kirsty, Sadie |
JMMD
Rap by Marcus, Jamie |
Rubbish
is Rubbish Rap by Robert, Fergus |
Litter
Rap by Kayleigh, Julia |
Rubbish
will be Rubbish Rap by Roxy, Karin |
Little
Rubbish Rap by Emma, Jessica |
Scrumptious
Rubbish Rap by Chloe, Leanne |
Recycling
Rap by Robbie, Owen |
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Class 4 Orkney Rap
Class 4 have produced a rap based
upon a poem that they wrote about Orkney. Click on one of the
following links to hear the rap, using Quicktime if you have a Mac or
Windows Media Player if you have a PC.
A Rap about Orkney
(Quicktime version)
A
Rap about Orkney (Windows Media Player version)
Class 7M WWII Radio Play
Class 7M have produced a radio
play which tells the
story of a family during the blitz of WWII. Click on one of the
following links to hear the play, using Quicktime if you have a Mac or
Windows Media Player if you have a PC.
WWII Radio Play
(Quicktime version)
WWII Radio Play
(Windows Media Player version)
Class 4 Ancient Greek Feast
Class 4 celebrated their Ancient
Greek Topic
with a feast in the classroom. They dressed up in Greek
costumes
and tried different food and drink from the period. Here is a
taste of how they got on in the form of a video. Click below
to
download it.
Ancient
Greek Feast
If you don't have Quicktime it can be downloaded by clicking here.
Download
Quicktime
Otherwise go to Class 4 Blog
to view the video without the need of a player.
Class 11 Radio Play
Class 11 have produced a radio
play about the
life of a family in World War II. Click the file below if you
would like to download it in high quality ipod format (available within
the Orkney schools network)
World
war II - Radio Play (m4a)
Click the following link to listen to an mp3 version (not available in
school)
World war II -
Radio Play (mp3)
Video Conferencing with South
America
Class 9 (Primary 6/7) have been using a programme called Marratech to
video conference with a pupil who is out in South America with his mum
for 3 months. Here is a picture that we took while
conferencing
with him in the music room.
Red Nose Day
Here is the Primary 6/7 Band made
up of pupils
from Class 9 and 11 playing Make Someone Happy for the upper school to
sing during the Red Nose Day celebrations
Band
- Make Someone Happy
Upper
School - Make Someone Happy
Here is Class 6 (Prmary 5) and
Class 11
(Primary 7) singing the Red Nose Day Song, Make Someone Happy, in their
music class on Friday 16th March.
Class
6 - Make Someone Happy
Class
11 - Make Someone Happy
Class 4 - The Fishing Trip
Animation
As part of Class 4's Early
Settlers history
topic and as part of the IT program, class 4 have produced an animation
based upon research undertaken on their visit to the Skara Brae village.
Click here to view the animation - The
Fishing Trip
Class 11 - Twelve Green Days of
Christmas
Click on either of the audio files
below to
hear Class 11 singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas according to WWF.
12 suggestions for helping to sustain our planet.
mp3 version of
Twelve Green Days
m4a version of
Twelve Green Days (ipod compatible)
Music: Traditional
Lyrics: C Jones; Arr. M Farrow, R McNeil, K Uden
Class 11 - Percussion Pieces
Here are Class 11's percussion
compositions created on the theme of Sustainability. Click
below to view the videos:
Class 9 and 11 - News for the
Future
Class 11 pupils are in the process of developing news articles for a
web site in the future, imagining how climate change might have
affected us in 20 years time.
You will be able to click on the following links to view their pages,
as soon as they come online. At present they are still under
development, but watch this space.
You will need
Adobe's
Acrobat Reader to download the files. Click on the link at
the
bottom.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Class 6 - Energy Song
As part of their Electricity
Project last
term, Class 6 made up a song about energy, and recorded it.
Click
on the following link to hear it and sing along - Energy Song
Make a Difference
Last year's P7 pupils produced web pages to raise awarenes of the
eco-issues that the school is focusing on. Click the
following
link to view the Make a
Difference web pages.
P5 Radio Play - Assipattle
You can now listen to the radio play that
Primary
5 pupils recorded last year when they were in P4 by clicking on the
following link - Glaitness
Edublogs site
P4 Animations
See Primary 4's latest Space Animation - Alien
Adventures, by clicking on the following link - Glaitness Edublogs site
P7 Nethybridge Trip
Primary
7 have returned from a week of outdoor
activities at Nethybridge. We wrote a blog about our
trip and included
an audio/video diary each day. You can view this by clicking
on the
following link - Glaitness Edublogs site
Primary 6/5
Visit
to Scarecrow Festival
School Contact Details
Head Teacher: Mrs Valerie
Bleakley
Pickaquoy Road,
Kirkwall,
Orkney,
KW15 1RP
Tel: 01856 873648
Fax: 01856 878868
Email: admin.glaitness@glow.orkneyschools.org.uk
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