Plockton Primary School — Pupils Report
Welcome to the Plockton Primary School web pages. We are very pleased to be a part of plockton.com and this reflects the close relationship between the school and its community. The purpose of these pages is to tell you about the work and activities of the school. Roughly once a month we will present some short pieces about the life of the school.
We hope you enjoy these web pages, for year 2009–10.
Niall MacKinnon, Head Teacher
On Wednesday the 11th of November we went to Dornie Hall. We made some shortbread for Year of Homecoming. Sheila helped us. We used butter, sugar and flour. This is how we did it:
First we put in the butter and the sugar in the bowl and we mixed it up. Then we rolled it out. After that we cut shapes out with cutters. Next we put them on a baking tray and we poked them with a fork. Finally we put them in the oven.
Fantastic
DELICOUS!
Everybody loved them.
Diciadain chaidh clas 4–7 gu talla Dornie airson cocaireachd. Chaidh sinn oir s’e Bliadhna Tilleadh Dhachaigh a bh’ann. Dh’fhag sinn an sgoil aig deich gu naoidh is chaidh mise, Chris, Matthew, Megan, Abby, Laura, Rebbekkah is Brìghde ann an Minibus. Chaidh Alasdair agus Finlay ann an càr Mr Mackinnon. Bha sinn uile a’ coimhead air adhart dhan an gnìomhachd seo.
Aig deich as deidh naoi rainig sinn an talla is bha boireanach a’ feitheamh leis an t-ainm Shelia.
“Nis a-huile daoine an diugh tha sinn dol a’ dheanamh aran goirid” thuirt ì.
Chaidh sinn a-steach dhan talla is chuir sinn àr còta is bagaichean ann. An uair sin chaidh sinn dhan cidsin is nigh sinn ar làmhan. As dè sin fhuair sinn ìm, siucar, bobhla, aparan is gearar.
“Nis measgaich an siucar is ìm gus am bith e aotrom” thuirt Shelia. Thoisich sinn a’ measgachadh na dha. As dè sin rinn sinn bàlla a-mach as am measgachadh. An-uair sin ghearr sinn a mach iad ann an cruthan agus chuir sinn iad dhan abhainn.
Math fhein.
BLASDA
Chord iad ris a h-uile duine.
One day a couple of weeks ago there was a concert. We had to sing Taladh Eirisgeach and Mairi’s Wedding and then the instrumental. We went to the concert at 6:30pm and there was loads of performances and they were all good. We were fourth or fifth school on. The S1s did a dance called the Canadian Barn Dance and the S1 and S2s sang a song and that was good. There was a break and then the whole concert finished at 9:45pm. It was good.
In the morning we went into the greenhouse with Bob to harvest our vegetables. We harvested carrots, leeks and tomatoes. We all washed them in a bucket of water. Andrew had the funniest carrot. After we picked the vegetables we went to the canteen to make soup with the vegetables. Una helped us. I chopped leeks and peeled potatoes. We are going to have the soup before lunch this afternoon.
Today we went to the greenhouse with Bob. First of all we picked some tomatoes then talked about onions. Then we went outside to pick some leeks and then washed them. We also picked some corn on the cob. We picked carrots and had a contest to see whose carrot was funniest and Andrew won. We also went over to the canteen with Una. We chopped leeks and cut them in half and then washed them. We peeled tatties and washed them as well. The cooking was forty minutes long but it only felt like five and it was interesting as well.
On the 2nd of September I went on board the Silurian a boat owned by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin trust.
We left the school at 9.15 am and began to walk to the main pier. When we reached the pier there were four people leaning by the handrails. There was one woman and three men. "Good morning everyone. Today we are going to go aboard the Silurian. The Silurian is owned by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin trust based in Tobermory," said Gemma.
After talking and getting our life jackets on we boarded the vessel and went into the lounge. “It looks like a pub!" my sister said as there were high up seats. Shortly we began to play a game that involved your names. You had to say your name and the name of a sea creature that starts with the first letter of your name. I was Cameron the Crocodile. When we finished that game we did a treasure hunt for parts of the boat.
After playing games we then learnt how to alert people if you see anything and we heard the sounds of whales. We then got to see Crabs, Starfish and a Dogfish. There were seven different species of crabs. The Velvet Crab, Hermit Crab, Swimming Velvet Crab, Edible Crab, Square Crab and Langoustines. We then moved on and saw Starfish. My favourite one was the Bloody Henry. After seeing the Starfish and Crabs we saw a dogfish it was incredible!!! If you stroked it from head to tail it was lovely and soft but if you stroked it from tail to head it was rough like sandpaper.
At the end we wrote information about Silurian for their blog and which is up at this moment on their web site.
For more info about the Silurian go to www.whaledolphintrust.co.uk
This is Rowan and Finlay looking up at the crow’s nest. It is very high up. We had a great visit.
Every week on a Friday I do German with Carina for half an hour. Usually I play a German computer game called Freddy the Fox; it’s to learn German grammar. Since I have been doing German I have been talking and writing about my family, animals and town and village.
