Glencoe 06

Glencoe Movies

2006-06-21T20:23:00-00:00

The children finished editing the Glencoe movie a couple of weeks ago, I have finally compressed it and divided it into sections to make it suitable for the website:
Glencoe Movies
The Primary Six children did all of the editing working in small groups, this took a lot of discussion and cooperation which they managed very well indeed.

Group Photo

2006-04-01T11:27:00-00:00

On the last day we paused for a group photo. some of the children wanted to take photos too, but we ran out of time.
If you want to print one you can use This 600 KB photo or click on the wee one above.

Home Again

2006-03-31T23:48:00-00:00

We are home and I guess 30 washing machines are doing overtime.
All the children had a great time and they were a credit to their families and school.
We were approached many times over the week and complimented on the children's behavior.

I've fixed the link to: Thursdays photos.
We have lots more and I hope the children will be using them to write reports after the holiday.

Thanks for all the comments which gave the trip an extra dimension.
I am off for a bath.

Thursday All sorts of things

2006-03-31T18:01:00-00:00

Scott, My favourite bit of today was the forrest walk, because you can get all mucky and wet, we got to jump into puddles and roll down hills.

Rhys E: I liked the forrest walk too. I kept jumping in the river with everyone else. We splashed mud all over ourselves. At the end we climbed through a tunnel which a stream was going through. It was freezing and I slide right through it!!!

Kieran: I like orienteering 2, because we got to run about in the forest and stamp the sheet.

Kayleigh: today we had fun we went through the woods trying to find a lot of stamps. After we came back we played games around the centre, 'electric fence' and 'spiders web' we learnt about teamwork.

Declan: I like the archery because you used the bulleye. I drew a Mr Johnston Monster and we used it as a target. I hit him on the toe. Kieran hit him on the leg and Gemma killed the monster with a shot to the heart.

Callum: We and Jamie slid down the mudbath, and we walked through rivers. We fell hundreds of times I enjoyed the forrest walk.

Emily: We had to walk through water and mud that was rotten! My favourite bit was when had to pop the balloons with a bowe and arrow, if we popped a balloon we got a lollypop.

Stephanie: My best bit was "How do you do that". We got to play games. In one game there were two planks there were rope loops to put your feet in. Enough for eight people. We had to try and walk. You had to say 1,2, 3 lift and lift one plank all together. We walked across the grass, we all had to cooperate, my group worked well together.
Stephanie's tooth fell out and the tooth fairy came!

Bryan went to archery today he says he liked it because you need to try and hit the target to win a 'holiday' Bryan missed so he went nowhere.

Kimberly: Today I went and did the forrest walk and did well not to fall, we went to archery and I hit two balloons in a row and got 10 bonus points. Then we went orienteering 2. I feel the whole day was really good and fun.
A few of Thursdays photos

Climbing Wall

2006-03-29T20:33:00-00:00

Ewan: I had a lot of negative thoughts at the top because one of my legs was hanging off and I couldn't really reach the top. I felt relieved when I got to the top.

Ashley: I was half way up and I could not get my foot onto a bit. I couldn't move, so Shannon helped pull me down. I was scared but I would go again.
Lee: I was jumping on walls, becase we were rock climbing. You need a helemt and harness. I got up to the top twice, it was excellent, although I was a wee bit scared.
Toni: I was rock climbing too, we had a practice on a wee wall, then we had a race on a medium wall, boys verus girls, the boys won.
We went into the bigger wall and I went to the top. I had butterflies but I didn't look down.
Bryan: nearly everybody reached the top of the big wall when we raced up.
A Few of Wednesday's photos

Sea Life Centre Wednesday

2006-03-29T20:15:00-00:00

Gemma and Stephanine: We fed the sharks, and we went into a fluorescent room and if you were wearing white it would glow blue. We saw spider crabs in a tube tank. We went down to the beach and had to collect sea creatures, Gemma found a star fish, we saw anenoimie, when you pick them up they went like a stone, but when you put them in the water they went all fluffy.

Natasha: We saw two otters, the both stood up on a rock then ran into the water. The otters were eating chicken and fish.

Kieran B: The best thing was feeding the sharks, we fed them squid and Bradley was throwing the squid about to feed the sharks.

Daniel: I saw massive crabs which can grow to the size of a minibus. I bought a crystal in the shop.

Tuesday Sea Life Centre

2006-03-28T19:45:00-00:00

Toni: I found a mermaid's purse, this is a dogfish egg with a baby shark in it. I thought was a baby fish. Jamie (who works in the saline centre) said it was dead, but he needed to report it to the Shark Conservation Trust.

Kimberley: We also saw a mermaid's purse in the shark tank. Jamie said they take the purses out of the tank and put them in another tanks to hatch.

We were feeding shark with squid (it was all slimy) and shrimp. The sharks were not too massive.

Megan & Toni: We went to the gift shop to.
We saw otters that were brother and sister, Fingle and Sula they were standing on rocks and swimming under water.
We saw seals that had been left by there mum. The young were going to be let back into the wild when they can look after themselves.
There was 2 older seals Lorn and Giha, there were too dependent on humans to be released.

Brian say we got to go the gift shop, I bough sharks teeth and volcanic rock, we got to feed the sharks and saw a load of fish.
We went to the beech and got to find our own animals and fish; crabs, eels, starfish, plant and stones.

Rhys E. We fed the sharks, they almost bit Bryan's hand. I bought 1 crystal in the shop to go with the ones I have found in Glencoe.

Photos from Tuesday
I am only going to put a few photos on each day, lots more will appear when we get back.

Tuesday Skiing

2006-03-28T19:34:00-00:00

Karen: we went skiing at the Nevis Range. I fell a lot it was really slidy we were wrapped up a lot. We enjoyed it even though it was cold.

Kayleigh, skiing was fun but difficult, I would like to do it again even though I don't like heights. I was scared in the gondola going up the mountain.

Declan, Sking was great and I fell all the time. I got better and better as the day went on. I was singing 'you fell over, you fell over' when Mr Johnston fell.

Gemma: First we learned how to ski on a gentle slope, then after lunch we went on a dry slope which had some snow on it. We up the slope on a wee swing and then skied down.

Stephanie says, we went skiing and it was good we had lots of fun, I was good at skiing, I'd like to ski again.

Megan skied like a professional skier, she really got the hang of it very quickly.
Jay, Stephanie and Gemma were great too.

Nicole: I wenk skiing and did a rollipolli and both my skis fell off. I would like to go back again.

Bradley says, Last night I had soup, fish, potatoes and ice cream. For Breakfast I had cereal and toast. For lunch I has roll and ham.

Monday Night

2006-03-28T07:56:00-00:00

Last night we walked along to the Glencoe Memorial, the children sang the Ballad of Glencoe beautifully, we are very proud of them.
It was a warm night even though we can see some snow on the hills, the scenery is lovely and the night was very quiet compared to Glasgow.
The children have slept well and are looking forward to an exciting day.
You can see some more of mondays photos Monday Photos.
Our internet connection is slow here, so I'll keep most of the photos until I get back.

We have arrived

2006-03-27T19:41:00-00:00

We have arrived safe and sound and already had lunch, an activity and dinner!
I will try and put some pictures here : Glencoe Gallery.
Leave a comment here and I will let the children know tomorrow night what you say.

The Children are all having a great time, most are too busy to talk to me, here is what they have been saying:
Bradley: Me and Declan have been playing fun games, one of the games we had to get balls through gutters, we will get a sweet because we got it round a whole hexagon. Mum I am fine.

Ewan and Tony: we had a wee tour round the centre, the we did some orienteering round the house. We worked with Anna we used maps and compasses to find our way about. We had to find posts with different patterns to stamp our paper. We are having a good time at Glencoe.

Karen: We played a game where we all put our feet in loops on a plank and had to walk, it was hard because there was lots of people we had to communicate to work together. We played another game where we went in a big square, there was a bomb in it(not a real one) we had to get the bomb out of the square without it touching the ground. We tied ropes onto a circle ring to hook bomb. We managed to get the bomb out after a few tries.

Ashley & Shannon and : Our group did archery, first we practiced shooting at the target with sponge behind (so it was easy to pull out the arrows).
Then we had to shoot the balloons, but no one hit a balloon.

Megan D says hi mum I hope you not missing me to much, I am having a good time.

Kimbery says: Hi mum, Dad and Gran, I am fine we have arrived at Glencoe we are having a wonderful time, tomorrow my group is going to the Sea life centre. See you soon.

Declan: Mum and Dad we have a nice room and a lot of sweeties.

Natasha and Kayleigh: Our group went on a forest walk. It was very muddy and wet, we walked up a stream. We saw old fallen down houses.

Natasha: We walked up a muddy path, I fell down and crawled up, Peter told us to camouflage ourselves we got balls of mud and put it over our faces.
Kayleigh: I didn't like it and everybody tried to put mud on my face.
We had a great day so far tomorrow e are going skiing.
Kayleigh says hi to mum and Alexander.
Natasha says hello to mum and dad.

Glencoe Test

2006-03-25T16:30:00-00:00

This is a test of the new Glencoe Weblog.
I don't know if anything will be put here, depends on an internet connection in Glencoe.