Welcome to Skipi Geo!
Posted: Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
Welcome to our blog page! We are class five at Dounby Community School. Last month we started the John Muir Award and are studying Skipi Geo (SG) in Birsay as our Wild Place.
Last month we visited SG to look at the site. What a day we had. First, the bus broke down. Donald the janitor had to try and pull us out of the mud and guess what, HE got stuck too.
There is a hut and a well and lots of nousts. A noust (you say it noost) is a hole in the ground that the fishermen used to put their boats in the winter.
We went back and did a beach clean. We collected eighteen bags of rubbish that the community council is going to sponsor us for collecting and...a BMW engine that we've taken back to the school. See Lee's drawing!
A WILD PLACE IS...
when you are in a forest or in a cave and you see animals or wild things. Mark
lots of animals but not many houses. Cody
lots of forests and trees and lakes and animals. Kelly-anne
burns, trees, animals. Chris
THE HUT is dark inside, in winter it's wet and cold. The fishermen used it to store their nets and fishing lines. There's one window to see with, a few years ago the hut got grass for its roof.
BOAT NOUSTS - The boat nousts were used for storing boats. They're muddy and grassy and stony. They were used a very long time ago. Samantha
STEPS AND WELL - The steps are slippy, they are used to climb the cliff edge and they're grassy. The well was used for the village to get water. There was an earthquake and there was a crack and water came out and water is still coming out of it.
Last month we visited SG to look at the site. What a day we had. First, the bus broke down. Donald the janitor had to try and pull us out of the mud and guess what, HE got stuck too.
There is a hut and a well and lots of nousts. A noust (you say it noost) is a hole in the ground that the fishermen used to put their boats in the winter.
We went back and did a beach clean. We collected eighteen bags of rubbish that the community council is going to sponsor us for collecting and...a BMW engine that we've taken back to the school. See Lee's drawing!
A WILD PLACE IS...
when you are in a forest or in a cave and you see animals or wild things. Mark
lots of animals but not many houses. Cody
lots of forests and trees and lakes and animals. Kelly-anne
burns, trees, animals. Chris
THE HUT is dark inside, in winter it's wet and cold. The fishermen used it to store their nets and fishing lines. There's one window to see with, a few years ago the hut got grass for its roof.
BOAT NOUSTS - The boat nousts were used for storing boats. They're muddy and grassy and stony. They were used a very long time ago. Samantha
STEPS AND WELL - The steps are slippy, they are used to climb the cliff edge and they're grassy. The well was used for the village to get water. There was an earthquake and there was a crack and water came out and water is still coming out of it.
Comments
Hello, Welcome to Island Blogging!
Anne from IBHQ
Hi, can you let me know what the " John Muir Award " is? Good luck with your endeavours, whatever they may be ....
Thewhitesettler from Lewis
Glad that you and Donald got out of the mud in the end. Good luck.
Annie B from Lewis
Thanks for your enquiry. Go to www.johnmuiraward.org or www.jma.org These will give you the background.
Thewhitesettler from Lewis
I'm a schoolreacher and also teach 5th class in our school. Very interesting, keep on blogging. The Norwegian word for noust or noost is naust, in fact the same word. Me and my neighbor are building a "naust".
Dag from Norway
It is great to see you all getting stuck into discovering, exploring and taking responsibility for your wild place. It looks like you are making a real difference to Skipi Geo and having alot of fun too! What a fantastic way to share your experiences through a blogg. Keep up the good work. Toby "Do something for wildness and make the mountains glad." John Muir
Toby Clark from John Muir Award Office, Glasgow
That sounds like great fun - I wish I were still in class five. Hope you all enjoy working towards your John Muir Award.
Alison from Blairgowrie
Brilliant! What a great way to share your experiences. I'm going to suggest this to the schools I work with. Well done and enjoy the rest of your John Muir Award!
Alan Smith from John Muir Award office in the Cairngorms
Glad to see you've been out "Bagging the Bruck" It's a pity that there's a need for the environment to be cleaned up. Someone's very untidy! I love your definitions of wild places - trees & forests - especially as you don't have many trees in Orkney. I hope that the Big Tree in Kirkwall is surviving still. I'm fortunate in that I live near to Sherwood Forest and can walk in the woods regularly. That said, I still love Orkney - and all things Orcadian.
Ron Young from Whitwell, Derbyshire
You have don a very good gob at cleaning up the banks and hut. good gob grant.
grant from orkeny
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