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.
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