On the week commencing the 11th – 15 May we went
out with Rachel Avery. This was for S4 and 5th years who was not
doing exams. At the end the week doing the outdoor Edinburgh we got a John
Muir Award certificate.
On Monday 11th May we walked from Currie to the
visitor centre at Slateford along the Water Of Leith. We all had a lovely time
walking along there and enjoyed the lovely sounds and the pretty flowers and
trees while we were walking along. We tasted some wild foods and we saw a heron
the in river. We all played pooh sticks. Some people hadn’t played it before
but some had. It was also great fun!
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| The heron |
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| Team photo by the place we tried to skim stones - Mr Ingham is an expert! |
On Tuesday 12
th May we went to the Botanic Gardens. We went to the glass house and the Chinese Gardens. We saw some beautiful plants and flowers while we were there and we did a bit of drawing there too which was really good fun!
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| In the glasshouses |
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| Some sketching using oil pastels with Mrs Richardson |
On Wednesday 13
th May we went to the Pentland hills. We were asked by the ranger to put wood chippings on the Juniper trees. We had to push 4 wheel barrows and 4 spades up a big hill where the juniper trees were. After we pushed the wheel barrows and spades up the big hill we had to go and find out where the wood chippings were kept. When we had found the wood chippings we had to put it in the wheel barrows and put the wood chippings around the juniper trees to help them grow. After we had done that we found a lovely picnic spot and had our lunch there.
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| At Harlaw Reservoir |
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| Pusing the wheelbarrows through the fields... |
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| ...and down steep slopes! |
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| Collecting the chippings |
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| The newly planted juniper trees with a mulch of chippings to help them grow |
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| Our school!! |
On Thursday 14
th May we went to Jupiter Artland to see the wonderful art there and learn more about the artists.
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| This was one of our favourites: Suck by Anish Kapoor |
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| Weeping girls by Laura Ford |
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| Stone coppice by Andy Goldsworthy |
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| Exploring the amazing life mounds by Charles Jencks |
On Friday 15th May we were in school
writing up what we did. Some people did a power point and others did a poster. We presented our experiences to lots of staff at
lunchtime on Wednesday 27 May as the Share part of our John Muir Award.
by Eden Anderson S5
