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Christmas Jumper Box Swap

11/26/2021

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Our Christmas Jumper Swap Box area is ready, and will be open from Monday 29th November until the end of term. If you have any old Christmas jumpers that you want rid of, please donate them to our box. If you fancy a change of jumper, have a rummage in our box. We ask that you use hand sanitiser before having a rummage, and that only one person at a time in the school entrance (two if from the same household). No monetary donations are being asked for. We also cannot guarantee availability of jumpers or sizes. ​


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Pop Up Science Museum at Westray School!

11/3/2017

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Overnight, a science museum popped up in our school! 

There had been a murder, and we had to use Science to solve who done it. There was also loads of weird experiments to do. And all the older kids had done investigations themselves and they were telling us about it. We really liked Drew's about farming and what sorts of chemicals are in cattle feed. Kyle had made a little car that actually moved! It looked really hard to put together. 
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Fair Trade Fortnight

3/12/2017

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As part of our chocolate taster session we needed some way of recognising what was popular chocolate or not. We did this by having an evaluation slip which was made by S1 pupils.  It featured questions like “what did it smell like?” and “did you enjoy it?” These questions were based on Divine Chocolates’ professional instructions on how to sample chocolate.We also created a chocolate bar made out of cardboard for a wall display. We spent lots of time creating and researching facts so that people could read them as they picked up their kids from Nursery, or for primary pupils to read as they leave their classrooms.

As part of Fairtrade fortnight 2017 we had a chocolate tasting day with the primary pupils. Jack Owen created a lovely booklet for the Nursery and Lower Primary pupils on Fairtrade. He explained about what Fairtrade is and how it works.  He also explained about the Fairtrade symbol.There were 6 different types of Divine Fairtrade chocolate on offer, such as milk chocolate with toffee and sea salt, 85% dark chocolate, 70% dark chocolate with raspberries, 70% dark chocolate, white chocolate with strawberries, and milk chocolate.  All of the primary children enjoyed the event and they liked most of the chocolate too.

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We researched lots of different facts about bananas, tea, coffee, farmers, chocolate, and other Fair Trade products.  We used speech bubbles as if the farmers in the pictures were telling us facts.We needed a name for the chocolate bar on the display so we ran a competition and we had two names that we couldn’t decide between so we merged them together, so Ben and Elsie’s name won.  Ben’s name was Swirly Whirly and Elsie’s name was Delight.  So “Swirly Whirly Delight” was the name. 
By Jack, Aida, Jessie, Magnus and Andrew in S1/2
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