Posted: Monday 14 November 2011

A Shore thing

P5 Coast Visit 2

Primary Five have been working hard on their topic of ‘Coasts’ and recently took a trip to Lunderston Bay near Gourock to take a closer look at the shoreline.

P5 Coast Visit 1 On the shore Iain McDermott and Mairi Macrae from Hutchesons’ S6 led the session and explained coastal features such as; sea walls, erratic boulders, raised beach, storm beach, hard rock, soft rock, salt marsh and bay.

Stephanie Kerr and Douglas Oates also from S6 followed this with a very informative session about the creatures and plants living near the shore. They helped the children to use a key to discover the identity of the different seaweeds and shells found in the environment.

Afterwards, pupils had a scavenger hunt and solved some very tricky clues to find 10 different items on the beach. Even though it was pouring spirits were not dampened and a great day was had by all.

P5B and 5M also took the coastal discovery trip with Catriona Reid and Hannah Todd as their 6th years.

See more pictures in the Primary Five Gallery!

Tags: Biology, Geography, P5, School Trips