Ness Battery

We visited Ness Battery in Stromness to find out about how Scapa Flow was defended 

during World War 2.

Thanks to Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership and Stromness Tours for a great visit.
When we came back we designed our own tourist leaflets using the
Stromness Tours flyer as a starting point and the Ness Battery website to check our facts were accurate and correct.

Here are a few sample pages:

BBC School Report Broadcast Day!

The BBC School Report team 2012

Our BBC School Report Broadcast is now live on our dedicated blog: BBC School Report at Glaitness 2012. Please visit and see our broadcast which is in three parts. Or find us on the map on BBC School Report webpage.

World War 2 radio play

We have finished our radio play and it is now on our wiki.

Listen here.

BBC School Report

We are busy gathering and writing news for our BBC School Report broadcast on March 15th. Please make sure you are tuned to our dedicated blog at BBC School Report at Glaitness 2012.

The Olympics interviewers.

The new swimming pool interviewers.

The marine litter reporting team meet Mr Ian Harcus to find out about the 'Fishing for Litter' project.

Read All About It!

Our World War 2 topic we have been creating the front pages of newspapers for the year 1940. We have used a lot of the information we have learned about the Home Front. Many of the campaigns were about recycling and reusing and being more self sufficient, reducing food miles. These are familiar ideas to us today but we have found out that they are not new at all!

The Daily Post

The Eagle Times

The UK Herald

Stromness street walk and museum visit

We went to Stromness to see the street which has not changed much since the days of John Rae.

There are plenty of plaques on the buildings to show places that were important in the days of sail, when tall ships filled their ships with fresh water from Login's Well and the cannon fired as ships left and arrived from Hudson's Bay.

Thank you to Stromness museum for letting us gather information and to Stromness Primary School for welcoming us into their dining hall and playground.