Scone Steigen Nature Project

An @erasmusplusuk school project between @RDMScone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Steigenskolen Nordfold 🇳🇴 , focusing on outdoors, nature & learning for sustainability

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As travel between Scone & Steigen is pretty complicated, we had necessary (and enjoyable) stops in Bodø and overnight in Bergen on the way home from our week-long exchange visit allowing us to get a wider flavour of Norwegian life. #ErasmusPlus #KA229

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Pupils from Nordfold Skole and @RDMScone camped out at the spectacular Brennvika in Leines on Tuesday after a full day of scenic walks looking at local geology and plant life. The backdrop for a friendly football game couldn’t have been better! #erasmusplus

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Pupils from Steigen and Scone had an interesting day finding out about the ways of life in a Norwegian village. We saw a community sawmill in action, linked to each home in the village also having two acres of woodland. #erasmusplus @RDMScone @perthacademy

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Following our day of outdoor learning, we’re enjoying some Scotland v Norway (by accident) football before we cook dinner outside and camp together. #erasmusplus

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12 pupils from @RDMScone, @perthacademy & St John’s Academy are visiting our partner school for a week in Northern Norway 🇳🇴 We are exploring geology and plant life around the beach at Brennvika in Steigen today.

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As part of our sharing of the project with a wider teacher audience, we were presenting our project and its impact so far at #PedagooPerth this morning. Good to have @RDMScone & @perthacademy pupils all involved. #ErasmusPlus

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Alix gave an enthralling insight into the history of the 11 Norwegians who undertook a daring 4-month mission to stop heavy water being produced in Telemark in WW2. We had a go at lifting her kit bag from her team expedition in Feb ‘22.

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What a fascinating and inspiring visit from @MackayAlix telling our Norway Club at @rdmscone about the history of the Norway-UK collaboration in the Heroes of Telemark and her own adventure recreating it with @ForcesWivesChal #ErasmusPlus @Norw_Scot_News

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We are really looking forward to welcoming @MackayAlix to our Norway Club meeting tonight. P7 and S1/2 pupils from @perthacademy will be hearing all about the Forces' Wives Challenge ladies who recreated the 'Heroes of Telemark' journey, skiing across Hardangervidda in Norway

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Today we were delighted to have a fascinating visit from Åshild Sande from Norsk Sjømannskirken (Norwegian Seaman’s Church) in Aberdeen. She told us about her important work looking after the welfare of sailors and marine workers around Scotland’s ports. #ErasmusPlus

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Today, Norway Club P7 pupils at @RDMScone led a presentation at assembly that they had researched about Scotland & Norway’s connections during WW2, including about the Shetland ‘Bus’. Well done on all your research. #RemembranceDay @PaMemorial

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@pgkepfidra @PaMemorial @cwg @NorwayinUK @RDMScone Sorry for delay. I’ve done that now. You can also email fboyd @pkc.gov.uk (space inserted to avoid spam)

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Our P7 Norway Club members have been busy researching the connections between Scotland and Norway in WW2 for our school’s #RemembranceDay assembly later this month. #ErasmusPlus @PaMemorial

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@pgkepfidra @PaMemorial @cwg @NorwayinUK Hi there. We'd be very interested in finding out more about this. Please could you message us via our school @rdmscone account?

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We are delighted to see this newspaper coverage from @thecourieruk about our joint #ErasmusPlus funded visit that took place last week. @erasmusplusUK https://t.co/IHRBu8B8CZ

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Our wonderful week of learning together is coming to an end as our Norwegian guests prepare to travel back home tomorrow (Monday). We ended with a barbecue and reflective time following our canal trip and Kelpies visit today. #ErasmusPlus @erasmusplusUK

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Today our Norwegian visitors started thinking about how our schools could add more to our project in our extra year working together. We visited @DiscoveryDundee and had a great time learning about Scotland and Norway’s shared history of polar exploration. #ErasmusPlus

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@Holyrood_MLangs @HolyroodSec Hope you have a great experience together. We are loving having our Norwegian partner school here in Scone just now.

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We ended the day with a Ceilidh for everyone, including parents, siblings and staff. There was a lot of Scottish country dancing, singing, food and friendships being further strengthened between the pupils. #ErasmusPlus @RDMScone

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Today we shared a big part of our #ErasmusPlus project between Scottish and Norwegian pupils and teacher. After the Norwegians had been to P1 & P3 to read stories in English to pupils, the joined P7 peers to build shelters in a joint #outdoorlearning lesson. @RDMScone