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K and his family have been busy creating a journey stick to make memories of the adventure which they went on and also using their skills to create a map of Portencross.

The Smyth Family explored the beautiful surroundings of the Lynn Glen in Dalry. They explored the Fairy Trail and encountered some stunning waterfalls. What a wonderful experience!

The Wey has been key to human industry along its route. Water provided power for centuries. Sadly, not much remains. I wonder if there were two water mills running here as there are two channels - what do you think?

5 miles (3.30 -7.00pm). Another nearby, fairly short walk as the weather was atrocious in the morning. It actually turned out to be gorgeous - not too cold, not too windy - which was important because we got high! We walked through Rowarth and up really high so we could see in all directions for miles. We then went over the top and steeply down in to another valley and through on to the Penine Bridleway on Matley Moor. We had beautiful views all the way! We saw loads of the same sort of things we did last time but also some new. Trees we saw: Ash, Hawthorn, Beech, Birch, Holly, Hazel, Common Alder, Oak (we needed to ID which type of oak when we got home) Willow (?) Elder, Sycamore, Rowan, Goat Willow. Birds we saw: Robin, Blackbird, Sparrow, Magpie, House Martin (we looked this up to make sure), Pheasant, Pidgeon, Sky Larks (by sound rather than sight), Canada Goose, Turn and Great Tit.

We did some tree and bird ID. From our photos we identified an oak tree (which wasn't out in leaf yet so we had to take photos of the buds) and Common Alder - which none of us knew before. Finn was adamant it wasn't a hazel and when we got home and compared the images we discovered that it wasn't - it was a Common Alder! Our sound recording weren't amazing because it was raining (the sound of rain itself and rain on an umbrella drowned out the sound of birds on a lot of our recordings) and we were standing close to a stream for a lot of the walk but we did manage to identified some of the birds we couldn't see but could hear as a blackbird a robin and lots of chiff chaff sounds!

Primary 7 has shared news of their John Muir Award efforts through our newspaper today with this fantastic photograph taken from the top of Dunan Hill. We are now focusing on completing our award and sharing this further with our families and the rest of our school. Now is time also to reflect and begin thinking about what what the award has meant, and what we have learned about ourselves and our beautiful outdoor spaces.