Today Primary 4 had a fantastic experience when we contacted Bishop Darren McCartney who lives in Iqaluit, Frigid. He is a bishop of the Diocese of The Arctic! This was a superb opportunity for our Primary 4 children to learn more about the Arctic, a topic we are studing in World Around Us. We prepared questions and had an opportunity to ask a few to the Bishop. We learnt how people mainly travel by ski-doo to get around (or plane for longer journeys). We also learnt that Polar Bears are extremely dangerous and that they even hunt humans!
The pupils and teachers loved being able to see what the Arctic actually looks like as Bishop McCartney took us outside his home to see around,in the -24 degree temperature!
We would like to say a huge thankyou to the Reverend Martin for getting in touch with his friend, Bishop McCartney, and organising this. We also want to thank the Bishop McCartney for giving us his time, and we must thank Mr Somerville for being able to set all this up over the internet!
Click the 'read more' link to see some pictures of our internet call
