This year as part of their science, Form 3 will be completing the John Muir Explorer Award. The same group of children completed the Discovery Award when they were in Form 5 and based their award studying the trees within the school grounds. This time, they will venture further affield and base their work at John Muir Country Park, looking at the plants and wildlife there, whilst conserving the area, by completing litter picks during the two terms. 

 

 

 

 

To start off their work, we visited the John Muir Birthplace in Dunbar to find out a little more about who John Muir was and what he did. The children explored the three floors of John Muir’s Birthplace and found out various facts about his life and his work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few things they found out:

 

John Muir liked to make funny noises to scare his friends

 

He used to eat raw eggs before running to stop getting a stitch

 

He was caught in a storm at the top of a mountain and danced the Highland Fling all night to keep warm

 

He lost the sight in one eye when a machine belt snapped ‘My right eye is gone …. Closed forever on God’s beauty’

 

He went camping with Theodore Roosevelt

 

He was able to read by the age of 3 – he learnt by reading the shop signs

 

He went on a 1000 mile walk

 

He was born in 1838 in Dunbar

 

He died in 1914 on Christmas Eve