“The Enormous Turnip”

Classes Staffa and Jura invited their parents and grandparents into school for an open morning on Friday 15th February.

The highlight of the visit  was to watch the premier of  “The Enormous Turnip”.

All the pupils took part with great enthusiasm. Prior to the performance the children all read the story and made up a storyboard with audio for the audience to introduce the story, this was then shown on the large screen.

Then the fun began………………… Mark was the farmer and Amber was his wife. They told the story and each character was introduced in turn as they tried to pull out the turnip.

This was a great achievement for all the pupils and the open morning created an opportunity for them to become successful learners and confident individuals performing infront of a live audience.

Classes Whalsay and Tiree are continuing with their Science topic – Electricity.

This week they have been looking at renewable energy in more depth. The class split into 3 groups and rotated round 3 different work stations with various learning internions set out for the pupils to work through.

Mrs Clark, our Depute Head Teacher joined us for this lesson as it was part of our Science monitoring.

Listen to mAIRwaves FM from last week as the pupils discussed renewable energy and have a look at how they have now generalised this infomation into this weeks tasks.

Station 1 was the SMART Table
Learning Intentions
To review your knowledge of renewable energy
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can answer questions about renewable energy.
I can work with my peers to answer questions.

Station 2 was labelling images
Learning Intentions
To label the different types of renewable energy.
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can label 2 types of renewable energy.
I can work with my peers to label the renewable energy sources

Station 3 was building a wind turbine using lego/kinex
Learning Intentions
To design a wind turbine or solar panel using different materials.
To work as part of a group.
Success Criteria
I can build a wind turbine or a solar panel.
I can work with my peers to label the renewable energy sources..