Monthly Archives: January 2018

WEEK 3 – PRIMARY 1 – LEARNING (B)LOG

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This week we have enjoyed writing using Viking Runes, playing in the galley boat, making clay Viking Longhouses, watching ‘Gudrun: The Viking Princess’ and drawing and painting Viking people.

 

We have been learning about length and measurement, practising all the phonics we have learned so far, making a toy with Mr Rose which required elastic energy and sharing storysacks with the secondary pupils.

Finally, today we held our toy sale in class.  We were really busy organising for the sale and helping set up the class with assistance from Primary 6.  The sale was a huge success and we raised £132.20.

Our week!

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This week primary 7 went to Mrs Mercer’s room with secondary 3 to make a questionair about social media, also primary 6 are carrying on with their EU topic with Mr Balfour for the competition in Lerwick. Primary 3-7 got new equipment to play with outside, we all really enjoy playing with it. Both primary 6-7 Learned about personification and write little paragraphs with personification. This week was primary 7 last week doing STEM with Emma Chittick. We made movies of our robots programmed to do what we like then edited them on computers.

by Yelena

 

Our busy week !

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This week Primary 6 and 7 started writing an imaginative story about Big Ben. The primary science teacher came in and helped us carry on with Living Things topic. Primary 6 started learning about the European Union because there is a competition in Lerwick in February. While Primary 6 were learning about the EU Primary 7 did Robitics with Emma Chitick. We had to program our robots to do certain things like pick up a toy block. This week the Primary Department got a new climbing frame and we feel everyone really enjoys it. We also started our new play called Suspicion (Suspeesion in dialect) by Marsali Taylor which we will be performing at the Drama Festival !!

We feel that this week has been lots of fun and action packed !

By Sadie and Yelena

NEW YEAR & NEW TERM FOR P1

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Happy New Year everybody!  We were all excited coming back to school and it was super to hear everybody’s Christmas news.

We learned a new sound – ‘x’ and played a game where we had to guess the animal x-ray.  We also learned about symmetry and created symmetrical pictures.

We started our mini topic of ‘Up Helly Aas in Shetland’ and have really enjoyed playing in our galley shed with wood, construction toys, books and looking at the jarl squad suits and accessories on display.

We had a super visit from Mr Rose who learned us about balance, stability and gravity.  We made tightrope walker toys which we loved trying to see if they could balance on lots of things in class.

Living things topic

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This week Mr. Rose the primary science teacher came in Primary 6 and 7 and started our new topic on living things ! He told us about vertebrates and invertebrates and how vertebrates have bones and invertebrates have none! He also told us about the extinct bird the dodo and how dodo’s didn’t have any predators so when the humans came they didn’t know to run away and humans ended up killing all the dodo’s on Earth!

We love when Mr. Rose comes in, it is very interesting!

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