Today Mrs Moffat came in with lots of different types of fish because her husband works on a whitefish boat. She came in with lots of fish such as brides groom (dragonet), plaice, lump sucker , monkfish and many more.
Brides groom is a poisonous type of fish that has a fin on its back which has a few big poisonous spikes. We learned lots about fish around Shetland. By Shona and Catherine P7
On Tuesday the Secondary play “The crooked finger” was in the garrison at the drama festival. the crooked finger was done by Asia Manson, Shay Polson, Emma Deyell and Holly Irvine and in the end they got a trophy.
On Thursday p4-p7 did a play called “suspicion” it was about a school in Shetland and a girl being suspected of stealing things. we did it the garrison for the drama festival and we won for the best Shetland junior dialect.
This term we have been learning all about Scotland.
First we coloured in and labelled a giant map of Scotland. We have learned about different castles in Scotland then used clay to create our own castles. We found out information about Robert Burns then typed up our own poems using Scottish dialect. We found this a bit tricky. We read some Our Wullie stories and wrote our own Our Wullie comic strip. We all enjoyed making shortbread and yesterday we finished off our newspaper reports about the Loch Ness monster. P7 are also coming in on Mondays to help us make PowerPoint presentations about Scotland.
By Connall and Kenzie.
Aith Primary Drama Club busy rehearsing for this year’s Drama Festival:
This week in Primary 1 we have learned about teddy bears. Paddington Bear came all the way from Peru to Shetland and is going to stay with each of us for 2 nights and hopefully have lots of fun adventures.
We wrote about our favourite toy and carefully chose the right coloured paint to paint a picture of the toy.
Mr Rose was in class on Tuesday and made wind powered toys with us.
We have been thinking about numbers to 20 and also using a number line for addition.
We got our first blended phonic ‘sh’ and have been thinking about things that have that sound in it and also practising writing it.
We have had a number of visitors this week. Sami who is a French teacher came in to see us on Monday, Mr Lei was in on Wednesday telling us all about the Chinese New Year and told us a story about the animals in the Chinese zodiac. Then finally, on Wednesday we were really lucky to meet Mrs Simpson who was the first female Guizer Jarl in Shetland and came in to show us her suit and show us lots of photos from her Up Helly Aa. We all really enjoyed meeting her.
As part of our ‘Where in the world is Scotland?’ topic we found out about Charles Rennie Macintosh, an artist from Glasgow who was also an architect and designer.
We were inspired by his work and had a go at creating our own rose pictures which we completed just in time to take home on Valentine’s Day.
It is interesting to see how we all used colour and line a little differently, all with beautiful results.
Primary 4 and 5 came up with a number of good reasons why Miss Leask should let them make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday – including weighing, measuring, reading instructions, sequencing, team work, co-operation to name but a few ….. how could she refuse 🙂
P.S. They were delicious!
Primary 7 have been learning how to use code to instruct robots to do various tasks. Pupils then made videos of their robots performing different tasks.
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.
