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!

By Sadie and Ollie Continue reading Living things topic →

Terrific Scientific!

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This week we were investigating feet and how flexible they are. We got into pairs and had to measure our feet when we were sitting and then when we were standing. We found out that some people’s feet were more flexible that other peoples. Then we had to give our results to the University of Kent. We watched a live show too.

 

by Max smith Primary 6

Primary 3/4/5 trip to Mareel and Scalloway castle

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What a busy Monday Primary 3/4/5 have had. Despite chilly weather all pupils were dressed warmly and were raring to go on a very interesting school trip.  First stop was Mareel where we enjoyed the experience of watching the film ‘A Christmas Carol’ in a cinema with our classmates.  Afterwards we went into the projection room, here we found out how films get projected onto the big screen. 

Explaining how 3D films work … and how 3D glasses don’t work if you put them on upside down!

  

view from the projection room (above) and our next destination, Scalloway castle (below)

How many people can we fit in the prison? (above)

admiring the view from the top of the winding staircase (above)

In the chamber (below)

 With a key that big, it can surely only be for a castle door! 

 A little play outdoors before we head home again. 

Dance and games

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On Tuesday we were doing Shetland dancing with Mrs Redfern and we were doing the Canadian barn dance. First we got in a circle  the male on the inside and the female on the outside. And we had to change partners every time the tune moved on.

Today the primary 6 had play leaders with the p.1 and the p.2 we played three games. P6 are learning how to lead games. The games names were duck duck goose,the clap game,stick in the mud and the animal game. By  Charlie and Max

 

Movie maker visitors

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Freya Deyell came to visit us last Monday to speak about how to make movies. She showed us a few movies that her and her sister Emma had made. One movie was very spooky but we thought they were amazing. Freya also told us about the importance of making a story board to help with the movie sequence.

Keiba clubb came in to visit today. She has made lots of movies and adverts. We even got to see a secret advert that no one else has seen yet but its top secret so we can’t say what it’s about. We worked with a partner and created a story board using wide shot, close up and mid shot. Keiba is going to come back and see our movies when they are finished. By Ellie and Hector.

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