We used lollipop sticks to make 2D shapes. We made squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, pentagons and hexagons. We discovered that we couldn’t make circles because the lollipop sticks are straight and circles only have curved lines.
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Using charcoal
Voxter Trip – John Muir – Primary 7
5 Shetland Schools – The Art World @ Bonhoga
Today, primaries 1 and 6 went to see the exhibition at Bonhoga. They saw all the work that they had done with Mrs Hunter and Amy Gear in Art. They also saw work done by children from other schools in Shetland.
We asked the primary 1 what their favourite things were. They said “busy bogies”, “the firework”, “outside in the long grass among the sculptures” and “finding pencils upstairs”
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Planting trees and opera
Planting trees
Last week on Wednesday we were planting trees on the old hockey pitch. We planted around 150 trees. It is part of going for our John Muir Award. We are trying to make our school grounds nicer. It was hard to dig in some areas but it was good fun. We had to to cut two shovel widths across and turn the patch over and then cut a cross in the middle and put the tree in.
On Monday four people from Scottish opera came up to Shetland to do a performance called Fever! It was about a boy that got a fever. Schools from Nesting, Happyhansel, Whiteness and Skeld joined us. We were in three groups, the first group was the medics, the second group were the bad bacteria and there was the immune system good bactiria and the press. We really enjoyed taking part.
By Rhys and Peter
Primary sports day
What a brilliant sunny day for the Primary sports day. Well done to everyone for taking part. Thank you to Mrs Redfern for organising such a well planned day. Lots of fun had by all.
Primary 1 learn about halves and quarters
We made and decorated paper cakes.
We each decided whether we were going to cut our cake into half or quarter.
We know that each half or quarter needs to be exactly the same size.
We folded the paper to find the middle.
When we cut 1 whole into half, we end up with 2 bits.
When we cut 1 whole into quarters, we end up with 4 bits.
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Scottish Opera Fever
On Wednesday the P5, P6 and P7s went down to the hall to practise their opera called Fever with Scottish Opera. Bairns from Nesting, Skeld, Happyhansel and Whiteness came too. There was a man called Roger that came up from Glasgow to help us with the opera. On the 6th of June his colleagues will come up and help us with the actual performance. Mums and dads can come too. By Joann and Asia
Maths problem solving
Primary 2/3 have been working very hard to solve maths problems.
” We have been finding out different ways to make the number 14 and 16 using ladybirds” by Edyn
“We worked with a partner to see how many different ways we could make 24. Some examples are: 12+12=24, 20+4=24, 12×2=24. We found out lots and lots of different ways to make 24” by Carlene
“We had to use 2 numbers to find the largest even number, the largest odd number, the smallest odd number and the number closest to 50″ by Oliver
” Problem solving was fantastic, hard and good” 😄 By Edyn, Oliver and Carlene.
Space seeds
Last week primary 6/7 got space seeds. Some of the class were away on a school trip to Edinburgh. So the secondary 3 pupils planted the seeds for us. Every week a small group of people go to the green house to water the seeds and turn them every second day. We are keeping a record of how many seeds have germinated, we have colours for the seeds, some blue and some red. 83 seeds from the red side have germinated, and 62 from the blue side. We don’t know which seeds have been in space. We all wrote our hypothesis on which have gone up to space and which have not. by Asia, Holly, Shay and Scott 
