This was the last week of bowls. We were going to find out what the team winner was. The team winner was the mirrie dancers each one got a trophy 🏆 . The people that were in the mirrie dancers were Ashley, Emily, Ruby and Keiva. By Gene and Alisha
Tag Archives: cooperative learning
Money, money, money!
In maths this week we were learning about bank accounts and where to put your savings. We had to choose which account was best for 3 kids called Ruby, Jenny and Khalid. Ruby got 50 pounds pocket money a month, Jenny got 100 pounds birthday money and Khalid got 15 pounds a week for his paper round. Then we created an advert using the iPads. We made up bank names and persuaded people to use our account. By Keiva and Ollie
Week 4 Term 3
This week we learned how to say granny and grandad in mandarin, each side of family is said a different way.
This week we learned about our brains, we learned all about the different parts of the brain.
This week we contacted a school from the western isles the school was called sgoil Uibhist a Tuath in the North uist, we told them all about up helly aa, we did a presentation and sung songs.
by Matty and Ruby
Storysacks
This term, secondary 1 pupils are coming through each Monday to visit primary 1 and 2 pupils to share story-sacks with them. This involves reading and listening to stories, playing games, making jigsaws, using puppets and toys and other activities relevant to the story-sack theme.
Primary 1 and 2 pupils are thoroughly enjoying the older children coming through and secondary 1 pupils are doing a fantastic job of sharing the story-sacks with the younger pupils.
P1/2 made hog houses
We used guidance from the RSPB on how to make a ‘hog house’ for hedgehogs then split the class into 2 groups. Each group designed and made their house.
We needed to make the box waterproof, make a door for hedgehogs to get in and out, thought of a name for each house then designed pictures and signs to go on the house.
We carried the houses up next to the den among the trees and put a weight on top so they didn’t blow away. We finally filled the hog homes with straw to keep hedgehogs warm and dry while they sleep.
We thought they looked pretty good and we can’t wait to see if any hedgehogs come to stay in them!
Christmas Task Force
This week every class split into different groups and we did Christmas Tasks. We made a whole school display for the corridor. We made paper snowflakes, Christmas trees, Northern Lights and fair isle sheep.
Task force is when P1 toP7 split up in to groups and we do different tasks (mostly crafts) and our theme was Shetland in the winter.
by Daisy and Alisha P6
Our Trips to ScreenPlay Film Festival
On Monday and Tuesday primary 6 and 7 went on two trips to the ScreenPlay film festival. Primary 6 went on Monday to see Revolting Rhymes and on Tuesday primary 7 went to see The Breadwinner. There were two parts in Revolting Rhymes, the first one was about Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood and the second bit was about the Big Bad Wolf baby sitting Little Red Riding Hood’s children.
The Breadwinner was on Tuesday. The story was about a little girl called Parvana and her dad which she called Papa who got taken away to prison for telling his children stories. They didn’t have much money so they tried to sell things at the market. Parvana had to pretend to be boy so she could buy food from the shops. In countries living under the Taliban, women are not allowed to go outside without their husbands. Many of us did not know that. We really liked the animation.
Afterwards, we had a workshop in Mareel. We got into groups and we spoke about how to turn a story into an animation. We drew storyboards for the main scenes.
written by Emily and Ruby p6 and p7
Mareel trip- Revolting Rhymes
On Monday, Primary 4, 5 and 6 went on an outing to Mareel to see the short film Revolting Rhymes written by Roald Dahl. The film had some twists, turns and gruesomeness to create a collection of classic tales including Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Goldilocks and the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.
After the film P4, 5 and 6 went to the auditorium and completed a workshop linked to the film. Everyone worked cooperatively with a partner to create their own revolting rhyme.
As it was such a lovely day P4, 5 and 6 then went to the play park before returning to school.
Week 3 in Primary 1
In Primary 1 this week we have learned our new phonic blend – ng. We were strongmen and strongwomen and made the sound as we lifted up the VERY heavy weight! 🙂
Within our topic of Journeys, we were learning about directions. We learned how to tell our left from our right by finding the ‘L’ on our left hand then went outside to give directions to each other.
We learned about North, South, East and West and Mr Spence came in with a very old compass and 4 smaller handheld ones. We went outside and found which way pointed North then all the other directions.
The courtyard was one of our play activities this week and we enjoyed playing with the Early Years children. The weather was lovely all week until Friday, but that didn’t stop us!
No morning walk this morning but instead we did some yoga in class. Today we were Spidermen & Spiderwomen.
PRIMARY 2 PICNIC
What a busy time we’ve had in Primary 2 preparing for our special visitors!
Well done Primary 2 for preparing the menu and writing out the invitations for Primary 1. We made chocolate crispies and fairy cakes and really enjoyed baking them. Everybody worked hard and took their time to make the really yummy food.
Here’s what Primary 1 had to say about the picnic:
“I liked the cakes” “I liked the gummy worms” “I liked the Haribos” “It was the best picnic EVER!” “It was good that they had healthy food” “I liked playing with the primary 2s in their class” “Primary 2 were great bakers!” “Thank you very much primary 2”
