We are also looking forward to see which of our young horticulturists will win the tattie challenge, all entries are looking good so far! Huge thanks to Duncan our janitor for all his help and enthusiasm in getting young gardeners involved.
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Using charcoal
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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Olympic art with P3/4/5
Can you guess which sporting events we created?
We have added the French names of the sports to give you a clue 🙂
Le natation
Athlétisme
Équitation
La gymnastique
Plongée
Volley-ball
Haies
et Netball Paralympic
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.
Ancient Greece – science
On Wednesday we made Archimedes screws out of plastic bottles, tubes and wire. First we had to get a bottle and some wire and plastic hoops. We put the hoops onto the bottle to hold the wire. Then we tied the pipe onto the bottle with the wire in a spiral. Then we put baking soda and vinegar into the bottle to make them expand and tougher. We took them outside and tried them out using basins of water. We found that the water always went to the lowest point and towards the top.
Then we set up mirrors in a semi-circle to reflect the sun onto a thermometer that told us how hot is was getting. It got hotter and colder as the clouds came and went. We had to keep adjusting the mirrors. The hottest we could get it was 39.5 degrees. The coldest was 12 degrees. by primary 6 & 7
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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Dinosaur information boards for Michaelswood
Every Friday for the next 5 weeks, Secondary 2 and Primary 2/3 will be working cooperatively to create information boards about dinosaurs for Michaleswood dinosaur trail.
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 
