On Friday John-Frank and Rachel went with Mrs.Perry to the town hall in Lerwick for a Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) presentation. About 16 schools were there and all of them were quite nervous. We were up third and did a PowerPoint presentation about what we’ve done about road safety. All of them were good and some of them were funny. After all of the schools had done, everyone got a certificate and goody bags. The last thing was a photo to go in the Shetland Times. For dinner we went to Flames. I had a beef burger and Rachel had a chicken burger. We both thought that it was yummy. Then we got in Mrs.Perry’s car and drove back to Skeld. It was a good day out.

On Wednesday morning we started with handwriting as usual for 15 minutes. Then we did maths and me and Jonathan played snakes and ladders with multiplication and it was challenging but fun. John – Frank and Robbie did work on coordinates and they thought it was easy. Rachel, Jenna, Hannah and Morgan did work on addition with three digit numbers and they thought it was alright but some of their questions where hard. Nicola, Corey and Hermione did division games with Mrs Fraser and they thought it was good fun. After maths we did project work on where we would move things in our
In the afternoon we did work on what the Muslims wear and what the rules are about what they wear. Then we reminded our self about the water cycle before our trip to the water works.

On Friday we started the day with Just Dance 2 as a warm up as usual and John-Frank said that it was quite fun and Kieren said that it was ok. After that we did our spelling tests and when we weren’t doing our spelling tests, we were doing some handwriting. After break we did some buddy writing about the school trip that we went on, on Thursday which everybody enjoyed. Then we were doing some buddy games and they were, Kim’s game and a game where we got a word and had to make as many other words as we could from the given word. Kieren and Jason won both games. Next we had golden time and our awards assembly.

Shetland Dairies

When we got there, there was a big truck with a tank on the back. Milk was in the large tank we went inside the building we were all quite exited. When we got in the building and a man called Davey told us about the machinery to make cheese, butter and yogurts it was very interesting. Next we went into the experiment room Flora was the assistant she had to hold the top of a spinning thing and Flora helped feed the bugs that was from the milk because when they clean the milk they take the bugs out the milk. Then it was time to go we all really enjoyed it we got to bring back some empty milk bottles and some foods to try.

Water Works

When we got to the water works we parked in the wrong place so we had to walk around the corner to the building. When we got there he showed us the dam and the man said it was 8 metres deep then we went back inside. He showed us the place were all the dirty water was collected. Then he went out the room to switch something on that made all the dirty water go. the water kind of looked like hot chocolate bubbling because all chemicals had mixed together and made all the dirt float to the top then he showed us a place were there were loads of green tanks and that’s were all the chemicals are mixed up then we went to the office where all the control panels are when the red light is on its switched off when the green light is on its on then we went to the experiment room the man had samples of really dirty water kind of dirty water and clean water then he did some samples and showed us some things on how to do it. It was very interesting then we went back to have our snack we had it on the pavement then the bus came to pick us up.

Croft house

When we got to the croft house a nice man called Matt spoke to us about the croft house. We got into groups with one teacher, we had Mrs Fraser in our group. First we got clipboards and a pencil. The first room we went in was the bedroom they had 2 box beds and in each bed there had to be 3 children in each, also in the room there was 1 cot and 1 normal bed it also had one dressing table. It must have been cold for them. The second room we went in was the living room there was also 1 bed in there to, it was really good. The third room we went in was the stable its where the keep all the animals. The forth room we went in was the storage room were the keep things. When we had looked in all the rooms matt told us all to meet in the living room then we went around all the rooms with him then asked him some questions. Next we asked if we could have our lunch outside. Louise our cook mace the school a big pack lunch for all the school with sandwiches, frubes, biscuits, fruit and muffins.

The bus

On the way home the throttle of the bus got stuck so we had to wait until our bus driver David could fix it. But he couldn’t so we just had to get home as well as we could and we were 15 minutes late for getting home.

By Nicol and Jenna

First we did mental maths.
Then we did maths.
The randomly royals- division by 8/9
Peerie apples-addition of a three digit number, Hannah said her maths was ok.
Eco hippy hippos-making co-ordinates picture. John – Frank made his own design.
Golden e’s –multiplication /division practice.

After that we did handwriting.

Then we did grammar.

After lunch we did things with our town like putting twenty’s plenty signs, zebra crossings , traffic lights and stop signs.
Kieren said he liked making them.

P1-3
First they did comprehension and reading
Next they did a big snack and Angela prepared it for them
Emma enjoyed picking what she wanted especially her bagel
Nicol, Erin, Noah made book marks.
After that they wrote stories
Lewis enjoyed writing his story.
Then they did play block, Emma and Jason went down to play in the nursery
The rest of the class wrote about animals.

On Monday we started the day with handwriting as usual and John-Frank, Rachel and Corey said that they didn’t like doing it that much. Then we did our spelling work and Jonathan and Kieren were doing their own words because they have finished all the spelling sheets so that means they can pick words from their reading books. After break then we were doing some mental maths questions on our whiteboards which some people found challenging and others found them easy. Next we did some maths work and the Golden E’s were doing some multiplication work from the SHM 7 work assessment book and then they got to play a multiplication game afterwards, which was quite fun but slightly challenging. Then Jonathan, Nicola and Kieren were setting up our city in the classroom and that was quite fun. Then we read on with our class novel and it was starting to get interesting because a character called Jamieson cut off a seagulls wings and left it in his garden for a couple of years which makes you want to find out what is going to be done about it. After lunch we had art with Mrs Hunter and we were doing something called newsprint which was cutting out shapes of card and sticking them back together again on another piece of card so most people in the class enjoyed doing it. Finally we had gym with Miss Hobbin and we were learning French skipping by jumping over an elastic skipping rope, which most people found quite fun but challenging.

The P1-3 class started the day with spellings and they thought that it was ok. Then they did some show and tell and Emma showed Clifford the big red, dog. And Nicol showed a toy seal. Next they wrote their news and most of them liked it. Then Nicol, Noah and Erin went up to the library to do some work on tallying and Nicol and Noah liked it but Erin found it difficult. Then they made some creature character bookmarks and on average the class enjoyed making them. After lunch they had gym with Miss Hobbin and they were doing some walking and running with races as well so most of the class said that they enjoyed it. Finally they had art with Mrs Hunter and they were making 3d hens out of newspaper which most of class found it fun as well.

We did Friday warm up, The songs were Tic-Toc, Viva Las Vegas and Monster Mash which most of us enjoyed. We had P.E. where we did Twinkling, which is a bit like French skipping, it was fun and we all enjoyed it.
We did reading and spelling tests. We redrafted our stories, we were allowed to do them in our best handwriting or type them on the computer, which was ok when we were doing that. Corey, Jenna, Kieren and Jonathan started making the city which they liked doing. We had Golden Time and after that it was Assembly.
The lesson the p1-3 class did first was handwriting which they liked doing. They did maths, which they didn’t like too much. Some of them did farm animal research, which they enjoyed.

In the morning we did 20 minutes of handwriting and Nicola thought it was boring. After that we peer assessed others stories and John-Frank liked it and Rachel liked kierens story about the Shetland sheep. After break we did maths Kieren found the maths challenging and the games fun and so did Jonathan. Rachel, Jenna, Hannah and Morgan’s group did an adding game it was fun. Rachel won the game. Hermione, Corey and Nicola’s group did division for the 8 times table and 9 times tables. After maths we read our new class novel “Around the back of the ice house” .We had lunch, and after lunch we planned our city of Skandwick. Jenna and Morgan won and Jenna enjoyed making it. After that we did looking at rocks and seeing if they were water-worn, bashed or crushed or weathered.

In the morning the Little class did a mixture of things p-3 did handwriting Lewis liked it and p-1-2 did maths, Emma liked the maths After brake they did animal fact files Lewis’s animal was a duck Emma’s animal was a Horse and Erin’s animal was a yew.
Then they did play block. Lewis played with kenex and made cars. Emma played with stickle bricks. Then they did they’re P.L.P. folders Lewis thought it was Okay. Lewis thought the day was good.

We started off the day as usual with handwriting. Then we did spellings; Hermione and Nicola really enjoyed it. Then we did our mental maths questions for the day and everyone got pretty good scores. Next we did maths the Randomly Royals did division in maths, they didn’t really like it. The Peerie Apples did addition, they thought it was ok. The eco hippie hippos did coordinates, they thought it was ok. Then the golden E’s did problem solving and they thought it was kind of hard.
In the afternoon we got in pairs and started designing the layout of our cities, on A3 paper, and we made a key for it too. Everyone enjoyed doing the city layout. Then it was the end of the day

P1-3 started off with handwriting, they all enjoyed it. After break they finished off their stories about The Selkie Wife, they had to write it on a sea animal, they all thought it was very hard. After dinner they did some research on an animal on a croft. They should have been going to the Cheese Factory, but it was cancelled.

On Thursday morning we started handwriting for 15 minutes then we tried finishing of our stories. Mine is about a Roman Invasion in France. After break we did some maths. The Eco Hippie Hippos did Coordinates, the Randomly Royals did division, the Golden E’s did Volume and Centilitres and the Perrie Apples did doubling numbers. Then it was time for lunch. In the afternoon Mr.Hewitt got out some crackers, fruit bars and some red icing. We were going to learn about Plate Tectonics and Rocks. We first got two fruit bars, which are to represent Oceanic plates and laid them on top of the icing, which is the mantle. We moved the Oceanic plates apart from each other and by doing that it made a rift valley. This is called a Divergent Plate boundary. The next one was with a cracker, which is a Continental plate and Oceanic plate. We laid them on the Mantle and pushed them together. The Oceanic plate went under the Continental plate and sank into the Mantle. This is called Continental Oceanic plate collision. After that one there was another one. It is called a Continent-Continent plate collision. The Continents crash into each other and form mountain ranges. The last one was Transform Plate boundaries where the plates slowly scrape each other and then a huge jolt comes and then a earthquake happens. After that we ate all the ingredients. At the end of the day we finished off our class novel called Cool. It was a funny and kind of sad book.

P1-3 knitted some more of their sheep then finished there selkie potions. In the afternoon we painted 6croft animals and had play block.