P7 2023-24

As part of Health Week, the pupil council asked for an Olympic themed obstacle course.  Before starting we discussed what the Olympics were and this years Games in Paris in July.  The circuit was a variety of activities to develop skills that all sports people need,  including agility, coordination, balance, changes of height and direction.  By the end of the lesson, the pupils had also worked there stamina.

Well done to our P6/P7 STEM club who are 2024 YESC Regional Club of the Year runners up and 2024 STEM challenge winners!

We have started the term doing athletics.  We have done running, throwing and jumping events.  The class particularly liked the hurdles.

This term we have started of our learning journey in music by finding out about the history of the ukulele and how it compares and differs to other stringed instruments. We have learned how to hold the instrument in the best playing position, the string names and also different ways of playing the strings – plucking and strumming. We have learned about the musical staff and how to read music notation and in the video clip below, you can see us playing along with a piece called ‘Open String Jam’.

We have also been composing for ukulele and the photo below shows our class composition using music notation. Our next steps will be to learn to play our composition with an accompanying backing track. We will then be moving on to learn about improvising using the open strings and working on our finger positions to change the pitch of the note.

Term 4 Curriculum Information 2023-24

P7 have been doing hockey in PE.  The activities have focused on how to use and turn the stick so that the ball only touches the flat side, ball control and sending and receiving the ball.  P7’s were able to transfer their knowledge from other games when playing in 3v3 matches.

We were lucky to participate in two workshops from UHI Shetland and Skills Development Scotland.  We focused on collaboration as we built model wind turbines from Lego Technic.  We also worked to create a device for cleaning up an oil spill in water.  We had to use lots of creativity and problem solving skills.