Well done to our P6/P7 STEM club who are 2024 YESC Regional Club of the Year runners up and 2024 STEM challenge winners!
PE
We have started the term doing athletics. We have done running, throwing and jumping events. The class are very good at distance running, showing great effort and good pacing skills. Here we are practicing hurdling.
Ukulele Open String Jam
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.
STEM Event – NAFC
Some of the Primary 7 pupils chose to attend the STEM event (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) at Scalloway this week. They had a very busy day participating in various workshops including engineering, drones, app design and circuits.
Curriculum Information – Term 4
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Term 4 Curriculum Information 2023-24
Outdoor Learning – Numeracy – Perimeter
We headed outdoors today to measure the multi-court and field using our knowledge of perimeter and area in our numeracy work. We used our collaborative meta skills working in pairs/groups.
Art lesson
In Art p7 have been learning about Andy Warhol and popular culture.
Having been inspired by his portraits, we drew a cartoon version of ourselves then transferred it on to a polystyrene block.
We had to cut up the block into 5 parts so we could print each bit a different colour. Using the printing inks we printed each of the 5 pieces to create these colourful portraits. Most of the class managed to to print 2, trying out different colour combinations.
Great work from p7 as this project was technical and quite tricky!
Music Festival Performances
Several pupils have participated in the music festival lately. They treated us to performances in the Senior Wing. We’ve heard Fiddlesticks and also the guitar students playing their pieces. We hope that you can enjoy the videos below of the guitarists. We’re looking forward to the saxophonists playing soon.
Peat Bog Restoration
As part of our Climate Smarter topic, Primary 7 went on a hike up Sound Brae and along Cunningham Way, behind the Sandy Loch, to meet Sue White, the Peat Restoration officer here in Shetland. Sue talked to us about the importance of spagnum moss and how it’s used to replenish the peat bogs, to help to reduce the CO2 emissions from peat. The bairns got on gloves and picked moss then planted it into the peat bogs. Hands were a little cold, but the bairns persevered with the task. Well done everyone! We also measured the depth of the peat and estimated that where we stood, the peat was over 2,000 years old! We used our collaborative, communicative and critical thinking meta skills.
Outdoor Education
Primary 7 have been fortunate to go to Kergord Woods recently with Pete and Grant, the Outdoor Education officers. We used a host of meta skills as we navigated through the woods, including collaboration, focus and communication. We jumped over the burn, found our way through the trees, climbed up and through the burn, built dens, played hide and seek, climbed trees and enjoyed nature all around us. We had fun on our adventures!
