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Our class visited Taing House last week to plant sunflower seeds and draw sunflowers with the service users.  It was a lot of fun and we used our creative meta skills as well as our communication skills.  We’ve been invited back!

 

P7 have been doing handball in PE.  This is a new game to us, but we have used a lot of previous learnt skills and understandings to play in these games.  Some of the differences have been the size of the ball, using a one handed pass and the rule around movement and dribbling means the game is fast paced.

   

As part of reading week, the class decided to decorate the class door with Mr Men and Little Miss characters.  We are writing books in the style of Roger Hargreaves to read to our buddies in Primary 1.  The door is really bright and colourful!  Well done everyone!

 

 

 

The Bressay Jarl Squad visited the school on Friday.  On our return from swimming, we were fortunate to meet some of them and have a chat and admire their suits.

 

As part of our climate smarter topic, we created our own solar/biomass/wave energy pictures.  Beautiful work P7!

We have been exploring different kinds of music technology recently and this week we have been using a piece of software called Incredibox. The online software enabled us to create our own music with a crew of beatboxers. We could choose from four different styles and had the chance to lay down, record and share our mixes.

We had criteria to follow when creating our mixes. Our compositions had to:

• be at least 26 seconds long
• have a loop change
• showcase a muted/solo beatboxer

Here are links to some of our compositions:

Sonny P:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/14c93c0c82ca5d189211-v1

Lewis:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/0109452c7de5694ed7d5-v2

Luca:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/54c3eb999e5c4736aa92-v4

Bella:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/ca435f2d6855833c32c4-v2

Natalia:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/df9b32dc93f74b6743c0-v1

Ellie:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/161161c35927d524da53-v4

Zena:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/ffe355280052fe0e9550-v2

Robbie J:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/68471c08154434e623a9-v4

Magnus:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/0f5a2622e2c0f7b39a2f-v3

Tiger:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/315606031a1aee5f4618-v1

Alfie:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/dd54db100d793e2952de-v4

Robbie R:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/13bcce7dc24a7c0c3431-v3

Daniel:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/1131f4327174963487de-v2

Sonny A:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/7f0b8fead11b50843403-v3

We have been learning about music technology and we have been using software called ‘Groove Pizza’ which is an online drum sequencer.

Here are some of our drum sequence compositions.

Alfie:

Amie:

Bella:

Boglarka:

Daniel:

Ella-Mae:

Ellie:

Lewis:

Luca:

Natalia:

Robbie J:

Sonny A:

Sonny P:

Sophia:

Zena:

 

As part of our Climate Smarter STEM topic, the children are learning about renewable energy and climate change.  They have been working together, participating in experiments.  Recently, they had fun with solar energy and made floating wind turbines.  There’s more to come!

 

We started the term focusing on fitness through Shetland Dance.  We discussed what components of fitness we needed in dance and were surprised that stamina and muscular endurance are both needed.  The dances we learnt were a Dashing White Sergeant, Orcadian Strip the Willow, a Gay Gordons, an Eva Three step and a Circassian circle.  The class particularly liked the Orcadian Strip the Willow.   In the Teacher led PE session the class have also done a Boston Two Step, St. Bernard’s Waltz and a Canadian Barn dance.

Our next block of work is Handball, which is a change to the term plan.  Handball was due in Term 4, but has been swapped with football so that we can hopefully get outside for the football block.

Tuesday 30^th January 2024 was a special day at Sound Primary School as we were visited by both the Junior and Senior Jarl Squads of 2024.

The Junior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl Skeppare Nokkvesson (aka Oran McCulloch), were in fine voice during their time with us, supported by a group of young local musicians who did a brilliant job. ‘Yes Sir, I can Boogie’ was definitely a highlight! The clip below shows all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song.

The Senior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl King Harald Olafsson (aka Richard Moar) were also pretty spectacular both in sight and sound. A fantastic line up of local musicians provided the music for the Up Helly Aa song and also their squad song which made us all want to get up and dance! Here is a clip of all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song. The Jarl commented how loud and enthusiastic our singing was. High praise indeed from a ‘King’!