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Sumdog with P2. P5/6 spent some time with Primary 2 helping them to learn how to log on and play games on Sumdog. Everyone had lots of fun and enjoyed playing games together.

World Cup Measure Maths. Since its the world cup we have been doing world cup maths like measuring the grass to see if the areas of our playground are the same length as the word cups standard grass length. We also estimated and weighed different sport balls, measured different liquids and built stadiums with units, tens, hundreds blocks and then calculated the cubic volume.

Musical Concert with Mrs. Pottinger. This week Mrs. Pottinger made us do a concert and our class mates were playing the fiddle and piano. They were AMAZING!  We also had to sing our ‘Music makes the world go round’ song for the last time. YAY!

Sports Day. THIS YEAR GORD WON!!!!!! – ME AND EMMA-LEES TEAMMMMMM YAY! It was really fun watching people try get point for there teams and supporting them. A big thank you to Mrs Ritchie for organising such a fab sports day and to everyone who came along to support us.

Bracelet Making. On Friday, Olivia Mrs. Adamson’s sister in law came in to make bracelets with us all. It was verrryyyyy fun and all the colours were so cool that it was so hard to choose beads! A massive thank you to Olivia for coming in.

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Here is a look at what has been happening in P5/6/7 this week.

World Cup Maths. The class have been taking part in different ‘World Cup’ themed maths challenges over the week. They had to sort the 48 qualifying countries by continent and double check using Google Maps. Then they had to use their data to create a bar chart. To quote Paige, “This is the best morning ever as we get to do geography and maths!” We’ve also looked at angles and football shots too.

Big Question – The World Cup. As part of our world cup mini topic, we have been looking at Football Stadiums. We watched a video of the different stadiums that are being used in the world cup, and then the class set to work building their own. They all created very unique designs with clear features of a stadium present in every one. We then went on a stadium tour around the room to see the different creations.

Baking fun. On Tuesday, the class made their own ‘quick’ empire biscuits with Miss Farmer.  Lots of colourful designs which were very much enjoyed by everyone.

Sustainable Squad. We finished off our work on the Sustainable Development Goals with a challenge. In groups or individually, the class had to link and share information about two or more goals. They were encouraged to think creatively about what to link and how to present their learning. We had models, presentations, sporting challenges, fact books, puppet shows, posters, board games, and even a song! P5/6/7 never fail to impress with their creativity and imaginative ideas.

World Cup Murder Mystery. One thing the class asked to do before the end of term was another murder mystery game. So linking with our world cup mini topic, we took part in ‘The Clutch Calamity’. The kids all had lots of fun but on this occasion no one managed to guess that Paige had stolen the World Cup Trophy.

P5/6 Trip to Burra. We had a fantastic day out to Burra this week and were really blessed with gorgeously hot and sunny weather. The class enjoyed climbing up and over rocks, skimming stones, walking to the Hamnavoe Lighthouse, looking for crabs, toasting marshmallows, and wave watching. We then all enjoyed a picnic lunch at the Toogs playpark.

Hello from Frankies. This week’s blog is being written by Esther, Emma-Lee, Ava and Cheryl as we patiently wait for our delicious food to arrive.

Donald Duck Day. For our writing this week, we created fact files about Donald Duck as it was his 92nd birthday. We enjoyed watching an old cartoon from 1948 and also his version of ‘Let it go’ before creating fact files or presentations all about his life.

French zoos. We worked in groups to create 4 part dioramas with different zoo animals in each sections. We had to draw and label the animals and some groups even added entrances and gift shops to their zoos.

Big Question  with Mrs. Mainland. This week, P5/6 have been learning about what to do in an emergency. They discussed the different emergency services, what to do if there is an emergency and created their own first aid kits. They looked at the history of lifeboats and the RNLI campaign ‘Float to Live’. Inspired by this, Mrs. Mainland and the class created lovely pieces of artwork.

P5/6 Museum Trip. On Friday morning, P5/6 headed to the museum for a very fun workshop. Megan said, “It was lots of fun and we all really enjoyed it. We got to make our own clay boats.”

P7 trip to UNST! Amazing! Fun! Sleepless! We’ve had an excellent few days away in Unst. Some highlights include Glansin Glass, laser tag, Muness Castle, quiz night, as Smithy and I (Cheryl) won, face masks, making a band, swimming pool, pasta, chicken nuggets, 5 slices of toast for breakfast, Skaw beach and the Unst charity shop. It was the best trip ever!!

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Shetland Sangwriting Workshop. Claire came in for the morning and we got to hear her play the fiddle and learn we learned about Betty Mouat. We got to dance a Boston Two Step and also wrote our own poems or songs and performed them. There was lots of creativity and original ideas shared.

Brilliant Beetles. For writing this week we focused on Beetles. We found out that there are 400,000 species of beetles world wide and each created a fact file about a different beetle. Have a look at the epic posters below.

World of Work 1. Andrew, Esther and Rebekah’s dad, came in to speak to us on Wednesday. We learned all about different types of engineers and the skills and qualities they need. We also had a lot of fun designing bridges out of one sheet of paper. Nobody thought the hammock bridge would work but it actually did.

Sustainable Squad. We all had a lot of fun making bird feeders out of different junk modeling resources. We’re hopeful that the birds enjoy our new bird feeders.

World of Work 2. On Friday, John and Reece came in to speak to us about their work. We got to solve different problems and all got quite competitive. We even got a chance to use some of the specialist equipment that they brought in to measure the height difference in the playground.

A big thank you to Claire, Andrew and John for coming in to visit us this week.

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