What a super busy and fun term we’ve had in P5/6/7. Here is a look at what the class have being doing over the final week of the term.

Wellbeing, connection and support. On Monday, Jennifer from Active Schools came in to talk to us about the benefits of physical activity. We started off by playing some games and having fun in the fresh air. Then we discussed the importance of getting 60 minutes of physical activity each day, whether this was in smaller blocks or 1 big block, all of it counts. We also looked at the benefits to our bodies and minds. It was a super way to finish off our unit on ‘Wellbeing, connection and support.

A morning with Mrs Teale. The kids all enjoyed a morning with Mrs Teale while we were away at Euroquiz. They worked in groups to create ‘something’ to share with each of the other classes about their ‘Wellness, connection and support’ work. They had to ensure that it was suited to the ‘class’ and would be fun for the kids.

Eilidh S, Emma-Lee and Magnus created lots of fun things for the nursery to do.

Ava T and Cheryl wrote and performed a song, with actions, for the P1/2 class.

Eilidh R, Anthea and Alagna put together a fun filled session for P3/4.

Joe, Paige and Esther put together a session for the P4/5 class and have a few bits to finish before sharing with the class.

Euroquiz. On Tuesday, two teams travelled up to Lerwick to take part in the Shetland heats of the Euroquiz. Both teams did amazingly well and finished 5th and 6th overall. Well done to all of the kids involved and a massive thank you to everyone who took time to practice with them at home.

Big Question – The drive to float.  This week, our big question was focused on buoyancy. We also look at why things float or sink. We tested an orange and a grapefruit which both floated with their skin on but sunk when their ‘lifejacket’ was removed. We then did an experiment to see if we could make clay float by turning lumps of it into boats. There were some very successful attempts and some more creative ones. But lots of fun was had by all.

Having an ‘ice’ time. On Thursday afternoon, we had an end of term treat of ‘cups of ice’. This was something the kids all loved at the music festival gala performance and I thought it would be a different kind of end of term fun! I think it is safe to say that it was enjoyed by all.  (We were too busy enjoying our ice and Easter treats that I forgot to take photos.)

Have a lovely Easter break 🐥🐰

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog written by yours truly, Eilidh Reid.

This week on  Monday we attended the music festival it was really good to be there.

On Tuesday all the p7’s went to Sandwick school for a STEM thing. It was really good to socialise with other schools. P7’s opinions Smithy’s “I made a robot called Bob Ross with Lauren from Dunrossness”. Ava’s ” We did work but it was very fun “.

On Wednesday we had Lorna from Clan to speak about her job and we got to decorate stones and draw pictures of people who support us.

We went to the gala concert on Thursday and it was really good but i think they should get more snacks and better air conditioning . I ate radishes, they were good.

On Thursday and Friday, we shared our homework projects in class. Some people even brought in food to eat which was yummy!

On Friday morning, we got to go to the Primary 3/4 assembly all about maths. It was brilliant and they were all amazing!

BYEEEEEEEEEEEE <3

Hello, my name is Magnus and this week has been very busy in P5/6/7.

Wellness, connection and support. This week we have had different guest speakers in linked to our unit on wellness, connection and support. On Monday, we had Freya’s mum Kate, who is a dietician. She was telling us about the different food groups and what we should eat and eat less of. On Wednesday, we had people in to talk about digital wellbeing and living a balanced life. Both visitors were very interesting.

Writing – Wild Isles. We started a block of writing all about note taking. We had to watch ‘Wild Isles’ and take notes about the Killer Whale, Badger and Dormouse. We then used our notes to make posters. Here are some of our posters. They are all great!

The Drive to Move. On Thursday, we were learning about magnetism and static electricity. First, we had to make mazes and try to move a ball through them by using magnetism. Then we did two experiments to see if we could use static electiricy to move things without touching them. We had to do ‘air bending’ and move paper and ‘water bending’ and move a stream of water.

SMUHA . We had a super morning celebrating SMUHA. We also created Viking oil pastel pictures with Mrs A.

Hello everybody! I am Megan and I can’t wait to share with you what we have been doing in P5/6/7 this week.

STEM DAY – Lego Robots. On Monday, a lady called Eleanor came in and taught us about the circumference of a circle. We also got to program Lego robots which was lots of fun.

The Choice to Defy – Gravity and Air Resistance. For our Big Question this week, we were learning about gravity and air resistance. To do this, Mrs A set us the challenge to make a working parachute for a toy figure. Everyone did very well making their parachutes but a big well done to Joe, Campbell, Eilidh R and Eilidh S for their winning designs.

World Book Day. For World Book day, we got to make lots of cool stuff, like wooden bookmarks and gift token designs. Mrs A also set us a competition challenge to design a cover for a book with the title ‘Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast’. The winner will be announced on Monday.

Playleaders with P2. Every Friday morning, the P6s lead playleaders for the P2 pupils. This involves planning games and running the sessions. It also allows the P2s to develop listening skills and being a good sport. We’ve all now had 1 shot at leading and will all have one more before the end of term.

Dogs against drugs. On Friday, Megan from Dogs against Drugs came in to speak to us about her work and keeping safe. We played a game to learn about different situations and what we should do, learned how to do the recovery position and the best bit, got to meet Bravo! He was so cute and playful.

P5 reading buddies. Every Friday, the P5s go to P1 and lead activities linked to reading. Miss Hunter cannot praise them enough and is so impressed with their planning and running of each weekly session. Today they got to go early for lunch with P1/2 as requested by the class.

Thank you for reading and have a nice weekend.

Megan 😊

Hi everyone! It’s Rebekah here writing the blog this week. We’re going to share what we’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks.

Maths – 3D shapes. This last couple of weeks, then we have been revising 3D shapes. For this we might do like a quiz, activities or like colour and build your own 3D shapes. In our textbooks, we did things like learning about vertices, edges and faces😊(I mean like the faces on a the cube), and then had to draw our own 3D shapes.

Writing – Famous People. For our writing, we have been learning about Amelia Earhart and Ada Lovelace. Amelia was the first lady to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean and then disappeared whilst trying to fly around the world. We created presentations about her life. Ada Lovelace invented the first machine that could calculate stuff and we wrote stories about our own machines and then created posters about the goods and bads of technology.

Big Question. The Power to Save and Sustain. For ways to save energy, then we did pictures of the Lorax because he tries to save the environment. We then added in our own ways to save the environment around him.  On our pictures we added things like “Save the trees!” or “Don’t waste energy!” For ‘The Power to Sustain’ we looked at different keystone species and how they are important to the world.

This or That – free choice. This week for our S.D.G. we are working on what ever we want. The reason why we get to chose what we are doing is because it is quality education. People did lots of different topics including Minecrafts, SIX, myths, Gladiators, actors, animals, WW2, famous pianists and much more. We had a lovely afternoon hearing about the different topics.

Thanks for reading our blog.

Anthea and Rebekah

Hi! It’s me, Ava G and I’m in charge of the class blog this week.

Maths – Shape. For maths, we have been working on 2D shapes and their properties and also angles and lines. We created 2D shape characters and played Blooket to practice our facts about different kinds of angles and types of line.

Homework projects – Mythical Creatures. It was lovely to see all the different homework projects that people had done.

Chocolate! For our Big Question this week, I interviewed Megan to find out what the class were learning about.  “So we were learning about Fair Trade, in particular ‘Chocolate! Fair trade means that farmers get paid more money for their cocoa beans and a fair price as they don’t always get a fair amount of money for what they grow.  We go to try chocolate that was fair trade and we had the choice between different flavours. We then made chocolate fair trade posters in pairs and design our own fair trade chocolate bars. ”

This or That – European fashion. For this or that, we got to sew clothes for dolls based on different European clothing styles.

Thank you all for reading the blog this week, I hope you enjoyed it

BYE!

S’up hommies! It’s Ava T here and I have the power of the blog this week.  Mwah, ha, ha, ha!

Maths – Simon Says. This week we played a new version of Simon Says invented by Mrs A. She gave instructions like ‘Simon says what is 5 x 8?’ Then we had to write the answer as fast as possible. The last one to write the answer or if you got it wrong, you were eliminated. I got put out because I wrote a very wonky, unidentifiable number 5!

We’ve also been practicing our Speedy Skills a lot this week with some of us getting very competitive with themselves.

Writing – Alexander Fleming. We did our writing stimulus about Alexander Fleming and he discovered Penicillin after taking a vacay. We wrote our own amazing discovery stories and scientific reports. We wrote the reports step by step with Mrs A which was really clear and helpful to guide us to know what to do for each part. We were given a topic and time to write about that specifically which helped to us all to keep on track. It was good and we want to do more lessons like that. Here are some samples of the writing from our class this week.

Big Question – The Power to Renew. We have been learning about non-renewable and renewable energy sources. Mrs A challenged us to make our own Sustainable cities by using scrap paper and junk modelling resources. My group decided to make Sydney, Australia and obviously, I had to make a solar-powered water slide. Each group created amazing cities.

This or That. Our Culture Crew task this week was to build a model of a European Monument. We decided to make the Eiffel Tower however, its leaning qualities made us realise it should be called ‘The Leaning Tower of Eiffel’! It is still surprisingly upright (although leaning against the window). Other groups worked with Kapla to make amazing monuments. Can you guess what the monuments are?

I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog,

Ava 😁

‘Haggis Watch’ – The P5/6/7 assembly. This week has been focused around our class assembly. We chose to theme this around the ‘Haggis’ and the class split into different groups to explore this. We had scientists, environmentalists, field reporters, historians and hosts. The class were amazing and all shining stars. Well done P5/6/7!

Sustainable Squad – Coding Fun. We’ve had a lot of fun this week practicing our coding skills using Micro:bits and using Scratch.

Hello, this is Eilidh Smith and I have the power of this blog.

Writing – Robert Burns. This week we have used Robert Burns as our focus in writing. His Scottish poems are very confusing but we used two of his poems as a writing prompts. We wrote adventure stories about a little mouse and then haggis fact files.

Big Question – The Choice to Act. The best class value is kindness. This week we have been looking at values in action. We agreed on our top 4 class values of fun, determination, kindness and creativity and then Mrs A set up ‘Value jars’ that we can add counters to when we see the value in action. We also drew big people and wrote key values on the inside and actions linked to these on the outside.

Haggis themed fun. We watched a mockumentary about the wild haggis of Scotland. We learned about the Irn bru haggis, the Mullet Haggis, the Woolly Haggis and many more. After we made fact files about a haggis of our choice. On Thursday we made clay sculptures of many different haggis. Mine is called “The long neck tiny face stubby legs haggis.”

I hope you will spend your weekend dreaming about Haggis and let us know what your favourite breed of Haggis is.

Thanks for reading,

Bye! 😊

Hello! I am Cheryl and I have the power of the blog!

Music – Scottish singing and dancing. We were singing Scottish songs like ‘Auld Lang Sine’ and then did some dances in music this week. It was lots of fun.

Big Question – The Choice to Balance. This week we have been learning about having balance in our lives and not too much of one thing or another. We looked at the story of Buddha and how he found a balance between compassion and greed. Mrs A then gave us a fun task. We had to build a tower that was 1 meter tall. Each group had different ideas – some collapsed and some stayed up for the time. It was very fun!

Just dance fun. In the morning when it was dull and raining, we couldn’t go out for daily mile. So instead we did just dance. We did ‘Hips don’t lie’ and ‘Rasputin’ and ‘Waka waka’. My fav is ‘Hips don’t lie’.

Art with Mrs Adamson and Mrs Johnson. This week Mrs A and Mrs N Johnson did art with us. We could pick anything we wanted to draw ! We could use how to draws on the laptop or just make it up freestyle but it was the best! Here is the artwork. We hope you like it.

Murder Mystery. Murder Mystery style games are really loved by the class after Mrs A made up two for our castles topic. On Friday afternoon, Emma-Lee and I ran our own one in the style of ‘The Traitors’. Everyone really enjoyed it although unfortunately the traitors won!

I hope you enjoyed the blog.  Bye bye! 😊