UK Parliament Week. Continuing on from last week’s work around democracy and elections, this week the class were split into ‘parties’ based on their initial ‘vote for me’ posters. When in their parties, they had to choose a leader, a party name, create a logo and write their manifesto. They then had to present this to the class as a party before the party leaders faced a time of questions from their opposition (I think there are some budding politicians in this class). The class all then were able to vote and the votes were counted. The new class Prime Minister is Vaila! Congratulations to all of the candidates and their parties for the super effort shown this week.

Nonsense Poems.  This week our writing has been themed around ‘A Bugs Life’. One of our writing tasks, was to create a nonsense acrostic poem about Insects. The pupils worked in pairs to research their given bug and then used their information to write their nonsense poems. There was a lot of hilarity in the class and the pupils were all fully engaged in the task.

UK Parliament Week. For our Big Question this week and into next, we are focusing on everything linked with the ‘UK parliament’. The class were learning about what a democracy is, key people associated linked to Shetland and the UK as well as how elections work. As part this, pupils all created their own campaign posters as to why they should be voted for. These will be used as part of a bigger task next week.

Castles CSI with Glasgow Science Centre. On Monday, we had a super visit from GSC who explained some of the science of castles. We also got to take part in a workshop being forensic scientists to investigate two different skeletons. It was a lot of fun and we definitely had to use great communication and teamwork to solve some trickier problems.

Shetland fir Wirds. On Monday, Bruce came in to help us begin to learn our words for ‘Da night afore Yul’. The learners all did so well and gave it a go, even when some of the words were very tricky. They’ve really embraced the theme for the Christmas Concert and have started to learn lines for other parts of the concert too.

Little people, BIG dreams. This week our Big Question, has focused on discrimination. The learners grapsed this concept well and explored it further by looking at different historical figures who had faced discrimination.

Monster Kickabout. We’ve had a super week celebrating football through the Monster Kickabout celebration. The football coaches have led sessions with the younger pupils in the multicourt each breaktime. It was that popular they held additional sessions with both the nursery and the P1/2 class. They held competitions for each class and then hosted a peerie assembly to give out cerificates to the MVPs and trophies to the competition winners. The coaches planned and organised the event themselves and have blown everyone away with their leadership and teamwork skills.

Shetland fir Wirds. This week, Bruce Eunson came to visit the class as we started our work in preparation for the Christmas Concert. We had a lot of fun thinking about different Shetland words in general and then more specifically linked to animals and foods. This will come in handy as we write our own version of the ’12 Days of Christmas’ and also practice for the concert.

Monster Kickabout. For this week and next week, we are celebrating football in the class and encouraging other classes to do the same.  A  group of pupils in the class are leading this and have planned different activities and events for the school. They organised a competition for each class and then the P7 pupils are working independently or in pairs to create trophies that will be used as prizes.

Writing. For our writing this term we are having three different focused tasks each week – 1 story, 1 ICT based task and 1 poster based task. We will also have an overarching theme each week and this week, we used ‘Coco’ as a stimulus looking at ‘the best festivals’ (persuasive text) and then creating posters about ‘The Day of the Dead’. The learners did an excellent job of creating their persuasive pieces of writing on the computer and their posters were amazing.

It has been lovely to have the class back and they’ve already been very busy.

Maths – Multiplication Master. This week we started our new mental maths activity called Multiplication Master. It allows the learners to focus on a particular times table per week and apply this to increasingly challenging questions. over the week.

Big Question. For this week’s big questions, we have been looking at different customs and values of  different countries around the world. The learners worked in groups to research a given country and then present their information/props in our class Cultural Fair. The groups then went on a world tour to learn about the different countries from ‘an expert’. It was so lovely to see the learners all working so cooperatively and sharing their research with great confidence and enthusiasm.