Today we have been really enjoying a visit from Chris. He’s an astronomer and has been teaching us about stars, planets, moons and our solar system!
We’ve been using technology to learn more about each planet in our solar system, made scale models of our solar system using playdough, learnt more about the night sky and the star consellations we can see and P4-7 have been doing some work using robotic telescopes!
Here are some pictures of a great day full of learning!
The eco committee have been learning about the United Nations Global Goals. They have created presentations to tell the younger children what they have been learning.
P4 and 5 created a rap to tell us about the United Nations and how there are 17 global goals.
The eco committee looked through all these goals and chose ‘Life Below Water’ to focus on this year.
Primary 6 created a presentation about this to tell us more. They explained what sea pollution is and how this affects animals that live underwater. They told us that we should always put our rubbish in the bin and gave us ideas of who we could speak to to learn more.
The pupil council have organised a coffee morning for Macmillan tomorrow, the 5th of October, from 10am to 11:15am. We would love to see as many people as possible to help us support such a worthy cause.
The younger children are busy learning about the charity and what they do in order to make posters to go up in the canteen whilst the pupil council decorate the canteen so we are all set for tomorrow morning.
We are all going to be baking tonight so there will be lots of lovely goodies for you to try. We hope to see you there!
The older pupils have been learning about the dewey system and how the books are sorted alphabetically during library time in Mid Yell. The primary 7 girls very kindly offered to give up their golden time today to make a start at sorting out our own school library. They have made a good start and will continue with this when they can. Thank you P7!
For the Yell show we are entering a novelty cake. On Friday we baked sponge and put it in the freezer until we need it. Today we finished designing our cake and we have already made the cake bases, animals, marshmallow krispies, a bouncy castle and bunting. We got fondant and have been moulding animals. We made cows, horses and dogs. To make the marshmallow krispies we got butter, marshmallows and rice krispies. We melted the butter and marshmallows together and then added the rice krispies in. We will mould them into cars. To make the bouncy castle we used flumps and cocktail sticks to put them together.
This afternoon we are working cooperatively to find out more about our organs. We have split ourselves into different groups and chosen an organ to research:
We are researching what it does and why it is important. We are going to make a poster to show all our learning and research. Miss Jamieson and Miss Nicholson has found us videos on Twig to watch linked to each organ to help us, they were really interesting and fun to watch. Each group will then present their findings to the rest of the school so we all know about each organ.
Today Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson set us a challenge.
Each group had a pile of papers which had the bones that make up our body…we had to put these bones in the right place to make our skeleton.
Everyone worked really well and there was great discussion as to where we thought the bones would go. Once we thought we were finished we got the teachers to check it for us. We all did a great job with only a few mistakes with arm/leg bones. We then cut out the bones so that we could use split pins to put our skeletons together. Once he was complete we named it! (We tried to think of one linked to our group names)
Then Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson threw another challenge at us….This time we had to put the organs where we thought they went. This was a challenge, some groups only just started cutting out their organs but Sir Swagsolot Junior was the only one to have his organs placed in his chest/stomach. They got nearly every one in the correct place or very close if not. There are a few organs that we weren’t sure on so we are going to be learning about these in topic!
Photos to follow
We get to have our say and decide on a reward system that we want so we all had a think and came up with lots of great ideas, once everyone had shared their idea then we took a blind vote. We narrowed this down to 2: House points and bucket fillers. We had a final vote and decided for term 1 and 2 we would go with ‘House Points’ as our reward system.
We had to get into groups for this – we decided that their would be 4 groups since there are 4 primary 7 pupils. So we got into a line according to age; the oldest being at the door and the youngest at the window – we even managed to figure this out without talking!Miss Nicholson then numbered us 1-4 and set us off into our groups so that we could think of a name! Here are our groups names:
Now that we had our groups we had to decide why we would receive house points for, this s what we came up with:
If we are awarded a house point we get to put a tally mark on our groups sheet.
Today we looked at all our rights and discussed these in groups. We thought about the 3 that we thought were really important and would like to focus on for the year ahead.
After a great deal of discussion the groups gathered together again to share their choices. Most of the groups chose similar articles which left us with 9 articles to narrow down to 3. We decided to take a blind vote.
From the vote we decided to focus on article 6, 24 and 31 this year.
A huge welcome back to everyone today. It has been lovely to hear everyone’s news from the summer and to see how much they have all grown! Dean is very nearly the same height as Miss Jamieson!!
We have had a very busy day creating our class charter. First we went over our rights and why we have them before splitting into groups and reading through the 42 articles and highlighting all the ones we think were appropriate for school. We then fed back to the class before returning into our groups to select what we thought were the 4 most important articles for our class charter. We had 24 to choose from so we held a vote to narrow this down. There was some great discussion and some arguments for and against why we should or shouldn’t have them. We ended up with 5 articles for our class charter as we thought they were all important.
Our next step was to design our class charter! We all had the chance to design our own class charter before taking a vote on which one we thought would like to make. Everyone thought really hard about how they could add the article, right and responsibility into their design. I think you will agree there were some fantastic designs to choose from.
We all had 3 pom poms which we then placed on our ‘top’ 3 choices. Everyone got to vote, even the staff! The winning design was Jasmine’s island.
After dinner primary 7 decided on what needed to be done and split us all into groups so that we all had a job to do. We had one group measuring the wall to see how big the charter had to be, decide on what the responsibilities were, people making the sand, the tree trunks, the palm trees, the sun, the buckets, the heading, etc. It was a very busy and productive afternoon! We all worked really well and helped each other. We are very close to finishing so hopefully by tomorrow we can share a photo of the finished display!
