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Term 1 Update

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We have had a very busy term settling into P1/2. Everyone has worked hard to make our classroom a kind, helpful and safe place where we always try our best!

Play

Through play we have been getting to know each other – we have lots of similarities, but also differences and that’s what makes us unique! Some of our favourite things to do include den making, construction and arts & crafts.

Literacy

We have begun learning our sounds through the Jolly Phonics programme. Our favourite part of this is singing the songs and doing the actions, but we are working really hard to recognise and form the letters, and to blend the sounds together.

Story time is also a big part of our week. We love visiting the library to find new books, and often come together to read a story for enjoyment. We have been learning to identify rhyme as we listen, and have even manage to pick out some alliteration!

Using this to support our writing, we have also just started Drawing Club. This is where we listen to a story together and then discuss it. We think about some of the vocabulary and create actions to help us remember some of the big words, and then we sit down to draw a picture based on the book. Within our pictures we must include special codes (of our own choice) that make our picture do something wonderful (think flying houses and monsters that can turn into flowerpots)! This supports our imaginations, mark making, and helps us practice skills we have been learning about, and most importantly teaches us that writing can be fun!

Maths and Numeracy

In numeracy we started the term by looking at number formation. We used Number Zoo to help us do this and enjoyed making a new animal with every number. This also helped us with our fine motor and cutting skills as some of the shapes were really challenging! For some people, the best part was getting to express ourselves by decorating our animals – have a look at our display and you may see ‘Greedy Zero’ wearing a dress, or even ‘Snappy Six’ getting married!

We have now moved on to looking at Numbers to 10, 20 and 100. This focuses on recognition, counting and sequencing.

For practical maths our main focus has been shape. We have been learning to name 3D shapes (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder and cone), and have spent time identifying them within the environment. P1 have also been experimenting with physical shapes to understand what makes a shape roll, stack or slide, whilst P2 have been learning to identify the shapes by their properties (number of faces, vertices and edges). We are now all looking at 2D shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles and circles + hexagons for P2) – their names and how to identify them by the number of sides. We are beginning to recognise these in the environment.

Overall, this has been a super term with lots of enjoyable moments. Our confidence and independence are growing, and everyone fills the classroom with such joy. Everyone is looking forward to a well earned break, but can’t wait to see what Term 2 brings!

Visit from the Police

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Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from PC Cameron Jamieson who is the link officer with our school.  He came in to tell us about Stranger Danger, Road Safety and also a little bit about his job.

We were very interested and excited to see all the things he told us and showed us.  He had a big bag of things that help him do his job.  We found out about the importance of wearing reflective clothing at night when we are out walking and we also told him other ways to stay safe when walking at night too.

PC Jamieson showed us the baton and sprays that help to keep him safe when out on patrol.

Then he showed us the handcuffs.  PC Jamieson pretended to arrest Mrs Inkster to show how the handcuffs work, thankfully he let her go again!

Then we found out more about the radio and how it was important to help communicate with other police officers, not only here in Shetland, but in other places in Scotland too.

Writing is something we do all the time and PC Jamieson said it was important to keep writing and put as much information in as possible as it helped with being a police officer.  They have to write lots of details down in their books.

Then we got to have a closer look at things and ask PC Jamieson questions.  He showed us safety glasses, the first aid kit, he even let us try on his hat!  Some of us think that maybe this could be the job we want to do when we grow up.

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Class trip

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On Friday we had the great excitement and pleasure of going down to Sumburgh to visit Search and Rescue at the Bristow hangar and then on to visit the Fire Station and find out about Air Traffic Control.

Our topic was Day & Night but we were looking at how jobs are affected by the different times of day.  What we found out was very interesting!

We saw the control room at Search and Rescue.  It is very busy place.  There are screens to see the weather, showing maps and many other things.  They have maps to show where they are going and how far away it is so that they have enough fuel to fly there and back.

Each crew member has an important role.  Here is someone being winched up in the sling.

The pilots fly the helicopter and keep it steady when hovering over places.  They also land it safely.  Here is a photo showing the cockpit and one of us thinking about being a pilot!

When it is dark or poorer weather, the crew looks through a special camera under the helicopter to find and zoom in on people they are rescuing.  They have a special thermal heat locator that they can turn on to see folk quickly.  We found this very interesing!

The helicopter also takes things with them that may be needed in a rescue.  They keep these in the hangar, ready to collect and put on the helicopter when needed.

We loved being down at Search and Rescue, finding out about a lot of things!  After that, we went to the Fire Station.  That was cool and very different.  We did see all the things the fire fighters need in the fire engine and also what they need to wear to keep safe when fighting a fire.  Again, they had thermal imaging cameras too to help them with their job and to help them when they couldn’t see things so well because it was dark or smoky.

We saw watched how the firefighters work together as a team when going into a building or plane.  They talk to each other all the time and someone on the unit checks on them all the time to see that they are ok.  This was great to see how working as a team is important.

Then we got to look around the fire engine, pretend to drive and some of us thought what it must be like to be a firefighter and maybe even want to be ones when we grow up.

    

After that, we heard about what staff need to help direct planes when they land and get them to park up at the airport building.  Some of us pretended to have a go at this.

Then Jillian Mouat told us how the Air Traffic Control helps aircraft to land during the day and night.  It was all very interesting.

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Fundamentals of movement

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Primary 1/2 are lucky to have a visit to help with the fundamentals of movement.  This happened on Monday and will happen again next week too.

They had great fun finding different ways to move around.  They had to balance, move in different ways, work as a team and be imaginative.  Here are some pictures to show some of the activities.

They had great fun and are looking forward to some more next week.

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