Primary 2 have been enjoying their quiet afternoons but are looking forward to helping P1 settle into full days next week. P2 have been reading in groups and working together on alphabet tasks. They’ve been really keen to start their spelling tests and dictation work … just like P2 last year and have been learning how we need to set this out in our jotters. They have worked together on practical capacity work in Maths and have been developing their estimation skills. Topic work has been centred around lessons on Our Body and we’ve been keeping our bodies fit in class PE.
Everyone has enjoyed working together to explore capacity and trying out our estimation skills.
Dictation takes a lot of concentration to listen to the words and sounds and write them down.
We set out a cube every time we heard Mrs Smith say a word in the sentence.
The cubes helped us to remember how many words we needed to write and helped us to see where we should put a finger space.
Mrs Tait helped P2 to learn about the major organs of the body.
In class P.E. we have been working on listening to and following instructions first time and developing our ball skills.
What a super sports day! Primary 1/2 were so well behaved all day and waited very patiently for their turn to run. When it came to their events, everybody joined in and gave everything they had! I am so proud of all your achievements and Mrs Henderson would be too! Thank you to all those who came to support us throughout the day and cheer us on. We’ll all sleep tonight!
Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!
We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.
We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.
On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.
We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.
To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.
A little further up.
We watched how far it travelled.
It worked well.
Measuring the distance.
We tried it again, but further up this time.
We had to measure how far it travelled.
We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.
How far will it go?
We just had to try it right from the top!
The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.
Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!
Gravity is all around us!
This group had to show using a push.
Gravity pulls us down!
A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!
We applied forces to make things twist.
Some pushes can be good fun!
This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.
Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.
Testing the wooden ramp for friction.
P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.
Well done to P1/2 this morning! You all performed brilliantly and should be so proud of yourselves! Thank you to our super audience for so willingly joining in. Thanks to our friends and families for helping us prepare at home and for supporting us on the day. Thanks to John and Mrs Inkster too. Can we do it all again?
Waiting patiently for it all to start!
Christina, Iona and Lorelei welcome everyone using sign language.
We told everyone about what bucket filling and bucket dipping is and how it makes us feel.
Roma helped Mrs Smith to hand out all our buckets so we could test how well our audience could recognise bucket filling or dipping.
Our audience was keen to join in.
Children are left out…ask them to join in!
A bucket dipping sketch about not letting others join in.
Leighton asks if he can play. It’s in time – Iona and Elijah say he can play next time.
We want to be a bucket filling school!
Anders and Isla knew how to include others in their game.
Hurtful words = Bucket Dipping
We don’t want bucket dipping in the canteen either.
Well done Ryan, confidently introducing our A-Z.
We signed each letter before saying our bucket filling ideas.
We sang and signed a beautiful song all about how we can make a difference every day.
We had a great time last week learning about the journey food takes through our bodies. Everyone was surprised to learn that our small intestines are 6 metres long!
Later on we had fun exploring the different exhibits on offer. We tried out a thermal camera, a memory game, a multi tasking game, a body puzzle, an X-ray activity and much, much more! One exhibit even showed you what you might look like in 10 years time if you lived an unhealthy lifestyle! It was pretty scary!
Here is a pretend stomach full of food!We played a small intestine race. Each person had to squeeze the ball through the small intestine, acting like the muscles pushing real food through the body.
This exhibit showed what happens to your lungs if you smoke cigarettes. It was much harder to pump air into the black lung.It was great fun using this special magnifying camera.The multi tasking game.This machine let us listen to different people breathing. One person had asthma and we had to guess which one it was.The memory game involved pushing a sequence of colours in the order shiwn. A new colour was added each time it the sequence which made it it’s tricky!
Leighton and George worked as a team to put the body back together again.
Great fun was had by all with the thermal camera.The poor person in this X-ray had barbed wire stuck in their hands! Ouch!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our French afternoon on Wednesday. We had a busy morning drumming in assembly, but then got straight to work preparing the classroom for an afternoon with family and friends and of course some French treats too!
Bienvenue!
Not much left now!
Leighton had fun building his Eiffel Tower.
Parents helped too!
Not as easy as it looks!
A happy afternoon for all involved!
Iona enjoyed sharing some treats with her Mum.
Lena’s Dad was determined to win the french colours dominoes game!
Well done John for making all of those crepes all afternoon! Thank you!
Our classroom was a hive of activity!
The Lego Eiffel Tower is underway…
A french version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Thank you Mrs Sutherland for all your help on the day too!
I wonder who can build The Eiffel Tower with spaghetti and play dough!
Brothers and sisters came to visit as well.
Enjoying a french story together.
Christina enjoyed having her little brother to visit.
Ronan made a fantastic Eiffel Tower!
Looks like a nice picnic Kayla!
Not many chocolate croissants left!
This french number matching game was popular with children of all ages.
Leighton tries a game of colour dominoes. I wonder who won…?
P1/2 have been using the laptops to research French food this term as part of their Food topic. Some food sounded really yummy – macarons, crepes, baguettes and tarte tatin just to name a few. Others were a bit surprising. Have you ever tried frogs legs and snails?!
We decided that we wanted to try making some of the yummy treats for family and friends to enjoy. Once we found some simple recipes, we wrote shopping lists and began the preparations for our French afternoon. Invitations were made and sent out. Then it was time to begin making and baking! We also made a milk chocolate tarte and a white chocolate tarte but forgot to take photos!!
Roma was busy making her own notes on French food.
Ryan and Elijah worked as a team to find out about baguettes and took notes to share with the class.
P2 were super helpers for the P1s. There was a lot of information to look through and they had to decide what was important to write down.
Conor carefully looked through the recipes to make sure he had included everything in his shopping list.
Elijah read out the ingredients for Freya to add to her shopping list.
Time to begin the first crepe mixture.
Everyone enjoys cracking the eggs! Watch out for egg shells!
Conor made sure Aiden poured just the right amount of milk.
Roma takes a break from beating her eggs to check the milk too!
Leo and Freya worked as a team to pour and measure the right amount of milk.
tap…tap…tap…
Everyone was busy pouring, measuring and mixing.
Iona begins mixing all of the ingredients together.
Freya’s turn next!
Next up…mini chocolate croissants.
Roll them up….
Roma seems happy with her croissant!
When the pupils finished each croissant, they added them to the tray.
Keep rolling…we need to make more!
Georgia and Elijah worked together to lightly brush some egg on top of each one.
We have been busy looking at the food packaging from our fruit tasting afternoon. It was amazing to see where our fruit has travelled from to get to our classroom! Most of the fruit came from Africa, South America and Spain. As a class, we plotted these fruits on a large map and had fun looking at an atlas to see if we could find these countries for ourselves. Some pupils couldn’t believe how tiny Shetland was in comparison to other places around the world!
We discussed how important it was to try and buy local produce as much as we can, but of course this is not always possible when buying pineapples or bananas!
Following on from our fruit tasting afternoon, we gathered together all the results and worked with a partner to create a bar chart on the laptops. Then we worked together as a class to make a giant bar chart for our classroom wall. I wonder which fruit was the most popular?
We had to count out the correct number of squares to show how many people liked each fruit.
We worked as a team to build each part of the bar chart.
Nearly finished!
Apples were the most popular! Everyone said that they liked the taste of apples.
As part of our topic on Friendship and with it being the season of goodwill to all, we have decided to become a “Bucket Filling” class. This works on the idea that we all carry around an invisible bucket and by being a good friend and showing kindness towards others, we can fill their bucket and also our own. Then we all feel good! We have been introduced to a story (see link below) and have decorated our own buckets so that we can start to fill them when we give compliments and do good deeds. Bucket filling can also be brought into the wider school and home so we hope you will feel the benefits there too! Happy bucket filling!
P1/2 had a great time decorating their buckets ready for filling.
