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!
This week, P1 have been preparing for Remembrance Day by painting poppy pictures, talking about how and why it is commemorated and taking part in a one minute silence.
Busy painting our poppy backgrounds.
We thought they looked like a field of poppies when they were on the wall.
Here is the video clip we watched together. In quite simple terms, it explains what Remembrance Day is and how it came about. It also tells the story of how the poppy became a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day. We thought you might like to share watching it with your child.
A rainy morning didn’t stop us enjoying our visit to our local Church of Scotland! We spoke about why and how babies are christened and saw the font they use. We also learned some new names for the things we saw … the pews, lectern and pulpit. We heard about the history of the church and, after Mrs Leslie’s Assembly, we also looked at Betty Mouat’s resting place.
We sat in pews to listen to Debbie talk about the church.
She showed us where they read from the Bible. It’s called the lectern.
The minister stands in the pulpit so they can see all of the congregation.
This is an old window that was saved from the original Church of Scotland in Quendale.
This is where babies would be christened. It’s called the font.
As part of our “Around Our School” topic and our Religious and Moral Education studies, we visited one of our local churches. Reverend Thomson told us all about the history of the church and showed us around all the important parts of the building, including the baptismal pool. He showed us old photos of how the church used to look inside and spoke about the changes they’d made. We are looking forward to our next church visit so we can compare the two churches in our local area.
Reverend Thomson welcomed us and showed us old photos of the church being built 102 years ago!
He showed us the baptismal pool.
He told us about Sinclair Thomson who founded the church 200 years ago.
Here we are with our helpers. You can see the important dates when the church was founded and when this building was completed. The initials ST can be seen too.
Primary 1 have been settling into school life really well and will start full days this coming Monday. So, what have they been getting up to? Here are just some of the activities they have been involved in. They’ve packed a lot in!
Primary 1/2 had a visit from Police Officer Chris Hardwick today to tell them all about his role in the community. We look forward to inviting him back again so that we can find out more.
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