⚽🏉 PE Focus This Term: Football & Rugby Skills

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This term, our PE lessons have centred around developing Gross and Fine Motor Skills through football and rugby. Pupils began with football, practising key techniques such as passing, dribbling, and shooting, and learning how to apply these in game situations.

Over the past three weeks, we’ve shifted our focus to rugby, where pupils have been learning essential skills like passing backwards, moving with the ball, and understanding important rules such as staying behind the ball carrier and avoiding forward passes.

To reinforce these skills in a fun and active way, we’ve played a variety of engaging games including:

  • Canadian Goose – a fast-paced game of ball-stealing and flag-pulling.
  • Flag Fury – collecting and attaching flags while staying on the move.
  • Bears and Buffaloes – racing to score tries while dodging defenders.
  • Great Escape – escaping defenders without losing a tag.
  • Rugby Freeze Tag – tagging and freeing teammates with high fives.
  • Inside the Raven’s Nest – a team challenge to collect and protect rugby balls.

The pupils found the football work more challenging.  It has been nice to watch them grow in confidence throughout the rugby sessions.

The Writing Project

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P5/6 have been taking part in the Writing Project (A national project aimed to develop writing skills). Our first “aim” was to ensure 70% of learners in the class were writing using correct punctuation. The class could look at our run chart each week to see how well they had done, and if 100% reached their target they receive a golden ticket.

We introduced a new aim (looking at use of conjunctions) fairly recently. The class all work so hard during our writing sessions, and have managed to get 5 golden tickets – meaning it was a celebratory hot chocolate for their efforts!

In term 2 we will continue, and hope to introduce more aims, as well as get 5 more golden tickets which will win a class prize again!

Fantastic work P5/6!

 

 

Fun and Games

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This morning the whole school had some fun outdoors, watching the staff and P7s playing “Sheet Volleyball” mixed with “Floor is Lava”.   Of course, some fancy dress for the staff was a requirement.

It was a close match with each member eliminated if they were the last person off the floor each time the whistle was blown.

Although the P7s lost more of their team mates, they won on the points earned whenever the ball was tossed over and not caught by the staff team on their sheet.    Perhaps next year the staff will win…!

Well done to all!  What a brilliant way to end the school year.

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Showcase Event

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This morning, six of our P4/5 pupils went to share their views, and the views of their peers, with SIC representatives at a Showcase Event.  This followed on from our work with the ‘A Place In Childhood’ team last week.

Our representatives were excited to share their views and ideas!

The morning started with each South Mainland school, sharing what they had done on their tour day and talking through their priority lists.  We were interested to hear that there were many similarities between the different areas.

Then it was time to talk to the SIC representatives!  We spoke to people from the areas of Sport & Leisure, Roads, Waste Management, Environmental Health, Town Planning, Youth Services, the Sandwick Community Council and a Youth Worker.  We were interested to hear what their jobs involved and many aspects of their remits, fitted into our priorities so we were able to pass our concerns to the right people, face-to-face.

We explained our priorities to Suzanne from Town Planning and talked about the paths we use to keep us safe but also how the busy main road prevents us having a little more freedom.
We talked to Neil from Sport & Leisure about the Boddam Play Park and our multi court.  He also shared with us some future plans for the Boddam Park which look great and will make it more inclusive.  This was on our priority list!

Our morning finished off with us talking to Ross from Radio Shetland.  We were included in the show which aired on Friday 16th May so please have a listen!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c2p9

This has been a fabulous project to be part of with a lot of learning opportunities and experiences arising from it.  We feel very lucky to have been involved and to have had input into how we can improve our local area for everyone, especially children.

Our poster and priorities will be displayed ready for the Learner Led Event on Tuesday 27th so please pop in and have a look!
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A Place In Childhood

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Today Anna from the ‘A Place In Childhood’ organisation came to visit along with Ana Arnett, Community Involvement & Development Officer, to work with our class.  We were thinking about our local area and places of importance.  We collected quite a list!

Gathering ideas about our local area.

After that, we went on a walk to help us think more about the areas around our school, what we like about them, how we use them and how they might be improved.  Our walk ended up at the Boddam Play Park so we had our snacks outside and had a play!  This was actually useful for our discussions later!

We then worked in groups on an island task.  We pretended we were separated from the rest of Shetland from Levenwick and South.  We noted down what we would miss not being connected to other areas and added them to the ‘island’.  When Anna collated all our ideas, we were able to think more realistically about what we would like to see in our area and this helped us create our priority list.

Tomorrow, we will all complete a Play Sufficiency Assessment where we will select areas we like to play and pinpoint others that we feel could be improved.  The results will be used to support the SIC in their decision making plans for the future.  We will then use our expertise to help others in the school complete this same survey.

Our final task will be to select a few willing pupils to share our thoughts and ideas at a Showcase Event at Sandwick JH School next Friday.  We will meet with children from our Cluster Schools and share our priorities with local decision makers, including representatives from the Shetland Islands Council.  It’s a great opportunity for us to effect change and see that our views are valued.

Grateful thanks to Anna, Ana and our parent volunteers!
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Sunny Playful Minutes

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We had fun in the sun this afternoon during our Playful Minutes time.  There were burritos being made in the mud kitchen, balancing and hula hooping skills being developed and of course a game of football being played!

Some chose to stay indoors and  play in their restaurant, making us all yummy things to eat as we were playing.  I wonder what will be on the menu next week…

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Term 3 Topic Work

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“This term we have been learning about the human body.  We learned about our hands and the tendons used to make them move.

We made hands with string and straws.  We drew around our hands, then taped straws to it and threaded string through so that they could move.”   Elska P4

 

The Digestive System 

“We put crackers, bananas and juice in a bag and mixed it up by squeezing the bag.  This was supposed to mimic the stomach.  Then we put some tights over a paper cup and  poured in the mixture.  Then we squeezed the mixture in the tights.”  Elska P4

The tights acts like the small intestines, squeezing out all the nutrients that the body needs and passing on what our bodies don’t need to the large intestine.  At the end of the task, we emptied the remaining food in the tights into a cup where it was then pushed out as waste.  Some children were delighted to be part of this messy activity, whilst others were glad that it was over!!  It was a great way to visualize what is happening inside our bodies when we eat food.

Time to go to show what happens when we go to the toilet!

 

Sound 

We have been learning about how sound is made through vibrations and how it travels to our ears so that we can hear it.  It was great fun making string telephones to speak with our friends!

We tested to see if we needed the string to be loose or taut.

We’re not sure if the message was able to get passed on here!
Good vibrations…! We tested what happens to the vibrations when we made the ruler longer or shorter.

On the last day of term we had fun making instruments to show our understanding of vibrations and how to change the pitch of sound.

 

A finished guitar, ready to be played!
An “electric” guitar with an amp and an acoustic guitar. Well done boys!
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