Our Year in PE

May 27, 2025 Mrs Ritchie Leave a comment

We have had a busy year in the gym, covering a variety of different activities, with some new blocks of work. We have done

Better Movers and Thinkers – This is is an approach to learning and teaching in physical education designed to develop the ability of all children and young people to move and think in a more cohesive way with a specific focus on developing, enhancing and fostering Executive Function (EF) skills within the learning process.” Better Movers and Thinkers Resource Pack. Our focused Significant Aspect of Learning was Coordination and Fluency.

Ball Games with our focused Significant Aspect of Learning being Gross and Fine Motor Skills.

Yoga/Flexibility, focusing on Flexibility

Games Making, focusing on Respect and Tolerance

Swimming, focusing on Stamina

Rounders/Cricket, focusing on Multiprocessing

Athletics focusing on Focus and Concentration with a specific aim of getting ready for sports day.

We will be finishing with a variety of Activities focusing on Cue Recognition.

Here is a snap shot of some of our work.

Showcase Event

May 17, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

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

May 8, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

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!

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

April 30, 2025 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

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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Da Voar Redd Up

April 25, 2025 Mrs Henderson 1 Comment

We had a lovely time, out and about for Da Voar Redd Up on Wednesday afternoon. The main thing we found were plastic bags and food wrappers.

Thank you to all of the adult helpers with us on the day!

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Term 3 Topic Work

April 4, 2025 Mrs Henderson 2 Comments

Bones

“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.

An “electric” guitar with an amp and an acoustic guitar. Well done boys!

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Odd Socks Day!

March 21, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Today we celebrated Down Syndrome Awareness day by donning our brightest, odd socks!

Yesterday, we watched a video that explains what Down Syndrome is and there were many really thoughtful questions raised following this. If you want to watch the video at home, the link is below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_2rmDYfz4

We have one very special classmate that we like to celebrate on Odd Socks Day! This year, we wrote 21 things we love about her. Ask your child at home why we chose the number 21!

To round off what was a great day, we managed to squeeze in one final session of Curling! This has been a real HIT with all the pupils, with grateful thanks to Charis at Ability Shetland!

Have a happy weekend everyone!

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SMUHA

March 14, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

We have been preparing for SMUHA over the past couple of weeks. We started by creating our pictures for the hall. We drew Vikings on polystyrene, then used ink and rollers to add colour. They looked great!

This week we prepared our torches and helmets ready for the procession!

We are so lucky to have two beautiful galleys!

Two pupils were lucky enough to have their shield design chosen for our school galley and another pupil had her one on the main SMUHA galley! Congratulations!

The sun was shining today for our procession and burning. Well done to our P7 Squad who did us proud again! Everyone was in fine voice at the hall too! It’s been a g-r-e-a-t day!

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World Book Day

March 8, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

On Thursday 6th March we celebrated World Book Day. We started off by listening to a snippet from Mrs Smith’s favourite childhood novel and then we did a fast and furious Speed Recommendation where we had one minute each to sell our favourite books!

Some pupils also spent time with Ms Stewart going through a sensory story for the, ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’ book.

After playtime, we looked at lots of novels and picture books and spent time talking about what makes a good book recommendation. We noticed that they often use good describing words, mention themes tackled in the story and what type or genre the book is. We also looked at who was commonly making the recommendations and why they were a good choice.

After lunch, we tried to write our own recommendations for our favourite books to be added to a class display. It was quite tricky to keep it short and remember that we weren’t describing the plot like in a report!

Here are some of our attempts…

“Thrills readers with a ride through a detailed world full of horrific, exciting and imaginative mysteries.” Archie, the number 1 fantasy fan.

If you like fantasy and animal stories this is the one for you! Leva a fan of Linda Chapman.

A hilarious book with a CRAZY family! If you like comedy books then this book is for you! Elsie Geldenhuys the biggest Roald Dahl and David Walliams fan!

This story is wonderfully enchanting, astonishingly adventurous and inspirational. The story will leave you in a joyful, courageous mood. Honor Johnstone 9 years old and fan of J.K. Rowling.

An adventurous and funny novel. And it’s by the great Roald Dahl. By Greg Leslie Fantastic Mr Fox Fan.

A disgusting and hilarious book about a family of Twits. A Roald Dahl Lover (Drewie)

An imaginative book, fabulous for a younger audience. It is very exciting and adventurous. Elska Ritch the Enid Blyton fan.

Last week, we started to prepare our World Book Day display by drawing us looking at our favourite books and we tried to think about what our expressions would look like while we are reading!