This term, P5/6 have been working really hard on their enterprise project – Dragons Den. We had 6 teams who all created a prototype, and pitched their products to a panel of “Dragons” – who then had to choose teams to represent the class at the Summer Gala to raise funds for the school. The teams have all created their own products, looked at profits and expenditure and also created advertisement to help them in their pitches. The successful teams were “Lucky Lemonade” – who will sell lemonade and lucky dips, and “Sweets n’ Treats” who will sell fruit kebabs and chocolate covered strawberries.
A huge thank you must go to our Dragons – Mrs Leslie, Gus Dow (Bigton Bakery) & Sarah Green (D.P.C & Stakkadale Coffee), as well as Derry (Community Champion – Tesco) – who has donated lots of items to help keep costs extremely low!
We had a busy term in PE taking part in Dance, Handball and Badminton. Throughout the blocks we covered a lot of our benchmarks, but focused on Motivation, Decision Making and Balance and Control.
P5/6 worked so hard at our Robotics workshop this week. They learned about the circumference of a circle, by programming a robot based on the rotations of its wheels. They then had fun creating their own shapes, which they then coded their robot to travel around, based on the shapes perimeter.
After a lot of work on weight in maths, it was only right we put our extended knowledge into context – we measured toppings to make “the Perfect Pizza”.
A huge thank you to our Community Champion at Tesco, Derry, who provided us with all of the ingredients we needed!
At the end of Term 2 we had a visit from Barnum at Shetland Arts who brought in real film equipment. We got the opportunity to learn how to use it and create our own short films! We had the best afternoon.
We write 3 times per week, and today we decided to use Ruby to help us create an imaginative story. While she played “The Lost City” on the double bass, we created imaginative stories about of own Lost Cities.
The National improvement for writing project, aims to have pupils write for short amounts of time (15 mins) focussing on personal targets to achieve. Pupils are then given a further 5 minutes to edit and check their work. This is working great in P5/6 where we’re seeing some superb improvements in writing.
P5/6 have worked really hard this term learning about water and how it can change states. We recently learned about salt and how it changes the freezing point of water – so using this knowledge we created our very own ice creams – in only 15 minutes!
