Lots of pupils came in fancy dress today as part of our Children In Need celebrations! It made for an interesting day! Thank you to the Pupil Council for organising our colouring competition and Pudsey Hunt. We really enjoyed it. Some pupils have a colouring sheet to finish at home this weekend before judging.
If you would like to donate this year, this can be done using the link below.
This week we have created our own poppies for a display to help us remember and appreciate all the soldiers who fought and are still fighting in wars today.
We listened to ‘The Poppy Story’ and took down notes that will be used in our writing time next week to retell how the poppy became the symbol of remembrance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGXTeiP5Nc
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It was lovely to see so many parents and family members in class this week for our Shared Learning Event which, this time round, had a focus on Reading.
Activities to try included…
* creating our own first lines after reading the blurb on the back of books. This will be used next week as a follow up activity.
* sorting jumbled sentences to sequence a short story.
* deciphering a set of instructions taken from our class novel.
*a variety of reading and phonics games.
*cosy cushions to look at our ERIC books.
Thank you for coming and showing your support! Please let us know which activities you tried and enjoyed by leaving us a comment.
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It’s been a busy day in class! We started off with our Music lesson with Ms Stewart before returning to class to work on measuring with the help of Miss Newbold. We’ve been measuring using metre sticks over the past few weeks but the children have been keen to work with smaller units of measurement too. Today we tried drawing lines of a given length using rulers. This is actually a tricky skill but one that they all picked up quickly. We enjoyed playing a game of ‘Measurement Tag’ to reinforce these skills.
Today is also National Poetry Day so we listened to several poems during the day, including the Shetland dialect poem ‘Eence Apon A Time’ by Vagaland.
We then took this year’s theme of counting and tried to create a Harvest themed poem that rhymed. We worked in pairs to support each other with that as getting a line that makes sense and rhymes is tricky! We will continue with this on Friday!
The afternoon saw us enjoying some time outside while this beautiful weather holds!
Finally, we welcomed Michelle McAdoo into class and she talked us through what a Harvest festival in the Christian church would look like.
She told us about the importance of thanking God for everything he’s provided but also about how important it is to give and share.
At the end of the day, she gave us all some sweets that we were to give away to someone deserving. Thank you Michelle for a wonderful visit!
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Here is a brief overview of some of the learning that will be taking place in P4/5/6 over the coming term.
If you have any experience or expertise that you can bring to any of these topics, we’d love to hear from you!
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Welcome to our new P4/5/6 for 2024-2025!
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We had an introduction to basic work on probability for something a little bit different this week, as we head towards the end of term. Work in this area also takes in work on Fractions and Information Handling which we are looking at in class just now so the game ‘Blocko’ fitted in well!
Each pair were given a board with sections marked 2 -12 and 12 cubes. They were asked to arrange the cubes in any way they liked.
They were then told the rules of the game and were given the chance to rearrange their cubes once they had been given the full instructions! When two dice were rolled, the total of the two numbers would be shouted out and if they had a cube on that number, they could remove it. The winners would be the first to remove ALL cubes and shout, “BLOCKO!”
Some were happy with their choices and chose to leave them as they were. Others began to think about our introduction to probability and began to realise that some totals are more likely to be rolled than others, given the number of combinations that can make them.
We had a couple of competitive games with everyone keen to be the first to remove all their cubes!
For our second run through, we recorded the results we got and displayed them in a Frequency Chart. We discussed what this tells us about the probability of rolling certain totals and we talked about what surprised us. We did not expect 3 to be rolled so often given that there is only one way to make it!
It was a fun Maths time! 🎲
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Our Health and Well-being work this term has centred around the safe use of medicines. This led us to find out about basic first aid techniques that should be carried out when minor injuries happen. Discussions naturally developed into what would happen if….? We decided to invite Andrew Best, a First Aid Responder, to talk to our class and to demonstrate what would happen in more serious situations.
We then had the opportunity to practise putting our partners in the recovery position.
Andrew and Jack then showed us what to do if the person wasn’t breathing. He talked us through making a 999 call and emphasised the importance of getting help quickly. We’ll talk more about this next week.
He talked us through giving CPR on adult bodies, children and babies. We all got to experience what this felt like using his dummies. We were surprised at how hard and deep you had to press down!
Andrew showed us how to use a defibrillator and we talked about where to find the nearest one to our school.
We would like to say a big thank you to Andrew and Jack. Everyone has hopefully learned some life long skills today and, who knows, maybe a spark of interest for some future careers has been lit!
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We hope you received your Learner Led Event invitation in your child’s Diary. We are looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 29th from 5:00 – 6:30. The pupils are excited to show you around!
We have been a little quiet on here recently…so apologies for that! We have still be really busy though! It’s been so lovely to have some sunny days and we enjoyed taking time to read outside during ERIC time.
Our World War 2 Topic is well under way! The children have been finding out about what life was like during this time in History and have been set the task of finding out about their own family’s involvement in the War as part of a Home Learning Task. We are really looking forward to hearing some special stories!
Our main focus for Writing this term is Functional Writing. With Mrs Henderson, the class have been looking at the main features of newspaper report writing with the view to creating their own World War reports.
With Mrs Smith, the class have explored advertising and how writing is used to persuade. The children have worked with enthusiasm when creating their own brand of cereal. Their boxes had to include many of the tried and tested ways to influence buyers! These boxes will be on display for you to see next week!
In Maths, we have been working within the areas of Multiplication and Division and Information Handling. The pupils have been gathering data from the classes and our local area and have been learning about the different ways this data can be displayed. Please come and have a look at our results next week!
In the remaining weeks, we hope to enjoy an educational trip to the Shetland Museum to learn more about the War. We also have a visitor coming to class who is going to help us with our Health and Wellbeing work, talking about First Aid.
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It was a beautiful day today for our ‘Redd Up’. We went as far as the Croft House and worked hard to collect as much rubbish as we could. The roadsides were actually really quite clean which is a good thing! Thank you to our adult helpers.
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