Please see below, some of the learning activities going on in P4-5-6 this term.
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Term 1 Learning Activities
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STEMSpace Project
This year, P4-5-6 are taking part in the STEMSpace Project. Its main aim is to improve spacial reasoning skills using a fun, hands-on approach, encouraging pupils to Visualise, Predict and Check as part of the learning process.
Here are a few photos from Week 1 of the project. Please look out for more over the coming weeks. We are very excited to see where this project takes our learning!
Lesson 1 – Shapes in Shapes
The class explored making shapes using the pattern blocks and created bigger shapes, with smaller shapes within them.
Lesson 2 saw us exploring tessellated patterns in more detail and exploring what ‘tessellation’ means and why some shapes tessellate and others don’t. Then we used our shapes to trace out our tessellated patterns on paper. This was a great motor skill activity too! We had to carefully line up the edges to make sure there were no gaps. It took time, but the results were great! 👍🏻
We are looking forward to future lessons!
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Our First Weeks
That’s been a fast start to the new term! P4-5-6 have spent time getting accustomed to their new teachers, classmates and new rules, routines and expectations. They have all settled in really well and we feel sure it’s going to be a great year of learning and fun!
We spent time doing lots of ‘getting to know you’ activities and taking part in team building challenges that required good communication skills, supporting group members and giving advice and resilience when things went wrong!
We also took part in a group drawing competition. This was definitely harder to do than expected! The end results caused great hilarity!
Each morning, we settle into school with a Soft Start. This might be a whole class game, an individual or paired challenge or a quiet task before our lessons begin. Here’s a small selection of Soft Start photos…
Please keep an eye on our class blog as the weeks go by and give us a comment or ❤️ to let us know you are following our learning journey. Thank you!
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School’s Out For Summer
That’s been another fast year! We’ve had a lovely last day with many highlights including a wonderful musical concert from some of our instrumentalists. Have a restful and fun filled summer everybody and make good use of those gifts!
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Showcase Event
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.
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.
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
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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Odd Socks Day!
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
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
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!
Stop by and have a look if you are passing our class! 😊
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An Active Week
At this time of year, it’s often difficult to get outside for our class P.E. sessions so this week, we were delighted to try two different sports with visitors to the school.
On Monday we had a table tennis taster session with Mrs Joan Smith and Chris Graham. This was very much enjoyed by all!
Today, we were lucky to have Charis Scott from Ability Shetland and Jennifer Thomson from Active Schools, visiting us with their new curling equipment. We watched curling in class beforehand and wondered how we’d manage it in the hall! Their stones were on wheels and were quite heavy to slide. It took us several tries to get used to how hard to send them off. We are really looking forward to another session next week!
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