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Meet The Class of 23/24
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Da Trowie Sang
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Over the past few weeks, the upper stages pupils have been supporting Mrs Inkster in her Music classes when she teaches the younger pupils. She has been so grateful for their help and we’re sure that all the children, both young and old, have gained from this experience. To tie in with our local history topic, we have been learning ‘Da Trowie Sang’ which is sung in Shetland Dialect. Some of our pupils have taken to this so well, Mrs Inkster asked them to perform it for the Orca class today. They did an amazing job!
Final Children’s Parliament and AI Online Call
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This week saw our final online call with the Children’s Parliament, Alan Turing Institute and our fellow pupils at Oakwood, Doune and St Mary’s. It was a very positive call where achievements were recognised and celebrated. The Investigators had to think about what they had got better at by being an Investigator, what surprised them about their time as an Investigator and what they were most proud of. They then had to be creative, showing their thoughts in drawing form. (See Self Portraits below)
The Investigators for 22/23 are now in discussions as to how they can support the new Investigators for the next school year. We are currently thinking about who this could be and how we can involve past, present and incoming pupils in our AI work in the future. There are some exciting plans afoot so please look out for more details in August!
If you have not had a chance already to view the final report for the year, please see below.
https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/A.I_Stage_1_Report_Final.pdf
AI Assembly ✅
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Mrs Henderson and I would like to thank you all for the amazing support you showed us at our class Assembly today! It was so lovely to have our families in again to share, and celebrate, our learning. We are so proud of the Draatsi class for their hard work and continued enthusiasm throughout the year, on what has been an exciting opportunity. We hope that this came across in their presentations today. Please look out for the Children’s Parliament video that will be shared with you shortly. As well as footage from the AI Summit, there will be clips and interviews that our pupils took part in when our class was taken over by Gregory and his team.
If you have any feedback following today’s Assembly, we’d love it if you could leave us a comment.
Sorry for only a few photos. I was too taken up with enjoying the moment! P4/5/6 … you have done yourselves very proud!
Measurement in action
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Part of our learning in Maths this term is focusing on Measurement. It’s a great topic to incorporate in every day tasks, outside of Maths time too.
During our RME work, we used our skills to measure Ayanda’s turban material that he wore at a recent wedding. We were shocked to find out that it measured around 4m 80cm!
The Daily Mile has also created an opportunity to think about distances in metres, kilometres and miles. We are counting up laps and adding these measurements together to get a class distance. To date we have walked, jogged and sprinted our way to 31, 4730m or 314.7 km or 196.7 miles.
This week, we measured out a rectangular shape that measured 50m in perimeter. We timed how long it took us to walk that distance twice and will use this information to help us work out how long it would take us to walk 1km.
Three cheers for SMUHA
What a really special day we’ve had! An excellent procession and galley burning this morning and a noisy Jarl Squad visit in the afternoon. It’s just a shame that the later celebrations have had to be postponed. Here are some photos from today … including Mascot Max! He’ll be returning to the Children’s Parliament with some amazing stories to tell!
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Preparing for SMUHA! 🤞
The two snow closure days have stopped us doing some of our planned activities for our Viking themed SMUHA week. However, we managed to prepare torches and helmets on Monday and got our photo taken with our school galley today, before we burn it tomorrow. 🤞
Just in time for SMUHA, the Children’s Parliament mascot, Max, arrived in the post! We have to show him around our school and community so it’s perfect timing to bring him along tomorrow!
In the afternoon, we made Viking heads using clay. The class practised on Monday using plasticine and explored how to add to the base to make it look 3D and used the different clay tools to add texture and detail. This really helped them create Vikings with lots of character!
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World Book Day
Today we celebrated World Book Day in a number of ways. Last week, we talked about the importance of listening to books, especially from a young age. We talked about books that would appeal to younger children and how the reader has an important part to play in the enjoyment of a story. With this in mind, each child chose a book that they would like read to a pupil in the ELC department or P1/2. They rehearsed reading it and thought about stopping to ask questions or point out details in the illustrations.
Our class really enjoyed it and were super role models! When the books were done, it was great to see the younger pupils rushing to get their books to read back! We even had a little time to watch them paint.
Back in our class we played a World Book Day game where they were shown a cover, title and blurb. Each team then had to create a believable opening sentence, thinking about recent class work done on different openers. When all were written, we read them all out, including the real sentence. Each group got 2 points if they correctly guessed the right sentence and a bonus 5 points if their sentence was chosen instead of the actual one!
Here are the made up sentences for the book ‘Jelly’ by Jo Cotterill. Can you tell which is the right one?
- Angelica, nicknamed Jelly, was the comedy queen of the classroom!
- “Do it now, Jelly! Please!
- Angelica, also known as Jelly, was the class clown.
- ”Angelica, stop that noise,” said Mrs Brown.
- Angelica was shocked that her Mum had a new boyfriend and was going on a date!
At the end of the day, we shared some of our favourite books.
Keep reading Draatsis!
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Da Week Dat’s Awa!
It’s been a very busy week in the Draatsi class! We’ve even managed a photo and interview with the local media so keep your eyes peeled in the Shetland Times for news of our AI work with the Children’s Parliament!
Here are some of the activities we’ve been involved in…
Language
We have moved on to Target 2 in our Writing Challenge. With Mrs Henderson the pupils started a longer story which they will build on over the coming weeks. They need to try to include carefully punctuated sentences with interesting openers. Today saw us looking in more detail at openers that begin with -ing words. The pupils were given a sentence ending for them to decide on suitable beginnings. We also looked again at using speech marks. There’s so much to remember!
Maths
Various Maths topics have been worked on this week. These include addition and subtraction methods, multiplication, fractions and work on area. They have been working hard and developing the skill of explaining their answers in words.
Health and Well–being
Class PE is always really popular so we took advantage of the fine weather on Thursday to go outside and play some of our class favourites! We love Capture The Flag and Rock, Paper, Scissors!
Last week, we watched the Oscar nominated animation, ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.’ This week we created our own charcoal drawings in the style of Charlie Mackesy and wrote quotes that mean something to us. Some examples are below…
Wednesday saw our class taken over by the Children’s Parliament. We were joined by Gregory and Sophia who have visited before but were also joined by Cathy who is the founder of the Children’s Parliament in Scotland and Rona who is Head of Projects. They were so impressed by the knowledge of the pupils and how they can articulate themselves. 😌
They helped us with our next Mission. Each group was given a case study which used a different aspect of AI. The children had to read these through and decide on how the AI was being used in a positive or negative way.
The next task was to illustrate how these pros and cons could be shown using plasticine! This was a hard task but we were all amazed at the imagination each group showed. Each plasticine model had a detailed story behind it.
The culmination of the day was creating a news report with each person taking on a different role…Presenters, Interviewers and Editors. The pupils had to write a report about their case study and ask questions about the type of AI used in their story. Joining us live, online, was Mhairi from The Alan Turing Institute. She was able to answer all our questions while the editors quickly noted down her responses. The children ALL rose spectacularly to the challenge and were not put off by the bright lights or Gregory’s dictaphone!
It was a fantastic day of learning and team work. Thursday saw each pupil being interviewed by Gregory to tell him what they understand of AI and how they are finding being involved in this two year project.
We are very proud of each and every Draatsi!
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Please save us from the bottom of your bags!
The recent snowy day closures have meant less time to work on our concert and Christmas crafts this past week. However, please look out for these gorgeous Christmas cards coming home next week and rescue them from the bottom of bags!
We talked about how lino cut paintings are created and then designed a simple picture that we could draw into polystyrene before using ink and rollers to create our prints. We hope they help spread some Christmas joy! 🎄
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