Five pupils were delighted to come back from their Easter Holidays to find that they had received replies to the author letters they wrote for World Book Day! Some were standard replies from very busy authors but we were still grateful! One was a lovely, handwritten, personalised reply. The rest of the class are patiently waiting! 🤞
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It’s been a beautiful day and what better way to start it than a walk to school! Our JRSOs have been working hard behind the scenes to organise the final activity in The Big Walk and Wheel Challenge. They’ve been encouraging all classes to be physically active during the day, especially when some pupils can’t manage to walk or wheel to school. Today, they helped organise the buses to drop everyone off at the football pitch to walk to school together. Some pupils even managed some laps of the pitch while they waited for the buses to arrive. The website tells us, we have logged 368 physical activities and we are in 295th position in the Uk for participation and 74th in Scotland!
For the rest of our day, we enjoyed time reading our own books, finishing our Easter cards, problem solving Maths using Tangram shapes, active time with P6/7 and Assembly time with Mrs Finch! Now time for a rest! Fingers crossed 🤞 for a holiday filled with weather like today!
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To continue being active this week, we took a walk up to the shop to post our World Book Day author letters. We are hoping that, in time, we’ll get some replies! We took a detour on the way back to make our walk a bit longer. Thank you to John and Eilidh’s Mum for joining us.
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We have had a super day for Ms Henderson’s last day at Dunrossness! The pupils all made a great effort dressing up for the occasion. We enjoyed following the P7 Jarl Squad procession and singing along in front of the beautifully decorated galley. We were treated to musical items in the hall and were delighted to hear Kate and Leah play their violins! Ms Henderson joined us in class for us to play her our PowerPoint poem and join us for a game of Hangman! We had time for Reading and some tessellation work before lunch. We also managed to squeeze in our Recognition Board prize as all the pupils have been setting good examples over the past few weeks. Then it was back for more singing and celebrating in the hall! We will all miss her but wish her good luck in her new job! Three Cheers…Hip Hip!!
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Well done to Jessie for completing the ‘Active Every Day in February’ challenge set by Active Schools. She was chosen as one of the winners and received a token to spend for her efforts. Very well done Jessie!
Rachel and Kirsty have also been active in the swimming pool. At a recent competition, Rachel was awarded a silver medal for 25m front crawl and a bronze for her 25m back stroke. Kirsty received two bronze medals for 25m breast stroke and front crawl. Well done to you both!
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In P4/5/6 this week, we have signed up to the Shetland Sumdog Competition so we made a start at climbing up the leader board on Friday. We are hoping to build on our success in the National Competition last time so it would be wonderful if the pupils could log in at home too and play along. It runs until Thursday 17th. Good luck!
These past few weeks, the class have been learning about 2D Shapes. We have found out about polygons, regular and irregular 2D Shapes, parallel and perpendicular lines, how to find the number of diagonals a many sided shape has and naming quadrilaterals.
All of this helped lead up to this week’s Maths lesson where pairs of children were given either a description of a 2D shape or a specific shape for them to describe using the correct Mathematical terms. They had to use different materials to make them as accurately as they could. I was really impressed with the team work shown and their ability to keep working when shapes did not quite come together and when clues had to be puzzled out. (Sorry for out of focus photos!)
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This week, we have been preparing for The Festival of Care 2022. The Festival runs from Friday 18th February until Tuesday 22nd. Our school, along with all the other Shetland schools, have received a pack with suggested ideas for us to work through. The #ShetlandCrew are a group of care experienced children and young adults who are asking us all to think about the different types or combination of families that children grow up in and to be aware that, for some children, growing up can be difficult, especially if they are care experienced.
The theme for this year is, ‘Tending the Light’ and they are asking us to think about the following questions.
We looked at examples of care experienced characters in famous books and films and spoke about the different families they grew up in and what these characters have in common.
We enjoyed playing some games suggested by the #ShetlandCrew to get us thinking about what it may feel like to be care experienced.
Finally, we created our own lighthouse window art that will be displayed next week to show our support for all those who are care experienced throughout Shetland.
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We had a super Christmas lunch in the classroom. We played Christmas songs while we enjoyed good food and company! Grateful thanks to the cooks for all the effort they went to.
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Friday 3rd December…
Our class is beginning is get ready for Christmas. Each morning, we open the light bulb advent calendar we made and we also learn a new “sign” each day when we open a door on our Signalong calendar. We are taking part in the reverse advent calendar again this year and want to thank you all for your kind donations to the Shetland Food Bank too.
We started our day with a reading session. Lots of quizzes were taken with some great scores being recorded! We’ve had a new delivery of books from the Sandwick School Library so lots of pupils had a look through them and chose stories that they think they will enjoy. We have some very keen readers in P4/5/6.
We are working hard on handwriting in the class. Some pupils worked alone on joined sentences while others copied my examples from the board. Getting to grips with joining can be tricky but all pupils worked hard and did not give up! It was great to see their confidence grow in just one short session.
Maths time was spent exploring 3D shapes and their nets. We built up various shapes using construction, then folded it flat so that we could see how we needed to draw our own nets on squared paper. There was a lot of learning in this activity! It didn’t always work out but we spoke about how we’d improve on what we did next time!
After lunch we looked at two Christmas cards and spoke about the different themes that appear on them. The class have been asked to look out for this over the coming weeks at home. Do the cards link to the Christian faith and festival of Christmas or are they more winter themed with images of Santa, snowmen, robins and things we associate with this time of year?
Then we started to think about creating a Christmas card to take home. We painted the background ready to start decorating next week.
We took advantage of the calm day to go outside for a longer Class PE session while Ruben and Ryan grabbed the chance to rehearse their guitar pieces for our Christmas Play in peace and quiet. Two of our violin players also celebrated success in their individual lessons. See the photos below!
Have a lovely weekend all!
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Rachel won the Pudsey Bear Design a Bandana Competition which was judged by Mainlands Mini Market. Well done! Here she is with her prize and her cupcake, kindly made by the Pupil Council. Thank you for all your Children in Need donations and colouring entries!
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