For the final two days of the first week back, we focused on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing to structure our days. These were…Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Take Notice and Give. The link is below for you to watch at home.This clip is for children … and adults too!
All our class activities fitted into one or more of these areas. At the end of the week, the children wrote in their Think Books to say which activities they enjoyed on returning to school. “Connect” and “Keep Active” were definitely the firm favourites!
We learned about the art technique called sgraffito. We used it to help us create our Easter cards.
We drew our designs in pale colours using oil pastels.
We then had to be brave and colour all over it with a much darker colour. We drew our Easter pictures by scratching off the top layer to reveal the bright colours below.
We had a lovely walk around the Boddam loop on Thursday. We stopped to “Take Notice” of the wildlife around us, sights and sounds! We were lucky to see six swans!
Friday morning…time to learn a new team game fitting into our “Be Active” and “Connect” wellbeing tasks. It was called “Capture the Flag” and was enjoyed by all!
The Bib Team….
Talking tactics…the Non Bib team!
Quite a few of the Bibs ended up in jail! The rest of the team had to work hard to get past the Non Bibs to free them!
Friday afternoon was spent on the “Give” way to wellbeing. We all wrote down words to say what we admire about our classmates. These were turned into Word Clouds using the laptops.
The children will be able to see what was written about them when they arrive at school on Monday and will get a copy to take home.
We are getting through all the Christmas activities at an alarming speed! Today saw many of P5/6 wearing some wonderful looking jumpers! Please remember that this year, donations to Save The Children can be paid online.
We really enjoyed having our Christmas meal in our classroom this year. Although some changes are difficult just now, this was one that we all agreed was good fun! We got on the Christmas songs and tried hard not to sing along! We couldn’t have crackers this year which was a shame. We would have loved sharing this tradition with Eveline and Liam! However, we did tell some Christmas cracker jokes.
Here are some of them….What do you call a reindeer with ear muffs on. ANYTHING YOU WANT! What’s the best Christmas present? A BROKEN DRUM….YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT!
Once again, the canteen staff did us all proud! Thanks too, to all those who delivered the food to our room. Team effort as always!
Not too many photos from today but these will give you an idea of the atmosphere in P5/6!
Today, saw the culmination of several lessons spent discussing what a debate is and what the main aims are before choosing topics for us to debate in class, and then writing our arguments. We spent a lot of time discussing the best language to use when trying to write a persuasive piece and how we could incorporate some facts to back up our arguments. We also rehearsed our speeches in our groups and tried to make our presentations memorable and convincing so as to gain more votes. The class all tried very hard. It’s not always an easy thing to do and they had a lot to remember along the way e.g. using expressive voices, making eye contact with the audience and gesturing as they talked.
Here Liam is sharing his argument for longer playtimes.
Each pupil listening to the debates, left those making the speeches some constructive feedback which we would hope to take on board another time. The results were as follows…some votes were very close!
Jenga Blocks – An Inside Toy For Rainy Playtimes?
FOR 8 / AGAINST 10
Mobile Phones in School Debate
FOR 10 / AGAINST 9
Playtimes Should Be Longer Debate
FOR 14 / AGAINST 6
We hope the class have enjoyed going through this process and that the skills they have worked on, will be of use again in the future. (4 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
What a surprise to come back to school to find that John has pieced together all the mud kitchen resources we sourced last term, many kindly donated by parents throughout the school and our staff members. A HUGE thank you from P5/6!
We hope to begin playing with it next week, but first we are going to organise ourselves into friendship groups for playing, these will be swapped around so we get to play with different people. We also want to decide on some rules and have time to organise the bits and pieces we’ll play with.
Because we want to quarantine the equipment between groups, another offer of a fish box or similar storage box would be great so we can split the equipment.
Finally, we have been drafting a letter to our Parent Council to see if they could help us purchase some waterproof suits that will help protect our clothing.
Here we are with the kitchen….so far! John may have more plans for us!
What a superb end to our first term! Over the past two days, the children have worked brilliantly in groups, pairs and on their own to carry out research on their chosen life cycle. We look forward to sharing our finished displays and information next term! We enjoyed a brisk walk around the Boddam loop road during our class P.E. time today and finished off with a short musical concert from our cello and violin players. It was fabulous to hear them play so beautifully and with great confidence!
A huge well done to all the children for handling this first term so well! We are extremely proud of you. Have a relaxing holiday!
Lena after her performance was done! Beautiful playing! Ali Bali was my favourite!
Kathryn and Lena concentrating during the “Copy Cat” tune. Well done!
Hannah’s playing made some of us feel quite emotional! What a beautiful sound!
In P5/6 we do ERIC time (Everyone Reading In Class) every day. It’s 20 minutes of peaceful, calm reading which really sets us up for the day! Today we joined up with many schools all over Scotland to take part in the Ness Book Fest Reading Challenge. There were 14,200 children all reading simultaneously all over the country! More than double the number reading last year. David Walliams, Michael Morpurgo and David Baddiel books continue to be favourites in P5/6. Keep on reading everybody!
Recently, P5/6 were given a talk and PowerPoint presentation by our class member Ethan. He prepared his talk with the help of Mrs Leslie, to tell us all about Erb’s Palsy and how this affects his daily life. We learned about how Ethan came to have this condition and he told us about some of the physical difficulties he experiences. We also leaned about some of the exercises he does to strengthen his arm. This week, as a thank you for listening, Ethan gave us all a tattoo, badge and wrist band as a gift. Here we all are! Thank you, Ethan!
We are so lucky to have the school grounds that we do, especially now that each class needs their own area. We’re also delighted to have been given a donation from the Sumburgh Airport Fire Station. This is allowing each class to invest in toys for their play space and also improve our indoor, wet playtime provision. However, P5/6 have been wondering about a mud kitchen for outdoors! We are looking into ways we can maybe make this happen so are appealing to our parents first! We’ve looked at a few ideas and have a list of items we’d like to try and gather. If any of you have these items or know where we could source them, please get in touch. Also, if you know of anybody who would be willing and able to put it together for us, that would be amazing! We are looking for the following. Pictures just for a guide. We may be able to ask the Parent Council to help us in some way but we hope we can do a lot ourselves in the first instance. THANK YOU for any help you can manage!
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