Mr Rose came into class again today to help us to learn about weather. We learnt about the water cycle and the states of matter – solids, liquids and gases – ice, water and water vapour.
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Welcome Back
It was lovely to see the new Primary 5/6 class back, full of enthusiasm and fun for the new term.
Congratulations to our musicians
We are all very proud of the excellent achievements of Archie, Molly and Niamh who all took part in instrumental exams this week. They all gained distinction in their grade- which is a super achievement!
In Music today Molly and Niamh each performed their exam piece on the clarinet, for the rest of the class, which was a delight to hear. We’re hoping Archie will perform his exam piece on the cornet for us next week.
Open Afternoon in P5/6
It was a busy afternoon in Primary 5/6 when parents came to see all our work. By Christie
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Scottish Opera- Tam o’ Shanter
Primary 6 & 7 enjoyed an excellent day working with members of the Scottish Opera who were helping to put the final touches to their performance of The Tale o’ Tam o’ Shanter.
Working alongside pupils from Cunningsburgh and Sandwick the pupils only had the morning to practise their routines before the dress rehearsal and actual performance in the afternoon.
Dunrossness bairns formed the Witches Crew and gave a chilling performance as they sang their main song Witches Brew.
Primary 5 were delighted to have the opportunity to see the performance.
Everyone agreed it was great fun and P6 & 7 loved working with members of the Scottish Opera.
Shetland Life-Young Journalists
Molly, Archie and Emmy are delighted to receive their copies of Shetland Life which they were involved in writing articles for.
Beyond the Panda
This afternoon Primary 5 and Primary 6 went up to Sandwick Junior High School to take part in the Beyond the Panda outreach programme which supports the work of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. The workshops were presented by Sandie Robb, the Senior Education Officer.
There were six different workstations which the children worked their way round. Activities were varied and covered many aspects of a panda’s life -from birth and how they develop, to the food they eat and what Panda poo looks like! There were jigsaws to complete which illustrated a panda’s habitat and where they live in China. Another activity involved a lotto game featuring China’s wildlife. At another workstation they were given two skulls and they had to try to identify which was a panda skull and which was a black bear skull by looking for clues.
Yet again it has been an interesting and informative session which everyone enjoyed.
A special thanks must go to our parent helpers and Emily and Eve who joined us from the secondary department.
Outdoor Education Day
We made the best of the good weather and did our reading groups and Accelerated Reading outside .
Later on we tried out a new game called Chase the Chair. It was straight forward and easy to learn but good fun.
We ended the school day with the Whole School Walk and we were lucky that the super weather stayed with us throughout the day.
Outreach Visit from the Scottish Parliament
Yesterday we had a visit from Angela McGarrigle from the Outreach department of the Scottish Parliament. This ties in well with our Democracy topic and helped bring together what we have been learning in class.
The children were given the opportunity to form different parties: Sporty Party, Music Party, Computer Party, Animal Welfare Party and the Save the Earth Party. They each chose a leader, put together a manifesto and presented it at an ‘election’.
Here are our party leaders giving their manifesto speeches.
We were then shown how to fill in a ballot paper and then we voted.
The party which gained the most votes when counted was the Music Party.
Next we carried out a debate just as it happens in the Scottish Parliament. We chose to debate a Smoking issue- the motion was Should smoking be banned?
Molly was the Presiding Officer and she had to control the debate;deciding who should speak and ensuring no one took up too much time.
Everyone except the Presiding Officer then voted on the motion, either yes, no or abstain. We were given 10 seconds to vote, the same amount of time as is given in the Scottish Parliament.
The motion was carried.
It was a really interesting session and we all know much more about the Scottish Parliament and how it functions.
Jessica said, “It was great fun and interesting.”
Ronan enjoyed being the leader of the Sporty Party.
Tia liked doing the debate.
Molly said,”It was a great opportunity and I loved it.”
Emily liked learning how to do an election.
Emmy enjoyed taking part in both the election and the debate.
Bertie liked the debate about smoking.
Let’s Circus
Spinning plates- see the concentration on their faces!
Last Thursday morning Primary 5 and Primary 6 had an action packed session learning some of the skills used by circus performers.
We all had a fabulous time and the fun began as soon as we arrived! Within the first few minutes we were spinning toothbrushes round our fingers!
Then when Cunningsburgh pupils joined us we were split into three groups which then rotated round the three circus workshops.
There were opportunities to practise acrobatics, hula hoop skills and spinning plates!
We were having that much fun that the time simply flew by.
Here is a snapshot of how we got on……some of us better than others……but we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
The people who instructed us were great fun and very talented
We tried out a variety of tricks with the spinning plates.
Having fun with hula hoops-spinning them round our waist, foot, arm and even neck!
At the acrobatics workshop we tried some tricky manoeuvres and had to place a lot of trust in our partners.
Everyone agreed it was super fun and we were all proud of our achievements in such a short time. Some of us were lucky enough to be going to see the The Let’s Circus performances.
