This term, all pupils will be taking part in gymnastics, starting with mat skills and progressing to apparatus work. Gymnastics is a fantastic way for children to develop confidence, coordination, and strength while working at their own level.
Mat Skills Focus:
Balances
Jumps
Rolls
Handstands
Cartwheels
Apparatus Focus:
Pupils will explore different equipment setups
They’ll be encouraged to create their own ways of moving from one side to the other
This approach supports creativity, problem-solving, and physical literacy.
Everybody loves this term in the gym, so I’m sure their will be plenty to talk about when they get home.
PE Reminder
Please ensure pupils:
Come dressed appropriately on PE days
Have appropriate footwear. Now that the weather is changing, footwear can be changed before PE.
This term, our PE lessons have centred around developing Gross and Fine Motor Skills through football and rugby. Pupils began with football, practising key techniques such as passing, dribbling, and shooting, and learning how to apply these in game situations.
Over the past three weeks, we’ve shifted our focus to rugby, where pupils have been learning essential skills like passing backwards, moving with the ball, and understanding important rules such as staying behind the ball carrier and avoiding forward passes.
To reinforce these skills in a fun and active way, we’ve played a variety of engaging games including:
Canadian Goose – a fast-paced game of ball-stealing and flag-pulling.
Flag Fury – collecting and attaching flags while staying on the move.
Bears and Buffaloes – racing to score tries while dodging defenders.
Great Escape – escaping defenders without losing a tag.
Rugby Freeze Tag – tagging and freeing teammates with high fives.
Inside the Raven’s Nest – a team challenge to collect and protect rugby balls.
The pupils found the football work more challenging. It has been nice to watch them grow in confidence throughout the rugby sessions.
P5/6 have been taking part in the Writing Project (A national project aimed to develop writing skills). Our first “aim” was to ensure 70% of learners in the class were writing using correct punctuation. The class could look at our run chart each week to see how well they had done, and if 100% reached their target they receive a golden ticket.
We introduced a new aim (looking at use of conjunctions) fairly recently. The class all work so hard during our writing sessions, and have managed to get 5 golden tickets – meaning it was a celebratory hot chocolate for their efforts!
In term 2 we will continue, and hope to introduce more aims, as well as get 5 more golden tickets which will win a class prize again!
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!
This morning the whole school had some fun outdoors, watching the staff and P7s playing “Sheet Volleyball” mixed with “Floor is Lava”. Of course, some fancy dress for the staff was a requirement.
It was a close match with each member eliminated if they were the last person off the floor each time the whistle was blown.
Although the P7s lost more of their team mates, they won on the points earned whenever the ball was tossed over and not caught by the staff team on their sheet. Perhaps next year the staff will win…!
Well done to all! What a brilliant way to end the school year.
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.
Our representatives were excited to share their views and ideas!
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.
We explained our priorities to Suzanne from Town Planning and talked about the paths we use to keep us safe but also how the busy main road prevents us having a little more freedom.We talked to Neil from Sport & Leisure about the Boddam Play Park and our multi court. He also shared with us some future plans for the Boddam Park which look great and will make it more inclusive. This was on our priority list!
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!
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! (No Ratings Yet) Loading...
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!
Gathering ideas about our local area.
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! (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
We had fun in the sun this afternoon during our Playful Minutes time. There were burritos being made in the mud kitchen, balancing and hula hooping skills being developed and of course a game of football being played!
Some chose to stay indoors and play in their restaurant, making us all yummy things to eat as we were playing. I wonder what will be on the menu next week…
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