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Block 2 2023-24 Curriculum Class Overview – Draatsi
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Term 3 Learning
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Next Week in P4/5
Good morning all! We hope you have managed to get outside and enjoy this amazing week of snow we’ve had, in between all those snowy showers!
Next week we have a busy week planned for you! We hope that Gregory and his team from The Children’s Parliament will be in school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, we will also have a visiting artist in class who will do creative work with you so we would ask that you all bring in an apron or old shirt to protect your clothes.
On Thursday we will be swimming again and we’ll have another session of Boccia to look forward to on Friday!
It’s going to be a busy one! Hope to see you all soon! 👋
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! It’s been so lovely to see everybody back at school and to hear about the excitement of Christmas!
This week, we’ve been getting to know Mr Shannon, who is working alongside our class for his 5 week long teaching experience placement. We are delighted to welcome him to our class and hope he enjoys his time in P4/5 at DPS.
The children did so well at the Sandwick Pool this first week back showing great listening skills while being instructed by pool staff in the water and showing considerate and respectful behaviour while we spent time in Sandwick JH School. We are very proud of how they conducted themselves.
It’s always a tiring first week after Christmas so we were glad of some game time on Friday afternoon. We welcomed Charis, Kayleigh Anne and Avril from Ability Shetland to the school. They introduced us to Boccia and we played some target games. Great fun was had by all! We look forward to their return!
There were many cheers and groans!
We all supported each other to do well and try our very best.
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Santie, whaar’s du gyaan?
We had some sleepy pupils in school on Friday after their two performances of, ‘Santie, whaar’s du gyann?’ They all did brilliantly with special thanks going to those who took on extra parts at the last minute! We were sorry not all pupils could make it in that day.
This year, there was quite a bit to prepare before our rehearsals could begin.
We had to use our French time with Mrs Henderson to research how Christmas is traditionally celebrated in France.
We had to learn a French song to sing and also learn the signs that accompany it. The class picked these signs up so quickly and could keep up with the fast paced tune too! Great work!
Some pupils were keen to play instruments along to this tune and worked hard on this with Miss Moar in Music time.
Many pupils were keen to take on talking parts for our classroom scene and they worked hard at memorising lines and speaking in loud voices so that they could be heard in the hall. This takes quite a lot of courage when faced with a large audience on the day. They all spoke so clearly and with confidence. 😊
We also enjoyed singing in Shetland dialect as Santie made his journey around the world. There really was something for everyone to enjoy in this concert!
On Thursday and Friday, we needed something calming and relaxing to do so the instrumental Christmas songs went on and we spent time creating our Christmas cards to take home next week.
We used oil pastels to create a ‘driving home for Christmas’ picture and then used water colour paints to paint within the lines. The oil pastels help to keep the colours within each part of the picture.
Please look out for the finished cards in bags next week! They really have turned out beautifully!
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
To prepare for Christmas, we made advent calendar gnomes with a little treat hidden under each one to help us count down to the big day.
We are also really enjoying learning a new Christmas sign each day. Today was reindeer.
We have helped to decorate our class tree…
The highlight of today was our Christmas lunch. A huge thank you goes to P6/7 for setting out the hall so nicely and to the cooks for the amazing food!
As well as all this, we managed some Christmas Show rehearsals, finished off our First Christmas writing and started our cards. It’s been a lovely, lively day!
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31 Playful Minutes
We are on our second week of our 31 Playful Minutes journey in P4/5. It’s certainly a much looked forward to part of the week. Please ask your children to explain to you why we are doing this each week, and why it is for31 minutes!
We plan to stick with our chosen ‘play’ choices for at least another week before deciding if we’d like to try one of the activities some of the others have been choosing or picking a different interest.
Below are some of the things we’ve enjoyed so far….
Always a hit! Staff like to join in too!
A lovely, quiet area for building a Minecraft world.
Role play in the grocery shop. They had some
tricky customers this week!
Crafts….from clay to stuffed pigs and paper bag people!
Following our own topical interests and presenting our findings however we choose.
Farms, trucks and tractors! We even had a friend stop by who couldn’t resist a play!
We have already seen wonderful examples of sharing and cooperating together during these sessions. Sometimes compromising can be hard at times but a playful environment is a wonderful way to work through these challenges.
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Fun with speech marks!
Thank you to all our families who donated used magazines for our grammar lesson! It fairly cheered up learning about the correct use of speech marks! Character images were chosen and cut out from the magazines and we had to decide on what each would be saying before adding in all the necessary punctuation marks. There is so much to remember! Some pupils created short conversations, making sure they took a new line for a new speaker. Some pupils worked on sentences where the speech comes first and then showed different examples using the speech at the end of their sentence. Others wrote inside speech bubbles and will work on punctuating this with inverted commas next week.
Great focus and careful work P4/5!
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AI – Mission 2
We recently completed our latest Mission from the Children’s Parliament. It was based around Safety and Security. We revised what ‘data’ is, the different ‘types’ of data there can be and how it is used in AI systems.
We then thought about our rights and how this relates to safety and security with AI. We talked about online gaming and the importance of keeping data safe to protect their right to play and privacy. We discussed sharing locations online and talked about safety in relation to this too.
Our next task was to try to guess the identity of a mystery YouTube channel user based on their recommendation homepage. They had to consider what this person may like, where they might live, how old they are etc… For this activity, we needed to think like AI and to have respectful and fair ideas about this person. We are hoping to hear more about the mystery user when our Investigators have their online call next week!
Our final task was a craft based one. We each got a wooden house to decorate. The outside needed to reflect information they’d be happy to share with the world! Within the inside of the house, they were to write, draw or symbolise pieces of information that should only be shared with family and friends.
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Ask me about this?
We often use these coloured cups during class time, but they are especially handy during Maths time. Ask your child to explain to you how they are used!
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Friendship
During Health and Wellbeing lessons, we’ve been thinking about the topic Friendship. In groups, we talked about what qualities we think are vital, preferable or not necessary in a good friendship. We had different ideas about this but there were many qualities that we all agreed on. We decided to turn these words into a display for the hall and a ‘Tom Gates’ style display was chosen to reflect the interests of many members in the class.
We looked at books in the Library and from home and talked about the style of lettering and drawings used by Liz Pichon. We then created our friendship words and black pen drawings of us with our friends. This proved an enjoyable activity for many and the end result looks very charming!
We will now move on to think about different aspects of friendships and getting along with others.
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