Unfortunately, I missed the Achievement Talks last week, but Miss Budge left me some details of what was shared.
This week it was the turn for those in The Cool Unicorn Tractor group (consisting of Hayden, Daniel, Robert, Amy, Ronan and Isabel).
Isabel treated the class to a tune on her fiddle, she has been working well in her lessons and her confidence is building. Well done Isabel, it can be a little nerve-wracking standing in front of the class playing an instrument but I hear that you did a lovely job.
Hayden shared his excitement at moving up a swimming group in class swimming with Mrs. Smith. He spent the October holidays abroad with his family, where a lot of the time was spent playing in the pool. He thinks that this may have helped to improve his confidence in the pool. Mrs. Smith was very impressed with your improvements when you returned after the October break. Well done Hayden.
Amy also shared a swimming achievement with the rest of the class. She has successfully managed to master the art of performing a handstand flip in the swimming pool. This is great news as Amy has been suffering with an injury in recent swimming lessons, so it’s great to see that she is feeling more confident in the pool. Well done Amy.
We look forward to hearing more from our next group on Friday. Well done Cool Unicorn Tractors – sorry I have no photo’s to share this week.
On Friday we started our latest round of achievement talks for the term. This time it was a chance for those on the the “Pink Fluffy Unicorn” group to share their achievements with the rest of the class.
Emma shared with us a letter from the trenches that she had written at home. The letter showed how Emma had taken the learning that we had been doing in class and built on this at home. She took time to colour the page to make it look like it had been aged too.
Well done Emma.
Topic homework
Tory told us how he had mastered the art of performing a handstand flip over. He was proud to share this with us all as he had been working on it for some time and gained a few injuries in the process. We will look forward to hopefully seeing this in action at some point soon!
Mia was proud to share how she had been working on her reading this term and was pleased to see that she could now see progress with this. Well done Mia, you’ve been working well on this and I’ve definitely noticed an improvement.
Koll successfully had us all giggling with his achievement this week and relished in his time to share the numerous hairstyles he could now perform with his extra hair growth.
The achievement talks are a great opportunity for the pupils to show us all something that they are proud of, it’s great to hear when they have something to share that is from outside of school too.
This week we have been concentrating on Remembrance, discussing who and why we remember and why the poppy is used as a symbol for this.
After our class trip the pupils have taken note of some of the names of local people who lost their lives in WW1. Some pupils have also found members of their own family who were involved too – we hope to research this more in the future.
As part of the act of remembrance the class were introduced to the Remembrance Cross, where crosses are decorated with a poppy and dedicated to a particular soldier. We decided to use the information from our trip to dedicated a cross to our own local hero.
Each member of the class was given two pieces of wood, some sandpaper and string to create their own cross. The pictures above show them sanding down the rough edges in preparation. They then decorated the cross with a poppy and dedicated their cross to a soldier they were either related to who had lost their life during the war or one that we had learnt about during our trip.
The pupils have taken their crosses home with them where they will either keep them to remember their soldier or leave it at a War Memorial this weekend.
Well done P5/6 the crosses look fabulous and you have all done a great job in understanding and respecting the meaning of Remembrance.
On Wednesday we spent the morning visiting various places in Lerwick as part of our WW1 topic.
We began with a visit to the Anderson High School where we met with Mr. Jon Sandison. Mr. Sandison shared with us details of his own Grandad and his involvement in WW1, he also highlighted some of the roles that Shetlanders adopted during the war.
Through his teaching we now have a greater understanding of the sacrifices Shetland went through in these hard times. It has also given us names and dates that we will be looking into further throughout our topic.
The Anderson High School
Mr. Sandison sharing details about his own Grandad.Shetlanders “checking the cables”Waving the men off for The Great War.Memorial at the AHS listing all of the former pupils who died in the war.
After thanking Mr. Sandison we left to visit the Methodist Church in Lerwick. As this is the centenary year the church were hosting an “Experience Remembrance” event. The pupils moved around different stations throughout the church, listening to personal stories of experience or family connections to the war. There was also the opportunity to try some “Trench cake” and look at medals, photographs, etc.
Experiencing Remembrance at Lerwick Methodist Church
Experiencing our own war
Our class conflict wall
Discussion over the meaning of courage – with some personal stories of how family members had been courageous during the war.
Courage
Discussion over the meaning of sacrifice – with some personal stories of how family members had made the ultimate sacrifice and personal experiences of the rationing of WW2.
Sacrifice
Discussion over the meaning of being safe – the pupils heard the sound of an air raid siren and went down to experience an Anderson Shelter. Throughout this they were told stories of personal experiences of air raids during WW2.
SafeSafe
Pupils discussed ways they could resolve the conflicts they had raised on our conflict wall.
Peace
Finally we discussed the meaning of remembrance and the significance of the poppy. Pupils were given two petals to write a name of somebody they would like to remember. One petal was left at the church and the other was placed in their pocket to act as a reminder for them.
Remember
After lunch we walked over to the War Memorial at Hilhead. We discussed that the inner section was dedicated to those lost in WW1 and how the outer section was dedicated to those lost in WW2.
The pupils enjoyed looking to see if their family name was present on the memorial and we looked for some of the names that Mr. Sandison had shared with us earlier in the day too. We took some rubbings of the names to bring back to school.
Looking for family names.We found the plaque dedicated to those from Dunrossness.Making connections with the names we found.
Both myself and Miss Budge would like to thank all of the pupils for their fabulous behaviour on the trip today and for James Adamson volunteering as our parent helper. There was a lot for us to fit in and they all behaved fatastically and were very respectful to those who were sharing stories with us.
A huge thank you to Mr. Sandison, and the Anderson High School, and those involved with our experience at the Lerwick Methodist Church.
We are really enjoying hearing about each others achievements with our weekly “Achievement talks”
Last week we got to hear from the nerdy nuggets and we were thrilled that everybody in their group got up to share something with the rest of the class.
Although he didn’t want a photograph, we also heard from Alex about his achievements in his cross country events this year too.
Well done Nerdy Nuggets!
Evie showing the class her medals from athletics – including shotput, sprint and 400m eventsCarla showing the class her loom band creation – his name is “Oscar the Hexapus”Hannah showing the rest of the class her Certificate of Merit for piano.Becca showing the rest of the class her athletics medals, including sprint and shotput events.Lucien showing the rest of the class a video of his Halloween make-up.
We had a lovely afternoon today. Lots of the class had made or brought in party food 🎉 🍰 🍪 . We said our goodbyes to Hasan and wished him luck in his new school in England.
We had an awards ceremony for achievements for the year, our Accelerated Reader lucky dip and then played Winky Murder and then Pie Face 🥧! It was so funny!
Then we opened our ‘Go Wild’ packs from Ms Scanlan. Finally we had our party food outside (watching a couple of frogs 🐸). Here are some of our Pie Face photos, thanks for that Faith! 😂
Today in our new Primary 6/7 clas we wrote penpal letters to send to Lomayana, Kenya. We’ll send them over the holidays and then hear back from them in August.
On Thursday 14th June, Mr Rose came to do a huge demonstration of the circulatory system. He out a huge outline of a heart on the hall floor and we were all blood cells travelling through the body!
On Wednesday 6th June, we had a really interesting morning walking to different places in Boddam Voe and then listening to people sharing their memories of the history of the local area. Back at school we heard a bit more about local schools in the past and Shetland in WWII.
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