There will be much excitement tomorrow! We have been gifted four stick insects to look after and care for! We look forward to learning more about them and will keep you updated on their progress.
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Week 3 was another busy one with lots of opportunity to work with others and be creative.
We played a variety of word building games and revised some common high frequency words. These words are used regularly in our writing, so we will work hard to learn them in many different ways.
Thank you for sending in resources to help with our Rainforest in a Box project. We started building them this week and it has been lovely to see so many creative ideas being shared amongst the class. We plan to have them ready to show parents towards the end of term.
In Maths this week we have been looking at Place Value and how to construct larger numbers. The class had fun using the Place Value blocks to build models and then work out the value of each model. It was great to hear the children sharing their thinking and supporting each other to understand. We will be moving on to comparing numbers and ordering them too. I’m sure everyone will be keen to challenge themselves with even larger numbers!
We love to hear about any achievements outside of school and this week enjoyed hearing about one P4’s success at a recent athletics competition. Well done!
Please see below, the learning that is planned for the Draatsi class over the next two terms. As always, this is subject to change to allow for pupil interests and our learning taking new directions and paths as we go. 😊
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This week our new Investigators have been announced. They have been given their welcome packs and will be preparing to meet the children they will be working alongside on their first online call shortly. We wish them luck in this exciting opportunity.
We’ve started our class novel, “The Explorer,” which ties in with our Rainforest and Biodiversity topic.
We have learned about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and have used some of the most relevant Articles to help us form our Responsible Behaviours Agreement for our class. We plan to create a rainforest theme which we’ll share with you in time!
Any pupil wishing to represent their class in the Pupil Council had the opportunity to think about what would make them a suitable member and we’ll take a vote on this next week.
For writing this week, poems created in Week 1 were rewritten for display in class and there was a big effort with handwriting. Well done!
Maths this week was based around problem solving activities with pupils choosing from a wide range of tasks that involved them using strategies such as trial and error, act it out and look for a pattern. Lots of paired and cooperative group work was also needed to succeed!
It’s been lovely to see all our pupils back this week! The Draatsi class have been kept busy.
Last year’s P5s helped our new pupils to get to know both of their teachers by introducing them to one of their favourite games on the laptop, Blooket. It was fast and furious fun!
They have also been looking carefully at their reflections and have drawn amazing self-portraits. These will be displayed beside a Bio Poem they have been creating to help us get to know them better too.
They have been introduced to our class topic, Rainforests and Biodiversity and have listened to the blurb on our class novel. The title yet has to be revealed but it’s a good one!
Time was spent thinking about our school rules – Ready, Respectful and Safe and the class worked on T Charts to help them record what this would look like and sound like in our class.
The good weather meant that we could spend time outside playing team building games together so we can get to know each other better and begin to work well, collectively, as a class.
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What an exciting Wednesday it has been! We enjoyed a visit from the Fire Service this afternoon. Everyone took turns to use the hose and sit in the Fire Engine. It was great fun!
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This afternoon we got the chance to share our learning with each other and the P6/7 class. For the past few weeks, P4/5/6 have been busy researching and learning new things about Shetland in the past.
Each pupil got the chance to choose an area of local history that interested them and they could decide how they wanted to present their information. Everyone was encouraged to think creatively about the different ways information can be shared.
In our classroom, we displayed posters, leaflets, models, and stop motion animations.
Pupils chose to find out about The Braer disaster, Jarshoff, Shipwrecks, Historical landmarks in Shetland, World War 2 in Shetland, The Quendale Mill, Sumburgh Lighthouse, The Shetland Bus, Sumburgh Airport, Mousa Broch and Whaling.
We also got the chance to see what P6/7 had chosen to research. It was a lovely afternoon of sharing and learning new things. How lovely it was to hear so many wonderful compliments being given by everyone!
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Over the past few weeks, the upper stages pupils have been supporting Mrs Inkster in her Music classes when she teaches the younger pupils. She has been so grateful for their help and we’re sure that all the children, both young and old, have gained from this experience. To tie in with our local history topic, we have been learning ‘Da Trowie Sang’ which is sung in Shetland Dialect. Some of our pupils have taken to this so well, Mrs Inkster asked them to perform it for the Orca class today. They did an amazing job!
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This week saw our final online call with the Children’s Parliament, Alan Turing Institute and our fellow pupils at Oakwood, Doune and St Mary’s. It was a very positive call where achievements were recognised and celebrated. The Investigators had to think about what they had got better at by being an Investigator, what surprised them about their time as an Investigator and what they were most proud of. They then had to be creative, showing their thoughts in drawing form. (See Self Portraits below)
The Investigators for 22/23 are now in discussions as to how they can support the new Investigators for the next school year. We are currently thinking about who this could be and how we can involve past, present and incoming pupils in our AI work in the future. There are some exciting plans afoot so please look out for more details in August!
If you have not had a chance already to view the final report for the year, please see below.
https://www.childrensparliament.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/A.I_Stage_1_Report_Final.pdf
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