This afternoon in Wider Achievement, Joy Duncan started to teach drumming tunes to the group, to video to take to show the children at Lomayana Primary school, when she and Ms Scanlan visit in February.
Ewan from Radio Shetland came along to interview us and find out a bit more about the project. He hopes that it will be on Radio
Shetland tomorrow evening.
Last week we practiced Shetland dances to video too.
This morning P5/6 went back in time 2000 years to the Iron Age. Chris Dyer from the Amenity Trust showed us round Scatness. We started in the visitor centre, where he talked to us about Shetland’s history. We completed a jigsaw puzzle, which had a timeline from the Stoneage to present day.
He also explained to us how housing has changed through the ages. Chris had lit a peat fire in the middle of the reconstructed wheelhouse and we all enjoyed going into it and hearing more about life in the Iron Age. After that we went for a look at other houses on the site and saw the broch.
We finished off by playing a really good Viking game called Kubb.
A big thank you to all our adult helpers too!
It was really exciting this morning to start our new STEM Project. Emma Chittick spent the first part of the morning with P5/6. She brought her IPads and LEGO and we had to programme the robots to deliver a parcel; we were pretending to be working for Amazon!
Last term the class wrote some fantastic adventure stories. We helped each other to make them better and then spent a lovely afternoon with P1/2 reading our stories to the younger children.
It was lovely to see everyone back in class today and to hear about all the fun things that everyone has done over the holidays.
So here are our latest class photos of the new P5/6
We were really excited today to meet our two new pupils – Typhena and Junias. They had a great time and went up to Mareel with the P6 and 7s in the morning to see Wonder.
Back in school the P5s did a range of crafts, started to design badges for a competition and started to learn Vive le vent – Jingle bells in French.
We had a super afternoon watching the dress rehearsal. It’s looking really good! See you all there tomorrow or Friday!
We had a lovely afternoon saying goodbye to Tia, we’ll all miss her very much but luckily she’s not going too far away. Joanna had baked a beautiful cake and Carla and Hannah brought food for our goodbye party.
Yesterday we looked at all the data that we had measured and collected and made a graph on the board to see what the range of foot flexibility was in our class. In the past our ancestors were tree dwelling and would have had a foot flexibility of less than 0.5, similar to most primates today. Our feet were all between 0.75 and 0.95, showing that our feet have evolved and adapted to our environments.
In our numeracy lesson today we finished recording all the information for our Terrific Scientific investigation. We had to take very accurate measurements in mms, use decimals, use a calculator to make calculations and use problem solving strategies and active maths to find our results. It wasn’t easy, but we learnt a lot.
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On Monday our P6s had their final training session. They are all now fully trained up and this is what they said about their training-
Shane: I liked playing games like Giant’s Keys.
Ronan: Playleader was good because we learnt fun games to play with the little ones.
Holly : I think it was very, very good because the games we are playing are so good.
Jessica: Playleader is great for the Primary 2s and 3s, because if they don’t have anyone to play with then they can play with us.
Archie: It’s quite fun, but sometimes the little kids don’t listen very well!
Ryan: Playleader was very good because we got to play good games and played with little ones, but they were hard to control!
Ruby: I liked Playleader because we all did it together and it was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to do it with the younger ones.
Thanks to Toby for all the photos.
