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.
Happy New Year
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
A busy day!
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!
Good bye and good luck to Tia
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.
Terrific Scientific
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.
Numeracy
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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Playleader Training
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.
NAFC visit from Dr Beth Mouat
Primary 5/6 had a really interesting afternoon hearing all about the work of the NAFC from Dr Beth Mouat . She explained why the college had been set up and explained about all the different types of fisheries in Shetland and how important they are to the Shetland economy. She told us about all the data that they collect and the importance of it in terms of environmental and economic sustainability.
We also looked at a display case of different crab species and had to try to age scallops.
Terrific Scientific
Feet investigation!
On Thursday we started our next Terrific Scientific investigation
We all know our feet are important. But does where we live and the terrain we walk on affect our foot flexibility? That’s what we’re going to be discovering in this investigation!
We’ll develop our investigative skills and gather evidence through doing things and taking note of what happens.
The evidence we collect will be sent to the University of Kent so they can use it in their scientific research.
The measuring was quite challenging, but we have almost finished and then our results will be on the interactive map.
Animal Poems
Primary 5/6 have been writing animal poems today.
First of all we wrote one together as a class. Ms Scanlan thought that we were very imaginative. What do you think?
