It’s been a busy day in class! We started off with our Music lesson with Ms Stewart before returning to class to work on measuring with the help of Miss Newbold. We’ve been measuring using metre sticks over the past few weeks but the children have been keen to work with smaller units of measurement too. Today we tried drawing lines of a given length using rulers. This is actually a tricky skill but one that they all picked up quickly. We enjoyed playing a game of ‘Measurement Tag’ to reinforce these skills.
There is much to think about. Which way do we hold the ruler?
We took turns rolling the dice to tell us how many centimetres to draw.
Try not to get caught!
We all worked with care and accuracy.
Today is also National Poetry Day so we listened to several poems during the day, including the Shetland dialect poem ‘Eence Apon A Time’ by Vagaland.
We then took this year’s theme of counting and tried to create a Harvest themed poem that rhymed. We worked in pairs to support each other with that as getting a line that makes sense and rhymes is tricky! We will continue with this on Friday!
The afternoon saw us enjoying some time outside while this beautiful weather holds!
Finally, we welcomed Michelle McAdoo into class and she talked us through what a Harvest festival in the Christian church would look like.
She told us about the importance of thanking God for everything he’s provided but also about how important it is to give and share.
We carried the food to be shared into the ‘service’.
We joined in with a prayer of thankfulness.
We had food at our tables but were mindful that we had to share with others so we all got something we like.
We had bread and juice together, just like they would in church.
At the end of the day, she gave us all some sweets that we were to give away to someone deserving. Thank you Michelle for a wonderful visit! (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
We hope you received your Learner Led Event invitation in your child’s Diary. We are looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 29th from 5:00 – 6:30. The pupils are excited to show you around!
We have been a little quiet on here recently…so apologies for that! We have still be really busy though! It’s been so lovely to have some sunny days and we enjoyed taking time to read outside during ERIC time.
Our World War 2 Topic is well under way! The children have been finding out about what life was like during this time in History and have been set the task of finding out about their own family’s involvement in the War as part of a Home Learning Task. We are really looking forward to hearing some special stories!
Our main focus for Writing this term is Functional Writing. With Mrs Henderson, the class have been looking at the main features of newspaper report writing with the view to creating their own World War reports.
We used real newspapers to spot some key features in report writing.
With Mrs Smith, the class have explored advertising and how writing is used to persuade. The children have worked with enthusiasm when creating their own brand of cereal. Their boxes had to include many of the tried and tested ways to influence buyers! These boxes will be on display for you to see next week!
In Maths, we have been working within the areas of Multiplication and Division and Information Handling. The pupils have been gathering data from the classes and our local area and have been learning about the different ways this data can be displayed. Please come and have a look at our results next week!
In the remaining weeks, we hope to enjoy an educational trip to the Shetland Museum to learn more about the War. We also have a visitor coming to class who is going to help us with our Health and Wellbeing work, talking about First Aid.
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! 👋
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!
It was lovely to see everyone back for the start of Term 2 and to hear about holiday adventures both near and far!
This week some of the learning that P4/5 have been involved in has included creating an atmospheric, moonlit sky for a spooky Halloween painting, creating a plan for a story about ‘staying out’ on Halloween night and starting our opening paragraph and in Maths, working with change.
It was very amusing to see some of these activities being carried out in Halloween costumes for our dress-up day!
We’ve also had a change of seating arrangements in the class so we’ve got new friends to work alongside.
Concentrating while mixing and blending colours.Painting is always a favourite activity in P4/5!A quiet class, happy at their work!
Opening sentences for Ollie’s ‘Staying Out’ story…
On Halloween Bobby and Miller go camping in the street. They set down the tent on the grass next to a path. The grass was wet, soft and damp but they paused. They heard a noise, a loud noise. It came closer and closer AND closer.
Opening sentences for Alex’s ‘Staying Out’ story…
It was Halloween and Jeremy and Bob went camping in the forest. It was a misty and cold night and it was hard to see. All they had was a small tent, a torch, beans, firewood and matches. They were sitting next to the fire when suddenly it went out.
Monopoly Maths in fancy dress!Super group work playing by the rules, working out change and double checking using calculators. (4 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading...
It’s been a week full of active learning and creativity this week!
In Art with Ms Burr, the children have been painting butterflies from the rainforest. They have been thinking about the colours they see in nature and recreating this in their work. They have been working with concentration and care. We have also created beautiful Christmas card designs which you’ll be able to see when you visit for your parent appointment shortly!
In Topic work this week, Mrs Henderson found an active way to help illustrate how food webs work.
We had another visit from Gregory and Frances from the Children’s Parliament who came to meet our new P4/5 pupils who have joined our class and introduce them to the work they do and to begin talking about AI. There were, as always, some great ‘Getting To Know You’ games and we spoke some more about the UNCRC.
We were delighted to receive our MCP lanyards!
Getting To Know You Paper bag introductions!
Group work is at the centre of all that we do in the Children’s Parliament. In groups, we had to choose an animal and think of statements about it that would allow the rest of the class to guess our creature. We had to agree on the animal and statements before ordering these from most difficult to easiest.
In groups, we drew around a life-size body and wrote inside it about the kind of person we’d like to be and our hopes and dreams and how we’d get there in the future. Again, team work, discussion, listening and sharing was needed to make this task a success.
Then we started to think more about AI and where it can be found in daily life. We also recapped on how data is collected for AI and introduced our new pupils to the ‘Cleaning Up The Ocean’ online game.
On Thursday, Gregory returned to help us think more about fairness in AI. He gave us a challenge! A school has over 300 pupils and for the upcoming day trip to the Golf Course, there can only be 100 children chosen! Who gets to go? We were introduced to coding using ‘Python’ which uses simple words and numbers to instantly sort and analyse data.
The challenge was to build an algorithm that decides who gets to go on the trip by using a points system. Points had to be allocated under certain headings – pupils who are always late, those with best behaviour, age of pupil, those performing best in a test etc. When the numbers were input, the computer made the decision for each pupil as to how many points they were rewarded.
After a list of names was produced and we found out who the 100 tickets would go to, we then heard about some of the personal stories behind the pupils. This made us realise that selecting pupils in this way was unfair and sometimes, you need to know more information. Our investigators will pass on our thoughts at their next online meeting.
Thursday afternoon saw us drumming with Joy again and I was so impressed with how quickly the class have built up some complicated rhythms and combining these together. I love watching the concentration on the faces as the pupils follow Joy’s lead!
Friday saw us learning about the Spanish Armada and the wreck of the El Gran Grifon which sank off Fair Isle in 1588. This gave us some background knowledge before listening to music from this period of time from the Chroma Music Group.
The afternoon saw Nora and her violin and Rory with his accordion, creating music with others pupils while we learned a dance in the hall. It was a war dance between the Spaniards and Elizabethans. It was a very different and enjoyable Friday afternoon!
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. 😊
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.
Our new Investigators!
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!
Part of our learning in Maths this term is focusing on Measurement. It’s a great topic to incorporate in every day tasks, outside of Maths time too.
During our RME work, we used our skills to measure Ayanda’s turban material that he wore at a recent wedding. We were shocked to find out that it measured around 4m 80cm!
The Daily Mile has also created an opportunity to think about distances in metres, kilometres and miles. We are counting up laps and adding these measurements together to get a class distance. To date we have walked, jogged and sprinted our way to 31, 4730m or 314.7 km or 196.7 miles.
This week, we measured out a rectangular shape that measured 50m in perimeter. We timed how long it took us to walk that distance twice and will use this information to help us work out how long it would take us to walk 1km.
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