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Thursday 3rd October

October 3, 2024 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

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.

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!
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First Aid

June 8, 2024 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Our Health and Well-being work this term has centred around the safe use of medicines. This led us to find out about basic first aid techniques that should be carried out when minor injuries happen. Discussions naturally developed into what would happen if….? We decided to invite Andrew Best, a First Aid Responder, to talk to our class and to demonstrate what would happen in more serious situations.

We were told about the first action to take on finding someone who is clearly unwell. Check you are safe and speak to them, gently shaking them, to see if they respond.

Check for signs they are breathing and, if so, put them into the recovery position and call for help.

We then had the opportunity to practise putting our partners in the recovery position.

Andrew and Jack then showed us what to do if the person wasn’t breathing. He talked us through making a 999 call and emphasised the importance of getting help quickly. We’ll talk more about this next week.

He talked us through giving CPR on adult bodies, children and babies. We all got to experience what this felt like using his dummies. We were surprised at how hard and deep you had to press down!

Andrew showed us how to use a defibrillator and we talked about where to find the nearest one to our school.

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We would like to say a big thank you to Andrew and Jack. Everyone has hopefully learned some life long skills today and, who knows, maybe a spark of interest for some future careers has been lit!

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Interfaith Scotland Visit

March 14, 2024 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

We had a great visit from Frances from Interfaith Scotland. She brought two friends to tell us more about their faith.

Haikal told us about his Muslim faith and showed us pictures from his pilgrimage to Mecca where he and his family prayed around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shine in the Grand Mosque.

He showed us his prayer mat which keeps him clean while kneeling and sitting. The top of the mat must point towards Mecca. They used to use a compass to find the correct direction but it’s easier now with phones to tell you.