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Week 3

September 4, 2023 Mrs Henderson 1 Comment

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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!

Bee and Insect Plants 🐝 🐞 🌱

June 27, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

Primary 5/6 have been taking home their plants. Let’s hope in all the wind that some of them grow.

Outdoor Classroom Day – Tree planting

May 18, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

On Thursday 17th May, Primary 5/6 had a great morning planting up a new area of the school grounds with the Woodlands Trust trees that we received last autumn. The grass was strimmed and John made planting holes to put the saplings into. After a quick demonstration the children soon learnt how to bed the trees in and by break time we had a whole new forest planted up. We can’t wait to see how they grow.

Broo Archaeology Trip

May 16, 2018 Ms Scanlan 1 Comment

This afternoon Primary 5/6 and some of Primary 6/7 went to visit the dig at Broo. Gerry Bigalow, the project coordinator met us and gave us a really interesting talk all about the house site. Every year they find something different and reveal more of the house. This year they have uncovered a huge fireplace and a window that hasn’t been looked through for 300 years!

After the talk and walk around the site we split into two groups and had a chance to do some real hands on archaeology. We used the large hanging sieve to look through buckets of the sandy earth from the site and it was exciting to see how many things we found. There were lots of bones and some burnt peat.

The second activity was to use the trowels to scrape back the soil and look for artefacts. This time there were again quite a few bones and the remains of a very old bottle.

We were lucky with the weather and really enjoyed the walk there and back too. Primary 5/6 gave the afternoon 10/10!

Thanks to Faith and Robert’s mums for coming with us too.

Making Bread

April 26, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

On Wednesday 25th April, while the Primary 6s were on a visit to TOTAL, the Primary 5s had fun learning about yeast and how it helps to make bread rise.

We made bread rolls and a loaf and the best thing was that we got to eat them – yum!

We also did an investigation to see how yeast produces carbon dioxide as it respires. It was fun to watch the balloons expand.

Last Wider Achievement

April 26, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

On Thursday 29th March we had our last Kenyan session. This week we were making collages of Kenyan wildlife.

Primary 5/6 Assembly

March 28, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

On 28th March we had our class assembly. Everyone worked really hard together to prepare assembly boards and scripts. We presented information about the Old Stone Age, New Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Picts and Vikings and Kenya. Everyone sang beautifully, starting with ‘What does Shetland mean to me’ and finishing with Hakuna Matata and Archie and Ronan also played the cornet and accordion. A big well done to all the bairns for their performances, we know that it’s not always easy to perform to a big audience, but they all supported each other and did so well.

RSPB Schools Birdwatch

January 26, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

This afternoon we all took part in the RSPB Schools birdwatch. Schools throughout the whole of the UK take part in this and record the birds in their school grounds.

The results are then uploaded to the RSPB and they use the information to look at changes in bird populations.

Local birdwatcher Glen Tyler took groups of children out and we used our school binoculars, that Ness Engineering and Hugh Harrop had given us last year. The children asked lots of questions as they went around the school and used Hugh’s identification guide to learn a bit more about the local birds.

Everyone said they would like to do this again.

Preparations for Lomayana School visit, Kenya

January 18, 2018 Ms Scanlan Leave a comment

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.