Primary 6/7 would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2017.
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Numeracy Snowflakes
Today we have been having fun making and folding 2D shapes to create beautiful hexagonal snowflakes.
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas…
Primary 6/7 have started to open the windows on their beautiful Advent calendar and the items for the food bank are coming in fast too. Thank you to everyone for their help.
Primary 6/7 Class Assembly
Primary 6/7 have worked hard in the last couple of weeks to produce an interesting and informative assembly about all the things that they were doing last term. They spoke very clearly and had made excellent ppts, posters and other props. The audience really enjoyed it, especially when Mary Berry’s wig fell off!!!
Photography competition for Primary 6s
Are there any Primary 6s who are budding photographers and would like to have a go at this competition?
Littoral Art Project
This afternoon all of Primary 6 and 7 went to the museum to attend a workshop run by the artist Julia Barton. The whole project aims to get young people thinking about the scale and nature of marine pollution and carries on from the CSI project last summer.
In the main section of the exhibition there was a huge model map with plastiglomerate (plastic) rocks made into islands. They had names like Litter Skerry and the Polymer Sea. We also looked at the different types of plastiglomerate rocks that have been found on Shetland’ s beaches. It is incredible to see how widespread they are now and to think about the damage that they do to the environment and how long they will be around for.
Let’s hope our Primary 6/7 s help to make a difference in future in solving these problems. 
Letters for Kenya
Primary 6/7 have all just completed their first letters for their pen pals in Olenguruone. We hope they like them!
Eco Committee fundraiser
Thank you so much to everyone who helped us to raise so much money for Hugh Harrop’s appeal for the Hillswick Seal Sanctuary. We raised a fantastic £210.
Dialect and celebration assembly
On Wednesday we had a really lovely morning. Lots of family and friends came to watch the dialect singing that Maria Barclay has been doing with each class. It all sounded really wonderful and we enjoyed homebakes afterwards.
Library and Tesco visit
On Thursday we had a really interesting morning in Lerwick. Primary 6/7 spent an hour in the library with Marghie West. She showed us all around and it was really interesting to go  upstairs, downstairs and into the resource centre. As it was Poetry day, a few of us wrote poems.
After a snack and a play in the park, we went to visit Tesco. We learnt about the different types of foods that they stock, looked around their storage area  and went into the freezer – brrr!
We then went to look at the fruit and veg and it was amazing to see the range of countries that they come from – lots of food miles! Finally we tasted lots of different foods and some of our class even liked the grapefruit juice!!!
