On Friday November 15th P6/7 (and Miss Newbold) dressed up as the Minions and Gru for Children in Need! They had a brilliant day and put in such a great effort. We also took part in the Pudsey hunt and colouring competition organised by the pupil council. Thank you to everyone who donated!
We were just missing Dylan and Ayanda who were away playing in a table tennis tournament and they both did really well, we are all super proud of them!
At the end of Term 1 we had Ewen Adamson from CASE Shetland in P6/7 to do a bridge building activity using K’nex. The bairns absolutely loved it! They worked in teams of four or five so it was a brilliant teamwork activity. Ewen and Floortje commented on how well all of them worked together! They had to find a way of making the lightest bridge which could hold the most chicken feed. The winning team of Peter, Maximus, Ella, Lucille and Sophie’s bridge held a total weight of chicken feed 20x the weight of their bridge! This beat the previous best of any other school that CASE Shetland had been to which the whole class were very excited about. Thank you to Ewen and Floortje for coming in!
We have been trying out different activities for practicing our spelling words to try and make it a bit more exciting. One of our favourite ways to do this has been writing them in chalk outside. Here are some photos:
By Kirsty, Ruby and Jasmin.
Our first ever John Muir trip was very fun! We went to Fladdabister. Some of our favourite parts were:
We would love to go again! Thank you John and Miss Newbold for coming with us!
Whilst Primary 6 have been away doing Bikeability, P7 have been spending some time with their buddies who are now in P1. They come through to P7 with us on a Monday morning. We have been reading them stories, exploring the school through scavenger hunts, and looking at different phonics sounds they have been learning in P1. So far we have looked at “O”, “S” and “A”. We wrote stories with them and researched their favourite animals. We even showed them “the Wiggle Dance” which is our new favourite brain break activity. Next term the P6s will be away for playleader training so we will get to see them again.
Here is a brief overview of the learning that will be taking place in P6/7 over the remainder of Term 1 until the Christmas holidays.
Maths – Addition and Subtraction; Time; 2D Shape; Data Handling.
Language – Spelling Workbooks and Stations; Grammar; Handwriting; Comprehension Box.
Writing – Tools for writing, creating texts, enjoyment and choice.
Reading – Class Novel ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’; Reading Groups; Daily Reading ERIC time; accelerated reader.
Listening and Talking – enjoyment and choice; tools for listening and talking.
Topic – Geography/Christmas
Technologies – Internet Safety; Food and Textile Technology
RME – Christianity (celebrations, practices and traditions)
Health and Wellbeing – Planning for choices and change; Food for health; Playleaders for Primary 6; Primary 7 working with P1.
If you have any experience or expertise that you can bring to any of these topics, we’d love to hear from you.
