Epipen Training with Dr Armitage

As part of our “Human Body” topic we had a visit from Dr Armitage who delivered some Epipen training to us. We learned about his work as a pediatrician and how much work it takes to become a doctor. He then told us what happens when someone goes into anaphylactic shock and why they need an Epipen. We even got to try using one ourselves (not a real one though!). At the end of the session we did a quiz. Thank you Dr Armitage!

Term 3 Overview

Here is a brief overview of the learning that will be taking place up until the Easter holidays in P6/7:

Maths: Multiplication and Division; Fractions, Decimals and Percentages; Capacity, Weight and Length.

Language: Spelling Workbooks and Spelling Stations; Handwriting; Comprehension; Tools for Writing, Grammar.

Writing: Organising and using information; creating texts.

Reading: Class Novel; ERIC; Reading groups.

Listening and Talking: Finding and using information; Understanding, analysing and evaluating.

French: Days and months; colours; families; pets; creating “All About Me” profile and developing listening, talking and writing skills.

RME: Humanism

Technologies: Food and Textile Technology

Topic: The Science of the Human Body; Sound and Light; SMUHA; Euroquiz

Health and Wellbeing: Emotional and Social Wellbeing; Relationships, Sexual Health and Wellbeing

Sporting Achievements

This weekend has been a busy one for lots of our pupils.

Kirsty and Nora have been competing at the GTS winter swimming meet at Clickimin, both winning several medals.

Dylan and Ayanda have also been away competing in table tennis. They took part in the  Scottish Primary Schools Table Tennis Championships in Bathgate. There were 64 bairns competing from all across Scotland, with 7 bairns travelling down from Shetland to take part.

Ayanda won his group and made it through to the top 12 play-offs, finishing 10th place overall. Dylan came second in his group, but went on to win the plate competition, which puts him 13th overall. Then they paired up for the doubles tournament and made it all the way to the final, where they lost to the top two seeded primary players in Scotland.

 

It is lovely to see such dedication to sport!

(Thank you to Dylan’s Dad for the following photos).

 


Children in Need

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!

CASE Shetland Bridge Building

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!

Halloween in P6/7

Today we have managed to have some Halloween themed lessons:

In class PE we did some target practice aiming at some ghosts

We have made some fantastic mummy pictures, using oil pastels looking at how to blend colours

The class are now learning about Halloween homographs by playing grammar boom!

P7 and P1 Buddies

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.

 

Term 1 and 2 Learning Overview

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.

So here they are, the wonderful, fun loving new P6/7s Just another blogs.glowscotland.org.uk – Shetland site

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