It was really exciting to finally open our Secret Santa presents. A big thank you to everyone, they are much appreciated as you can see in the photos.
Welcome Back
It was lovely to see the whole class back to school today and hear about all the things that we’ve been up to over the Christmas period.
There are lots of exciting things to look forward to this term and today we opened the Christmas cards from our friends in Cannes.
Bonne année à tous!
Planetarium Lesson
On Thursday 15th November, Harry Rose brought the planetarium into school. We had a fantastic morning finding out about the stars, planets, moons and constellations and he told an amazing ancient story about how the constellations were named.
Eco-Schools audit
While the Primary 6s have been doing their Playleader training, the P7s have been carrying out an Eco-Schools audit of everything that we do in our school and have been thinking of some actions that we need to do next.
Christmas play preparations
Last week we started to work on our Christmas play. Izzy came to help us with the script and we’ve started practising our songs. It’s looking good already!
Jigsaw health and wellbeing
Since Term 1 the whole school has been using the new Jigsaw resources to learn about lots of health and wellbeing issues and practices.
This week in groups of 4 we had to complete tasks, involving all group members, but one couldn’t get out of their seat, one couldn’t see, another couldn’t hear and one had their hand behind their back. We thought about how we can enable everyone to join in and contribute.
Kenyan Penpals
During the October holidays Ms Scanlan received an email from Lomayana school, full of wonderful messages and pictures for the class. It is always lovely to see the beautiful designs and drawings that they send and it’s great to hear back from them all and see how they are getting on.
Here is a photo of the class with their messages.
Visit from French Teachers from Cannes
This week Suzy Drogy-Meier and Yann Gueyffier from Cannes came to visit our school on Tuesday and Wednesday. They really enjoyed their visit and loved meeting the class and all the staff. They visited lots of classes and enjoyed working with the children, having conversations in French, reading books and helping our class write to their new pen pals in French. We’re looking forward to working together this year.
École communale Jacqueline de Romilly, Cannes
During the first week of the holidays Ms Scanlan travelled with a group of teachers from Shetland to work with colleagues in Cannes, France. She visited École communale Jacqueline de Romily and met the class who will be pen pals with our class. This evening the French teachers arrived in Shetland and will be visiting our school on Wednesday and Thursday.
Primary 5/6 and 6/7 will be writing to their new friends soon and finding out all about France.
My Friend Selma
On the 4th of September the P5/6/7 went to Cunningsburgh Hall to go to see a play about a young girl called Selma, who grew up in Bosnia during the war in the 1980s. She had to leave because her sister was really ill . So they had to travel to Serbia it wasn’t safe for them so they decided to escape to another country called Slovenia. There were soldiers with guns at the borders who let some people in and turn others away.
They got on a coach of refugees and a couple of days later they arrived in Britain by a coach. When they got to Springfield they lived in a giant building with lots of tiny flats which was only as small as one room. Later on Selma heard a knock on the door it was girl with who had a soft smile on her face. She said “Hi, I am Vicky” then Selma said “Wicky” and it kept on happening for a while then Vicky said “I am Wicky what’s your name? Selma said “I am Selma”.
The two became friends and this play was written by Vicky to tell everyone the story.
I thought it was really good and entertaining and I was surprised at the end when she told us it was a real story – Isaac
By Cole and Mirrin
