Spanish Revision

January 17, 2018 User deactivated Leave a comment

We had great fun in Spanish today when we used the iPads to revise previous learning. We played Kahoot, a multi-choice game, which not only showed how many of us got the correct answer, but also who was the fastest.

Lauryn and Bertie won the first game, followed by Cerys and Michaela, with Fearghas and Lily Jane coming in third.

Emmy and Niamh won the second round.

The final game revised the vocabulary for days and months and was won by Lily Jane and Fearghas.

We all loved it and it really helped to remind us of the vocabulary we had previously covered.

Jemima and Zara both thought it was great fun but quite stressful!

Michael said, “It was really good and helpful to learn more Spanish.”

AJ commented, “I enjoyed using the iPads to learn Spanish.”

STEM 2

January 16, 2018 User deactivated 2 Comments

This week’ s programming challenge was to collect your shopping using ultra sonic sensors to stop in front of the package in order to pick it up, then bring it home. This involved lots of maths calculations to work out suitable rotations and distances. We also included sound at suitable times to indicate starting, reversing and stopping. It was another focused and fun session-enjoyed by all.

Spanish Dictation Challenge

January 10, 2018 User deactivated 1 Comment

Mr Harpe set our class a ‘running dictation’ challenge for our first Spanish lesson of 2018.

He split us into four teams and put up an assortment of sentences in Spanish. We had to run up, look at the piece of paper, memorise one of the sentences, run back and tell our teammates what the sentence was and write it down correctly. It was quite hard but fun. Plus you had to try to spell it right.

In team one was Jake, Ciaran, Christie, Declan, Fearghas and Lily-Jane.

Team two was made up of Michael, AJ, Emmy, Niamh, Ally and Jacob.

Team three had Bertie, Lauryn, Zara, Jemima, Michaela and Cerys in it.

The final team, team four, was made up of Ayla, Molly, Eve, Carys, Katie and Emily.

In the end Team three won.

We asked some people what they thought of the activity.

This is what they said.

Declan said, “It was good and exciting. It was also fun but a little bit hard.”

Michael said, “I really enjoyed the game. It was a little bit hard to spell the words.”

Cerys said,” It was a lot of fun.

Lily Jane commented, ” It was alright. I enjoyed the game a lot. I found it easy.

“It was very interesting and easier than I thought. I enjoyed it overall,” said Emily.

Written by Jemima and Zara

First STEM visit of 2018

January 9, 2018 User deactivated Leave a comment

This morning Emma Chittick came to teach us more about technology and how it is changing the way we live and work. The whole class very much enjoyed programming robots to pick up a package and take it to a box in the middle of the classroom and then come back. It was like the robot was a Amazon worker. We had to program it to pick a package off the shelf and take it to a delivery van and go back to the shelf to get another. But there were a few extra challenges we had to include in our programs. We had to add fun sounds in different places so you could tell what the robot was doing e.g. reversing. One of the robots dropped off their package and made a beeping sound as if to tell other workers they had dropped off a package. And another robot made a cheerful sound when it got back to the shelf. Another robot made a sound to signify that they had started their program.

Towards the end of the session, we demonstrated our programs to the whole class, two pairs at a time. We also started off all of the robots at the same time to see whose robot would get the package to the middle of the classroom and make it out alive! One robot made in and out all three times without crashing or missing the van! It was really fun and we can’t wait until the next session!

By Lauryn and Molly

Christmas Performance

December 29, 2017 User deactivated 1 Comment

Primary 6/7 really enjoyed performing a selection of songs from Mary Poppins, and with direction from Mrs Smith, their own dance routine to ‘Step in Time’.

They hope you enjoyed their performance.

Primary 6 Play Leader Assessment

November 20, 2017 User deactivated Leave a comment

Today Primary 6 pupils have been at play leader training where they put their new skills to the test. They have been working with Primary 2/3 to help them play a lot of new games .

Emmy, Christie, Ruby, Ryan, Lilly-Jane, Ronan, Holly, Jake, Jessica, Shane, Tia and Archie have really enjoyed working with the class to develop their skills in playleader training.

Tia- I really enjoyed playing with the little ones and had fun learning the games we played.

Ruby- Itwas fun but some of them didn’t listen well and I enjoyed learning the games.

Archie- It was fun but they were very energetic.

Emmy- I enjoyed it but sometimes it could get a bit over the top.

Lilly Jane-It was good working with the little ones.

Jake- it was so much fun and I enjoyed it a lot.

Posted by Ayla and Molly

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Learning Spanish

November 1, 2017 User deactivated Leave a comment

Today Mr Harpe came into Primary 6/7 to teach us Spanish. He taught us how to introduce ourselves and say where we live. We also leant about some of the traditions. There was flamingo dancing and bull fighting. I enjoyed it and can’t wait for the next lesson!

By Molly

Below the Hill during WWII

October 1, 2017 User deactivated 1 Comment

On Thursday 27th September, Neil Cruickshank came to talk to P6/7 about the development of Sumburgh Airport and the surrounding area during WWII. It was an excellent presentation by Neil, full of interesting and surprising information, supported by a fascinating collection of wartime photographs. The children were surprised to learn that Sumburgh Airport began life as Sumburgh Links and that the first planes landed straight onto the grass.

We learnt that Shetland was of great strategic importance during WWII and that in November 1939 3 Gloster Gladiator fighters (Faith, Hope and Charity) were sent to Sumburgh to defend Shetland and the Fair Isle Channel. Sumburgh became a R.A.F. station and work began on building tarmac runways. There were many interesting visitors to the aerodrome including Beaufort fighters, Spitfires and a De Havilland Mosquito which landed here on its way back from a raid on the Gestapo Headquarters in Oslo.

Neil told us many sad accounts of wartime crashes in and around Shetland including three Canadians who lost their lives when their damaged Bristol Blenheim reconnaissance plane crashed-landed at Grunay in the Out Skerries (20th March 1944).

After morning break we all set off by bus, accompanied by Mrs Leslie, to see some of the wartime remains still visible today on and around Scholland.

We saw remains of the huge line of ‘tank traps’ which were part of the first line of defence.

Above right is all that remains of an anti-aircraft gun post.

The Virkie school (above left) was used a a hospital during the war and local children had to use the previous school which was built in 1800s.

The Virkie school in WWII is now used as a store. We tried to imagine what it was like back in the 1940s and the children who went there.

We walked up the old army road alongside what was Goat Camp which housed soldiers and airmen during the war- there was even a barber, chemist and post office there.

We had a super time seeing lots of interesting things left behind from WWII, including the floor tiles in Dr Aitchison’s house-all that is left of his house which was demolished because it was in the flight path of the newly built runway.

A highlight for many was seeing one of the last machine-gun turrets remaining in Britain, which used to rotate 360 degrees, and now lies rusting in a field.

All of us in P6/7 would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Cruickskank and Mrs Leslie for an excellent morning. We all learnt a great deal about World War II in the Sumburgh area.

P6/7 Visit to Shetland Museum and Bible Exhibition

September 13, 2017 User deactivated Leave a comment

We spent an excellent morning at the Shetland Museum learning more about the strategic importance of Shetland during WWII and how it was affected by the war.

We spent time looking at the WWII display case and learnt a lot of interesting information about the items within.

We were also shown some WWII artefacts and the Shetland Roll of Honour where we found the names of those who died during the war.

Having discussed shortages, the need for rationing and how people had to ‘make do and mend’, we were each given a wooden peg and scraps of material to make a toy figure to play with- just like children in WWII would have to do to make their own toys.

Here are some of the toys we made.

We had a super time and would like to thank Yvonne and Kirsty for sharing their knowledge of WWII with us.

After lunch we went to a Bible exhibition at Sound Gospel Hall. There were four different workshops to go round and we had to complete a quiz at the end of each one. There was a lot of information to take in and we had to listen really carefully to answer the questions.

We were made very welcome and they kindly gave us a drink, biscuit and crisps to take back with us.