Today we had another really interesting visit from the SSPCA. We took part in an interactive whiteboard quiz all about helping and rescuing animals and what we could do if we saw any animals in trouble. We played a game of snakes and ladders with lots of interesting questions to answer. It was a great way to learn about helping animals.
These are our posters to tell Mrs Williamson all about us, what we like to do and about our school. They are now up and displayed in the P6/7 activity area. They look great and show what a range of interests and skills we have. They all show how proud we are of our Eco-flags and the work we do in school.
In class we have been looking at phones and how the technology has changed over time. We have been making posters to demonstrate this.
We have also sent home questionnaires to find out what our parents and families think about mobile phone technology. The answers we have received back have been great to discuss and will feed into our planned debate later in the week. We have also researched various arguments for and against mobile phones in preparation for our debate.
We are finding out about the pros and cons of children using mobile phones. Tomorrow we will be putting these ideas together to have debates, it will be interesting to hear what everyone thinks.
On Monday 20 th February, Mr Rose came in to start the science topic about Electricity and Magnetism.
We revised magnetism facts and used magnets to learn about attraction and repulsion and the Earth’s magnetic field. Mr Rose showed us what magnetic fields look like by using iron filings.
On Friday afternoon Matthew Smith, a volunteer from the RSPB came to help us with our hour of birdwatching. We took it in turns to go out in groups, while the rest of the class made fatballs to feed the birds and did some drawings of some of the birds that we are likely to see from the classroom.
We have started to see quite a few species, since we have been putting feed out. We also saw a lot of waders starting to come through after all the wind this week. We’ve all seen redshank, curlew and oystercatchers and we’re learning to identify a few of the gull species too. There are always lots of starlings around and house sparrows and a robin came to feed a couple of weeks ago.
Ms Scanlan is going to upload the species that we saw onto the RSPB website.
We had our fourth Wider Achievement afternoon today and we put out our bird feeders, ready for next week’s RSPB birdwatch. They’ll certainly have plenty to eat!
On Monday Mrs Williamson started working in our class as a student teacher. She will be with us for the next 5 weeks. Mrs Williamson gave an introductory talk about herself and then got the class to make posters about ourselves and Dunrossness. We had fun designing the posters.
Last week, Hugh Harrop, director of Shetland Wildlife, gave our school a pair of binoculars and a copy of the new photographic bird field guide ‘ Britain’s Birds ‘. These will be really useful during our Big Schools Birdwatch, thank you very much, we’ll let you know what we see!
We had a lovely afternoon making two more types of bird feeders. Next week we will go and tie all the feeders to our feeding stations and the trees. P4/5/6/7 have worked really well, the 🐦 are certainly appreciating it!
