We had a great afternoon adding feeding trays onto our bird feeding stations and making yoghurt pot feeders. We also learnt how to tie some useful knots, so that we can attach them to the posts and trees.
So far we have seen starlings, house sparrows, a robin and two herring gulls on the feeders.
Primary 6/7 have been learning about how different groups of people are paid in the banana trade. We split into 5 groups (banana workers, plantation owners, shippers, shops and supermarkets and importers and ripeners) and found out about their roles.
If a banana 🍌 cost 30p we had to decide how much of each 30p should go to each group. It was difficult to decide and in the end we thought that the banana workers should earn the most – 8 p, but we were shocked 😳 to find that despite all the work they do, they only get 1p in every 30p. And that’s why Fairtrade is so important.
P6/7 had a good morning working in their new groups. We learnt about human rights, which are an important part of our Fairtrade topic.
We had a great afternoon making bird feeding stations for our school grounds. We used some of the big logs and made holes in them for bird food and hammered nails into the wood so that next week we can hang feeders off them. We also made lots of fat balls and seedy worms 🐛 and put these out too. In a few weeks time we’ll be doing the RSPB bird watch and hope this will encourage more birds into our school grounds, especially in this cold weather.
Primary 6/7 would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2017.
Today we have been having fun making and folding 2D shapes to create beautiful hexagonal snowflakes.
Primary 6/7 have started to open the windows on their beautiful Advent calendar and the items for the food bank are coming in fast too. Thank you to everyone for their help.
Primary 6/7 have worked hard in the last couple of weeks to produce an interesting and informative assembly about all the things that they were doing last term. They spoke very clearly and had made excellent ppts, posters and other props. The audience really enjoyed it, especially when Mary Berry’s wig fell off!!!
Are there any Primary 6s who are budding photographers and would like to have a go at this competition?
This afternoon all of Primary 6 and 7 went to the museum to attend a workshop run by the artist Julia Barton. The whole project aims to get young people thinking about the scale and nature of marine pollution and carries on from the CSI project last summer.
In the main section of the exhibition there was a huge model map with plastiglomerate (plastic) rocks made into islands. They had names like Litter Skerry and the Polymer Sea. We also looked at the different types of plastiglomerate rocks that have been found on Shetland’ s beaches. It is incredible to see how widespread they are now and to think about the damage that they do to the environment and how long they will be around for.
Let’s hope our Primary 6/7 s help to make a difference in future in solving these problems. 
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