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.
Wider Achievement afternoon
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.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Primary 6/7 would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2017.
Numeracy Snowflakes
Today we have been having fun making and folding 2D shapes to create beautiful hexagonal snowflakes.
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas…
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 Class Assembly
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!!!
Photography competition for Primary 6s
Are there any Primary 6s who are budding photographers and would like to have a go at this competition?
Littoral Art Project
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. 
Letters for Kenya
Primary 6/7 have all just completed their first letters for their pen pals in Olenguruone. We hope they like them!
Eco Committee fundraiser
Thank you so much to everyone who helped us to raise so much money for Hugh Harrop’s appeal for the Hillswick Seal Sanctuary. We raised a fantastic £210.
