Today Jenny came in to teach us a very old traditional ballad and them we got back to the straw hats.
We had to knot them in a row and then we joined it to make our hats. 
(3 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)
Loading...
Tag Archives: Practical skills
The Lost Songs
We had a super morning with Jenny Sturgeon and Roseanne Watt, who are coming into school for four weeks to do a dialect / Shetland history project with us. Jenny started by singing a song for us and Roseanne recited a poem.
We did two activities, firstly we learnt a dialect song about spinning and then we started to make our skekler hats. We will finish them next week. (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)Loading...
First Week Back
It has been so lovely to see everyone back. What a great start to the year.
We are starting to get ready for the RSPB birdwatch, so this afternoon while the pupil council were out, the rest of us made bird feeders.
We used up the old pine cones from Christmas and learnt to tie a reef knot, so that we’ll be able to hang them from the trees. Next we made a delicious 🤢 mixture of lard, cheese, grains, nuts and sultanas and moulded it onto the cones. We will harden them up in the fridge and hang them out next week.
(2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)Loading...
Our First John Muir Day
On Wednesday 28th September all of the P7s had their first John Muir day out to Kergord Wood, exploring the wild!
Here is what they thought of it:
Christina – We went to Kergord with John, Davy and Mr Feeney. I really enjoyed building dens and playing ‘follow the leader’
Ryan – I really liked the den-building. I liked doing the wood work.
Eveline – I really liked the den building because I got wet and muddy, and it took hard work. I liked going over the bridges and flipping and climbing on the trees.
Liam – it was exciting and muddy and I liked playing in the forest.
Conor – it was fun building the shelters and following John, doing what he did. I liked building the shelters the most.
Leo – I enjoyed the obstacles and going under and over them. I really enjoyed climbing the tree.
Lily – I enjoyed following John , everywhere he went.
Ruben – I enjoyed building the shelters and climbing the trees.
Jade – I enjoyed following john around the forest. Building the dens was so much fun.
Freya – the John Muir day was so much fun. I liked climbing up the tree.
Emily – We got to eat in an old croft house ruin and John lit a fire. We got to climb a tree and then I fell off and face planted the floor.
Georgia – we went to climb trees in Kergord. I really enjoyed it and it made me happy.
Isabelle – The adrenaline rushed through my veins when I crawled across the logs of flipped over trees. I felt happy and grateful when we built our dens and watched the embers spark from the flames. I enjoyed getting to go to the forest and just be with all my friends.
Planting in the polycrub
A few weeks ago the P7s tidied up the polycrub and today, while the P7s were on their first John Muir day, the P6s worked really hard to carry the new topsoil in and replant the apple trees and plant a raised bed of tatties. Ms Scanlan was so impressed at how hard they worked. What a great job they all did, well done!
Primary 6 Bikeability
This morning the P6s completed their last Bikeability session and had an assessment of their skills. They tried lots of different turns and used the hand signals well. They all did really well 😃 Thank you so much to Jennifer for teaching everyone so well.
Wildlife audit
This afternoon, while the P6s were at Bikeability, the P7s had a look at the Polycrub, pond and trees to see what they could do to continue to develop our school grounds. They also enjoyed finding lots of frogs 🐸
Enterprise Project
The enterprise groups are continuing to work hard on their projects and everything is starting to take shape 😊 (4 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)Loading...
Welcome back and a Happy New Year
It has been lovely to see everyone back in school this year. Our topic for the first part of this term is Sound. After completing a formative assessment task, where we remembered what we already know about sound, we had a fun afternoon making string telephones and testing how well sound travels through different materials. (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)Loading...
Drones – STEM
This afternoon Emma Chittick came into class to teach us about the use of drones in the World of Work. We found out about how drones are used in lots of different jobs and then we got to go up to the hall to try some out.
We worked in pairs and had a drone and an iPad to fly the drone with. We had to fly the drones up to six posters that had been placed around the hall and then we take pictures of the posters and read tiny words on them. It was so much fun. There might be a few drones added to Christmas lists!
This is the first time that Emma has used the drones with primary school children and she was very impressed with the P6/7 class.
(2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)Loading...
