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Pond Maintenance

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Primary 7s have been busy clearing out the pond in our school nature garden.  When we first arrived, we weren’t sure if there was a pond in there – it was so overgrown!

Everyone got straight to work.  It wasn’t long before we began to see lots of frogs appearing to take a look at what we were up to.

Some pupils are very keen to get right in the middle of the action. We are wondering if we should try to measure how much water comes out of their wellies each week, when it is time to head back to class!

We are enjoying our pond visits and finding out how we can improve this area, so that the frogs continue to thrive and return year after year.  Some special plants and bugs have been kindly donated, to help breathe new life into our pond.

 

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Visit from Eleanor Hutcheon from UHI Shetland

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On Tuesday (the first day back of Term 4) we had a visit from Eleanor Hutcheon from UHI Shetland. She came in to speak to us about electricity and circuits, which is part of our topic this term. We had met her before in Term 3 on our trip to the Newton day in Sandwick where we had already learned a little bit of what she was talking about today. We firstly spoke about how circuits work and what different components are needed to power a lightblub from a switch. Then we got to power a clock from the electrolytes in different fruits and vegetables through zinc and copper wires; and lastly we got a chance to explore circuit kits which Eleanor had brought in.

Windy weather seeds

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We had a lovely afternoon looking at how seeds use the wind to disperse. We looked at Ash, Sycamore and Plane keys and Spruce and pine seeds and then everyone had a go at making their own. Everyone agreed that Archie’s was the coolest, it was tiny and rotated so fast!
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Tree planting

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While the P7s were on their second John Muir day, the P6s had an afternoon of tree planting. Firstly we helped John to plant the Queen’s jubilee trees, then we took some willow cuttings and planted them and finally we potted up some sycamore seedlings to plant next year. Everyone worked very hard and we’re looking forward to seeing another area of woodland grow up 1 Star (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)
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The Winners of the Musical Instrument Contest are…

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Today we finally had our musical instrument contest. The criteria was to make an instrument that was creative and could play a recognisable tune. The children have been working on this for a few weeks and there was a fantastic range of ideas.
After a lot of hard decision-making Ms Scanlan thought that Fearne had made an instrument that played the best tune and Fiona, Hannah and Eveline and Isla and Kathryn’s groups had included the most creative ideas. Mrs Henderson came in to see them all and we both thought that everyone had worked really well on the task.
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Welcome back and a Happy New Year

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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. 1 Star (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)
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Moja Island Renewable Energy

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This afternoon we worked in groups to find out a bit more about the different types of renewable energy and what are the best ones to use in different environments.
The children were scientists and had to work out what would be the best energies to use in their villages on Moja Island. We had lots of great discussions and group work.
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Witch’s brew / chemical reactions

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This afternoon we found out about chemical reactions with acid and alkalines. We used coloured water, oil, bicarbonate and citric acid (see a similar recipe below). They looked great!

https://home.ioi.london/watch/how-to-make-a-lava-lamp

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