Fetlar Primary

Now that 2 pupils have left the school, we felt the need to ‘freshen up’ our porch. The pupils were given the task of coming up with an ‘interesting’ way of displaying the features of Getting It Right For Every Child.

Each of the primary pupils were asked to use ICT to come up with a striking display with accompanying graphics. Then our special ‘Guest Judge’ was asked to select the winning entries for display.

Luckily Foula Primary did make it to Fetlar in time for our Drama session with Izzy Swanson. We really enjoyed communicating meanings via gestures as you can see….

 

Often, when we are at Voxter, we are lucky enough to have Joy Duncan come and give us a drumming session with the other Outer Isles schools. This time we were lucky enough to have her with just us. We were supposed to have Foula Primary here also but, as usual, the weather intervened.

As the nights begin to draw in we have been looking at the subject of electricity. We have begun to make simple circuits and have learned that electricity needs to flow through a circuit. We also know that, although the wires are covered in plastic, they contain metal which conducts the electricity.

We were lucky to have a visit from Mrs De Luca on September 15th. She came to read us a new story written entirely in Shetland Dialect. She read us a few sections of the story (not the scariest bits) and gave us each a copy of the book.

The pupils were set a challenge to make a game demonstrating either magnetic attraction or repulsion. Here are some pictures of the resulting games being tested.

Everyone could explain the science behind their games and really concentrated when playing them.

We also had a game that our Nursery pupil tested out for one of our P3 children but that picture is refusing to load!

Mr Rose has been telling us about the links between electricity and magnets. He brought an electromagnet to show us. It lifted all these paperclips. Our classroom magnets can only lift 7 paperclips if we are very careful!

We were able to make our own small battery powered electromagnets.

Mr Rose showed us many different uses for magnets. He brought one that ran on mains electricity that was able to lift seven of our kilogram (Kg) weights in one go.

We have been studying Magnetic Forces in their many forms. Mr Rose, as always, has been helping us understand how magnets can be used.

P3 learned about how magnets can attract (not stick) to some metals.

Other pupils carried out experiments designed to show magnetic repulsion.

The older pupils discovered that Magnets have a north and south pole and have their own force field. We used iron filings to show this.

We hope to create our own games based on magnetic forces soon.

 

 

 

We have had a couple of problems with posting the photos, but they appear to be appearing now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On our first day back after the Summer Break (Wednesday August 19th) we went up to see the new Scottish Air Ambulance.

P7 made this little video which we hope will play:

The camera work is a little wobbly! But the sound appears to vary.