Fetlar Primary – Page 4 – Unique Learning Community

May 24, 2018

Redd Up, Map-making and RSPB Scavenger Hunt 16th May 2018

We went for our May beach clean on 16th May to Tresta beach on Fetlar and filled up 3 bags of rubbish. We had been in April and filled up 5 bags.

When we finished we met up with Martha from the RSPB and she gave us a scavenger hunt to complete with pictures of items (natural and man made) which we might find on the beach. We had to find the item and note the location to put on a map afterwards. When we brought everything back we discussed what each one was and the impact on the environment. Some was good (mainly natural) and some not so good (marine litter). We have been linking the impact of marine litter to Global Goal #14 Life Below the Water at school.

Afterwards we marked the items on the map we had made.

May 24, 2018June 7, 2018

Putting in our potatoes

We have been putting our potatoes out now and watering them so they can grow. We’ve been very lucky with the weather as the heat has helped the flowers to bloom and the stems and leaves to sprout up even more! Photos to follow.

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018

Hans Holbein’s ‘Lady with a squirrel and a starling’ trip

The children visited the Shetland Museum and archives last Tuesday 15th May 2018 to look at the portrait by Hans Holbein of ‘The Lady with a squirrel and starling’. The Lifelong Learning Coordinator Yvonne Reynolds explained to the children how the museum had to work hard to get the painting on loan. After this the children went into the gallery to view the painting itself, getting the chance to look at it ‘up close’. Following this they asked questions about the period in history, Holbein’s life and the painting itself. Then they dressed up in character. This, I suspect, was the most fun part. Finally they drew some self portraits in the style of the painting itself.

We will be continuing our own artwork from learning how to section off a painting and tackle it in quarters to a large scale whole school collage. Watch this space!

May 24, 2018

Community Enterprise in Action!

Fetlar primary school was involved in the preparation for the arrival of the cruise ship Ocean Bravo which had sailed from Baltasound earlier in the day.

The children did some maths to find out what money could be made from the sale of items they decided to make for the school. They took advice from the Interpretive Centre about the sort of things that visitors to the Isle might want to buy based on their experience at the centre. They designed and planned the creation of decoupaged stonework with old maps of Fetlar.

The visitors loved talking to the children about where they lived and went to school as well as what they were selling. To top it all the sun shone throughout! Well done everyone.

March 30, 2018

Kapla Blocks

We have a trial of 1000 Kapla blocks in school at the moment. Lots of creativity going on, along with literacy, numeracy and maths!

Mr Thomson says we can keep them 🙂

March 28, 2018

Sports relief!

Thank you everyone who put donations in for Sports Relief! Sadly nobody joined us for the walk to Tresta, but we raised £50!!!Hope everyone has a hoppy Easter!

March 12, 2018March 12, 2018

Bridge End – Monday

We’ve had a really busy day, lots of swimming, a quick visit round Commercial Street, lunch at Clickimin and then off to Bridge End!
Joy has come to do drumming with us, then were having tea and a games night.

February 13, 2018

Pancake Day

We held out coffee morning today with a Pancake theme.

We had lots of different toppings, and made our own pancakes.

We raised £35.55 in donations from our guests – thank you!

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

Our Late Burn Supper

We had our Burns Supper on the 5th of February 2018. We had neeps, tatties and haggis, we also had a veggie haggis which to me was my favorite because it tasted like chickpea noodles. Imogen’s favorite haggis the meaty haggis because she thinks it was yummy. Darcy’s favorite was them both. To me the haggis look like fat sausages before we cooked them. my favorite bit of making the dish was peeling potatoes, it was so satisfying. We also did presentations, we read out facts about Robert Burns, poems and we sang Auld Lang Syne. Our Mums and Dads came too see us.

January 12, 2018

Geodesic dome igloo

Nursery is learning about winter, so we made them a geodesic dome!

We used instructions from this site, and recycled the back drop we made from our Christmas show.
First we had to make templates and draw a lot of triangles!

Then we had to cut them out and fold the flaps. It was really important we were accurate in our cutting and folding, we had to fix some of them later!

Then we had to start taping them all together so we could make the shape of the dome.

Finally it was ready to for nursery to play with! We tried it out as well 🙂