The class had two entries into this year’s Music Festival. The whole class formed a choir to sing “Long White Sails” and “Cantata”. They sounded amazing on the stage, pitch perfect and beautifully in time. Then six of the class formed a fiddle group to perform three pieces. Once again their delivery was excellent, all working well together. The adjudicator was so impressed that both groups were invited back to perform at the Gala Concert on the Thursday night. At the end of this concert their efforts were rewarded when they were presented with the “Outstanding Contributor to the Music Festival” Award.
P5-7 and a couple of pupils from Sandness Primary took part in this year’s Drama Festival at Mareel. The play was about some Vikings trying to get into Valhalla after a battle. The children did well to learn all their lines and delivered them with impeccable comic timing, keeping the audience on the night well amused. Their performance was such a success that they won the Junior section Trophy. Well Done.
A huge thanks goes to Hilary Smith for giving up her time to come and work with the pupils on this.
At the end of last term P5-7 had a Victorian Afternoon. Pupils dressed up as Victorian children and Izzy came in to act the role of the Victorian schoolteacher and give them a taster of a school day Victorian style. The children really enjoyed the experience and it was a fine way to finish off our topic on the Victorians.
Emma Chittick has been in touch to let you all know about a Scratch task on making a digital postcard. Follow the links to tutorials and videos on creating your own Scratch Digi Postcard.
We have been studying another Pie Corbet story – Dragonory, similar to the 3 Billy Goats Gruff, it tells the tale of a plucky protagonist outwitting a grumpy Dragon.
These movie sets will be used as part of our stop animation depiction of the Dragonory Story.
As part of our topic this term we are comparing and contrasting Spain with Shetland. We have been learning about the Castanet and its use in flamenco dancing. Take a look at our homemade attempts! We have also been looking at the Spainish Armada and their thwarted invasion attempt. After being forced north and around the top of Scotland, Spanish sailors were said to have visited Fair Isle where knitting ideas were exchanged.
During the past two weeks we have been looking at story telling and focusing on Jack Foretells the Future where a young man appears to tell the future of a hapless farmer. We are making the story our own by creating a puppet show for the whole class based on what we’ve been learning. Others have been using the story as inspiration for their own creations.
