A big thank you to everyone at the Shetland Amenity Trust for making us so welcome on our trip this week!
We’ve spent a whole term learning about Shetland’s wildlife and sustainable tourism, so finishing with a trip to Sumburgh was a fantastic way to pull it all together!
We particularly loved watching the gannets dive, and getting to make the foghorn noise!
In our health and wellbeing time, the p4s walked down to the 60:40 for a session with the young sports leaders at the Anderson! They did a fantastic job being our teachers, and we hope they will have us back soon!
(Our p5s have their health and wellbeing with Mrs Moar, but they got to go last year!)
A big thank you to Matt from Rockpool Safari Shetland, who visited our class today to answer questions about sustainable tourism. This week we will all be designing our own sustainable wildlife experience for visitors, so it was fantastic to get a chance to ask some questions to an expert!
Excellent listening skills, and some fantastic questions from the class.
Our health and wellbeing lessons look a little different this year!
On Friday afternoons we split into our year groups, rather than staying with our composite class.
P5 are taught by Mrs Moar, and P4 learn with Miss Nibet and me. It’s always lovely to spend time with our year group, and helps us maintain friendships with a wider range of peers.
For maths week we brought together our maths and topic learning and investigated the bird populations in Shetland.
We were concerned to learn how badly the bird flu affected some of our species, and how low our numbers of phalaropes are. The class are keen to send this information out to some important people, so we added some writing explaining more about what the data shows.
Who do you think we should share our data about Shetland’s wildlife with?
Eleanor from the UHI came by on Thursday to set us a design challenge.
We built robots that could pick up litter from Shetland’s beaches and programmed them carefully.
Fantastic job everyone!
This term, we are focusing on invasion games, with hockey and basketball forming the main areas of learning. We began with a week of skills development to build the core attributes required for success in both sports. These included cooperation, dodging, weaving, attacking, defending, communication, and decision-making.
We then moved on to hockey. Throughout this block, pupils have been building their confidence in controlling the ball, passing accurately, and dribbling effectively. They have had regular opportunities to practise and refine these skills before applying them in fun, competitive games. As the unit progresses, pupils will continue to develop their teamwork, spatial awareness, and tactical understanding of the game.
We have been discussing the impacts of tourism on Shetland. We sorted these ideas into good things and bad things, and completed a diamond analysis to identify which impacts were the most important.
Fantastic job listening to each other, and respecting different people’s opinions!
These documents show what we will be learning about this term. I’m putting up one for P4, and one for P5, because some things are different for the different years. While these overviews give a general sense of what’s going on, it’s worth noting that extra challenge, or extra support, is provided where it is needed.
We found a huge range of plant and animal life in the woods at Montfield. So many interesting invertebrates!
We thought about how all our finds were connected in a food web. We learnt about balance, and how even though we don’t like midges very much, they are important for sustaining our population of birds and even bats!
