Primary 3’s Leadership focus this term is playground. We have decided to learn some games to help encourage p1-3 to play games in the playground. We have Jennifer from Active Schools in to teach us some games. We are then going to teach it to the primary 1 and 2 pupils. We have learned Dragon Treasure and Aeroplane Catchie today.
Meta-skills we are covering are: focusing, adapting, initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, sense-making and critical thinking.
Our Leadership activity this term has been JRSO which stands for Junior Road Safety Officers. We decided to do the Sustrans ‘Big Walk and Wheel’ challenge for this. The pupils made posters, went around each of the classes to explain to them what we are doing, composed a letter to send out to parents and spoke out at assembly.
During the two weeks of the challenge the p3 classes collected the numbers of pupils that had walk/cycled/scooted to school. We then inputted the data into the website daily. The pupils loved doing this and looked forward to doing it each day.
The Shetland Islands Council Climate Team found out about our challenge and asked to come into the school to find out more about what we have been doing and the reasons behind it. They interviewed pupils and videoed us to use as part of their ‘Climate Yarns’ project.
Click on the link below to watch the episode featuring our amazing Primary 3 pupils!
Climate Yarns: Walk And Cycle Challenge
The Meta-skills the bairns highlighted that we were covering during this task were:
A big thank you to the parents for supporting the pupils to walk/wheel to school each day.
We had our leadership assembly today.
All classes had a different focus for the term. P3 were given Curriculum. We chose to share our learning about our Viking topic. Some people spoke at the assembly to tell the audience what we have covered. We all then sung ‘Loki the Joker’. Here is the link if anyone wants to hear it.
Loki the joker (song 1) – backing track | Primary Music – Viking Saga Songs
We had rehearsed another song, ‘Dragon Ships’ but the website wasn’t working so we didn’t get to sing it to the school but we will have another chance at the next assembly, if we can get the technology to work!
We enjoyed working with p3b to prepare for the assembly.
Meta-skills covered during this task included:
It was also really interesting to hear about the other classes and what they have been up to. Next term our leadership focus will be Wider Achievement (games club) and Community (JRSO).
