Tag: Outdoor Learning

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Birdwatching at the Sands of Sound

As part of our Shetland topic, we have been learning about birds that we might find in Shetland and their proper names and Shetland names.

We went to the beach and listened carefully for the tirricks. There were two that were swooping about, people were on the island and disturbing their peace. Some of us saw a duck on water as well.

The class are desperate to see and hear a puffin but there was none to be seen. We have looked on the puffin cam at Sumburgh head and saw ones there.

Meta-skills used today were: focusing and curiosity.

 

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Leadership – Playground

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.

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Da Magic Stane

We did some classwork on labelling key places on the Shetland map. We then listened to the Shetland dialect poem ‘Da Magic Stane’.

Da Magic Stane :: Shetland ForWirds

After that we went out into the playground to look at the map on the ground. Mrs Abernethy and some pupils wrote the names of the islands on the map. We took our stone we got from the beach last week and placed it on our chosen island. We then wrote an imaginative story about what our own magic stone would do and where it would go. Some went to Bressay, some went to Whalsay and some went to capybara island.

We had a Shetland map jigsaw to do when finished. There are only 9 pieces but it is surprisingly tricky.

Meta-skills included are: focusing, initiative, communicating, leading, collaborating, sense-making and critical thinking

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Trip to the Beach

What a sunny day!

Off to the beach we went to skim some stones. We each took a stone back to class to be our magic stone for a lesson next week. We will be listening to ‘Da Magic Stane’ and using this as an idea for our writing focus.

Here is a link to the poem if anyone hasn’t heard of it.

Da Magic Stane :: Shetland ForWirds

Harry was our star skimmer today! He has an amazing technique.

Meta-skills included in this learning opportunity included: focusing, adapting, initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading and critical thinking.

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Maps of Sound

We looked at our local area today and used a map to find various locations around the school. The children loved going out and about with the clipboards and finding the 9 locations. We then had to look on the map and find it there too, this was a lot trickier but the pupils were map experts by the end of the lesson.

Meta-skills used during the lesson were: focusing, communicating, sense-making and critical thinking.

We are going to move on to looking at maps of the whole of Lerwick later on in the week and then we will look at the map of Shetland next week.

Shetland is our topic for this term. If anyone has any skills or talents that they would like to share with us to support the class to learn about Shetland then please get in touch.

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Trip to the museum

We had the BEST morning at the museum! We got a tour around the museum to see how life was like before the Vikings and how it changed when the Vikings came to Shetland. We saw lots of artefacts in the exhibit and the lady told us lots about Viking life and what they did.

At the end of our tour we got a shout from Tony to tell us that there were orcas outside so we all ran out to see them. It was amazing! It was just a quick glance though as they were speeding through the harbour at a good pace. An unplanned bit of outdoor learning!

We went back inside to dry off and get snack. After snack, we got to see some Viking artefacts up close and hold them. Mari explained what they were for and we learned the difference between real artefacts and replica artefacts. We learned where they get the evidence from and how they find the Viking items. The axe was the favourite item to look at. It was heavy!

We got to make our names out of Viking Runes and designed Viking shields.

Mrs Anderson was so proud of us today, the pupils were really good at answering questions in the museum and the ladies that work there were very impressed at how knowledgeable the class were. Well done P3!

Meta-skills covered in our trip were:

  • curiosity
  • sense-making
  • creativity
  • critical thinking
  • communicating
  • focusing

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Numeracy Week – Orienteering

The class loved during orienteering last term when we were doing our health week. Mrs Ritchie made up some more orienteering tasks for us to use based on numeracy. We did two today, one which included numbers and colours and one that used directions, colours and adding. The sun was shining and the class had a great time!

Meta skills included are focusing, initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading and critical thinking.

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Outdoor Learning

Signs of Spring

We went for a walk today to look for signs of Spring. We saw daffodils, crocuses, snowdrops and lots of new buds on the trees and bushes. We enjoyed a walk around our local area including going over the troll bridge and a peerie explore in the wildlife area.

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Up Helly Aa 2024

What a day!

The class have had a great time preparing for Up Helly Aa. We made shields and helmets. We have set up our own Sound School Galley Shed in the infant wing which includes dressing up, axe designs, helmet making, galley building, torch making, art activities and a workbench with real tools.

We enjoyed the day which included a walk to the Clickimin to see the Junior galley and presentations in the gym hall to both the junior squad and senior squad. We got a very quick chance to hold their shields and try their helmets before the vikings had to leave again.

Thank you to all the parent helpers who came on our trip. It was great to have you.  Thank you to the squads who came to visit. It was a very special and exciting day for everyone.

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Outdoor Learning – Road Safety

Tony came in to our class today to chat to us about road safety and show us his hi-vis uniform. We learned about his jacket, his lollipop and most importantly, how his gloves protect his hands from all the high-fives!

We watched a video on crossing the road safely.

Crossing roads: kids know best – THINK!

The class enjoyed getting outdoors to have a go at crossing the roads using what we had learned.

Stop!

Look! 

Listen!

Think!

Our school value this term is safety. We have also looked at being safe around bonfires and fireworks.

 

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