Everyone loves pancake day!
AHS Science Visit
We love science!
We are enjoying our “Healthy Bodies” topic and had a really good time finding out more about our bodies and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy.
Topic – Pasta Skeletons
We all enjoyed studying the human skeleton and found out lots of interesting facts! Then we had fun making pasta skeletons. 🙂
Lerwick Up Helly Aa
We had a really special time this Up Helly Aa as the Jarl came to our classroom to help us design our shields before the big day!
Term 3 PE Update
This week we begin our third four‑week block of PE. So far this term, the class has enjoyed learning dance and handball, and we wanted to share what we’ve been working on.
Dance
In our dance block, pupils explored how to use movement to express ideas. We focused on:
- Using imagination and responding to different stimuli
- Travelling, stillness, shapes, jumps and gestures
- Changing rhythm, speed, level and direction
- Repeating patterns in movement
- Showing expression and confidence
The children had great fun experimenting with creative movement and performing short sequences.
Handball
During handball, we concentrated on building throwing and catching skills and taking part in small‑sided games. Pupils learned some of the key rules of the sport:
- Players have 3 seconds to pass or shoot
- Players may take 3 steps only while holding the ball
We also practised moving into space to make successful passes and talked about how handball is a fast‑paced, exciting team game.
Here we are being Catherine Wheel fireworks.
Here are some pictures of our first week of handball.
Art Lesson
In art p2/3 have been looking at artwork created by the artist Jim Dine.
We were inspired by his paintings of Love Hearts, discussing his use of colour, shapes and texture. We tried to recreate a similar effect with paint when creating our own hearts.
Using hot colours for the heart and cold colours for the background we explored printing by painting on one half of the paper and folding it over to take a print. Once we finished them and they’d had a chance to dry we used chalk to create an outline and add highlights.
Well done, the final pictures are beautiful!
Happy New Year Everyone!
P2/3B have learned a new song to wish everyone a happy new year! After learning the melody and the lyrics, we learned how to read a basic graphic score which showed us which instruments should be playing at different parts in the song.
We used percussion instruments as part of our song and we each had a turn of playing all four – boomwhackers, tambourines, triangles and claves.
Here they are in action!
SNOW CLOSURE FUN LEARNING GRID TUESDAY 6th JANUARY
Snow Closure Learning Grid 6th January
Have Fun! ☃️😊
Snow Closure Fun Learning Grid 5th January 2026
Hope you’ve had a lovely holiday! Here are some fun ideas which you might want to do on Monday 5th January!
Snow Closure Learning Grid 5th January 2026
Enjoy! ☃️🎉😍
