Thank you to everyone who came along to our class museum at the end of Term 3.  It was great to see everybody and have the opportunity to share our learning and exhibits, as well as the beautiful songs we’ve been practising with Miss Stewart.  The juice and cupcakes/chocolate crispies went down a treat.  Thank you to Alison for sharing the canteen and helping make the tabnabs and Mrs Manson for helping in the afternoon.  We raised £78.97 for the R.N.L.I.  Thank you so much for the donations!  We used our creative and communication meta skills.  It was a splendid afternoon!       

The children shared some of their thoughts:

“I felt excited for my mam coming.  She liked our singing.  She also liked the crisps and juice!  I was proud of all my work and I used my creativity meta skills”.

“My mam and dad liked the thunder maker and I liked the cupcakes!”

“I really liked it because it was all of our creations and my dad liked it.”

“My dad loved the Shetland Bus bit.”

“My dad and mum thought it was so amazing how we did all this.  We also used our creative meta skills.”

“My mam and dad said it was very good and they were impressed that we did all of that work and really liked it.”

“My mum loved it and she thought the singing and instrumental part was great”.  Plus my dad liked the wordsearch I did.”

“I was really proud of myself.”

“My mum loved the museum.”

“My auntie, mam and dad loved my ‘Ship in  a Bottle’.”

“My mum really liked the song ‘Ronas Voe’.”

“It was very fun seeing our parents looking at our work.”

“My mum loved the food!”

“Doddy was proud of my work.”

“I loved it and thought it was absolutely amazing!”

We’ve been learning to estimate and measure the capacity of vessels/objects.  We used our collaborative and communicative meta skills; working in pairs/groups to estimate and measure the capacity of various vessels/objects.

Over the last three weeks of Term 3, we were fortunate that Izzy could join us and guide us in drama workshops.  We invited the other classes in the senior wing to watch our performance.  Thank you Izzy!  We used our creative and collaborative meta skills.  We had so much fun!

As part of our leadership on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), we designed floating vessels using only tinfoil.  The challenge was to see which design worked best and how many cubes could the vessels hold (cargo) without sinking.

We used our counting skills and some of the class re-designed their vessels to hold more cargo and stay afloat longer.  We collated our results and following discussion, vessels with higher sides worked best and those with thicker layers of foil.  Cube cargoes ranged from 12 to 680!

We also used our critical thinking and creative meta skills.

These are some of the ‘one word’ responses from the children:

The activity was exciting, fun, fantastic, interesting, creative, teamwork, incredible, amazing, amusing, inspiring and hard.

We visited the Lerwick Fish Market and NAFC Scalloway, as part of our inter-disciplinary learning this term.

We used our curiosity and communication meta skills.  We had a lot of fun!

Thank you to Laura and Miranda for helping to organise our visit and everyone else involved, including Jenni and Kate, Mrs Leask, Mrs Manson, Sadie and Mrs Work.

As a follow up activity, we’ve been writing personal accounts of our trip and our learning.

It’s great that Izzy can visit the class for 3 sessions this term.  We’ve just had our first one together and the class are so enthusiastic and looking forward to Izzy coming back the next two weeks.

We used our collaborative and creative meta skills.

We headed outdoors recently to consolidate our learning on ‘perimeter’ so far.  We worked in pairs/groups and used different equipment to measure the perimeter of shapes we could find in the playground.

We used our collaborative and sense-making meta skills.

We visited the Centre recently to take part in some sports activities, organised by S3 pupils from the AHS.

It was a lot of fun and we used our collaboration meta skills.

Ryan Dalziel visited the class recently to talk about his job and show the class some fish specimens and equipment.  Thank you to Ryan for taking the time to  come along.  Thank you also to the children that helped carry some of the equipment!  As a follow up activity, the class have written thank you letters to Mr Dalziel.

The class used their communication meta skills and asked lots of questions!

We were invited by Shereen, Rosie, Layne and Stacey to join the service users to make St.Patrick’s Day shamrock crafts and Easter colouring pictures.

The class had juice and biscuits, chatted with the service users and staff and made some beautiful shamrocks as well as joining in colouring fun.

We used our communication and creative meta skills.  We hope to go back again soon!