As part of our topic work this term, the class have created lovely whale pictures to accompany their learning on the historic whaling industry in Shetland.  They’re beautiful!  We focused on our creative meta skills. 

The Royal Navy visited on Friday and the class enjoyed participating in various STEM activities including coding, circuits and a talk about life on submarines.  As a follow up activity, the class have written thank you letters.  We focused on our curiosity and communication meta skills.

We’ve been busy decorating classroom doors throughout the school to celebrate reading and literacy.  They look fantastic!

Primary 5 chose Diary of a Wimpy Kid for their door’s book theme and Paige helped Mrs Leask to decorate her classroom door.  Thank you everyone!  Lots of collaborative meta skills used. 

Sadie brought along some items to share from her dad’s time at ‘Da Whaling’ in 1960/61.  Our class had the opportunity to look at whale’s teeth, photos of Sadie’s dad and a contract of employment.  We are learning about Whaling being part of Shetland’s history.  We used our curiosity and communication skills to chat with Sadie.  The class found it really interesting.

We enjoyed visits from the junior and senior jarl squads.  In the afternoon, we joined Primary 6 and 7 for some dancing.  It was fun!

We teamed up with Shereen, Rosie and service users from E.T. and Taing House, to make a galley decorated with shields designed by Primary 5.  The service users painted the galley.

The galley was gifted to the children of the Sound School Nursery to enjoy.

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I’ve attached the curriculum information for Term 3.  Please click on the link below to access it.

Term 3 Curriculum Information

Our whole class are part of the new Cooking Club in school this term.  Alison from the canteen has been helping us think about the food we can make in line with ‘Food for Life’ guidelines.  We wrote letters to the local community champion based in Tesco, asking for their support, as we have no budget to buy ingredients.  We haven’t heard back from them yet but are hopeful that they may be able to donate something in the future.  In the meantime, the children decided to make healthy pizzas to share with their family.  Alison said that we could use ingredients from the canteen so that our cooking activity could go ahead.  We’ve had a busy day, preparing the ingredients in the morning and putting the pizzas together and cooking them this afternoon.  Thank you Alison!  We’ve had fun!  We’ve used our creative, critical thinking and communication meta skills.

As part of our Earth and Space topic this term, the children worked together on a STEM activity to make rockets from recycled materials and launched them using milk bottles.  Collaborative and creative meta skills were used.  It was a lot of fun!  

Miss McLean, student teacher in Primary 5 this term, organised ‘angles’ activities with the children.  We looked for angles in the school environment.  We used our collaborative and critical thinking meta skills.