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!
This term P5 have been learning two Shetland songs, both connected to the sea. The first is the oldest tune that Shetland has – The Unst Boat Song. The class have learned the song, singing in the ancient language of Norn and they have also use tuned percussion to add an instrumental section to the piece. We’ve learned about dynamics and timbre and in the last verse, they decided to add a thunder maker and a rain maker for extra depth to the dimension of the song.
We have also learned about the story of the whaling ship, The Diana. The late Ronnie Cooper, one of Shetland’s finest composers, wrote the waltz ‘Ronas Voe’ which tells the story of the ship coming into the Voe on her long voyage back to Shetland from a whaling expedition. We have learned the lyrics of the song and we are looking forward to performing both the Unst Boat Song and Ronas Voe at our Stories of the Sea exhibition at the end of the term.
We did 4 weeks of badminton in PE. The main focus of the block was to develop our ability to hit the shuttle.
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. 
