Maths Week

Last week, the whole school celebrated Maths Week.

Chao’s at the North Pole

P6 really enjoyed helping to solve their part of the Chaos at the North Pole STEAM Challenge.

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. We used skills from all these curricular areas to help Santa’s reindeers fly after the magic elf dust had disappeared. We discussed forces, friction and what makes things more aerodynamic.

 

Maths at work

We have been learning that maths is everywhere! Indie’s Dad, came in to talk to P6 about he uses maths in his job as a pharmacist. It was interesting to hear how he uses it to work out doses, cost and amounts of medicines.

 

The History of Music!

This term we have been learning about the history of music, particularly the development of classical music across Europe and the Western World. So far we have learned about three periods on our historical journey – Medieval and Renaissance, Baroque and Classical. We have listened to music from these eras and have discovered how music changed and evolved during that time. We have enjoyed listening to and appraising compositions by Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. We have also learned a little about these composers lives and how important music was to them from a very young age.

Visit from Mind Your Head

P6 had a visit recently from Elle and Taliah who work for Mind Your Head. They spoke about the work they do to help support adults and young people in Shetland.

We spoke about the importance of self care. We also had the chance to discuss how different scenarios can affect people’s mental health in a positive or negative way and what we can do  to help if we have any worries, concerns or if we’re finding things tricky.

You can find out more on their website by clicking the link below:

https://www.mindyourhead.org.uk/

 

Play Leaders

Primary 6 have just completed a six week block of Play Leader Training with Jennifer Thomson from Active Schools.  They will now have the opportunity to use the skills they’ve learned and organise playground games for P1 and P2 classes.  It was great to see how caring and  encouraging the Primary 6 pupils were with the younger children.

Well done!