Parents and carers visited school last Friday afternoon to join in a range of fun numeracy games and activities using our Number Notions packs:

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.

P6 were happy to see the trampette out this week.  This is a miniature trampoline that you use like a springboard.  The pupil steps on and jumps off showing a 1 foot-2 feet-2 feet foot pattern.  Other changes included a double bar, a high bench, a high ladder, obstacles on the beam, the springboard beside our long box and the wide box was another block higher.

Here we are in action.

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.

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/

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!

Week 2 of the equipment saw a different set up for the pupils to explore.  The main differences were we had the ropes out, included a change of direction, the wide box was slightly higher and the bench up to the long box was flat and lower.

Here are some pictures of us working.

The primary 7 classes did a great job organising lots of fun activities to help raise money for Children in Need. This included a Burpee Challenge!

Thank you, P7’s!

We have been talking about the importance of Remembrance and created these beautiful Poppy pictures.

P6 have been doing gymnastics in PE.  So far we have had 2 weeks on mat skills and 1 week on all the apparatus.  Our focus is on flexibility and creativity.

We have learnt that we will perform skills easier and with better technique, the more  flexible we are.  Some examples are stepping into a handstand or cartwheel, in our shapes tuck, pick, star, straddle and straight and on the bar when taking our feet up to or through our hands.

Creativity – When using the equipment we try to use a variety of ways to travel across, on, along, over and off.  We are also looking for flair, originality and imagination .

Here are some pictures from the block so far.