Monthly Archives: March 2018

John Muir

John Muir (Kergord)

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On Monday the 26th of March 2018, P7 went to Kergord to complete part 2 of their John Muir experience.

First we went on the ferry to Laxo to meet up with Pete Richardson, he was going to take us to Kergord to explore the woods and wildlife. When we got to Laxo Pete had to make sure everyone was in the proper attire (waterproof clothing). Then we got into the bus then Pete put some music on but it was very loud, so we all did some karaoke, it was funny.

At Kergord we got out the bus and walked through a sheep field and guess what… we all went in the wrong woods, even the teachers! We were the first people to go in the wrong woods (in the John Muir experience). So we had to climb back over the fence and go over to the correct woods.

After finding the RIGHT woods we walked up to this tiny platform of grass, where Pete instructed us to put down our things and roll onto our stomachs. We had to stick our noses in the ground and smell the earth.

After we breathed in the smell of the earth and grass we had to leave our stuff in the clearing and follow Pete. He took us for a hike all around the woods. But not just any hike, we had to jump over streams, climb through trees and walk across fallen tree trunks etc.

After we completed these tasks we walked over to our bags and pack lunches and took them with us so we could eat them in a old house. We had to climb over bridges and in water to get to the old house. When we got there we opened our lunches and had half of what was in them. While we ate our lunch Pete told us some stories about John Muir.

After that we went into our co-operative groups and we had to build a fort out of things you would find in the woods (Sticks, leaves etc). Pete told each group to go to a certain part of the woods and build our shelters.

This group had Sky T.V.    (Do you get the joke? ^)

After that we went back to the house and ate the rest of our lunch, Pete had also lit the fire so we would warm up. Then we went around and looked at the groups forts, there were five shelters all together.

Just before we went back to the bus we played the worlds best game of hide and seek. After we played it we went back to the bus took off our waterproofs and got in the bus to go back to the ferry.

We all really enjoyed going on this John Muir trip and would probably want to go on it again.

By Aaliyah & Eleanor.

 

Music

African Drumming at the Shetland Music Festival

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On Wednesday, 14th of March we went to Mareel to participate in the Shetland Music Festival.

After going to Mareel on the bus we walked up the stairs and into the cinema. The screen was showing footage from a camera in the auditorium (where everyone was playing their instruments).

Each class got a row of seats to sit in whilst watching other classes, before performing themselves. After listening to a few classes songs and eating our snacks Joy gave us a choice of having coloured fabrics as headbands, skirts or other things.

Later on we learned that we had to go and play because our bus would be there soon.

We went out of the cinema into a long room where you could look over a wall and see other people getting juice, coffee and tea (or other things). The room had two couches and a few tables. We only stayed in the room for a bit before going through a door and walking into the green room to get ready. Although it was called the green room, the only thing that was green was the couches. There were instruments on shelves and a piano in the corner. On the walls were grey cuboids that looked like mattresses. We went through a door and down some stairs to fetch our drums from a storage cupboard.  Next we headed to the stage curtains to wait for the people on stage to finish.

We then headed onto the stage and there where two judges and some other people sitting on seats watching.

We began to play Salsa Jagbe, we started off quiet and began to get louder which built up suspension. We went through the whole routine without any mistakes except for speeding up at the end when not supposed to, but it didn’t matter because the judges didn’t know that!

Preforming our song.

The adjudicator (judge) decided that we deserve first place (gold).

Our award and the judges notes.

Once we were done we left to go to the ferry back to Whalsay and walked back to the school.

Sanna and Ava

 

Maths

Decimal

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Last week we got a task to write a song/poem/dance/rap about decimals  (you could  do a rhyming song and dance at the same time) we all got rules which we had to do a song about. We had lots of fun.  Here a couple of the songs:

Song 1:  Our rule was dividing by 10 (we did it from our view):

When dividing by 10 take a jump to the left, (then we all jumped to our left), just 1 not 2 because if you do, your answer will not be true! Our decimal point then said, I’m a decimal point that cannot move, then we did jazz hands. It was lots of fun, and everyone enjoyed watching it!

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Song 2: “When timesing by 100 just takeatakeatakea 2 jumps to the left, but you gotta mind the decimal point or you’ll go blind!” After that we all threw our paper with the numbers up. (Instead of jumping we passed our paper across so it was changing).

After, when we knew our songs completely and  had another practise, we showed them to the primary 6s, (we had a choice), they enjoyed it as well.

This was a very fun way of learning, and it was very helpful to our learning. Here are some photos of everyone:

By Lori and Kyran

Art

P7 trip to Mareel

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On Wednesday the 20th of February  P7s and P5/6 went on a trip to the Mareel to see an art show called The Colony made by an artist called Dinh Q Lê. We went out on the 9:15am ferry when we got to the other side there was a bus waiting for us.

When we finally got to the Mareel we were greeted by two people called Amy and Jane they are the people who were in charge of the art exhibition. They then took us into the auditorium where the exhibition was –  before we went in we had to take off our shoes.

In the auditorium there were 3 big screens all showing different videos on them.The first screen had the old houses the workers used to live in, the second screen had a flock of birds on it and the last screen had the men harvesting the guano (bird poop). In the middle of the floor there was a big paper cut out of a island with paper nests on it, the last thing in the room was a cabinet with information in it . After we had watched all the videos on the screens they turned on the lights and we went back into the middle of the room to take a quiz.

The last thing we did was we had to pretend to be birds and fly around the room to find materials to decorate a nest on the island, they videoed us doing this so they could make another film.

We went back on the bus to catch the 12 ferry back in.

We had mixed feelings about the installation!

By Annie and Willam