We’ve had a great first week getting ready for the Scalloway Fire Festival.

We loved meeting the Jarl squad and trying on their sheilds , axes and helmets.

We’ve also been practising our Shetland Dialect.  We wrote Poems about the Fire festival.  We had to use nouns, verbs and adjectives in dialect.  Here is some of our work.  The rest are on display in the corridor.

Then we made Viking pictures using oil pastels.

Primary 4 have been busy making important decisions as part of our Enterprise topic.

They had to decide what to make first and then make something that other people would want to buy.

They worked hard on these and we had to do some compromises and negotiations along the way.

Today they got to see their finished product.  They were all very excited and it was great to see the end result.

We have been finishing off our Roman Topic and learning about the Pompeii Disaster that happened in 79 AD.

We made replica models of Mount Vesuvius and had fun watching them erupt using bicarbonate of Soda and Vinegar.  We added some other ingredients to make it look like lava.

We’ve had a busy term settling into Primary 4.  We learnt lots of new routines and done lots of hard work in Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Well Being.

We have chosen some photos to share…

Our Roman topic is well underway and pupils have enjoyed challenges where they have had to work together using everyone’s skills to design and construct models. 

We’ve been learning about the Roman Army and how the Empire expanded.   We learnt some of their tactics when they went into battle.

We made Roman Catapults and tested them using cotton wool balls.  We had to make changes to our models if the cotton wool didn’t move far.

We have been learning about Roman daily life and what they looked like and wore.  We were shocked to learn that they cleaned their clothes in Urine!

We made our own versions of Roman Sandals.  They had  to be worn by our Roman lady (Zoe) and not fall apart.