Month: May 2016

As well as last week being Digital Learning Week, it was also a week where children were encouraged to walk to school!

We discussed that not everyone can walk because of where they live, but we spoke about how to stay safe on your way to school no matter how you get here.

We counted each day to find out how many pupils in 3B walked to school.  We did this by putting a sticker next to our name if we had walked or cycled to school that morning.

Strider, the Walk to School Week mascot, even visited the children on Friday to thank them for taking part in Walk to School Week!

This week is Digital Learning Week!  To coincide with this the class have been undertaking various activities on the computers in the ICT suite.

We have been developing our coding skills through the “Hour of Code” games available on code.org/learn.  See our coding blog post from 24th March for more information about this great ICT learning platform.

As well as coding, we have been using the computers to play fun and engaging games that reinforce the pupils’ maths skills.  Today’s session focused on multiplication and division games.

Another activity the class explored today was “Typing Adventure”.  This fun game allows children to develop their knowledge of the computer keyboard, which in turn will help to improve their typing skills.

Here are some photos of this morning’s session in the ICT suite.

As a school, we are collectively travelling to Rio (the host of this year’s Olympic Games) in all physical activity done in term 4.  We are counting up the distance covered by each pupil and staff member and seeing if we can get there!

As well as PE, we have been going outside with the nice weather to clock up some miles.  We have walked around the school and have also gone to the field so pupils can walk/run at their own pace.

On Tuesday we went to the field and – as a class – travelled 79km/49 miles!  That was a lot of walking and running, but it looks like we’ve got a long way to go before we make it to Rio…

Here are some photos taken today (Wednesday) – it was sunny and dry so we headed to the field!

Thank you very much to everyone who contributed their favourite Shetland word!  We have added these to our Shetland word wall glossary.

We are still adding to the wall as we are learning new Shetland dialect words all the time!