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Creating Water Butts

Our topic this term is Water. We have been learning all about the water cycle and the importance of water. P5A spent time outside this week looking at the best areas around the school to place a water butt to collect water. They also took time to decorate their own water butts. This task involved collaborating with peers and applying  critical thinking, a very important meta skill. Next week we will monitor the water they collect.

Stories of the Sea Museum

Parents and carers were invited into our class to see our Stories of the Sea Museum.

It was great to have the opportunity to share some of the great stories we have been learning about.  We have found out about The Braer Disaster, Betty Mouat, The Shetland Bus and the Haaf Fishing.  Mrs Stewart had also prepared  two songs  – The Unst Boat Song and Ronas Voe which the pupils performed. It was a great afternoon sharing all our learning and hard work this term.

A visit from Claire White

We had a visit from Claire White yesterday. She played us some Shetland fiddle tunes and showed us her Betty Moaut film, linking into our Stories of the Sea topic. We used our creativity to write about an eventful time in our own lives that could later be used to create a piece of writing, a poem or song. It was a real treat.

Beach Trip

Last week P5A went to the Sands of Sound beach.  Our topic this term is Stories of the Sea so we were interested in gathering shells to use in a display for our Stories of the Sea Museum and checking the beach for plastic pollution.

Pupils stated that learning outdoors at the beach had helped them focus and lift their mood whilst working collaboratively to search for beach artefacts to display back in the classroom (all very important meta skills). They also stated that they enjoyed adapting to learning in a different environment and spending time outdoors with each other, even though it was a cold, blustery day.

             

Reading Week

This week P5A have been taking part in a range of activities to celebrate World Book Day on 7th March. These included:

  • When the school bell rang, we could all participate in whole school reading.
  • We made a display for our door based on our class novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
  • We read the Shetland dialect book ‘Myrtle an Meenie’ by Ann Marie Anderson.
  • We went to the school Book Swap and had the opportunity to take a book home which had kindly been donated.
  • We watched and took part in the the “Footy Booky” quiz.

It’s been a great week of activities, sharing our love of reading.