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Victorian Lerwick Trip

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Our final question in our Victorians topic was: What was life like in Victorian Lerwick? We were very lucky to have Mrs Nicholson take our classes on a tour of Lerwick to look for evidence of the Victorians. We also compared old photos of Lerwick to what we could see today.

The Gilbertson Park was opened in Victorian times. The Burgh Road used to also be the end of Lerwick!

The Town Hall and Police Station were built in Victorian times. We looked for clues on the buildings that tell us this.

The street has lots of Victorian buildings on it. We were surprised that the sea used to go all the way up to Harry’s Shop!

Victorian Classroom

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We have been learning about the Victorians. One of our key questions in our topic was: What was life like for Victorian children?

We have been doing drama activities with Izzy Swanson based around the stories of Oliver Twist and The Little Match Girl to explore this.

We also got to role play a Victorian classroom. Izzy was our teacher and it was very different to a normal day in class! Here we are dressed as Victorian children pretending to be very sad!

Visit from S6 AHS Pupils

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Today a group of 6th Advanced Higher Biology pupils from the Anderson High School visited our class to tell us all about the systems of the human body as part of our class topic. We had a brilliant time.

Here is what P6a had to say about it:

“We learned about skeletons, the heart, the brain and the digestive system.”

“It was fun because we got to take turns going around each station. We got to stick labels on a skeleton and the digestive system.”

“We learned about memory and if you hit your head on the part of the brain where the memory is then you lose some memory.”

“We looked at pictures at the brain station and I liked how when we looked at it once we could see one thing and when we looked at it again we could see something else.”

“It was fun to have the 6th years visiting us.”

“They brought in cool equipment.”

Filtering Water

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P5A have been learning about the water filtration process which ensures our water is safe for drinking. We also spoke about Water Aid and their valuable work helping people who do not have access to safe, clean water or sanitation. We even designed our own water filtration systems. We discussed the role of World Water Day, Global Goals and the UNCRC rights –  Article 24, ‘you have the right to clean water.’

Pupils had great fun using sand, gravel and sand gravel filters to filter their own dirty water.

Skittles Experiment

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P5A had great fun during out skittles experiment where we added warm water to a plate of skittles and watched as the colour coating melted to make a rainbow affect. Pupils explained this happened because the sugar coating was soluble and melted in the warm water to create our rainbows.

Dissolving Experiment

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P5A have been learning terms such as soluble, insoluble as well as solvents, solutes and solutions. We carried out an experiment this week to determine whether certain materials were soluble or insoluble in cold or warm water. We used coffee, salt, sugar and flour for this. Pupils enjoyed working in groups and analysing whether their hypothesis was correct or incorrect.

Rain in a Jar

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P5A have been learning about the water cycle and rain. We had great fun working in groups to create our very own rain clouds in jars using water, shaving foam and blue food colouring. The more food colouring we used the heavier our rain was.