Thank you all so much for visiting our classroom museum at the end of last term. Both P5 classes managed to raise £192.71 for the RNLI.

Thank you for your very generous donations.

We have started Term 4 in Music by learning about the importance of looking after our planet and how we can reduce, reuse and recycle our waste materials. Having been inspired by the Landfillharmonic orchestra of Paraguay, we created our own musical instruments out of things that we would normally throw away. Here are a few photos of the class making their instruments.

Watch the clip to see us using our recycled instruments as part of an Earth Day song.

Welcome back after our Easter break everybody. We are well underway with our learning this term.

Please find attached the curriculum information for this term, containing our planned learning.

Term 4 Curriculum Information

P5A were thrilled to be paired up with their reading buddies again this term. We spent some time in the library this week sharing our love of reading.

P5A took part in a time scavenger hunt in pairs to revise all the learning they did on time last term. They did an excellent job of working in pairs to solve the time code breaker.

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.

It’s nearly the Easter break so we created some colourful Easter Bunny Art and used handwriting pens to draw some intricate detail onto our bunnies.

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.

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.

Today is South Mainland Up-Helly-Aa and we were lucky enough to get a visit from the Jarl and his squad. They even brought their galley for us to see. They all looked fantastic and performed a medley of songs as well as the famous Up-Helly-Aa song.