P6B 2024-25

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May 16, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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A BIG THANK YOU!

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.  We will be handing over the cheque to a representative from the RNLI on Tuesday the 21st of May.

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Thank you for your very generous donations.

May 13, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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Outdoor Learning – Saving Water

Our topic is Water and we have been considering ways water can be saved in the home. We made water butts from plastic milk bottles.  We then attached them to the fence around the polytunnel. We decided that was the the best place to put them as they were less likely to get disturbed. We were careful attaching them to the fence, making sure each one was upright and not at an angle. Lids were glued on ensuring they would not leak. Each day we have gone out and measured the rainfall. We will be using these results to make a graph using Excel.  During our time outdoors we used our collaborative meta skills working in pairs. Rainfall gathered will be used to water plants.

April 29, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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Rain Cloud in a Jar

We had fun with shaving foam and blue dye.

We have been finding out how clouds are part of the ‘water cycle.’ Water in oceans, lakes and rivers evaporates making water vapour, which rises into the air.  When the vapour hits cold air it turns back into droplets which stick together to form clouds.  Eventually the clouds get so full and the water falls back to the ground as rain.

April 24, 2024
by Miss Stewart
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Reducing, Reusing and Recycling in Music!

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.

March 28, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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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, The Shetland Bus and Haaf Fishing.  Mrs Stewart had also prepared  two songs  – The Unst Boat Song and Ronas Voe.

March 18, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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Finding out about Creels

Tom Robertson works on a whitefish boat but he also has a shellfish boat.  He came in and told P5 about how creels work. The following notes were made by Brigitte and John.

  • When a crab goes in it can’t get out.
  • You are not allowed to harvest female lobsters.
  • You can catch stuff other than crabs.
  • If you are lucky you can catch one or two crabs in the creel.
  • There is cement in the bottom of the creel to help it sink down.
  • Sometimes you don’t know what you are going to get.
  • You need a license to harvest more than two creels of crabs and lobsters.

March 7, 2024
by Mrs Hunter
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Reading Week

We have been doing a lot of reading activities this week.

  • When the bell rang unexpectantly we had to stop and read our library book.
  • We made a display for our door. We decided to do it on “A Stranger Came Ashore,” this is our class novel.
  • We read the Shetland dialect book “The Ooricks,” and we made up our own Oorick.
  • We went to to Book Swap and we all got a book to take home.
  • We watched the “Footy Booty” quiz.

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