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Term 3 Curriculum Information & Family Learning Grid – Space Project

Curriculum Information – Term 3

Click the link below to see what your child is learning this term.

Term 3 2023-24

Family Learning Grid – Space Project 

Click the link below to see the family home learning grid that supports our term 3 project ‘Space’.

Term 3 Family Learning Grid

Feel free to email pictures or your child’s family learning to gw13sjoberggemma@shetland.glow.sch.uk

IDL – Topic Learning

This term our topic has been ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ we asked the pupils what they wanted to learn, they asked to learn about celebrations people have and the kind of beliefs they have, learners also wanted to know if we have the same beliefs.

We learned about remembrance day, birthdays, Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas. Here is a picture of our topic wall:

Our drawing club book has been ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed every moment of drawing and writing about stickman, we have made a winter Stickman display and today we had a movie morning watching the BBC Stickman.

The last photo is our ‘Learning Journey Wall’ – the children choose photos to add and we decided to add some pupil voice quotes this term to tell the story of our learning.

Outdoor Learning – Posting Letters

Primary 1 have been learning about the post, we had a visit from a postman and last week we wrote ourselves a letter about the visit. We addressed our envelopes and spoke about the postcode, house names/numbers and the location our post would be going.

Today we walked to Sound Service to buy stamps, on the way pupils pointed out different environmental print and other interesting places/things:

Pupils were excited to get into the bus stop and look at the bus timetable, we spoke about the time the bus would be coming and how to get the bus to stop. We got to use the traffic lights for the first time today too.

‘Look that sign means 20 in your car, you can’t go faster!’

‘That is new houses being built… that sign says only workers and you have to wear a hat… that word says i…n… in.’

‘There is a Shetland pony, and is the baby one called a ‘foal’?

Pupils asked the shop worker for 15 stamps, they chose 2nd class stamps and then on the way back we stopped to look at frozen nature. We enjoyed holding the frozen leaves while they melted and crushing them near our ear to hear the noises they make.

Look out in the post for your child’s letter – hope you enjoy reading it together.

 

Numeracy Week

 

Numeracy Week has been a huge success at Sound School. We have enjoyed the daily ‘bell’ where the whole school stop to focus on numeracy for 10 minutes, we even had a special visitor – A Postman. He told us about how he uses numeracy and maths in his job everyday, we had lots of questions and have enjoyed having a post office role play area this week.

We have been developing our skills in using counters/loose parts to add values together, we have been revising number ordering and formation to 10/20 and exploring STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  We planned, refined and created boats using junk modelling to help the polar bear cross the ocean.

Busy, busy! Too Busy!

This term we have been working very hard to get ready for our Christmas show at the end of the term. We started by learning all the songs and then we had to learn lots of speaking parts as well! For the last few weeks we have been practicing on the stage and we are really excited to perform to our school community and our families on Tuesday 12th December.

We don’t want to give too much away but it’s going to be great!