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Reading Week & SMUHA

Wow! Primary 1A have had a fantastic week celebrating reading and enjoying a range of stories. Miss Henry read us the Shetland Dialect Book ‘The Ooricks’ and we designed our own ‘Ooricks’. We had a Shetland Gruffalo Bookbug with Chloe from the Shetland Library with P2 and we all took home a book from the school book swap. We have been listening to audio books and practising our skills of listening without seeing pictures. We have been reading non-fiction books related to our IDL Topic – Growing.

We also enjoyed a visit from the SMUHA Jarl Squad today where we took a class photo at the Galley.

Childsmile Visit –

This morning we enjoyed a visit from Claire at Childsmile who taught us about why teeth brushing is important and what are healthy snacks at breaktime at school.

In Primary 1 we continue to brush our teeth at breaktimes supporting healthy oral health.

Chinese New Year

This week in music we have been learning about the importance of music during Chinese New Year. As part of our learning we watched a Musical Storyland episode called ‘The Great Race’ by BBC Teach, where members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play a range of instruments and tell the story.  We saw a new Chinese instrument called a guzheng which is played by plucking the strings.  You can see all the instruments in the picture below.

Photo courtesy of BBC Teach

We also learned that this year is the year of the dragon and in the clip below, you can see us using scarves to move like the dragon dancers that perform at Chinese New Year celebrations.

UHA 2024

Tuesday 30th January 2024 was a special day at Sound Primary School as we were visited by both the Junior and Senior Jarl Squads of 2024.

The Junior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl Skeppare Nokkvesson (aka Oran McCulloch), were in fine voice during their time with us, supported by a group of young local musicians who did a brilliant job. ‘Yes Sir, I can Boogie’ was definitely a highlight! The clip below shows all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song.

The Senior Jarl Squad, led by Guizer Jarl King Harald Olafsson (aka Richard Moar) were also pretty spectacular both in sight and sound. A fantastic line up of local musicians provided the music for the Up Helly Aa song and also their squad song which made us all want to get up and dance! Here is a clip of all the pupils from p1 to p7 joining in with the Up Helly Aa song. The Jarl commented how loud and enthusiastic our singing was. High praise indeed from a ‘King’!

SNOW DAY GRID – THURSDAY 18 JANUARY 2024

Thank you for the lovely emails sharing your child’s learning and drawing club drawings over the past few days. So grateful to be part of the learning – if even from a far.  As always, please feel free to send your pictures to gw13sjoberggemma@shetland.glow.sch.uk

Here is the learning grid for today –

SNOW DAY LEARNING GRID ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS 2

Here are the songs for our latest set of phonics sounds.

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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