The children have been using circular shapes to make planets and moons. They have been investigating and exploring different art materials to colour the planets and space. They have stuck on stars. We have talked about volcanoes appearing in icy landscapes and imagining rivers, craters and other rocks.

The children have been using circular shapes to make planets and moons. They have investigated and explored different art materials to make their planets icy- they have used charcoal for space and stuck on stars.

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 BBCTeach

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.

Tuesday 30^th 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’!

Happy Friday Everyone

I did not think that we would still be working from home today.  What an amazing week of weather it has been!  I am sure it is about 20 years since we have seen snow like this. I hope you have been able to enjoy some of it despite the hardships it brings.

Here is a different grid for today:

SNOW DAY LEARNING GRID THE SNOWY DAY

I hope to see you in school on Monday and look forward to reading your emails later.

Ms Pottinger

Good morning everyone

I cannot believe how deep the snow is here and it is sill snowing.  I hope you are safe and warm.

Here is a grid with some new tasks for today. I hope you have fun doing them.

SNOW DAY LEARNING GRID ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS 2

If you have any question please email me and I look forward to reading about your day and seeing your photos later.

gw09pottingerkaren2@glow.sch.uk

Ms Pottinger

Hello Everyone

Another day when we have so much snow.  I hope you are able to get out and enjoy sometime playing it.

Here is some tasks for today.  They are about Aliens love Underpants.  If we had been in school we would have been looking at this story all week.

SNOW DAY LEARNING GRID ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS

I am looking forward to seeing the photos of your work (and any of you having fun in the snow) when you email them to me at gw09pottingerkaren2@glow.sch.uk

Have a good day

Ms Pottinger

Hi Everyone

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday and had some fun in the snow.

Here is a different learning grid for you with some activities related to Tabby McTat.  I think you will like them.

SNOW DAY LEARNING GRID TABBY MCTAT

Please email me your photos and/or take you pictures in when you are back in school.  gw09pottingerkaren2@glow.sch.uk

Have a good day

Ms Pottinger

In PE we have started term 3 off with Dance.   We follow a scheme of work which involves a lot of movement both travelling and on the spot.  We look at a lot of contrasting ways like lively and gentle and fast and slow.  We also include counting, stopping and starting at the right time, changing direction, using the space well, creativity and imagination.

In our first lesson one of the activities was to make different shapes on the spot and try to hold them before changing to a new shape.   Here are some of our clever body shapes.