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Coastguard visit

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Today the coastguards came to visit us. There were two men that came, they were called Willie and Ian. We were split into two groups, one group stayed in the class with Ian to begin with whilst the other group went outside with Willie then after about 15 minutes we swapped. It was good fun outside, we got to pretend to be coastguards and save people. 3 people went out to pretend to be swimmers whilst one person was the coastguard going to save them. We had to put this life jacket on them, a helmet and attach a rope to them. Another person got to use the megaphone and shout to the people swimming to let them know they were going to be rescued. Once the ‘coastguard’ was safe to go he ran out to rescue the swimmers, once he gathered them all together as a group we pulled them back using the rope. We did this a few times so that everyone got a shot at doing something! It was great fun! Then we got to have a look around the coastguard pick-up. We sat inside and had a good look around, they had a lot of kit in the back. Willie asked us to stand at the front of the pick-up so we could see the flashing lights when he turned them on. He warned us that we might want to cover our ears as he then put the siren on…it was loud!! The group inside listened to Ian as he spoke about the coastguards. He was really funny. He told us a few stories about when it is appropriate to phone the coastguards. He also spoke about bombs! He showed us a few photos of ones that had washed up on beaches and told us stories about them and the dangers and that if we are ever unsure about anything on the beach then we should phone the coastguards! At the end Ian let us try on the coast guard hats, he had one for boys and one for girls. Nearly everyone tried them on, Willie even put the ladies hat on Miss Nicholson’s head! 🙂

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Evan on the moon

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Me, Evan and Keisha made an animation about Evan going to the moon and me and Keisha were on the radio. When Evan puts the Tingwall primary school flag on the moon an alien takes him back to Earth.

 

 

 

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2 planets animation

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Me, David and Brandon made this animation called Two Planets. We used an app called ZU3D to make the animation. It was quite a lot of work because first we had to make the storyboard and script. Then we had to make the backgrounds and characters and props. Once we had done all that we got to start filming. It took ages to film because we had to take a photo, move the characters a tiny bit and take another photo. We had to take about 200 frames. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed doing it.

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Stupid spacemen animation

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We had to use our topic (space) to create an animation which I did whith Anya and Ashleigh.

Before we could make our animation we had to do a lot of work first. We looked at animations and what went into making them. Then we got into groups and thought of an idea of what we could do for our animation. We were asked to make a short animation about space and told there had to be at least 3 facts in it. We had to think about the plot, setting, characters, props and the script before making anything. Once we had all of that we got to start making the background, characters and props which was fun. Miss Nicholson showed us the app ZU3D on the Ipad, this is how we filmed our animation. It took a lot of frames to make our animation as we had to make sure there were enough images for our speech. We were the first group to finish our animation.

 

Art, Confident Individuals, Cooperative learning, Expressive Arts, Group work, Personalisation and Choice, Responsible Citizens, Space, Successful Learners, Topic

Building space rockets

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On Thursday the 16th we were asked to get into the same groups that we were in when we made our posters. Miss Nicholson and Miss Morrison told us that we were going to be making space rockets out of junk. It had to be taller than a ruler but smaller than 1 metre. They had gathered a lot of ‘junk’ for us to choose from. We took it in turns for each group member to go to the desk with the ‘junk’ and select one piece at a time that we thought would be good to use for a rocket. Once we gathered enough resources we then began building our rockets.

Today we got to paint our junk model space rockets that we built.

Once we were finished we had to think of a name for our rocket, where our rocket was going and why and who was in the rocket! We had great fun and worked really well in our groups and with other groups as we had to share the masking tape.

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Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad visits Tingwall

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We all gathered down at the Tingwall hall after dinner. The Jarl squad were a little late coming but we didn’t mind as it was exciting waiting for them.  There were pupils from our school in the jarl squad so it must have been very exciting for them. We were excited to see them and what they would be wearing. The Jarl Squad came in and sang the Up Helly Aa song followed by their own song. We game the Jarl and his squad 3 cheers and presented them with a gift. They gave the school a gift of a copy of their shields and each pupil in the school got a badge with the design of their shield on it. It was very nice of them. After this we got to go mingle with the Vikings and try on their helmets and hold their axes and shields. It was good fun! We had a great afternoon!

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Show and tell

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Over the past few days the children have brought in a few of their achievements, items they treasure or models that they have made which we would like to share on our blog.

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Instrumental Concert

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We had an instrumental concert this morning. The whole school gathered in the dinning hall to hear them.  There were a lot of pupils from P5-7 performing songs for us, there were a lot of Christmas songs that we could sing along with. There were people playing the fiddles, a flute, a recorder, the piano and the guitar.

They all did a fantastic job of performing in front of the whole school! Well done to everyone who took part.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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We have been extremely busy this term. We are rehearsing for our play which is the 12 days of Christmas. We have also made Christmas decorations to decorate the Tingwall hall. It looks great! Primary 2/3 made Christmas baubles, they made a great job of them. We will try to take pictures of the hall if we can to show you. Here is some of the decorations we made.

Merry Christmas Santy Reindeer Christmas TreeChristmas Crafts

We also made a snowman out of cups (we’re not sure how many we used but there must be over a 200 hundred!) We haven’t had time to make his hat yet but we thought he was too fragile to take down to the hall so he sits in our classroom instead! 🙂 Here he is…

Our Snowman

Miss Nicholson brought in an advent calendar so each morning she uses the lolly sticks to see who gets to open the drawer for that day. We’re lucky we have 25 pupils in the class and there is exactly 25 days on the advent calendar.

Advent Calendar

 

We also have a different kind of advent calendar. Miss Nicholson created a 25 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness. We check this every morning and try to see if we can do them!

25 Random acts of christmas Kindness

One of Santa’s robins has appeared in our classroom to make sure we are being good! He is there one minute and then he disappears sometimes so he must be reporting back to santa! When he comes back he is in a different place so we don’t know where he is all the time.

Santa's robin (2) Santa's robin

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African Drumming Workshop

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On Tuesday 3rd November we went on a school trip with the primary 6/7s to an African drumming workshop at the Scalloway Primary School. There were two guys that took the workshop Bruce Ncube, he was from Zimbabwe and Seckou Keita, he was from Senegal. Joy Duncan from Shetland was also there. Hamnavoe and Scalloway  primary 4-7 attended the workshop too. We got numbered because there was a lot of people so we had to take turns to play the drums. They taught us how to play them which was great.  When we were drumming the floor vibrated. We sung a song – some of the words were: Zebelay Zebelay zebelay, cocowah, cocowah. We had our break in the games hall. The boys played football, we had a game Tingwall vs Hamnavoe – we won 4-3.  This was a fun workshop, we really enjoyed it!