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Harry Rose Session 1 – 15th January 2016

Fantastic facts from today!!!

Meteor is when it is travelling towards earth , meteorites are when they’re on earth and a meteoroid is when it’s in Space.

Shooting stars, also known as an asteroid are the size of a grain of sand (air particles make the glow)

Moons are also known as satellites.

Anything orbiting a star is a planet.

Anything orbiting a planet is a satellite.

Black holes are points of incredible gravity created by a super star exploding and collapsing.

Stars in Galaxy – billions of stars, 200billion in our galaxy.

Count to 1million 11.5 days.

Count to 1billion 32 years.

It would take 6400years to count all the stars in our galaxy.

Milky Way is the name of our Galaxy.

Surface of the sun is in constant motion.

Sun is made of gas so parts of it turn around at different speeds.

17-20 million degrees Celsius in centre of sun with outside 6000degrees.

1 million planet earths can fit into the size of sun.

-273 degrees in space when far away from a star, the coldest temperature is called absolute zero.
Core of earth made of iron and is the size of Mars.

Gravitational pull to sun makes the planets go faster the closer they are.

There is an Asteroid belt after Mars.

On Wednesday afternoon we joined together with p4/5 to start our Space topic.

To get into groups we had to look underneath the tables and choose a picture like an alien, Big Bang explosion or a planet.

Then we did some graffiti to find out what we already know about Space.

Then we wrote questions about what we wanted to find out about in the topic.

We were given a task to make up an Aboriginal Dance in groups.

At first we watched some YouTube videos of Aboriginal dancing then we discussed what moves are used in thIs type of dancing.

In the hall we practised in our groups and put together a routine.

Our dance is about the animals in Australia like snakes, emus, kangaroos and crocodiles.

We hope you enjoy our video!

In class P.E we got to make aboriginal dances. We looked on you tube and got lots of ideas.

There was a lot of animal ones and they all told stories of things that happens in the outback.

We decided to make one about how kangaroos got hunted  for food.

We were given a challenge to make up an Aboriginal Dance in Class P.E.

We watched some videos on YouTube to learn the basic moves and to give us some ideas.

We started trying out some things and then we got the hang of it!

Here is our finished routine!

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Check our our routines from Zumba this afternoon!  We had so much fun and are really looking forward to our next 3 sessions with Mandy,

For our art project in school we had to design a shield which was going to be made into a real shield for the Scalloway Fire Festival Galley. First we did a vote. The way it worked was primary 4/5 got our classes shields and we got theirs, then we had a debate on who’s shield was going through to the deciding round. Anya Inkster and Aliee Burgess won our vote with two brilliant shields and all the other classes did the same. The teachers had the final vote. Their final decision was Kara Sharp’s and Lois Sinclair’s shields.

On the 8th of January 2016 the Scalloway Jarl squad came to Tingwall primary school. The musicians came in first  then the jarl squad came in led by Jarl Bryan Garriock and did a loop of the hall.  They sang the Up Helly Aa song followed by their version of ‘Gallaway Girl’.  After we got to speak to the Jarl squad and try on their helmets and hold their axes and shields.  The suits were green and black with deer skin on their backs.  The shields and axes had lots detail and patterns on them.  We really liked they suits.  We think they are spectacular!   We got to see our friend from Scalloway called Robbie Young who was in the squad.  Some of the class are going down to Scalloway to watch the procession tonight.  We hope the weather stays nice for a change!

By Ryan and Alisha

Some of the lovely Christmas craft the pupils have been busy making today.  Looking fantastic!  I LOVE PINTEREST!

On Thursday 17th December we had a Christmas Instrumental Concert in the dining hall. We had fiddle players, piano players, flute, recorder and guitar performances.

Everybody was great! The fiddlers played Silent Night. Freya was doing the harmony, Alisha and Maisie did the open harmony and Kaitlin and Kara did the melody.  Is was great fun and sounded fantastic!