Author: Miss Saunders

We’re well and truly back into the term now….cant believe how quickly time is flying! We’ve been busy!

Maths

All pupils have been learning about fractions over the past couple of weeks and they’re making super progress. This week, most pupils have been finding fractions of amounts and simplifying fractions.

Reading

We’re doing SRA in reading this term. This is something new for the P5s & P6s. SRA is a differentiated reading program, where pupils have individual reading cards, followed by comprehension activities, which they then correct themselves and record their results. I have been incredibly impressed by the reading skills and work the pupils have been completing.

Writing

P567 are currently writing a story to enter into the Shetland Young Writer competition (if they want).

We are using this opportunity to learn all about all the elements of story writing – and have already learned about a story’s structure – ‘Story Mountain’ and how to write a really good opening to a story.

Topic

This term in topic, we are looking at the human body. So far, pupils have learned about the skeleton, where the organs in the body are, and how the circulatory system works. Pupils particularly enjoyed getting outside to ‘walk through’ the circulation system. They were able to follow the route blood cells take to and from the heart and become ‘oxyegenated’ and ‘deoxygenated’. The AHS have leant us 2 excellent models, one of a skeleton and one of an anatomically correct torso. The kids have loved investigating these.

Voar Redd Up

Pupils all took part in the Voar Redd Up a couple of weeks ago. I was so impressed at how responsible all the bairns were around the roads. They did a terrific job. 

P7 Transition

The P7s have had a super trip to the AHS. We were shown around by Mrs Scollay, the S1-S2 depute head. We got a chance to see all around the school, and ask lots of questions. The P7s had a great time, and seemed to love the high school! 

 

Buddies

The P6s have begun spending some time with their nursery buddies. These are the peerie wans that will be coming into P1 next year. The P6s are already incredible big buddies and I know they are going to be amazing P7 buddies next year.      

Curriculum Overview term 4

P567 have been learning about climate zones around the world. For a challenge, they have been trying to figure out where in the world each zone is! Lots of great discussion and deduction going on!!

Because it was St Patrick’s Day yesterday, we decided to do some Irish food this week. Ireland is one of the countries visited in ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, we’ve just done it slightly out of sync with the other countries! Pupils tried some food they’ve not eaten before. We made Boxty, which are Irish potato pancakes, and 2 loaves of soda bread, one with fruit and one without. We’ve also made Barmbrack, a traditional Irish tea loaf. All of these have been eaten (and enjoyed) with some nice Kerrygold Irish butter!

Last week, week 5 of ‘Food Fridays’, we visited China! We decided not to make anything this week, but we did try lots of Chinese goodies. All pupils were given a set of chopsticks and they had to try and eat their food with them!

Week 4 of our Food Fridays saw us visiting India. We made some raita, mango lassi and coconut barfi, as well as trying curry, poppadums, bhajis, pakora, mango chutney…and much more!

The 3rd location on our food journey was Egypt. This was a trickier one to find food for, but we made a tagine and we tried falafel, hummus, cous cous & raisins, pitta breads and a few other things!

 

Our next county on our ‘Food Fridays’ journey was Italy. We made our own pizzas, including our own dough. We also tried various Italian foods, such as: pecorino, parmesan, mozarella, pesto, and gnocci!

The first country on our ‘Food Fridays’ journey was France. We tried lots of French foods, such as: Emmental, Brie, pan au chocolat, brioche, Bonne Maman jam, madeleines, baguettes….and much more. We even made and tasted ratatouille.

As part of our ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ topic, we are partaking in ‘Food Fridays’. This is an idea that the pupils had, to follow Phileas Fogg’s route and try some foods from all the countries he has visited. We will be doing some cooking and food prep in the process, to develop our food tech skills and knowledge. Photos to follow!