P7 Trip to Bridge End

June 14, 2024 gw19patersonelizabet@glow Leave a comment

Last week the Primary 7 children had an activity packed overnight trip out of the Isle and even the rain couldn’t dampen their spirits.

We first headed to the Gilbertson Hall for some extreme Frisbee and Dodgeball, delivered by active schools, after the golf was rained off.

The rain forced us indoors so we had an impromptu visit to the museum before heading to the Clickimin for swimming.

After working up an appetite we headed for some food at the Chinese where it was great to spend time chatting over dinner.

We travelled to Bridge End and got the chance to get settled in and it was finally dry so we could get outside to stretch our legs.

In the evening we were able to visit with Joy and enjoying an African Drumming session.

The next day we went for a visit to the Outpost, where we were lucky enough to meet all the animals and feed them. David spoke to us about all the animals and was a great host with many of the children saying that this part of their trip was the best part. We particularly loved the dancing emus, Kylie and Jason!

Music Afternoon

May 31, 2024 Lola Tess Leave a comment

On Wednesday we had a music afternoon organised by the Primary 6 pupils. P5/6 played first. They played ‘The best day of my life’ by American authors on the ukulele.

We then heard from the piano and fiddle students. As they showcased what they had learned in their lessons.

Finally our class (P6/7) played ‘Island’ by Peat and diesel. We had lots of instruments like the ukuleles, drums, fiddles, accordion, piano, glockenspiel , xylophone and base guitar.

By Lola and Mollie.

Please have listen using the link below.

Climate Smarter – Shetland Final

May 24, 2024 gw19patersonelizabet@glow Leave a comment

May saw our class finalists attend the Shetland Climate Smarter Event at the Shetland Museum.

On arrival Alyshia, Annie, Bella, Lola and Morgan set up their entry ahead of their presentation. They then delivered their presentation about their learning and school model to the judges.

Following the presentation their thoughts about the event and STEM learning were captured by BBC Shetland.

The girls, then had the opportunity to take part in a variety of STEM challenges, all of which were scored. The judges were looking at how well they completed the tasks but more importantly for the team work that was displayed.

They were lucky enough to receive a runner up prize of £50 which we have used to buy STEM games for the class.

All of the children have worked really hard on this topic and as a result they have received their Level 2 Young Stem Leader Award. I would like to say a huge well done to all the children for their hard work.

John Muir

May 24, 2024 Henry Leave a comment

On Thursday 18th of April P7 had John Muir we went to kergord and Pete and Grant was our helpers. Kergord is a very big woodland there are lots of trees and old bases made of sticks. First we were put in pairs and then we had to walk up to an old stone house. Then we had to go back down by our selves. After that we played follow the leader up the burn. Once we were all up the burn we had our snack. After that we built our bases out of sticks and branches we found on the ground. We were in boy and girl teams. Once we had finished building our bases then we had our dinner in the old house. Pete made a roof for the old house for shelter. After that we looked at both the boys base and the girls base to see which one was better. At the end we didn’t have much time so we just played the worlds best game. It was really fun and we have another John Muir in June.

by Henry and Annie

Climate Smarter

March 22, 2024 gw19patersonelizabet@glow Leave a comment

Yesterday we were a step closer to competing in our school Climate Smarter competition.

This session the children have been learning all about renewable energies and how the can use them to reduce our carbon footprint. They have been carrying out experiments and tasks throughout their learning. Now they are having to apply all their learning to their Big Task.

They have been challenged to:

design and build an Eco School model, using a set criteria,
create a display which details their learning,
give a short presentation to explain the reasons for their choices.

Yesterday we invited the classes throughout the school to the class to present our work. This gave us an opportunity to prepare for our school competition on Tuesday, when we will be presenting in front of a panel of judges. The winner of our competition will be representing our class at the Shetland competition in May. Good Luck boys and girls!

Sumdog Competition

March 22, 2024 gw19patersonelizabet@glow Leave a comment

This week saw the third Shetland Sumdog competition of the week. The class was successfully placed in the top ten leaderboard again this competition, making it to forth place.

However a huge shout out goes to Sam, who made it into the student top ten for the third time in a row reaching third place.

Well done Sam, the hard work has really paid off!!

Shetland Youth Music Festival 2024

March 19, 2024 gw19patersonelizabet@glow Leave a comment

On Monday Primary 6/7 travelled to Lerwick to take part in the Shetland Youth Music Festival.

The children have been preparing two pieces for performance, ‘Patrick’s Reel’ and ‘ Ye Banks and Braes’. The children gave a confident performance and if they were nervous it didn’t show.

Use the link below to see their performance.

Our fiddle players were up next with a group performance of ‘Gunners March’ and ‘Mam Tamar’s Hymn’. A snippet of which can be viewed using the links below.

The piano players were then able to perform their pieces to their judges in the afternoon.

In the afternoon the children got the opportunity to take part in various workshops, such as drumming, scandi fiddle, and electric drums.

The children had a fantastic time and were a credit to the school.

Well done boys and girls.

RED NOSE DAY

March 15, 2024 John James Manson Leave a comment

15/03/24

Today we had Red Nose Day and so far we’ve sent donations and taken a photo.

This is us. Red Nose Day is about a fundraiser that raises life changing funds to help end the cycle of poverty and ensure children are safe, healthy, educated and empowered across the world and raised money for places around the world.

The whole school has voted to wear pajamas for Red Nose Day. The options were, wear red, fancy dress and pajamas for the day.

By Harry and John James

Planetarium and World Book Day

March 8, 2024 Lola Tess Leave a comment

Planetarium on tour

This week we have had a visit from the planetarium on tour from Edinburgh.

The visit was fun except from when you were moving because it made me and Bella feel motion sick and we had to look down at the ground.

I learnt lots of stuff like Pluto is not a main planet any more and there are so many galaxies. Some stars have names. I loved seeing the stars.

Going inside the planetarium and outside the planetarium was my favorite bit.

World Book Day

For world book day Me, Bella, Annie, Morgan and Mollie were Mr. Men. Bella was Mr. Sneeze, I was Mr. Bump, Mollie was Mr. Happy, Annie was Mr. Chatterbox and Morgan was Mr. Messy.

World Book Day was fun and we enjoyed our last one as P7.

We took part in a live lesson for World Book Day were we learned about how to recommend books and organise a library.

By Lola and Bella.

Topic

March 1, 2024 Henry Leave a comment

In topic we are getting ready to build are smarter climate projects the projects are for a competition. We are going to show people are projects and the best team will go to Lerwick.

Here are some of the teams are Sam, Kristopher, Sandy and Tom. Henry, Ally, John James and Geordie h. Rhona, Una, Lauryn and Lily. Danny, Harry and Benjamin.

We have four weeks to build are projects. We have to use some sort of wood in are projects. We need to have some items or we wont get the most points.

By Henry and Sam