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Climate Smarter – Shetland Final

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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

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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

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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!

Thursday 9th November 2023 Solar Panels

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This week we went outside with solar panels to see how much energy we could create with the solar panels. We went around different parts of the school to see if we could get more energy in different spots around the school.  The areas that we were aloud to go to was the pitch and to the play park and in between. Some people got some very high electricity rates.

By Kristopher and Benjamin