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Listening and Talking, Science, Social Skills, STEM

Worms!

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We had an afternoon of fun with lots of worms in the class. The children learned some facts about worms and watched a little video about them.

Miss Robertson brought in these worms to show the class and shared lots of interesting facts about them with the children.

They then got a worm each to watch and look more closely at.

The children were really gentle with them, watching how they moved and using the magnifiers to zoom in and look more closely at their bodies. The worms were quite funny as they got annoyed and waved and waggled their bodies at the children.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, Science, Social Skills, STEM

Polycrub produce

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The children have harvested their first produce. The radishes were ready to be eaten so the children pulled some up and brought them into school.

They all had a chance to taste a little bit in class – not the most popular vegetable but they all tried some.

The cooks also got some radishes which they prepared for the classes at lunchtime.

Art and Craft, Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, Social Skills, STEM

Investigating in the Wildlife Garden

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The children have been finding lots of insects and minibeasts in the School Wildlife Garden. They used the magnifiers to look closely at them and watch how they moved.

The school pond also has a couple of resident frogs and lots of tadpoles. There were also other water beetles and insects around the water.

Back in class the children have been learning about different minibeast and insects. They have been doing some research about them during writing lessons and learning how to label diagrams.

They used oil pastels to create this amazing wall display.

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, Social Skills

Our Kindness Trail

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Kindness is one of the schools’ Core Values and we feel it is the most important. It is always on the agenda but it is good to make it a focus and spend time discussing with the children different ways of being kind and how it makes us and others feel.

The children listened to stories, watched clips and had discussions about kindness. We also had little role play scenarios to act out and discuss.

Any children who were noticeably kind could choose a smiley face and add it to the Kindness Trail which is making its way around the school corridors.

Lots of parents have emailed in Acts of Kindness that they have seen the children doing at home. They loved hearing the different ways their peers have been kind and it has really spurred them on with their efforts.

All adults in the school are noticing their kindness and commenting on this with them. The cooks are well impressed with the good manners at lunchtime with lots of pleases and thankyous.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, Social Skills

Voar Redd Up

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On Friday the tide was low so the bairns went to the Taing beach to take part in the Voar Redd Up. They mostly found bits of rope and plastic but the more unusual finds were a toorie and cans and bottles in the grassy area between the school and the top of the beach road.

There was also time to go exploring and find shells and crabs.

Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, STEM

STEM fun

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We read this book by Polly Dunbar about a penguin who wouldnt say anything. It was very funny and the children loved it.

In the story the penguin gets fired up to Space in a rocket so the children made their own little penguins as part of a STEM activity.

They had great fun seeing how high the penguins could be blasted. The Primary two Children have been learning how to write instructions so did a fantastic job explaining how to do this STEM challenge.

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, Science

Finding tadpoles

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It is always great to get outdoors, especially when the sun shines.

We all went for a walk in Strom Road noticing differences around us with the changing Seasons.

There was great excitement when the children spotted lots of tadpoles all along the ditches.

We had a look in the school pond and found lots of frogspawn there so hoping to spot tadpoles soon.

Health and Wellbeing, Science, Social Skills, STEM

Polycrub update

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A huge thankyou to the parents who helped to water the plants throughout the Easter holidays. They have fairly shot up. The sunflowers were ready to be re-potted into bigger pots so the children have been busy doing that and lots of watering this week.

As part of their literacy this term the children have been learning how to write instructions. Lucy-Jo was very clear on how to plant a seed.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, maths, Science, Social Skills, STEM

The Eco-Committee

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The primary 1/2 class are the Eco-Committee for this term. They shared their plan in assembly last week of how they were going to involve the whole school in planting and growing their own food in the Polycrub this year.

Each class have been given a section of the polycrub to be responsible for planting in. There is also a rota for watering and looking after the plants throughout the term.

There have been lots planted already – tatties, peas, radishes, carrots, lettuce, beetroot, to name a few.

The children have also planted sunflower seeds and tomatoes in little pots which will need careful looking after and re-potting oncce they grow a little bit.

Each class is responsible for not only looking after the plants but keeping the polycrub tidy and organised for the next class or group of children who come in.

it is also a great space outdoors at Whiteness Primary to play. The children took a break from planting to work on their teamwork skills and have a lot of fun on the hill.

Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, literacy, Social Skills, STEM

World Book Day

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The children, and staff had so much fun on World Book Day. So many great character costumes and books were brought in.

They loved listening to stories, acting out stories, reading and making books.

They painted their own book covers and wrote stories inside. They loved using their favourite stories to help. So much excitement and enthusiasm for reading- it was so lovely to see,

Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, literacy, maths, Social Skills, STEM, technology

The Pet Popper-Upper

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As part of their learning about looking after pets the children listened to the story of the Pet Popper -Upper. They then had to set to work creating their own one.

The ideas and creativity was amazing and the children loved coming up with new ways to make the pet pop up. it was good to see their confidence growing as they tried new modelling techniques and practiced craft skills.

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NGUHA visit

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The children were all ready to entertain the NGUHA Jarl Squad on Friday. They had made helmets. axes and shields and looked great as little viking warriors.

They loved doing the quiz with the Jarl and showed them paintings of their pets, outboard engines and money signs. They particularly enjoyed the consequences which the Jarl had to do when he got the questions wrong.

Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, literacy, Social Skills

At The Vets

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The children were talking about how much they loved animals and telling each other what pets they have.

We spoke about how to look after pets and then decided we needed a Vet area in the classroom. They have loved making sure all the pets are well cared for and looking after them if they need a visit to the vets.

They all painted their favourite pets, which they shared with the NGUHA Jarl Squad as part of their quiz.

How many dogs can you see?

Art and Craft, Listening and Talking, literacy, maths, numeracy, Social Skills, STEM

Hickory Dickory Dock Clocks

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The children loved the story of the Hickory Dickory Dock Clock and set to work creating their own versions.

Their clock needed tp have numbers, hands, switches and passcodes to work.  The final Clocks were great and the children loved showing  them to the class.

Many of the children wrote about their clocks and how they had made them.