Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, Science, Social Skills, Socila Studies

Science Workshop

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The children were treated to a fantastic science show from ‘Sunbeam’ and ‘Raindrop’ from the Edinburgh Science Centre.

They spoke about the different kinds of weather in the different habitats around the world. They explained how the earth has many layers and how the atmosphere protects the earth.

They demonstrated the importance of the Ozone Layer and spoke with the children about how we need to look after our planet.

The characters of Raindrop and Sunbeam were really engaging and the children loved the experiments and interactive parts of the show.

The parachute became the atmosphere and all the children are inside. It got quite hot in there with all the p1-3 children tucked in nice and cosy. demonstrating how the atmosphere holds the heat in.

The children also got to play games using the information they had been learning about.

Art and Craft, Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, STEM, technology

Digital Committee – QR Codes

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The P1/2 class are the Digital Committee this term. They have worked hard to create this interactive display to challenge all the children in the school.

They presented their idea in assembly to the other classes.

To answer the question about each minibeast the children must scan the QR code on an ipad. This takes them to a website where they can find the answer.

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

Grandparents Afternoon

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What a fantastic afternoon spent with so many grandparents. The children were so delighted and excited to play games, do puzzles and show everyone around. There was such an amazing feeling throughout the whole school.

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

There Was An Old Lady

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The children loved the Song called ‘There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly’. We read the story in class, then watched a video which allowed the children to compare and chat about the differences. They sang the song in Music with Mr Travins earlier in the week too.

The Children did Drawing Club about the story and enjoyed playing with the puppets afterwards.

They set up their own puppet Show in Class during Golden Time on Friday. It was amazing to see the organisation and cooperation amongst the children. They provided seats for the audience, as well as tickets and ‘snacks’.

The whole audience joined in with the singing. I shall try and share a little video on here for you to see.

 

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

Number Activities

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The Primary 1’s have been learning about place value using different materials and continuing to practise sequencing and ordering numbers within 20.

They have also been learning to read the number words and have played lots of games and enjoyed matching activities.

The older children have been continuing to work with numbers up to100. They have been learning about rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and also sequencing and ordering numbers.

They have been doing a lot of skip counting games and activites. Counting in 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s using lots of different classroom materials.

They have been learning about odd and even numbers, and how counting in 2’s links to doubling and halving, factions, symmetry and the processes of multiplication and division.

 

The children enjoyed fingerpainting arrays, choosing  different multiplication cards and then writing the answers next to them

Listening and Talking, maths

Measuring Length

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With the lovely weather the children have been outside doing some measuring as part of their maths lessons. They have been comparing objects

There have also been lots of opportunities in the classroom for measuring using different non-standard units and activities on the Interactive Whiteboard.

The Primary 2’s have been learning about metres and have also enjoyed being outdoors to do their maths this week.

They have made their own metre strips to take home. These will be helpful for next weeks homework.

Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, Social Skills

Drumming with Joy

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On Friday mornings we have been doing some Drumming with Joy. The children have been so good at listening and trying their best with all the games and different rhythms. Their confidence is growing week by week and they are really enjoying this opportunity to learn about African music and cultures.

As well as drumming there is time for dancing, singing and a lot of fun.

The children love playing the Dunduns keeping the beat throughout the pieces they have been learning.

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

Life Cycles

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A few weeks ago we all went for a walk up the Strom Road to find frogspawn and tadpoles. The bairns were so excited to see them and wanted to bring some back to school.

They loved watching the tadpoles swimming around and using the magnifying glasses to get a closer look at the frogspawn.

The frogspawn and tadpoles were returned to the outdoors to grow into froglets and then frogs.

The primary 1’s made these collages demonstrating their understanding of the life cycle of a frog.

As part of their work on lifecycles the Primary !’s made these beautiful models withe their buddies after reading ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ story.

maths, numeracy, Social Skills

Sorting Information

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This term the children have done a lot of Information Handling as part of their maths. They have been collecting data using tally marks to sort information and create pictographs and bar charts.

They worked together to create this graph outdoors and had to answer lots of questions about what it showed.

The Primary 2’s did a great job sorting objects and numbers into various Carroll Diagrams, taking care to make sure everything got placed correctly.

 

Listening and Talking, literacy

Quickly Squirt ‘Qu’

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The primary 1’s were learning how to spell words with the ‘qu’ sound in them. They loved this activity where they had to squirt the correct word with water as soon as they found it written in chalk on the playground.

The Children practice their phonics and spellings in lots of different ways at school. Below Imogen is playing pairs on the Interactive Whiteboard to practise the most recent sounds she has been learning.

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

Polycrub In May

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The weather has been amazing this month and the plants are thriving as they have been well watered and looked after by the primary 1/2 class.

The older children have also been getting involved in planting and looking after the polycrub on Tuesday afternoons as part of our IDL work in school.

We had our first harvest of vegetables. There was great excitement when we pulled up a few radishes and took them into school to clean and prpare for tasting. There were not many children who liked them but they gave them a try.

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

Voar Redd Up

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Today we went down to clean up the Taing Beach as part of the annual  Voar Redd Up.

The children found lots of rope and netting tangled in the seaweed and amongst the rocks. There were also a few bottle and cans and some food packaging amongst other things.

The children did a great job and were very proud to be helping look after the local environment.

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

Easter Egg Fun

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The Children enjoyed listening to the Easter Story today and watching a short animation about it.  After discussing the reason we roll eggs at Easter time they got to work painting and designing their own egg ready for rolling later in the day.

It was p1 versus p2 in the Egg Rolling competition. The egg that travelled furthest after two shots and had no cracks was Ollie’s.

After lunch the children enjoyed an Easter Egg Hunt in the School grounds. It’s great to be back at school.

 

Listening and Talking, Social Skills

More Splendid Vikings

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It was great to get a visit from two spledid Vikings from the Bressay Up Helly Aa. It was Astryd’s Show and Tell this week so she got all her own Viking outfit on and brought in her dad and grandad to visit the class.

They looked fantastic and Astryd was able to talk lots about her experience of being in the Bressay up Helly Aa. It was lovely to see the three generations together and the class had a great time listening, asking questions and trying out the axes, shields and helmets.

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

Planting in the Polycrub

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The children have been out a few times getting the polycrub started for the growing season. So far they have planted tatties, radishes, sunflowers, parsley and some flowers.

If anyone has any spare pots, compost, seeds or plants they would like to donate to the school polycrub that would be fantastic.

I shall keep you updated with the progress. Just a lot of soil and digging at the moment!

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

World Book Day

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The children have had a great day today. They are so excited by books and reading, which  fantastic.  They were keen to share their favourite books they had brought from home.

They looked so lovely in their costumes and pyjamas at school today.

They enjoyed World Book Day activities in the classroom.

The afternoon was really special as the whole school came together and shared books in a paired reading session.  There are photos on the School Blog.

The adults had a lot of fun too!

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