Whiteness Primary 6/7

This afternoon we worked well together

Two weeks ago we had a brilliant trip to Scalloway to go on The Swan, a STEM session at Shetland UHI and the playpark. It was a brilliant day and the class worked brilliantly together in the sunshine.

Here are some highlights of our day and a big thank you to everyone who made it possible!

Today we wrote thank you letters to send – a few are attached below:

swan thank you letter Whiteness primary school tHAnK yuO leTtER

Blog post                          4^th of September 2024

Welcome to P6/7s blog post

Our dioramas  

This week for topic we are doing dioramas. First we had to choose a place to make. Then we had to choose a box. Also you had to get your materials and find a place to work. At first it was hard work then it got easier. For example the stuff we are making is tree forests or land marks but I’m making a camp site I still have a little work to do but I will get there eventually. Even though I’m still working on mine my friend livia is finished. Today we got to work on ours today instead of fun thirty one.

By Merryn

Blog post

Welcome to our p6/7blog post. Also we will show lot of exciting pictures and we hope you enjoy them!

Maths

Firstly we started doing partitioning tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions. However we also looked at the Magnos menu and calculated a meal for are family. Another thing is that we got to choose what to order.

Writing

We always do fifteen minutes of writing a day and lots of it is imaginative. An important thing is that are topic in writing is openers so we can engage the readers. We really enjoy it!

Topic

Meanwhile this month are topic has been history and we got to choose what thing we should do it about. Finally we researched and wrote about it as well as drawing it.

By Saoirse

Blog post

Welcome to our p67 blog post.

Maths

First In maths we have been looking at the Magnos menu and choosing things and adding all the money together with partners and doing partitioning.

Writing

Next in writing we have been working on our openers and making stories. We made our very own openers book so that we can look at the openers and add them into our story. We do writing for 15 minutes a day.

Buddying

Another thing is the p7s and their buddies have been going outside and making letters such as a s and 1 2 3 they made them with sticks and leaves.

fun31

Finally in fun 31 we have been looking at micro bits and playing with junk model and some people like to read in the cosy corner. bye

By sofianna

Topic

On Monday somebody from the parliament came to visit our class to teach us about the parliament. we had a mini election including Oisin, Jack and Aidan. we all had to vote for who we wanted to win, Oisin won.

This week we made a power-point about  jobs in Shetland. We got to use choice to choose our partners or to work individually

Maths

For maths this week we have been focusing mainly on fractions. We wrote with whiteboard pen on our desks or on a whiteboard to show equivalent fractions. on Thursday and Friday we were measuring the perimeter and area of shapes.

Reading

We got to use choice again this week in reading. We got  to choose; teacher, LSW, partners, individually or in our readings groups. after we had read ten pages we all came together to write about the different feelings and emotions in our story.

By Saoirse and Eve.

In school we have been doing some really fun things. Like doing maths on tables and moam fractions. And doing angles with tape!!! This week in maths we have been learning about fractions. We have been simplifying and doing equivalent fractions. On Friday we did a task with sweets. When we finished we got to eat them. It helped us to learn about fractions.

In music we sometimes go outside and Mr Travins plays the guitar. We sing songs to practice for the music assembly.

Instead of PE most of the class went to the hockey festival in Brae. On Thursday the 5/6/7 went to the Brae Astroturf to play other primary schools. We had three teams, two teams didn’t have a sub but one did. We left the school at 9:30 and came back at 14:30. We played six games and had lunch there. We all really enjoyed it!

By Saoirse, Sofianna, Aidan, Bobby and last but not least Tommy

Buddying

In buddying these past few weeks we have been painting the Very Hungry Caterpillar. We helped our buddies by painting the pattern of the Very Hungry Caterpillar on their hands and then they pressed their hands down on the paper and made a Very Hungry Caterpillar! All of our buddies made super caterpillars but then we noticed that the caterpillars needed somewhere to live. So we trekked outside for some leaves, flowers and a big stick. When we found all of our resources we glued them on with PVA glue and our buddies write The Very Hungry Caterpillar in big clear writing. Well done Primary 1s.

This week for budding we went outside to the poly tunnel and split into two groups. One group played games with their buddy and the other group watered the plants in the poly tunnel and then we switched. After that we played a game of duck duck goose.

By Elsie and Aylee

Since it been so sunny, we have been doing lots of work outside and even have our snack outside!

Every Monday we go on a whole school walk outside and do activities, this week we walked up to the ruins and we had to find letters hidden around the hill then put them together to create a word the word was “SHETLAND”

Every Thursday we have to make a short story about a different theme this week was character dialogue.

By Eve

Buddying

For buddying this week, we got long sticks from our class room (Est. around 0.5 metres) and a clipboard with a sheet on it. First we headed outside with the materials and started measuring different playground equipment and other stuff we have in our outside area with the sticks. After all of that the P1’s got a bit of chalk and started drawing a long line. After they drew the line we had to get our stick and see how many sticks could fit in the line, the longest line was 23 sticks.

Maths

This week we have been learning about percentages and probability chance and uncertainty. We have been looking at how likely and unlikely things are to happen. For percentages we have been looking at pie chart percentages with colours included.

By Bobby B and Bobby G

Maths

For maths this week we have been working on data handling. We got put into groups of three, four or two then gathered data from other classes e.g. eye colours, ages. After we had got all the data we put it in different formats on a large poster. We used all different ways of showing our gathered data such as; pie chart, bar chart e.c.t.

Writing

This week our writing has been linked to our topic, natural disasters. Last week we filmed news reports about a natural disaster of choice, this week we are focusing on diary writing. We each chose a natural disaster and pretended to have witnessed it, then we wrote a diary entry like we had just experienced our natural disaster.

Visitors

On Wednesday five visitors came to our school; Mr Johnston, Mr Clark, Mrs Angus, Mrs Flaws and Mrs Simpson. They will be here till Friday the 8^th of March.

By Eve