Whiteness Primary 6/7

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

This week in our class for maths, we are learning about the order of operations and bodmas which stands for brackets, order, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction. We also went outside to the polycrub to make the order of bodmas using stones and sticks. For writing this week we made newspaper reports about a natural disaster using a green screen and iPad and a microphone. For topic this week we made models of famous landmarks around the world the like the Burra bridge, Leaning tower of Pisa, Christ the redeemer, great wall of china and the pyramids of Giza. We have been learning about the Scottish landscape, hills, lochs and mountains. In HWB we had a braille teacher called Marie come into our class to teach us about braille using these books where you could feel letters and a braille typewriter where you had 6 numbers you told Marie our name letter by letter we also wrote our names in braille. We got a new couch from the parent council in our classroom the couch is used for reading and sometimes our work.

By Bobby G and Frankie

This week we made a leaflet all about a place of our choice. Tommy did Norway and Aidan did Dubai.

In topic we have started with our home teams and got on to making our model landmark out of materials in the class. Home teams is a team of 4 or 5 that works together during topic.

Buddying

For buddying this week as it was Valentine’s Day on Wednesday we made little hearts for us and our buddies

Fun 31

During Fun 31 we enjoyed coding this week using the micro bits. We also got a dartboard in our classroom and we are having a class tournament.

Written by Tommy, Aidan and Bobby

Maths

This week we have been doing the multiplication grid method. We had to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digits. We have been dividing by (10) (100) (1000).

We have enjoyed playing who wants to be a thousandaire. Basically there are 10 questions, each question going up from 1000 to 2000 etc. with the 10th question being £10000 ( the top prize).

Up Helly Aa

This week the Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa squad came in to our school, we did the Boston two step with them. They sang some songs and had a band with them. Our mums, dads, uncles, aunties and grandparents all came to see the Guizer jarl and his squad. The p1/2s had a magic show! The magic show contained the Guizer jarl playing some basketball, jokes, a disappeared Viking who he had to guess who it was, magic numbers and what’s in the hat.

By Bobby B and Bobby G

This week we were getting ready for Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa. Every year all the pupils in the classes design one shield and one pupils shield will be chosen from each to class. The shield then gets put on the NGUHA galley boat. The winning shield in our class was Saoirse! Good job Saoirse!! The Guizer Jarl this year for NGUHA is Scott Hatrick.

Maths:

This week in maths we have started on doing multiplication. We did activities about multiplication in the school, we set up four stations. There was multiplication top trumps, a top marks station, a games section and an exercise station were you had to practise your times tables while doing an exercise.

Topic:

This week we a have been learning about landmarks, we all got a poster with the Scotland map on It and had to draw famous landmarks in their area of Scotland. We have also been working on leaflets advertising a country of our choice and all of its landmarks. Our topic this term is changes in our environment.

By Elsie, Eve and Saoirse

Buddying

Here are some pictures of our buddying activities.

We find doing the activities and buddying fun.

Each week we get to do a fun activity that also helps the p1s learn.

In buddying we sometimes do things like scavenger hunts and the p1s have to find a certain number of each thing and then at the end we do something like make a picture with all the things the buddies have found

Whole school walk

At some point before the snow days we went for a whole school walk

By Jayden, Ellie and Edith

Good morning P5/6/7, happy Friday! I hope you are all safe and warm.

Today’s suggested activities are going to be screen free, just do what you would like.

Literacy 

• Spend some time reading a book of your choice, create a new front cover for your book or a new character.
• Create a play about your book for your family

Numeracy 

• Help to cook a meal, can you help to measure out any ingredients?
• Go outside and measure the depth of the snow in different places, are there any areas where it is deeper, why do you think that might be the case?
• Make up your own game to practise any timestables that you find tricky

HWB

• Enjoy some time indoors, why don’t you play a card game/board game with a family member
• Complete a random act of kindness, How many can you complete from this list?

Random acts of kindness list

I cant wait to see what activities you choose. If you have any questions or pictures you want to send, then you can email me – Ellie.Macleod@Shetland.gov.uk

Good morning P5/6/7, another snow day! As usual just complete what you can manage.

Numeracy

Mental maths – Have a go at some of these mental maths games/activities

Have a go at Countdown – try to explain the strategies you have used.

Countdown Numbers Game (happysoft.org.uk)

Sumdog

Parachute Multiplication – Mathsframe

Multiplication Activities

Literacy 

Writing – “Should schools be closed when it snows?”

Write a balanced argument for and against.

How to write a balanced argument – 2nd level English and Literacy – BBC Bitesize

Balanced Argument Features

ERIC – Spend about 20 minutes reading a book of your choice.

HWB

Have a go at scanning the QR code to access our morning check-in. What zone are you in today?

Spend some time enjoying the snow. Can you make several snowballs all the same size, wrap them in different materials such as tin foil, clingfilm, paper, cloth etc. Which one is the best insulated?

Have fun! If you have any questions or pictures you want to send, then you can email me – Ellie.Macleod@Shetland.gov.uk