It was super to see so many of you today, we hope your time in school was purposeful and informative.
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Category Archives: Literacy and English
Stay and Play Days
It was lovely to meet the children who are moving into Primary 1 after the holidays.
Activities were all based in the outdoor area and it was so lovely to see the bairns playing so happily together. It was also a great opportunity to meet all the parents.
They explored the wildlife garden and were delighted to meet our resident frog who was quite happy to be admired.
All the children received the book ‘Bobby and the Burland Pearls’ which we read out at the Learning Logs.
The children had 4 sessions at the school and the weather was amazing so we were very lucky. They got to toast marshmallow on the Firepit, play games, sing songs and do some craft activities on the third session.
The final session was all about having fun, saying goodbye to the Early Years Staff a little farewell party.
Euroquiz Success
A huge congratulations to our P6 Euroquiz team – Ava, Florrie, Tadhg and Michael who won the Shetland Heat on Thursday. They will be representing Shetland at the final in Edinburgh in June. They worked really hard and we are all very proud of them – well done!
P6 Bring Your Parent Day
Primary 6 had a great day on Friday with Bring Your Parent Day. They spend the day before thinking up different activities to do. We started the day with a STEM challenge in teams – to create newspaper table of at least 20cm tall which could hold a textbook – all teams managed!
Then we did some writing – the 100 word challenge.
After that we did Art – creating portraits using a range of mediums. After break we did some maths, working with our partners to play countdown followed by a logic puzzle. Well done to Joe and Finlay who solved it!
Thank you to all the parents who joined us – we hoped you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Moving Up Day into P1/2
After listening to the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff it was straight into some STEM challenges. The children had to start to build a bridge until they met up with their partner who was building towards them from the opposite side of the river. They could only choose 20 blocks each.
Then of course we had to make some goats and even a troll or two to go under the bridges!
And the final shot of the river with all those bridges, goats and trolls!
World Book Day
There was lots of excitement as pupils came to school dressed as characters, or in their pyjamas, for World Book Day.
Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa
The Jarl and his squad came to visit everyone at the school. Primary 3/4 prepared a game full of challenges, games and questions to play with the Jarl. There was a swapping of gifts which was followed with a Boston Two Step danced by Pupils, Vikings, parents, friends and staff.
Christmas Concert
Primary 3/4 performed The Night Before Christmas.
Primaries 5,6 and 7 performed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Anti- Bullying Poem Winners
Last week the Health Committee asked the classes to write poems about anti-bullying.
They judged the entries and selected one winner from each class.
Here are our winning writers with their certificates which the Health Committee presented them with in assembly. Bobby Anderson was then judged as overall winner with his poem called ‘Bullying is not Good’.
The winning poems will be on display during next weeks parents appointments.
