P6/7 Scalloway Junior High School

Primary 6 have been doing work on electricity.  A few weeks ago we made up our own quizzes.  When you correctly match up a question to its answer then the bulb should light up.  This is because the electric circuit has been made complete and means that the current can flow all around the circuit and light [...]

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On Tuesday the 13th of Februrary P6/7 went on a visit to the Crofthouse Museum.  The bus picked the class up at 9.15am and took us down to the museum.  The class was split into two groups because the croft was so small there wasn’t enough room for everyone in there at once.  The first group [...]

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18th March 1843 

Last night I overheard mam and dad speaking about dad going to the Greenland whaling and mam having a baby (cool). I also heard dad say that I would help out. I felt proud. 
Today I was feeling sad because dad was going to the whaling for 6 months. Then we all sat down [...]

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18th March 1843          
I heard mam and dad speaking about mam having another baby.  Am a peerie bit worried aboot her especially since dad is gone away to the Greenland whaling for six months or more.
Dad has left me in charge o da house so I feel quite excited.  It might be a bit [...]

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P6/7 are reading a novel by John J. Graham called “Shadowed Valley”.  We are keeping a diary of 14 year old Hakki’s thoughts and feelings throughout the novel and what follows is some of the diary entries we have typed up so far.  Some of us chose to write in Shetland dialect so we hope you understand [...]

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P6/7 have started their latest project on the Shetland clearances and are reading “Shadowed Valley” by John J. Graham.  This novel follows the Hunter family during the Weisdale clearances in the 19th century.  P6/7 will be keeping a diary of 14 year old Hakki Hunter’s thoughts and feelings throughout the novel.  We hope to be [...]

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At the start of term we were finishing off our Europe project.  We spent one afternoon in groups building models of European landmarks.  We were given 50 straws,  25 pipe cleaners, a roll of tape and 15 paperclips to make our models.  We then judged each others models and gave them points based on the [...]

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At long last P6/7 are making their first blog entry!  We have been extremely busy this term so what follows is a taste of just some of the things we have been up to.  Please let us know what you think of some of our work. 

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