P6/7 Scalloway Junior High School

P6/7 had a visit from staff and students from the University of Edinburgh and took part in a Sci-Fun Event in the Scalloway Junior High School games hall.  Lots of exciting demonstrations were held as well as over 20 activities for the children to take part in and learn about science.

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P5 spent the afternoon experimenting with their hovercrafts today!  Using a balloon, a cotton reel and an old CD they made hovercrafts which allow the air from the ballon to lift the CD up on a cushion of air.  To make this last even longer Mr Skea brought in massive punching balloons which worked really [...]

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P6/7 from Scalloway JHS are starting a project on enterprise. On the 17th of April, their first activity began by producing and selling, novelty paper hats.
 
There were four groups of six, and one group of seven. Each group had a leader, a book-keeper, a seller, a material buyer, a quality control manager and everyone else [...]

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      20th March 1835    
 Woke up dis moarnin, got my clase on. Telt mam dat I wis gain ta fitch some mair paets. She tocht a o da cerring yisterday wid o laid me by but na na. I den geed oot ya da baarn an got da Kishie. I geed outside an stood for a [...]

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20-3-43  
Dear diary,
Sorry I haven’t written in a few days but I have had a terrible couple of days. 
First of all I had to go to Kurkigert to visit granny and granddad, because mam was about to give birth to another bairn. I ran over the hill of Moostoft to get there, and a really bad [...]

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On Thursday the 1st of March P6/7 recorded some Shetland Dialect poems about the weather.  We used the webcam to record the poems in groups.  Everyone made a really good effort at trying to pronounce some of the tricky dialect words then we had a go at translating the poems into English.  The hardest part [...]

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 A review by Kaylee and John P6

Scalloway School gave the drama group Lickety-spit a very warm welcome on the 14th February 2007. Lickety-spit is a drama group made up out of quite a few small groups. The one that was up had four people from Edinburgh. There names were Itxso Moreno who played Balexto, Johnny [...]

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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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