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Pupil Council

Senior Sports Committee

Junior Sports Committee

On Wednesday 5th October, P5 – 7 children took part in Outdoor Education. They took part in raft building and archery.

Thanks to the Shapinsay Development Trust and to Parent Council for funding the day.

This term P1 – 4 have been learning about things made in Orkney. We wrote to lots of local businesses and went to visit several places. Thanks to everyone who helped us!

Ivan’s boatshed 

Ivan and John-Robert spoke to us about boat building in Shapinsay. It was really interesting!

Orkney Isles Preserves

Thanks to Glynis and Lynsey who showed us how the preserves are made at the Jam Factory. Thanks for the drop scones and jam too!

Sheila Fleet

Martin and Leanne helped us find out about how jewellery is made at Sheila Fleet.

Ortak

We went to Ortak to see how they made jewellery too. Thanks to Derek and Alison who showed us round.

The whole school went on a trip to Kirbuster Farm Museum. The older class have been learning about the Victorians, and the younger class about farming, so it all fitted well. Nursery children were very excited to go on a trip too!

Thank you to Sue for showing us round, and to Shapinsay Community Council for funding our travel.

Today we went to King Street Halls in Kirkwall to take part in the Orkney Celebration of Engineering.

We had two teams (P1 – 4 and P5 – 7) and we made displays of our STEM work that we have been doing in school. We had to present our work to the judges.

We had lots of STEM challenges to take part in, and we learned about a TESLA electric car. We heard from people in work in engineering and learned about possible careers.

And at the very end of the day, we found out that P1 -4 had won the Primary Prize for their presentation!

David, the puppet man, came in to work with us all. We all really enjoyed it, and there are even some budding ventriloquists!

Today we all took part in the Labyrinth activity, led by Kate Coutts, in conjunction with the Kirk. Everyone listened while Kate told the story of Assipattle and the Stoorworm, and we learned about the story behind the labyrinth. P5 – 7 drew two labyrinths on the tennis court (involving a lot of measuring!). Then the younger children had a go. Finally, we had some folk from the community and parents come and try the labyrinth. We had a great experience today!

Jason has mended our polytunnel, and we are now starting to plant things. We have also created a log pile to encourage wildlife.

We went to Sandgarth Beach to bag the bruck. This means that we went along the shore and picked up any rubbish that had been swept up by the tide. We mainly found plastic and bits of rope. Thanks to all the parents who came with us, and to Stanley for helping transport! Altogether we collected about 20 bags worth of rubbish.

We all really enjoyed the drum for fun session this morning!