Photos from the Drama Festival 2017.
The P6,7s Treasure Map
This week at school, the P6,7s started to make a Treasure map. We got two big pieces of paper and tea bag stained them, we are using this for our maths with Mrs Mouat and we are doing coordinates. Through-out the week then we will be guessing the coordinates on the map. At the end of term the person closest to the real coordinates on the map will win a prize but there could be mini prizes too !
Today Eva , Bethany , Scott and Troy started the map. Each person in the class will have a go at drawing a picture on the map.
By Bethany and Eva
The 150th anniversary of the voyage of ‘The Diana’
 
  Primary 4 – 7 visited the Museum and archives to find out more about what happened to the Victorian whaling ship ‘Diana’.  Kirsty Clark led a hands-on workshop on what it was like at the Whaling in Victorian times and Mark and Brian Smith shared interesting information stored in the archives. We had a really interesting and informative visit, thank you all!
The Diana left for the Arctic in May 1866. At first the crew did well and they caught a small number of whales, but on the journey back the weather began to get worse and the ship was locked in a sea of frozen ice. It was trapped for over six months. Food was rationed, and fuel was in short supply; the sailors were driven to use anything they could get their hands on for food, even the wood from the ship’s masts and seal clubs.
By the time the ice had thawed and the Diana had finally landed in the Shetland Isles, 13 men were dead including Captain Gravill, the captain of the ship. A detailed log was written by the ship’s surgeon, Dr Charles Edward Smith, after the death of Captain Gravill.
We have entered a play in the Drama Festival which tells the story of the crew, many of which were Shetlanders. Some of the crew are our ancestors.
The play was written and directed by Marsali Taylor, based on the information in Dr Smith’s log entries. Dr Smith’s brother, Frederick Smith was mayor of West Ham and after hearing the tragic story of the Diana’s crew, he paid for a red marble drinking fountain to be erected on Victoria Pier in Lerwick.The memorial reads “The Providential Return of the S Whaler ‘Diana’ of Hull 1866-7”.
All roads lead to Rome!
After researching how the Romans built roads we built our own to demonstrate the layers of construction involved – with one key difference – ours are edible!
Primary 1 and 2 – Viking Topic
As our Viking topic comes to an end here is a selection of photos to show what the Primary 1 and 2 class have been busy doing. Â It includes our visit to Lerwick to see Up Helly Aa, helping to make our own Viking longship which Mrs Nicolson’s son built for us, visits from our very own Vikings and one called Thorfinn Sigurdsson, taking part in Aith Up Helly Aa with Primary 2/3 and making Viking longships and longhouses for our displays in class.
 
Our trip to the Garrison Theatre
On Thursday the 02-03-17 the classes 4,5,6 and 7 went on a school trip to the museum and the Garrison Theater.
We went to the museum to see some artefacts from the actual Diana of Hull. It was really interesting.
Then we went to rehearse our play. We did it two times. It is called The Story of Diana. This year is the 150th anniversary.
We can’t wait to show you! Â Marley and Bethany
Smoking kills
On Monday Jill Hood came in to tell us the effects of smoking. She gave us leaflets about some of the chemicals in cigarettes. she told us that methanol, one of the chemicals in cigarettes can cause blindness and death. She also told us that the average smokers get a lager jarful of tar in there lungs every year. She had brought in a set of pigs lungs to show us how they work. She had forgotten the pump that makes them expand so we got her anti-septic wipes so that she could blow into them and she blew lungs and they expanded and when she didn’t they went in again. The black lung was the smokers lungs. By Shona H
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Making shields for the Norwick Up Helly Aa
This year Primary 3 were asked to make the shields for Mr Spence’s Norwick Up Helly Aa galley. We had a great time creating our designs and then painting the shields. We even got a chance to use them today in our own school Up Helly Aa!
Primary 3 would like to say a big good luck to Mr Spence, and thank him for letting us play a part in his big day! 🙂
day! 🙂
Aith JHS Up Helly Aa!
Today P2/3 organised a mini Up Helly Aa for the primary and nursery to come and watch. We made shields, hemlets, torches and Mr Burke even built us a galley! We had a great time singing the Up Helly Aa song, roaring like Vikings and watching the galley burn.
Sow and Grow With The P6/7
This week in class on Monday we got a box containing seeds and paper cups to plant spinach, baby carrots, runner beans, peas and cress. We to choose which we wanted to grow. We got a set of instructions for each plant. We each got a cup which we filled with soil and set the seeds and if it needed to be topped of then we would but the cress did not need topped up. Now we check on them everyday to see if they need to be watered.
Now quite a few of the plants have sprouted but a few are yet to grow.
By Shona and Eva
