On Thursday the 7th of March primary’s 5 to 7 took part in the Shetland Drama Festival 2019. They have been practising for weeks and they are going to preform for a second time in the Walls Hall.
By Robert And Max
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‘A Christmas Recipe’
Yesterday, primary 1 and 2 performed ‘A Christmas Recipe’ with fantastic support from primaries 3 and 4. We had our first practice in the morning and all the Early Years children and primaries 5/6/7 came to watch. In the afternoon the mums, dads, uncles, aunties, grannies, grandads, brothers, sisters, cousins and friends came to watch our performance. We put on our costumes and some of us got our face painted.
We felt excited, happy and a bit nervous but we felt we did a very good job and enjoyed performing it. We worked very hard to learn all the songs for the nativity.
We would like to thank all the staff who helped make ready for the performance, all the mums, dads and family members who came to watch it. We hope you all enjoyed it!
A big “thank you” to our narrators from primary 5 who did a fantastic job!
Little Star’s Story
Today, after weeks of practising hard, we performed ‘Little Star’s Story’ to all the primary classes in the morning then all the mums, dads, grannies, granddads and other guests in the afternoon.
Everybody did fantastically well to remember all 8 songs and their lines.
Well done everyone and thank you to everyone who came.
‘Diana’ Tait
On the 21st of March Aith Junior High Schools upper primary did a play at the walls hall. It was called The Voyage Of The Diana. I played the part of Christopher Tait and at the show I met Christopher Tait’s granddaughter, Rhoda Tulloch. She said she could remember her grandfather even though he died when she was 4. She said when he came home from the being on the Diana he couldn’t sit down because he was just a sack of skin and bones because he couldn’t sit down he had to sit on some sheeps wool. I live near where Christopher Tait lived.
By Sadie Anderson
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”.
Planting trees and opera
Planting trees
Last week on Wednesday we were planting trees on the old hockey pitch. We planted around 150 trees. It is part of going for our John Muir Award. We are trying to make our school grounds nicer. It was hard to dig in some areas but it was good fun. We had to to cut two shovel widths across and turn the patch over and then cut a cross in the middle and put the tree in.
On Monday four people from Scottish opera came up to Shetland to do a performance called Fever! It was about a boy that got a fever. Schools from Nesting, Happyhansel, Whiteness and Skeld joined us. We were in three groups, the first group was the medics, the second group were the bad bacteria and there was the immune system good bactiria and the press. We really enjoyed taking part.
By Rhys and Peter
Scottish Opera Fever
On Wednesday the P5, P6 and P7s went down to the hall to practise their opera called Fever with Scottish Opera. Bairns from Nesting, Skeld, Happyhansel and Whiteness came too. There was a man called Roger that came up from Glasgow to help us with the opera. On the 6th of June his colleagues will come up and help us with the actual performance. Mums and dads can come too. By Joann and Asia
P1 PAPER PLATE PUPPETS
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We made paper plate puppets on Thursday. We gave them names and had fun on Friday introducing our puppets to everyone else in the class.
Da ketling, da fox and da muckle rat
Primary 3,4&5 are busy learning their lines and have started rehearsing for the Shetland County Drama Festival in March. We are performing on Thursday the 10th of March in the Garrison Theatre, we are very excited already!
*tickets go on sale Friday the 19th of February
Primary 1 go to Up Helly Aa
Despite the weather, Primary 1 had a fantastic trip to Lerwick to see Up Helly Aa today.
