Forget the bat mobile, we at Aith have the ‘vet mobile’!
Thank you so much to Miriam for visiting and showing Primary 1/2 around her vet van. We listened to each others hearts and resuscitated a patient.
It is very special to have parents sharing in our learning journeys.
“You can actually make anything out of anything as long as you try hard and are positive” Liam P4.
I think he perfectly sums up our busy day. Massive thanks to the RSPB, our hardworking volunteers, Early Years, Primary and Secondary pupils who all worked together to improve the outdoor environment around the school – what a difference a day makes!
All pupils at Aith JHS loved chatting to Alex this morning. When he met Primary and Early Years pupils they asked him lots of interesting questions including how many pairs of shoes he has gone through on his journey so far (8!). There was gasps from the audience when they found out he hasn’t been home for Christmas whilst undertaking his marathon journey. So far he has been walking for 3 years and estimates he has another year to go – Good luck Alex! The lifeboat is very important to us, very best wishes on the rest of your journey.
Don’t they just look fantastic in their Viking finery? 
Fantastic singing and a skilful demonstration of the cup-song too
Angela showed us the original Jarl shield from 1987. She was the Jarl the following year, perhaps Ruby might follow in her mum’s footsteps one day.
30 Years on and still going strong, Three Cheers for the Walls Up-Helly-Aa!
Today P2 and Erland had the chance to visit the Aith shop to put what they’ve been learning about money into practice. Miss Murray gave them all post-it notes with a price on it, and they had to match this to a price they found in the shop. Miss Murray took our toy money with them to practice finding the right amount too. They even had the chance to use real money when they bought sugar and bananas for the school! Well done guys!
Over the past couple of weeks Primary 2 have been learning about money. They have learned what all the different coins are, and even made posters to show to the P3s. Today they had the chance to play shop with Miss Murray, and try to complete money dominoes as a group. They managed to complete 14 dominoes in 5 minutes. They’re going to try and beat their score next week!
We are also looking forward to see which of our young horticulturists will win the tattie challenge, all entries are looking good so far! Huge thanks to Duncan our janitor for all his help and enthusiasm in getting young gardeners involved.
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
