We went to Mackenzies. I had a burger it was local produce. We also looked at the cuts of meat. There was local milk and butter in the fridge. Every food they make is basically local produce.
October 5, 2017
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October 5, 2017
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Our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon
On 03/10/17 we were baking for the Macmillan Coffee Afternoon! One group made cheesy sweetcorn tarts, another made bannocks and the last one made mini quiches.
On 04/10/17 we organised a Macmillan Coffee Afternoon, We also had a raffle, our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon was working quite successfully. Afterwards we counted up all the money, the donations had £165.50, and the raffle money had £162.00, and all together it was, £327.50 !
October 1, 2017
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Sheep Sale
Last Friday we went to the sheep sale and we saw lots of sheep. Some of the sheep were black and white and some of the sheep were white and there were rams and the rams were brown. All the sheep and rams came through a gate and in to a ring. When the sheep came in they came lots at a time and sometimes they came one at a time and sometimes there were two and some times there were three. The rams came in all together and the white sheep came in with some of the black and white sheep. The auctioneer was counting the sheep numbers every time they came in he said the numbers very fast.
Harbros
In Harbors we saw sheep shampoo and cow shampoo sheep and cow food and we saw sheep paint and other sheep and cleaning things.
September 27, 2017
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Cook Along with John Quigley
As part of our Education Scotland Food for Thought project we joined a cook along with John Quigley who is the Chef/Patron of the Red Onion in Glasgow.
We made vegetable spring rolls – it was quite hard to keep up as our internet kept dropping but we got there and the food was delicious!
September 20, 2017
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Yell Sheep Sale
On Saturday I went to the sheep sale in Burravoe. I saw hundreds sheep they were in pens. There was a guy called a auctioneer he was selling the sheep. they put paint on the sheep’s back to identify the sheep to his owner. Emer
September 12, 2017
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Shetland Wool Week 2017 at the Old Haa
There is an exhibition at the Old Haa to coincide with Shetland Wool Week 2017. We were invited to put a picture in the exhibition and decided we would all make a sheep to add to a flock.
We took our picture down to the Old Haa and looked at all the other exhibits. We took our sketchbooks so we could collect ideas. We looked at the patterns in all the knitwear and talked about their link to maths. #MathsWeek Scotland
This is our finished picture.
September 7, 2017
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Digital Schools Award 2017
On Wednesday morning we did a video conference for the Digital Schools Presentation. David Jones from West Dunbarton organised the meeting for us and Fetlar with google hangouts. Elizabeth Morris from Education Scotland was presenting the Award Certificates to 22 schools. When she arrived she said hello to us via the webcam. There was Steven Grier from Microsoft Scotland, David Hogg from HP, Ann Marie Whelan from HP Ireland, Shirley-Anne Somerville, the Scottish Minister.
David Hogg, Elizabeth Morris and Steven Grier with our Award.
This is a group photo of all the schools with their awards. We are on the laptop screen.
There was a film crew there. There was a photographer. This is a video that was made at the presentation. They launched the Digital Schools Awards for secondary schools.
September 4, 2017
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The Yell Show 2017
This year preparing for the yell show I have worked SO HARD to get it all done, The thing that took the longest time was my cake shaped like a dog, In the Yell Show I entered a Plain Cupcakes, Decorated Cupcakes, A Victoria Sponge and a Novelty Cake. In the flowers I entered Wild flowers, a Single Stem, a flower arrangement and an unusual container. I also entered a collage of a snail made with leaves and flower petals but it had the wrong name on it. For all of my entries I got first prize for apart from my picture, I think it was because I put more work into my cakes and flowers and not so much into my drawing.
September 4, 2017
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The Yell Show
Last Saturday we had the Yell Show and I put my hamabeads to the Yell show and I put flowers to the Show and I got 2nd price and Rachel put her hamabeads and flowers to the show and she got 1st price 2nd price and 3rd price for all her stuff and I got 2nd price for all my stuff.
September 4, 2017
by Emer
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Yell Show Vegetables 2017
On Saturday we went to the Yell Show. We got first prize for the peas the onions and one lot of the carrots. For the 2nd prize we got the chard the leeks the tatties and the other lot of carrots. I think we did really good this year with growing our vegetables. I enjoyed it too.
September 4, 2017
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Preparing our Yell Show Vegetables
We had to wash our vegetables so they were clean for the Yell Show, Then we also had to write labels so everyone could know what the vegetable is, then we sorted out the vegetables because they all had to be the same size, or as best as we could manage. we thought our onions would not be too big, but when we pulled them out they were enough big to be entered in Yell Show.
August 29, 2017
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Food for Thought Project Beginning. What do we think so far?
Mara:
We put a bid in for a chicken house to keep chickens until they lay eggs and after. We put another bid in to visit local produce and look at local produce shops and people who make it, plus maybe watching them tend to it .Steve the baker agreed to be our business partner. He uses all the local produce he can. I don’t think there is much local produce compared to other places.
Alice:
This term and next term we are doing about local food\produes and its all about food were doing about different kinds of food.
Neil:
This Term and Next Term We Are Doing Food for Thought. Food for Thought is about Local Foods/Produce. Our Business Partner is Steve The Baker. Yesterday we went to a walk to the rams and this is what I Learned in The First Part Of This Project:
· That they are different types of breeds of sheep like, Shetland, Cheviots, Suffolks
· The way to tell the lambs and sheep apart is by the lambs faces being black
· The rams do fight but in heat they rest
Rosie:
Our business partner is Steve the Baker I’m glad we have him as our business partner because he bakes everything with local produce.
We have been to see Jennifer’s sheep already. Jennifer’s sheep Cheviots, Shetland and Suffolk. The lambs have black faces and the sheep don’t because of the ram.
Sonia:
When we started talking about how much food we can get in Shetland I realised that there were actually quite a lot of local produce. In this project Steve the Baker will be our buisness partner. Jennifer told us the breeds of her sheep eg. Cheviot, Suffolk and Shetland sheep. We learned that Jennifer’s lambs breed, was Shetland Cheviot which was Cheviot and Shetland sheep crossed bred. the lambs had black faces with white spots on them. Jennifer’s Cheviot rams had their horns taken of so they wouldn’t start fighting each other or they could not get stuck in the fence, they also got their tails trimmed so when they poop, the poop didn’t get stuck to their tails.
I know that mutton comes from sheep, beef from coos and pork from pig.
Hannah: Local Food
We are going to have Steve the Baker as our business Partner. We went to see Jennifers sheep and they were sheviot sheep we went see them because you can make them into mutton. We have chose to do this because we have so much local produce. The Lambs have black faces and the sheep have white faces. We are going to have Steve as our business partner because he uses local produce with his stuff.
Emer:
Local Food
Our business partner is going to be Steve the Baker it is great to have him as our business partner because he knows so much about local produce. Yesterday we went walking to look at sheep and to see what they look like and to see what kind of sheep they were. The kind of sheep there were Cheviot and Suffolk. The reason why we went to go and see the sheep was because Jennifer breeds the sheep every year. Then after the lambs have grown up they kill the sheep and the lambs have grown up and they have lambs.
Abby:
What I Already Know
In our food for thought project Steve the Baker has agreed to be our business partner for the project, he has agreed to show us around and to tell the older ones a bit more about his business. The reason why it’s good to have him as a part of the project is that he uses local produce and he is a really nice guy as well.
So far we also have been to see Jennifer breeding Sheep. The breeds of sheep wear Shetland, Cheviot and Suffolk. The reason we went to see them is because sheep when they die can be butchered and turned into mutton, but Jennifer doesn’t all the mutton for herself she also puts some of the sheep to market and sells them and the others she keeps to breed with.
The reason why this is a good project is that there is lots of local produce here like vegetables, fruits, meats, fish and dairy products.
August 28, 2017
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My Summer Holidays
In the holidays I went to Aberdeen in Scotland and we went to a theme park that was called Codonas. We also went to shopping centres. and me Dad and my Auntie went to Dundee but we only went for four hours. We also went to Hazelhead Park at Aberdeen, we went in a mini maze and the playground.
August 24, 2017
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Linda Active Schools Visit
Linda Thompson from the Active Schools came to talk about new games. We chose games and things to try in P.E, After School Club, playtimes and out of school. We chose what we wanted to do on a piece of paper. Then we gave the piece of paper to Linda. I thought of basketball, gymnastics, netball. Linda collected the sheets to look at what we wanted to do. At Playtime Linda talked to Ms Breyley about what we are going to do.
August 24, 2017
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Old Haa – Jeanette Nowak exhibition
Last week we went to the Old Haa to look at Peanut’s Exhibition. I liked how she did the sea glass wave I thought that it was cool. I liked how she did her collage. I enjoyed it.
