April 24, 2014
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Shetland Primary Schools Hockey Festival 2014

On Tuesday the 22nd of April p5-P6 went to brae for a hockey tournament. Me, Mia and Sue went in Jennifer’s car to catch the 9:15 ferry. We waited an then got on the Mid Yell bus with the Cullivoes that were also going to the tournament too. When we got on the ferry we all went up stairs. When we got there some people got changed and others just changed their shoes. You had to wear either trainers or special AstroTurf shoes because we were playing on AstroTurf which is fake plastic grass that is very very expensive then we started playing I was in Yell two with some others from Mid Yell and Cullivoe . First we did a warm up we stood in a circle and passed the hockey ball and called out their names so they knew we were going to pass it to them and so we got used to calling their names.We won 5 games with school that came up to the section we were based to play hockey we played against Bells Brae, Happy Hansel, Yell one and other small schools.

April 24, 2014
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Shetland Hockey Festival

On Tuesday P5,P6 went to the hockey festival. We went to the ferry at 9.15 to go to the hockey festival. The hockey festival was in Brae. When we were there it was cold so we didn’t wear our shorts. We went in the astroturf that we played in. Astroturf is fake grass. We went in the bottom bit of the astroturf. We did a warm up first then we split into 2 groups called Yell 1 and Yell 2. I was with 4 boys and 4 girls we were in Yell 1. In my group we did dribbling. We played against a School we got 3 nil. When we finished our lunch it was Yell 1 V Yell 2 and Yell 2 won against Yell 1.

April 24, 2014
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Hockey Festival

We went to the Hockey festival on the Tuesday. Then we went off the ferry to go Brae. We went on the hockey pitch some of us got changed but most of us didn’t because it was really cold outside and really windy. We went to practice to get ready we went into groups yell 1 and yell 2. Then we did some practice in our group our warm up was passing the ball and saying their names. We also did a warm up when we went into a circle and we saying their names and when we saying their names then we went around in a circle and then go back into our place. We did the game we went against other schools in Shetland. Then some of us went to be the subs witch is when the people is watching people that get tired and swap them. Then we played against yell 1 and yell 2 nobody won against yell and yell. Then we at the end of the day we got our photo taken with the other schools that was at the hockey festival that played against us. We went on the bus on the way home.

April 23, 2014
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Planting Beans

First we got a pot then we put stones at the bottom of the pot for drainage. Then they were a big bag full of dirt then we put compost in the pot. We all put seeds in the pot and then labeled them. Then we watered them.Some of the names was Dwarf french bean – valdor and safari and mange – tout pea norli and indigo. We hope this will give us a rainbow harvest.

March 26, 2014
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Visit From Mrs Miller

On Tuesday we got a visit from Mrs Miller she came to tell us about the Scottish Parliament. The first thing we did was that we had a quiz on the board and we got little gadgets with numbers on them and the questions were numbered so you had to press the number for your answer. After that we went into political parties my one was the animal party the other ones were the music party and the computer party. we had to think up reasons why they should vote for us but you could not vote for your party you had to vote for a different party, when we counted the votes the music party won. But the last thing we did was the best thing we did, I got to be a Presiding officer and I had to say a speech and bang a gavel on the table.

March 24, 2014
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Gala Concert 2014

We went to the Gala Concert, and we played the song that we did at the music Festival, Minnie o’ Shirvas cradle song. We had a great time. We did not see anybody else before us because we where 4th in our group. We went on and bright lights came on, and they felt warm. We sang and we felt amazing and the person that makes all the events happen was crying and she said really good comments about our singing and playing, so that was nice, and our music teacher said really good comments about us too. After that we looked at other people’s groups and they where where good too. I liked the boys singing they where really great too, but my favourite group where the drummers, they sang and played cookoo.

March 24, 2014
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Gala consert 2014

We went to the cafe bar we waitit we went in the green room tean we went to the stage I was singing i was similing and we sing lowdly they were lote of peples and we play the intrmints and i was playing tumbren and we went to the toilet and we we went to the auditorium and we wach the oter schools play

March 24, 2014
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Gala Concert

The Gala Contest is a little bit like the Music Festival but it only has the adjudicator’s favourite performers. We missed three because we had to wait in the café bar for a lady to take us into the green room where two other groups were waiting. The other groups were called The Mid Yell Minis from Mid Yell lower primary the other group were two boys called Tom Tait and Attie Black who were piano players. We heard them playing a duet together in the green room but they left and then went on stage. Another school came in as we were leaving to go on stage. When we got out the room at the end of the passage there was a door which lead you to a long steep staircase. We had to go down them, when you got down you were back stage. We had to wait for Tom and Attie to finish and then some men helped us set up on stage. We performed. It was very fun.

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March 24, 2014
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The Gala Concert 2014

On Thursday we went to the Gala Concert in the Mareel. We went to the ferry at 5.30. We got a call that we are going to play at the Gala Concert. When we are at the Mareel we didn’t wear our jackets on because it was hot in the auditorium. We went to the café bar and I sit next to Abby and Sonia. Then we walked to the green room and we saw the Mid Yell Minis at the green room. We where in 4th in the Gala Concert. We missed 3 performance . We got a trophy and a certificate for our performance because we found out on Friday. We had a warm up at the green room. Then we performed on stage it has bright stage lights. I was excited to played the song again at the Gala Concert.
This is us doing our warm up in the green room.

March 24, 2014
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Afterwards Concert

On Thursday we got invited to the Gala Concert at the Mareel. We went on the half five ferry. When we got to the Mareel the children had to wait on the bus when the grown ups had to put all of the instruments into the Mareel. When they had done the children could go into the Mareel. They walked up the stairs and they sat in the café bar until they had to go into the green room. When they were in the green room they did not have to wait long until it was their turn to perform. Before they knew it they were on the stage. It took them a little while for them to set up but when they started it was good I thought that it sounded so pretty and I think everybody else thought it sounded so pretty to. But we had to watch all of the concert and we all got very tired because the Gala Concert only ended at 5 minutes past nine. When we got on the bus I think that everybody was tired.

March 24, 2014
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The Gala Concert

We went to the Mareel on Thursday night. It was very squished because they where lots of schools in the Mareel. We had to go up stairs. We had to to go on the 5:00 ferry to go to Lerwick. We had to pro form for the Gala Concert witch is a concert that the adjudicator picks the ones the ones that where the best ones to perform again because we had a gold plus. It was not for a competition it was just for fun so we did not go against other schools because we had to pro form in front of people not schools but some schools where watching and it was just for fun. We went to the Café Bar to sit and wait they where sofas in the café bar. We sat on the sofas. I had to pick a seat so I can sit on the chair when I pro form it was really nice and soft. We had to warid our school uniform with our school uniform on it is blue with our school logo on it. We had to sit and wait for a little minute. Then we went to the green room to wait before we went on stage we had to pro from before we went on the stage. We singed a dialect song it is called Minnie O Sevas Cradle Sang. We went back stage before we went on the stage you can hear the people that was on before us witch was the piano duet. I was really exited to perform. They where lots of people on the seats the seats was all filled up with people it was in the auditorium. We did the song I played the xylophone so did Phoebe they where keyboards, a fiddle a bass and the procoucan witch was p1 and p2 and p3. We where very proud. Then we went to watch the rest of the music on the balcony. We watched the rest of the schools we had to take our school uniform off because it was really hot and everybody was sweting. We watched Cunningsburgh Drummers P6/P7 and they did Coo Coo, Orchestra Ostinato, Aith Primary Wind Band, the young musician of the year and the Bells Brae Boys quire at the end to finish it off. Then we picked up the instruments form the back of the Mareel so we can get them back to the school. Then we went back to the ferry to go home.

March 24, 2014
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After school 2014

On Thursday it was the last day of the Music festival twenty fourteen.We had to perform at the gala concert at the Mareel and it was exciting and after we sang our song we watched everyone else and there were at least 250 children there and when we got on the bus it was dark and we were very sleepy. When me and my sister got of the bus at the school the bus driver my Dad Jennifer and Ms.Breyley carried the instruments inside the school.

March 24, 2014
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Music Festival Gala Concert 2014

We went to Lerwick on Thursday the 20th of March to go to Mareel for the Gala concert. The Gala concert is a follow up of the Music Festival with certain acts that were chosen to play from the Music Festival on the Tuesday during the same week .We were one of them so after P.E. we all headed strait home or went to trampolining. When most of us got home we ate our tea quickly and head to the school before 5:00 to catch the 5:30 ferry to Lerwick. Most of our family were on the same ferry as us because they were coming to watch us preform on stage in the auditorium. When we got there we went to the toilet. Then we got lead to the café bar were we sat down for a little while and read the program for the night we were on 4th strait after Tom Tait and Attie Black who did a piano duet and they were the 3rd group to preform. Then it was our moment to shine again we were all very nervous and very very warm underneath our school jumpers. We played Minnie o’ Shirvas Cradle for the second time once we had finished we walked of the stage and we were lead off back stage to the auditorium balcony. We watched the rest of the acts the only down side was we missed junior musician of the year Mike Laurenson. After Mike had finished his song or songs we don’t know because we weren’t there then we entered the auditorium balcony and had to sit on the steps because they were so many people already watching from the auditorium balcony but in the end we got seats after Cunningsburgh School had left we got two rows of seats for us all to sit in. We watched the Bells Brae Boy’s Choir they were very very good. Then we watched the rest of the acts they were all equally good. I loved them all but the others might have a different view but I enjoyed it.

March 24, 2014
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Shetland Youth Wind Band

We went to Mid Yell to watch the Shetland Youth Wind Band on Thursday the 13th of March. We went at 10.30 on a bus, We got there at 11.00; the concert was being held in the Leisure Centre where we usually go for P.E. every Thursday. When we got there we got to watch the SYWB (Shetland Youth Wind Band) practice before the concert started.

We were the only school that had arrived at the time, so a couple of musicians from the band came across to show us their instruments, we got to try and play the saxophone, flute, piccolo and a clarinet. Only Kerry made a sound on all the instruments. When other schools came pouring in. The musicians from the band went over to them and do the same thing is they did with us.

When all of the schools had come in the band sat down in their places and got ready to start playing their instruments. They played The Great Escape, The Muppet Show Theme Tune, Spongebob Squarepants and Mission Impossible. When they played Spongebob Squarepants everyone in the joined in singing the chorus! It was great fun! The conductor asked us questions about the instrument groups that were in the orchestra. She asked us about the brass group and what instruments were in it. We all loved watching it them perform!

Getting a go at playing new instruments

Watching them perform in front of us!

This is them performing The Muppets Theme Tune.

March 24, 2014
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The Late Night at the Gala Concert 2014

ON Thursday the 20th of march all of Burravoe school went to Mareel. We had to go on a bus to Mareel, When we got to Mareel it was raining. When we went in Mareel we rushed up stairs and went to the café bar then we all got squished on the sofa up stairs we had to wait ten minuets and we got our pitcher taken I did a silly pose then. We walk up a passage in to a room called the green room. There was a wall that had a big mirror stuck to it. We walked down the stairs, down the stairs is something what looked like a basement and there were two cupboards one which was bigger. There was a door that lead to the stage in the auditorium. We went up and sang and played on the stage. After we sang a lullaby, all of the audience fell asleep.