This week starts our involvment with Quadblogging. We have been paired with three other school from across the country and we will be commenting on each others blogs.
We have been paired up with the following schools:
http://thomasbarnes.primaryblogger.co.uk/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/Skeldschoolblog/
http://stockbridgec.wordpress.com/
http://lpsbeechclass.blogspot.co.uk/

One off Wednesdays is when everyone chooses a Wednesday to present a topic of their choice. First you present a presentation on the topic then you give the activities for the topic. You present it in 45 minutes. We have one off Wednesdays every year. Some of the best one off Wednesdays was when we painted our canvases for our bedrooms. It was fun because we got to work with paint.
Another great one off Wednesday was on The London Olympics. We coloured in the Olympic rings and we made up our own sports.
Another good one off Wednesday was on karate where we did karate punches.
Another one was Erin’s cows she told us about her cows. We had to unmuddle cow names and we had to draw a cow on the back of the paper.
Erin did another one on her horse Star. She took in Star and told us about him.

The Little Farm

On the farm in Skeld there’s cows, 3 big horses and 5 ponies and they’re all Girls par one whose name is Hendry and he was the little one. The owner Jim was away because he went to buy some bulls and there was a Boy there looking after the farm. The boy was kind of shy .The boy was called Bob and he was scared because all their bulls are very wild, and there 8 of them and there all Charlie Bulls.

One day a lady Came to the farm here name was Ruby. She was just here because she was training Hendry because he is very naughty and she was trying to train two of the bulls. They were very wild so Jim said that she would need to be careful.

Next it was Wednesday and Ruby had trained all the bulls. Later on that day two of the bulls got out because Ruby had forgot to lock the gate. Jim and John had to get some gates and try to catch the bulls. They got them in a corner and they got the helter on them and got them in the trailer and back home to the bier so they will not get out. Ruby would not come again.
On Thursday there was a storm, a bit of the roof came off of the shed and it flew of with all the wind and it crashed against the shed wall and Jim felt it shake. So the next morning when the storm had stopped Jim went out to feed the bulls and the other half of the shed roof came off it was kind of old so Jim did not care .He borrowed a crane and once it was sunnier he got his brother to help .Next he got the iron sheets on the shed roof.
Next it was time for the show. Everyone loved the show .The show had lots of fun things because there was 80 bulls going to the show and there 80 horses going too. Jim wanted his two bulls to win the champions because he has won 3 years in a row .If he wins this time he will win a prize. So Jim took his bulls to the show. When it was his turn he led them around the showroom, he was happy because he had a good feeling he was going to win this year. The judges liked the bull because it was the cleanest bull there. Jim won champion and got a rosette. He felt amazed.
The next day Jim’s dad came home. His dad was surprised that a lot had changed while he was away and was surprised at Jim winning a prize. He was proud because Jim had fixed the roof and looked after all the animals so well. As a surprise and for looking after the farm so well, Jim got a new bull. He named him Findlay. So they all celebrated together.

By Emma

The Choice

Will I take it, will I not; I was going to give it to my friend, who I fell out with the other day, but it’s so tempting, I just can’t go on. I made it last night, in despair, this will change everything. I start to take the wrapper of, no I can’t.
Stephanie and I fell out; it’s terrible, and we’ve been best friends since we were tiny, we should have never said what we said, she should have never done what we did, and we should have never got into that fight. This might solve it but it could end everything too`. This is the most risky thing I’ve done; I’m under so much pressure. I might just take it myself; I lift it to my lips, no I can’t.
I haven’t made this since I was five. It was my dad I gave it to, once he ate it, he died not long after.
I’m going to call her, “Can you come over I’ve got something to give you?”
“Ok but make it quick” she replies.
“Don’t worry it will be over in seconds” I say with a smirk.
The phone goes dead. I quiver, but put the phone down quickly.
There’s a knock at the door, Its Stephanie, I answer it, and she looks upset. I ask her what’s wrong, she doesn’t reply. I take her through to the living room, she sits in my chair, she knows it’s my chair; she just does it to annoy me.
I’d like to make everything better, to end it, but I don’t know how to do it, so I’m just going to give it to her and that will finish it. Forever!
I ask her how’s things are at her school, because we go to different schools but she just replies with one word answers. There’s no going back, she’s on her way over.

“No, I want to see what it is!” Stephanie pushed
I don’t know what to do, my hearts screaming at me telling me to do it, but my head say’s she will never take it. However it is either me or her one of us has to end it.
“Well?” she prompts me.
“Ok, ok I’ll give it you.”
“Are you going to give me it then?” she doesn’t want to be here at all. She deserves it for her attitude this will soon change her attitude.
“Ok I’ll go and get it” I run and get it out of the fridge. Will I give it to her, it’s just a waste of time, this may be the last time I see her.
I pass her it.
She takes it. Unpeels the wrapper. Inhaling its sweet smells. Lifts it to her mouth. I can’t look. Wincing, I turn around. She swallows it.
“Did you enjoy your cupcake?”
Stephanie grins. It looks as though she is happy now, we will be friends again I’m glad I didn’t eat it and ruin our friendship.

Primrose

“Primrose? Primrose where are you?!?”
That will be Lady Ella the most annoying maid of honour you will ever meet.
“There you are,” says Lady Ella “The queen wants us all in her chambers. NOW!”
I wonder why the queen wants us.
“Lady Ella, Lady Primrose glad you could join us.” says her majesty
“I have a French ambassador coming at the tenth strike of the clock you must all be dressed in your best dresses.” She finished. “Lady Primrose you shall help me prepare for the arrival of the French ambassador.” her majesty said while smiling “Now hurry you don’t have long!”
All the maids hurry out of the chamber just leaving me and her majesty.
“You are getting big now Primrose, I am guessing it shall not be long until your 14th birthday.” says her majesty when she finally speaks.
“Yes your majesty it is but a week.” I respond.
She winces when I say her majesty and she glances round. “Please primroses call me mother.” She says
I quickly put on my dress and do my hair. When I am ready mamma looks at me then walks over to a draw and pulls out a small box. She then passes it to me and says “This was going to be for your birthday but you can have it now.
I slowly open the box and find a beautiful necklace with a beautiful diamond in the shape of a heart on it. I gasp and look at mamma, “its beautiful thank you!!” I say
Later that evening the French ambassador and his huge troop suddenly come charging into the great hall making a lot of noise. After they have finally calmed down the queen exchanges a few quick words in French then they go to unpack in their rooms.
Once the French ambassador has left the queen turns me and the other maids of honour. “There will be a party outside of the maze tonight to celebrate the arrival of the French ambassador”. We all nod excitedly then leave to our chambers. On my way there I see a French man stood in a gallery that displays lots of different weapons from over the years.
When I leave out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw something shine in his pocket but I’m probably imagining it.
At the maze I find a beautiful sight there are candles everywhere. There’s a huge feast but plenty of room to dance.
The queen smiles happily at me. I go over to the feast when I suddenly spot that same man stood in a corner looking rather unhappy
While I was thinking I suddenly see an old knife flying through the air.
I look around. It’s heading towards her majesty
“Your majesty!!” I scream quickly running in front of her but the knife hits me instead.
Her majesty whips round. She spots the knife, “Primrose!” she screams.
The last thing I see is my mother’s beautiful eyes.
By Hermione Boyes

Today, to start off, Leanne Johnson came into the school to talk to us about The 5 St Kilda mail boats being sent from different point of Shetland, to send a distress signal to the Mainland. The reason behind this is because is because rural parts of Shetland are in distress because the council is trying to close a variety of schools across the island, including Aith, the one were suppose to be going to after summer. The council is taking children from there community’s and their family’s to schools much further away on buses which will take more than hour to drive to those schools. The mail boat is called Trysht which is a Shetland word for struggle and frustration. All of the five boats will have a bottle within them that holds messages from the secondary children who are currently being threatened with the closer of their secondary 3-4 departments.
The boat comes from St Kilda which was an island in the north. Their quickest way to get messages was by the boats there was one that only took a week to get to the mainland. The messages inside were usually written to get help when someone was ill or was in distress.

On Tuesday first thing we watched a clip online it was about computer safety.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13908828

We looked at this because it was internet safety day. We learned that people are being bullied on their phones when people send them nasty messages about how they look. We learned that some people say they are an age but they aren’t that age. To be safe we need to:
• Ignore people online that you don’t know
• Don’t give out your details
• Don’t flash to people you don’t know

Next Emma and Erin did sentences we had to put in capital letters and full stops. Then it was break we played farming games and skipping games. After we did news reports on moon landing. Neil Armstrong died in August 2012. Emma found out in space they eat bacon sandwiches and coffee.

Today we started off with P.E , in P.E we did Fartlec Training, in Fartlec training you learn to pace yourself , we have been working on this for a few. We also had a test called the bleep test, Loui-you is really good at it. Do the first lap walking, second lap sprinting, third lap jogging and you do that for as long as possible. It is a sunny day so we went outside to play games, firs we did running races, I was in a team with Emma and Jason, and we came second. After that we did game, it was like Stig in the Mud but you need to do star jumps instead. I really enjoyed it.

Next we did glow blogs and spelling tests in the spelling test me Stephanie and Hermione had to guess the word by the definition not the word it was very hard.

On Wednesday Harry Rose came in to teach us about space. He taught us about the ISS (international space station) and the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. It was funny because one of Saturn’s moons is almost the size of Mercury, so if it wasn’t in Saturn’s orbit it would be a planet. Next week he is going to teach us about ALL the dwarf planets in our solar system. It’s really fun when he comes because he tells us about the solar system but is also funny at the same time. While he was telling us about space and showing us his power point, we went for break and had lunch at the end.
After lunch we had maths, Loui-Bo and Nicol got a new topic it was symmetry. They had to see how many lines of symmetry were in all the 2D shapes.
After that we had my One of Wednesday on hair through the ages. I did all the different hair styles through the decades. The 2014 one is dip-dyed with a fringe. The weirdest ones were the beehive and the mullet, the best one was the 2000 one which was long hair and long fringes grown out with wavy hair. Then I had an activity on the tray memory game, I gave out worksheets. My last activity was I showed everyone a hairstyle on a hairdressing doll then I let them have a go on the doll head.
Then it was home time.

By Stephanie and Loui-Bo

We were learning about the John Muir award we learnt that he was raised in America and when he became a geologist, a botanist and a glaciologist. Which means he studies rocks, flowers and glaciers? When he was 30 he lived in Yosemite Park and lived of the land. While he was there he discovered that the park was created by glaciers. After a couple of years John Muir passed a law that the Yosemite Park should be conserved and that house’s could not be built on Yosemite Park.
Then it was break Nicol played a tractor game.
After break we learned about the moon landing with p1-3. We are aiming to find out enough facts to be able to make a news report. some of the facts we found out about were, that when they were landing on the moon they had to switch the ship from auto pilot to manual as they only had 2 minutes left of fuel. Neil Armstrong was piloting the ship while Buzz Aldrin was looking for a spot to land out of the window when they landed them. They only had 30 seconds left of fuel.