WE GOT OUR LEVEL 1 RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOLS AWARD TODAY!! WOO!! 🙂

This afternoon four pupils, Calum Graham, Ben Lawson, Ruby Lawson and Monica Dickie had a skype interview.  They showed an RRSA officer around the school and answered difficult questions.  They did very well!

We are very excited about receiving this award!

We went to James O’Breckon’s farm yesterday.  Here are some of our stories about what we learned.

“James had the cows in separate sheds.  One had the cows that had not had calves and the cows that had calves were in the other shed.  James went in the pen with the bull!”

B y Dean Henderson, P3

“James kept the lambs in with their mums until they got stronger.  If he put the lambs out in the field when they were first born they would die because they might not be warm enough.”

By Abbie Henderson, P3

“On Thursday we went to Breckon croft.  We saw all of their animals.  We saw cows, calves, sheep and lambs.  First we saw the cows and calves.  The cows on one side had already had calves.  On the otherside were the ones that still needed to have a calf.  They were on a diet, they did not have as much to eat.

Next we saw the sheep and lambs.  We went to the sheep pen, there was 200 sheep and lambs in the park. James said that they had over 700 hill sheep.  Breckon has one caddie lamb but they think they have found a mum for it.”

By Jasmine Lawson, P4

“We went to Breckon farm.  We went to see the sheep and the cows.  We saw baby lambs and a baby cow.  The sheep have four udders to feed the lambs.  The cows on the right had calves with them and the cows on the left had no calves yet.

We saw the New Holland which is a tractor.  It was a T6.”

By Ben Saunders, P6

Last night we started work on our Garden. We were lucky to get such a nice night! Our parents came to help us. We rotated the vegetable patch, weeded the flower beds and widened our picnic area. We also rearranged the poly tunnel. We are looking forward to planting our seeds for this summer in the next few weeks!

We went on a walk to North Brough. When we went there then we saw lambs. Two were born yesterday and one was born today. They were all able to walk! They felt bumpy, fluffy and a bit fuzzy. They were taller than we thought they would be. When the crofter took the lambs over to us, the mum was very wary and calling for her lambs. It was her first lambs.

Primary 1-5

Martha who works for the R.S.P.B came on to school to talk to us about birds in the winter and birds in the summer and how in the summer there is a lot more food in the summer than the winter. First we went outside and played a game that included what the birds eat. The starling eats seeds, the redwing eats rose hips, and the blackbird eats warms and the sparrow eats insects. Then we talked about how we could make our garden better for birds. We are going to try and get a bird table and a bird bath.
Jasmine Lawson P4 and Ben Lawson P5

Robert Burns known as Rabbie Burns lived on a croft. Rabbie’s dad died when he was 25. His brother and him looked after the farm. Rabbie started to write poems and songs to impress girls. Robbie died at the age of 37. His most famous song is Auld Lang Syne.
James Anderson P5

We have Burns supper every year. At our Burns supper we say poems, sing songs and best of all….. Eat haggis! I said a poem with Jessica, it was called ‘Feart’ by Liz Niven. My favourite part was when we were singing Auld Lang Syne. We practised for two whole weeks! I liked doing the Burns supper.
Emma Williamson P5

On the 25th of January, we had a Burns supper at the school. My
favourite song was ‘Donald, where’s your troosers?’ and my favourite poem was ‘Shalls’ that P2 recited. I did ‘Tirval Trow’ by Robbie Walterson. I wore a kilt it was a green kilt with yellow and blue stripes. After P2 said the Selkirk Grace we had our supper. We had haggis, neeps and totties, and for pudding we had shortbread – that was my favourite part.
Jasmine Lawson P4

We had a Burns Supper on Sunday the 25th January. We sang lots of songs and recited some poems:

Fitba Crazy – Primary 1-7
Piping of the Haggis
Address to the Haggis – Primary 7
Selkirk Grace – Primary 2
Fairt- Jessica and Emma
Mary O’Burland – Primary 1-3
Bide a start wi me – Primary 6
Nonsense song – Primary 3
Shalls – Primary 2
Tirval Trow – Primary 4
Noo Dan Moorit yowe – Primary 1
Scots Wha Hae – Ben, Dylan, James
Donald where’s your troosers? – Primary 4-7
Rainy Day – Primary 7
Auld Lang Syne

Beth Dickie P4

Jem, our cook, spotted two shalders (oyster catchers) on our school football pitch. This is the first sighting of them this year.
It is also snowing outside, this doesn’t happen often!
Primary 4,5,6,7 and Miss Odie

We our working on our school charter. We chose 6 rights and we matched them to articles and now we are putting them on display. We did boats, fish and nets to explain it all
By Ruby Lawson and Abbie Henderson p3

P5, 6 and 7 went to Radio Shetland in Lerwick  for give us a tune. We were a bit nervous but it got easier as it went on. We had speak loud and clear. The best part of it was seeing Pudsey. We had to chose 15 songs and there is 15 families in the school so every family  got to chose a song. Some of the songs were YMCA and Dancing Queen. We all loved it!

By Ben Lawson and Dylan Henderson, P5

We have had a great day for Children in Need. We did lots of exciting things in school, and P5,6 and 7 went to Lerwick and presented ‘Give Us a Tune’ tonight. We had so much fun, and we hope you enjoyed it. Look out for our blog posts next week where we will be sharing our experiences!
Miss Odie.

https://soundcloud.com/bbcradioshetland/give-us-a-tune-friday-14th-november-2014