Last term Wilma retired. Wilma was our longest member of staff we have ever had. She was here for 16 years but luckily she is still coming in to help out from time to time. Throughout her 16 years of working here she has helped us to read and write, sing and dance and knit.For Wilma leaving we made up a song to sing and we made up a book of memories. Wilma has taught most of Yell how to knit as she is the knitting master. Wilma is in all our dream teams (ideal staff) and she still will be even though she’s gone.
Here are some comments from the pupils…

Wilma helps us when we are stuck.
Wilma is helpful.
Wilma is a legend!

here are the song lyrics tune ( if your happy and you know it)

Wilma thank you for everything you’ve done.

You’ve worked hard and made learning fun

You’ve knitted, baked and dug to give us the learning bug

We will miss you dream team Wilma – No. 1

There is nobody else quite like you

Our graduation books – you’ve made a few

Coffee mornings, concerts, shows

The garden – barrows, spades and hoes

We’ve been hard work but you’ve pulled through

There was class moves and motor group for skills

There was earthquake days and treks over the hills

Memories over the years

Now we hope they’re happy tears

As you remember all the laughs and funs and thrills.

We have learned to stay calm and have fun

We know to stay the course until the work is done

From all the boys and lasses we will miss ‘Where’s my glasses?’

All the best dream team Wilma No.1

From the best school in the world Cullivoe

Wilma this is your last and final show

Come on up and take a bow and we will tell you how

Much we love you and we’ll miss you when you go.

By Jasmine Lawson

At our school we have a J.R.S.O group that is p6, it is a group that try to keep the school as safe as possible on roads and near traffic. These past few terms we have been working on different projects like this term we are working on a bit of everything: being seen in the dark, riding a bike safely and much more. 😀 We asked the two police officers about the laws and we ask them some questions and tips about being safe. Elaine Skinnly came and gave us new stuff to use to help us keep everybody safe and give them more knowledge on how to be to be safe on the roads. We are reading the Zigi books to p1,2 and 3 we are through a few books they are really enjoying them. The Zigi books is an fun way to teach they younger ones. It is almost time for p6 to hand over the job of J.R.S.O to the p5s but only when the summer holidays start.

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

On Monday we did the Big Bird Watch for RSPB. Jim a bird watcher come in to help us spot for the birds. To attract the birds we used the scraps from our Burns Supper. We saw 30 Starlings, 3 Common Gulls, 3 Herring Gulls, 2 Hooded Crows and 1 Raven the Raven was not expected to come.

Jasmine Lawson, p4

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