From grand old Viking centuries Up-Helly-Aa has come, Then light the torch and form the march, and sound the rolling drum: And wake the mighty memories of heroes that are dumb; The waves are rolling on.
Hapy Up Helly Aa Day!!! We hope you are all as excited as we are today!
3 cheers for Up Helly Aa!!
We have been very busy creating this wonderful display for Up Helly Aa today. We would like to congratulate Thorfinn Ravenfeeder and his squad and look forward to seeing you later.
Three cheers for Up Helly Aa!!
Each year we design a shield for Up Helly Aa because on Up Helly Aa day we all hold a shield with one of our designs on the front. In order to get this we all had a go at designing our own one before voting on which one we like the best. Most people do something that the jarl likes so we had a brainstorming session to get our artistic juices flowing. (A jarl is the leader of the group of Vikings) The Jarl this year was Mr. Lawson and he likes Celtic football club so most of us did something with green and white, some drew celtic designs which was very intricate. We all put in a lot of effort and they came out great as I’m sure you will agree with the photos!
This year, after a very close vote, Abbie won and she won last year too! Abbie’s was snakes with the Celtic symbol touching each of the snakes’ tongues.
We would like to wish Cameron and Dylan good luck in their new school as today was their last day with us. We will miss having them here as they were very cheery, friendly, helpful and smiley but we know they will make new friends in their new school. All the very best from everyone at the Cullivoe Primary School.
We have learned what the different number of lines within a rhyming poem is called:
Here are our rhyming poems:
Snack
I really wanted a snack
But mum said “GO BACK!”
I was really mad
And I knew mum felt bad.
Five minutes later
Mum shouted “Mater”
I was really happy
But then I had to change my brother’s nappy!
By Jasmine
Cats and Hats
Once there was a cat
That ate a rat,
There was a hat
That had a chat.
By Bethany
OUCH!
Once I saw my dear friend Zog
Who stood on a cog
How he said ‘ow’
Now I will be a cow!
By Thomasina
The Dairy
I went to the dairy
But all the milk was hairy
And it was really scary.
By Jessica
My Puppy Ben
My Puppy is called Ben
He’s not even ten
And he has his own pen.
By Ollie
There once was a cute little dog
Who very much liked to jog
He had a very good friend who was a cat
They made homemade bats
But they never made them on foggy days
By Ollie
ZOO
In Mr Magoos amazing zoo you will find:
A perfectly peculiar parrot
Phoning a carrot.
A filthy fantastic fox
Flipping off rocks.
A rare risky rat
Running to catch the cat.
A friendly familiar fish
Flipping around in a dish.
A mysterious majestic monkey
Riding on a donkey.
An annoying armadillo
Falling asleep on a pillow.
By Abbie
Last night I was playing football
I tripped and fell over the wall.
I started bouncing to the hall
There was no J20 at all.
By Dylan
The Undersea World
The sea is a wonderful place
The fishes are holding a race.
The undersea garage is open
And that’s lucky because Mr Crab’s car is broken.
The young fishes are going to school
They all think that school is really cool.
One little fish is late
And this really worries his mate.
But then they find him playing
And he doesn’t see the search party coming because he is too busy saying….
“Hi, how are you?” to a mouse
Round the back of his house.
By Tali
The Phoneys Baloney
I once met a phoney
He gave me a baloney.
I learned his name
Which brought me to fame.
And then became really bonnie.
By Ruby
The Dog!
Who tripped over a log
He got stuck in a cone
When he got out there was a bone
And that was the reward for the dog.
By Emma
The meat and feet
I like to eat a lot of meat
And I like the smell of my own feet
I tried to put them over my head
But then I ended up dead.
By Sabienne
In the summer I like to play
All through the big long day
It’s so fun
My friend made a great pun.
By Katy
Ellie is so cool
But she hates the bull because he’s very cold
And really, really old!
By Katy
To the Future
Flying cars
A trip to mars
Back to earth
oh how I wish I could see the stars.
By Poppy
A cat and a bat
Once there was a fat cat
He was looking for a bat
The bat screamed like a baby
But the cats name was Taby
Then the fat cat ate the black bat.
By Poppy
The Ocean
In the ocean there are lots of things you’ll find.
Here are a few things that come to mind…
They’re big fish and small fish
Lots of different shapes.
Sometimes if I really wish,
I see them wearing capes.
Let’s go deeper down in the sea,
To see now what lives there.
A seahorse that didn’t look like me
And clothes he didn’t wear.
Let’s go deeper, deeper still,
into the murky pool.
I wonder if I ever will
see a big shark fool.
Now our journey comes to an end,
Come on now let’s go my friend.
And it’s time now to get fed,
So then I can sleep, in my warm bed.
By Ben
Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It has 3 lines. The 1st and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme and because they are so short they are usually written about things that are familiar to the reader like animals and seasons for example.
Here are our haiku poems:
Cars Zoom
Cars cars everywhere,
Zoom past the houses so fast
On the racing tracks.
By Beth
Flowers
Flowers are blooming.
They are very beautiful
I love their colours.
By Amanda
The sky
The sky is grey now
But soon I will see the sun
So I am happy!
By Tali
Hansie and Cissie
At Up Helly Aa
Brian O Houll is Cissie
Trevor is Hansie.
By Ruby
The flowers
Look at the flowers
In the sunlight you’re shining
What a pretty sight.
By Sabienne
Highland Coo’s
I like highland coo’s
Furry, big and very fast.
They eat everyday.
By Ben
Summers coming
Sunflowers grow tall.
I like picking pink daisies.
I love red flowers.
By Thomasina
My dog Ellie
I have a cool dog
That can be very scary
She is trustworthy.
By Katy
Spring time!
Fluffy sheep dancing
Doing fun stuff in springtime
Springtime is awesome!
By Emma
Summer
The sun is shining
I run to get an ice-cream
I am cooled down now.
By Jasmine
Up Helly Aa
Vikings are coming
I like to try on helmets
I am excited.
By Jasmine
Cullivoe Summer
Sometimes it will rain
Until the sun comes again
We will stay inside.
By Jessica
Cullivoe in da Summer
Black sheep on da road
Moorit ewe on da grey broo
Birds earing da cod
By Abbie
Lazy, hot, warm sun
Warm hot yellow sun
It will heat you up very much
With rain BOOM! Rainbow.
By Ollie
Life
I sleep through the night.
I wake up in the morning
Then I play with friends.
By James
Limericks are silly poems that have 5 lines. They are usually funny and don’t make sense. They were made famous by Edward Lear who was a famous author that wrote an entire book of silly limericks.
The 1st, 2nd and 5th line rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 8 or 9
The 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables – usually 5 or 6.
Limericks often start with “There once was a…” or “There was a…”
Here are our limericks that we created:
There once was a small kind of dog
Who went for a walk in the fog
Tripped over a nut
And fell on his butt
And started to poop in a bog.
By Ben
There once was a man called Wally
Who really needed a dolly
He felt really sad
But never felt bad
He wished that his name was Mollie.
By Jasmine
There once was a man in a bar
He tried to get back in his car
He was to drunk
Fell over a skunk
So he did not get very far.
By James
There once was a rat nicknamed fat
He liked to carry around bats
Pushed dogs in a bog
Hit them with a log
And went back to sleep on his mat.
By Dylan
There once was a very weird dog
He wanted to swim in a bog
But then he got ill
So he took a pill
Then he went to rest on a log!
By Tali
Once there was a small black bat
Who swallowed a cute little cat
The bat found a dog
In a sticky bog
He laughed at the dog who was fat.
By Thomasina
There once was a little cute dog
He decided to chew on a log
He chewed and he chewed
Then filled up with spew
And then he threw up in a bog.
By Sabienne
There once was a man from a crew
He thought he needed a new shoe
But when it arrived
He found it alive
So he thought he needed to spew.
By Abbie
There once was a very cool crab
He started to wrok in a lab
But then he got bored
So he quit and got a new job.
By Bethany
There once was a very fat cat
He sat on a red and blue mat
He fell on his head
And then he was dead
And then became friends with a bat.
By Ruby
Once I was eating Doritos
But i didn’t want to eat those
I chucked them away
On my favourite day
Even when I liked Doritos.
By Poppy
There once was a cute little dog
Who very much liked to jog
The day wasn’t good
He really wanted food
So for tea he cooked some frogs
By Ollie
There once was a man in a race
Who suddenly ran out of space
He tripped on his bum
And fell up the lum
And that was the end of the race.
By Emma
We have been learning about poetry this term. We started by looking at poetry written by Robert Burns as we were reciting some of his poems at our Burns Supper. We have previously looked at acrostic poems so this term we have looked at limericks, haiku’s and rhyming poetry. Poems do not always have to rhyme! Mr Spence taught us these before we had a go of writing our own. We will post what we learned and the poems we created for you to have a read.
Me and the rest of the Primary 7s of Cullivoe primary school raised money for the clan cancer support group over the Christmas season. We had to decided on a wall display and the winner was a Christmas tree. We took time on creating the tree.The other members of the school and teachers paid 20p each to write a Christmas message in the shape of either a bauble or a Christmas present to someone rather then giving them all a Christmas card.
We raised £26.50 from the Christmas tree wall display so it was a big success! And to top that off our Christmas show kindly donated £273.50 so altogether we are putting £300 towards helping people surviving with cancer in the northern part of Scotland.
By Ben
During Term 1 and 2 Fetlar Primary School came in to work with us about Rights Respecting Schools as we both have our level 1 rights Respecting School award and are working towards our level 2 award. We did different activities all to do with why the war in Syria started, what is going on now and how this affects refugee children and their rights. It was really interesting and generated a lot of discussion which was great. We looked at various articles from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and thought about how these are being met/not being met for the refugee children, for example: article 9 states you should be looked after by your parents, unless this would not be best for you – it is sometimes in the children’s best interest to flee Syria (sometimes without their parents) for their own safety so this right is being met in a way. It is sad that their parents cannot go with them though, they must be scared and lonely. Article 10 states if a child lives in a different country to their parents, they have the right to stay in touch with them and to apply to live with them. But this cannot always happen as some children have either lost their parents due to the fighting or do not know where they are as they have had to flee too/maybe gotten separated when getting out of Syria. Article 6 is about having the right to be alive and being the best that you can be – sadly not all children in Syria has this right as a lot of them have been killed due to the war or have sadly died trying to flee Syria.
Here are some photos from our cooperative learning days:
We have added our work from these days onto our Rights Respecting School wall:
