Happy Up Helly Aa Day

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!!

Up Helly Aa Shields

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.

Rhyming Poetry

We have learned what the different number of lines within a rhyming poem is called:

  • Couplets are made up of 2 lines whose last words rhyme, they are often silly.
  • Triplets are made up of 3 lines, the rhyming pattern can be AAA or ABA.
  • Quatrains are made up of 4 lines and the rhyming pattern can be AABB or ABAB.

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 poems

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

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

P5-7 Literacy

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.

Primary 7 fundraiser for CLAN

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

Cooperative learning with Fetlar Primary School

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: