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Cullivoe Up Helly Aa

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On Friday 24th February we met at the school at nine and got our shields so we were ready to meet the Jarl squad. Then we got the bus up to the hall and met up with the Jarl squad and got to see the galley, we got our photo taken with the galley.

After a while we got in the galley and went down the hill to the Jamison’s garage. 

This is when some of us had to come off because there were other children there wanting a turn in the galley, from there we went to the school.

There were lots of photos taken here with the Jarl Squad. The community came in for a cup of tea, coffee or juice and a biscuit.    

After that we got to hold/put on the jarl squad things like helmets, shields and axes.         

The jarl squad very kindly handed around creme eggs to all the children and some adults if they were lucky. The Jarl squad sang their songs and danced a little which was good before they went visiting.

When they left the school, we practised our squad to make sure everything went smoothly for the performance at night. We also played Chinese ladders which is when you get a partner and sit foot to foot all in a line with spaces between each pair (it looks like a ladder) you all get numbered then you have to run up the ladder from your space, round the back and end up back in your space. The Jarl squad came back and we got a photo outside with the jarl squad.

Then we had dinner with the Jarl squad, it was delicious!! When we were waiting for our pudding the Jarl squad started singing and had us join in so we all sang and danced, (we danced on our chairs at one point)

Once we finished our dinner we went home at 2 o’clock for a rest and we came back at 7 o’ clock to get on the bus to go to the procession. We went back to the school to get changed then we preformed our squad at the school. After that we got the bus up to the hall to perform our squad there. When we were finished we got changed into our party clothes and went through to the hall to watch the rest of the squads. We all had a great night!

 

By Jasmine, Amanda and Abbie

 

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Learning about Smoking

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Today Lauren Peterson, who is the Health Improvement Practitioner, came to visit primary 4-7 this afternoon during topic.

We began by letting her know what we knew about what smoking does to the body. She went over all our ideas before giving us her facts – we had nearly all of them already so she was impressed with our knowledge! Here are a few of the facts:

  • it can lead to heart disease
  • less oxygen gets to your heart
  • your hair smells and so does your clothes
  • you are more likely to get coughs and colds
  • your skin can get dry and wrinkly
  • it stains your teeth

Did you know that 1 cigarette contains more than 4000 different chemicals.

Lauren had taken some chemicals in bottles for us to see – we had to get into pairs and choose 2 to research. We then had to take a leaflet and find the chemical we chose, noting down how that chemical affects your health. We all shared one chemical that we researched.

She then split us into two groups and asked us to think of the health benefits if you stopped smoking and to put these into a timeline. We share our timelines to each group before Lauren shared a few facts with us:

  • After 20 minutes of giving up smoking your blood pressure comes down so you get health benefits straight away!
  • 8 hours later the oxygen levels in your lungs return to normal
  • 12 hours later the level of carbon dioxide reduces in your body
  • 36 hours later the nerve endings that wee damaged from smoking  begin to come back
  • 3 days later your sense of smell and taste comes back
  • 2 weeks later your circulation gets better
  • After 1 year the risk of getting heart disease reduces by half from when you were smoking
  • After 5 years your risk of having a heart attack is no more than that of a non-smoker

We really enjoyed Laurens visit and thanked her very much for coming in to see us.

 

 

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Coin experiment

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Primary 1-4 experimented with coins last term, we used old coins that Miss Nicholson brought in and put them into different liquids to see which would clean the coins the best.

We had water, fairy liquid, fairy liquid with water, orange juice, lemon juice, coke, vinegar, vinegar and salt, baking powder and water, bicarbonate of soda and water. The vinegar made our classroom stink but it really cleaned the coins, a little too much as it stripped the colour from the coins. The water didn’t really do anything to the coin, the fairy liquid with and without water cleaned it a little but not too much, the coin in the orange juice was surprisingly clean! The lemon juice worked a little, the coke worked really well! We wondered what it does to your insides when you drink it if it could cleaned really dirty coins that well! The baking powder and bicarbonate of soda worked a little too. After a unanimous vote we decided that coke is the best thing to use when cleaning coke so we used this for cleaning the rest of the coins.

Primary 1-4

 

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OutRight Certificate!

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We took part in the UNICEF OutRight campaign 2016 at the end of last year.

We also sent Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary for the UK, a letter explaining about our learning on the refugee crisis and how it effects their rights.

We received a letter from the UNICEF UK Senior Campaign Adviser.

The letter said well done on our learning and thank you for taking part in the UNICEF OutRight Campaign 2016.  They said that hundreds of people send letters, pictures and videos everyday of them learning about The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They also sent a certificate for us that can be seen on our achievements wall.