Yesterday Primary 5 to7 went rock-clmbing at Kirkabister with Pete Richardson. We were clmbing all over the place and we were clmbing up and down, up and down. We had to clmbing all the way around kirKabister.

by Beth, P5

On the 17th of May, we travelled to Lerwick to perform in the Shetland For Wirds Concert. We were asked to do this because we won the ‘Best Dialect Entry’ in the music festival. We sang ‘Da Selkie Wife’s Sang’ and ‘Farewell tae Yell’…and afterwards, we were awarded our certificate by Draatsie, the Shetland for Wirds mascot. He was great fun to meet….and some of us even found a moment to take a selfie with him!

We’ve had such a busy term this term – Shetland For Wirds concert, transition, French afternoon, a visit from the coastguard at Mid Yell, outdoor learning day, North Isles football and netball tournament, a trip to Breckon Farm, a trip to Heatherdale, Scottish Opera, a hockey festival and an athletics festival…to name a few! All this has been on top of our usual learning! Keep an eye on the blog over the next few days to see some photos and posts to share what we have been doing.

Last week, the P5-P7 pupils at Cullivoe submitted an article into the Legion Scotland annual writing competition. Our article told the story of a young sailor in WW1 called Jack Cornwell.

On Monday, we were delighted to hear that our article had made the shortlist and that we have made the final of the competition. We are one of 12 schools in Scotland whose entry has been chosen and we are the only school in Shetland on the shortlist. We are over the moon.

The prize for winning this competition is a trip to Orkney. We would love to go!

The winning entry is decided by public vote. So, we need your help now! We really hope the Shetland community will get behind us. Please vote for us by clicking on the link below:

http://www.legionscotland.org.uk/schools/school-competition-2015-16

Thank you 🙂

#CullivoePrimarySchool

Today Tavish Scott, MSP, came to our school. He visited to tell us about his job and about what Scotland is currently doing for refugees. We found out that there is a cease fire planned for next week in Syria. We will keep an eye on this through the news.

Britain will hopefully be welcoming approximately 20,000 refugees in the next 5 years.

We would like to say thank you to Tavish Scott for making the journey to Cullivoe to see us today.

Tavish, we’re glad to know that your seat is comfy in the debate room!

Welcome to our first blog post of 2016!

This week, we have been learning about Chinese New Year…..Kung Hey Fat Choy!

This morning, we visited Paradise. This is Melo’s studio, which is full of chinese art and artefacts! Melo is a famous book illustrator. She showed us some of her illustrations and showed us some traditional chinese food and instruments. We tasted a Chinese sweet…and we liked it!