Category Archives: School

Our Rights

Today we looked at all our rights and discussed these in groups. We thought about the 3 that we thought were really important and would like to focus on for the year ahead.

After a great deal of discussion the groups gathered together again to share their choices. Most of the groups chose similar articles which left us with 9 articles to narrow down to 3. We decided to take a blind vote.

From the vote we decided to focus on article 6, 24 and 31 this year.

 

Good Luck Kelly

Everyone at the Cullivoe Primary School would like to wish Kelly, our clerical assistant, good luck as today is her last day of work before going on maternity leave. We have made her a card and presented her with flowers and the staff gave her a card along with a few goodies. We will miss her but we are very happy to have Norma Graham in to cover Kelly’s maternity cover. We can’t wait to meet baby Keith!

Welcome Back!

A huge welcome back to everyone today. It has been lovely to hear everyone’s news from the summer and to see how much they have all grown! Dean is very nearly the same height as Miss Jamieson!!

We have had a very busy day creating our class charter. First we went over our rights and why we have them before splitting into groups and reading through the 42 articles and highlighting all the ones we think were appropriate for school. We then fed back to the class before returning into our groups to select what we thought were the 4 most important articles for our class charter. We had 24 to choose from so we held a vote to narrow this down. There was some great discussion and some arguments for and against why we should or shouldn’t have them. We ended up with 5 articles for our class charter as we thought they were all important.

Our next step was to design our class charter! We all had the chance to design our own class charter before taking a vote on which one we thought would like to make. Everyone thought really hard about how they could add the article, right and responsibility into their design. I think you will agree there were some fantastic designs to choose from.

We all had 3 pom poms which we then placed on our ‘top’ 3 choices. Everyone got to vote, even the staff! The winning design was Jasmine’s island.

After dinner primary 7 decided on what needed to be done and split us all into groups so that we all had a job to do. We had one group measuring the wall to see how big the charter had to be, decide on what the responsibilities were, people making the sand, the tree trunks, the palm trees, the sun, the buckets, the heading, etc. It was a very busy and productive afternoon! We all worked really well and helped each other. We are very close to finishing so hopefully by tomorrow we can share a photo of the finished display!

 

 

Holidays Ahoy!

Holidays Ahoy, we all jump for joy!!

It’s the last day of term! Where has this year gone?!

The children are all full of excitement and are jumping around the school, singing ‘Holidays ahoy, we all jump for joy’ with banners and whiteboards.

We wish primary 7 good luck in Mid Yell as they move onto secondary and look forward to welcoming our new primary 1s after the summer.

We hope everyone has a fantastic summer!

Letter from Tavish Scott

Today we received a letter from Tavish Scott our local MSP which informed us that he has lodged a motion in Parliament in recognition of our recent award from UNICEF UK. He congratulates us on all our work in respecting the rights of everyone in the school and indeed, in the wider community. In return we would like to thank him for lodging this motion and taking the time to send us a letter to inform us. You can see the letter and read the motion below.

 

Celebrating Our Achievements

Today we held a coffee morning to celebrate our achievements over the year! We have achieved our level 2 Rights Respecting School award as well as our 3rd eco flag! We are very proud of these achievements as well as all the others displayed on our achievement wall for you all to see! We would like to thank the community for coming along and joining us to help celebrate, there was a great turn out and it was great to see everyone.

Killer Whales spotted in Cullivoe

Today just after break we got a surprise phone call to tell us there was killer whales at the Cullivoe pier so we got a bus to take us to where we could see them. They were on the move so we went to Kellister where we got lots of pictures and videos of them. For most of us this was the first time we have seen killer whales and it was very exciting!! There were some females, a bull and baby whales.  There were circling the rocks trying to get seals that were around there. We think they got ones.

Here is a video that Ben took of the Killer Whales today. See if you can count them all. We counted 9 but there were apparently 14 altogether.