PRIMARY NETBALL: 16 – 5 to Yell
PRIMARY FOOTBALL: 5 – 2 to Yell
SECONDARY NETBALL: 29 – 7 to Yell
SECONDARY FOOTBALL: 2-1 to Yell

Here are some quotes from the Cullivoe Bairn’s about the day!

“I think the netball was very good because we won!” – Poppy

“I think the football team did very well!” – Lee

“I liked watching the netball because it was fun watching it.” – Monica

“The secondary netballers won 29-7!” – Thomasina

“I liked it at the end when we found out that all the yell teams  won.” – Honey

“I think that the primary football teams were very fair.” – Dean

“I thought that they all played really nicely!” – Katy

“The Unst primary netballers played well but we were better!” – Ruby

“The primary football was really good to play in and it was really fun and the secondary football was really fun to watch because it was interesting!” – Hunter

“I think that the primary netball did quite well together because they worked as a team!” – Abbie

“I was so proud of the netball lasses on the day! They were fantastic!” – Miss J

“I  enjoyed watching it all.” – Aaron

Players from Cullivoe –

Netball: Abbie, Ruby, Jasmine, Tali, Amanda and Beth.

Football: Hunter and Beth.

Our old teacher Mrs Hay had a baby boy called Magni Quinn Soren Hay. She came in with Magni and most of us got to hold him and get our picture taken. It was really exciting to meet him and we wish Mrs Hay good luck! Congratulations! We are looking forward to having him at the school in the future!

On Tuesday the eighth of May we went to Breckon farm. We all came into school bright and cheery and  all got suited up for our long walk.

First we met James O’Breckon and went to see the cows. One of the white cows was very cheeky and licked our hands. There was a bull ,who was four years old called Jamie. All the cows had really long tongues and no teeth on their top gum. Their food was made of oats, barley and hay. The cows all had different coloured tongues, depending on what colour they were. There was a metal ladder in the corner of the calf and the bull’s pen. You could go behind it for protection in case the cows got aggressive. James and his dad had a gadget that they put on the cows tail which beeped and sent a message to their phones  when the cow was having contractions. The cows had drinking tubes on the walls, the calf pen had a lower one. The tubes only let out water when the cows put their mouths on them.

Next James and his dad, Alex, showed us the way to the sheep shed. When we went in there was three pens, each pen had a sheep and a lamb. six of the lambs in the shed were born the night before, the newest lamb was born at 3 am.  The sheep had tags on their left ears to show what farm they came from. James told us that when the lambs are first born he sprays iodine on their cords so they don’t get infected. If the lambs were born outside on a cold day they put a plastic lambs coats on them to keep them warm and dry.

Almost at the end of the tour we went to see the crops that Alex is growing. Every year he grows cabbages, some for eating and some to feed to the lambs. He also harvest seeds to grow the next year. we all got to plant a cabbage seed of our own. The north side was called Heidi and the south was called Hunter.

On Thursday 19th April we attended a presentation at the Mid Yell Primary School.
On the Saturday and Sunday of CUHA, Jarl Balder and his squad raised £2500 by getting silly haircuts that they kept for a whole week!
This money has been shared between the 3 Yell Schools, the Health Centre and the Care Centre.

Thank you to Jarl Balder and his squad!

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!