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Euroquiz

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Four Primary 6 pupils travelled to Lerwick on Tuesday 24th March to take part in the annual Euroquiz event.

 

Teams from all over Shetland took part  on the day and after an incredibly difficult 4 rounds, covering History and Geography, Languages, Understanding European Cultures and General Knowledge:  European Affairs, our team finished in 5th place!   It was very close, with our team only 6 points behind the winning team!

Well done to all pupils who worked so hard in the lead up to the event, studying  at home and even spending some of your lunch times learning together.

We are all so proud of you!

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SMUHA at DPS

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What an exciting day!  Well done to our P7 Squad who carried out their duties brilliantly today!  We really hope that the pupils, staff, family members and wider community enjoyed their afternoon.

More photos of the run up to SMUHA and photos from the day to follow on the P6/7 Blog page shortly.  Three Cheers For SMUHA and DPS!  👏

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Children’s Parliament & AI Project

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Primary 4/5 have been involved in a two year project with the Children’s Parliament and the Alan Turing Institute.  We have been extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to find out more about Children’s Rights and the UNCRC and also explore Artificial Intelligence.

We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to all the pupils who have contributed to this project over the past two years.  Special thanks go to our three ‘Investigators’ who have taken part in online calls with the other 3 schools involved throughout Scotland.  They have passed the views, ideas and concerns of the rest of the class on to those running the project and have been brilliant ambassadors for our school, especially when they took part in the AI Summit at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh.

If you would like to see what the project involved, please watch the video which shows some of the work we’ve carried out this year.

Exploring Children’s Rights and AI – Stage 2 (youtube.com)

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JRSO Presentations

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On Monday 26th June, our JRSOs visited the Town Hall, along with 33 other pupils from across Shetland, to share all of the brilliant work they have been doing in school to promote road safety awareness

Councillor Robbie McGregor presented them with certificates, recognising their efforts over the past academic year.

Well done to you all!  What fantastic representatives of our school!

JRSO 2022-23

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Let me introduce our new Junior Road Safety Officers for this session.  Today they met with Elaine Skinley who gave them lots of Road Safety goodies to use throughout the year with the classes in the school.

We had our first meeting last week and the group have already filled a page with ideas of things they want to do this year.  Road Safety Week is coming up next term so keep an eye out for some exciting things happening in school!

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Archie Foundation Book Competition Winner

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Pupils who were in P4/5/6 last year, took part in a competition run by The Archie Foundation.  They were asked to illustrate a page for a book called, ‘Archie and Amanda’s Amazing Adventures,’ by author Alec Franks.  The story is about a little girl in hospital and it is hoped it will be relatable to young patients at The Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

We were delighted to learn that Leah Sandiland’s (P6)  picture has been selected for the book and is currently at the printers!  There were hundreds of entries so huge congratulations to Leah!

All pupil entries will be displayed in Union Square, Aberdeen, over the weekend of 8th and 9th October, with Dunrossness entries being displayed on the 9th.  The author will be doing live readings and copies of the book can be bought at the event.  We hope to be sent a copy for us to see in school.

Well done to all the pupils who took part.  Any one of you could have been a winner!

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Euroquiz

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Our Dunrossness Euroquiz Team were excited to take part in the Shetland Heat today.  We won’t hear any results until next week but we want to congratulate them for studying in their own time to prepare for the day and for the amazing support and encouragement they gave each other along the way.  They scored extremely highly in the languages round which is fantastic!  Whatever the result, we are proud of you all!  Thanks also, to Lily who prepared but could not take part on the day and to Mrs Colvin who sat with them through the test.
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