Next week, please look out for the final activities that have been prepared by our Junior Road Safety Officers. The theme is being bright and visible during the daytime. See details along with each photo below. There will be a prize for the brightest, most visible T-shirt design from each class! Entries to your class teacher by 21st June so our JRSOs can judge them before the holidays. 🚗
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This year’s Junior Road Safety Officers are Hannah, Ava, Anders and Magnus.
This year I’m hoping to be a good example for the younger ones. Anders.
This year I am looking forward to learning more about road safety. Magnus.
I’m looking forward to communicating with you all over glow. Hannah.
I’m looking forward to working together in a group and seeing the ideas we will come up with. Ava
Our team got straight to work counting out how many reflectors were needed for each Primary class. They will be quarantined until next week before being given out. We hope they help to keep you safe on the darker nights!
Look out for more JRSO posts in the future!
SMUHA is fast approaching and plans are afoot for another wonderful SMUHA week! Once plans are finalised later this week for Monday to Thursday we will share the timetable. We would love for friends and family to come in and join us for some of the activities.
SMUHA DAY – All Welcome
9.15: Muster in playground
9.30: Procession led by P7 Jarl Squad
10.00: Burning at Boddam Playing Field
11.00: Teas, coffees, cakes and biscuits for sale in school. A chance to buy some SMUHA Enterprise produce.
11.30: Squad Acts in hall
2.00: Jarl Squad arrives in school
Please join us if you can. Best day of the school year!
Today Tory, Kayla, Evie and Lois from Primary 6, represented our school in the Shetland Heat of the Euroquiz. We are delighted to say that they came third equal! Congratulations to them! It shows that all their hard word paid off.
We have had a great festive term here at Dunrossness.
The Carol Concert was fantastic, the classes all sang beautifully. The mulled apple juice and mince pies were a hit too.
Thank you once again for your support for our fundraising efforts.
Pupil Christmas Cards – £273
Donations at Carol Concert – £124.76
Christmas Card Deliveries – £350.20
In addition to this we also donated £109.64 to Save the Children for our Christmas Jumper Day.
Wishing you all a lovely festive break and look forward to seeing you all next year!
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This week we received official notification that we have gained our latest Green Flag from the Eco-Schools scheme. We started in 2005 and are continuing to work on all the ten topics, looking at Litter and two different topics every 2 years. There are 6 Eco-Schools in Shetland.
Our assessor said the following :
‘The feedback is all good and I have no suggestions to make as you have done a fabulous job!You are doing a brilliant job in promoting all the initiatives and making sure the whole school knows how to can be involved. It is great that parents and carers are also involved and I love the idea of Focus Friday, where you bring together mixed age groups to discuss your activities. I was delighted to read about your links with your partner School in Kenya. What a great way to learn about environmental issues and to understand about climate change and sustainability. I was impressed by the Primary 6/7 pupils who were so moved to action during their rainforest project that they decided to grow plants to sell and make money for a rainforest conservation organisation. Thank you so much for all your litter campaigning. Litter is such a problem for the environment, particularly in coastal areas and it was great to read about the pupils taking part with other members of the community in Shetland’s Voar Redd Up. Well done also for keeping litter to a minimum in the School and for encouraging pupils to collect biodegradable snack food in bio bins and then adding them to the compost heap. It was also great to read that pupils have been learning about food choices, food production, the environmental implications of our food choices and the diversity of food cultures.’
Our next two topics are Waste Minimisation and Health and wellbeing and on Friday, the whole school will be working together to plan what we are going to do. Watch this space…
It is almost time! My favourite day of the whole school year fast approaches.
This year we have decided to immerse ourselves in all things Viking for a week! SMUHA is such an important community event that we felt that dedicating all our learning for the week was a fitting way to ensure the bairns maintain their enthusiasm. They are the future of the festival after all!
This year we have gone all out! We have our usual P7 Jarl Squad. Their preparations are well underway but being kept top secret! There are 3 other squads from P5 and P6 who will be entertaining us on the day. The galley is ready and I have to say she is looking great – well done John and galley boy Kempie! We have an enterprise team who will be producing key rings, a programme and home bakes for sale on SMUHA day. We will split the proceeds of our enterprise venture between school funds and SMUHA.
SMUHA Week:
We have the following timetabled events but many other activities are happening during the week. If you would like to help with any craft, story writing, supporting enterprise groups or assisting our squads, please get in touch. We would love to have your input. It is a fantastic community event and we would be delighted if you would like to join us.
Monday: Shetland Dancing for all primary classes. Visit from Jarl, Liam Mullay to see our P7 Jarl squad.
Wednesday: Shetland Museum Outreach visiting. All primary classes will have a session.
Thursday: Mr Stephen Renwick and Mrs Esther Renwick will both be visiting to talk Viking and demonstrate some archaeology.
FRIDAY – SMUHA
9.15: Muster in the school playground (programmes for sale)
9.30: March to Boddam Playing Fields
10.00: Galley burning
10.30: Boddam Hall to watch squad acts, have refreshments and have a chance to buy our fabulous key rings
11.30: Jarl Squad arrives with the galley
12.10: Jarl Squad departs and children return to school for lunch
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Mrs J Smith has offered to run a table tennis breakfast club for the next 3 weeks.
The club will be for pupils in Primaries 4-7 and will run from 8.30 – 9.10 on the following Tuesday mornings, 4th December, 11th December and 18th December.
If your child would like to attend, please let Mrs Henderson know. If your child attends breakfast club but would like to come over in time for table tennis, that can be arranged.
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Our Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) are Hannah, Becca, Cole and Drew. They are leaders of learning about road safety across the school.
With only a week to prepare they presented an excellent assembly on the 23rd November, in Road Safety Week. Not only did they demonstrate excellent knowledge, they also showed impressive digital literacy and presentation skills. Very well done to all!
Their message was to ‘BE SAFE, BE SEEN! BE BOLD, BE BRIGHT, MORNING AND NIGHT.’
This is very good advice, whether walking on riding a bicycle as it is hard for car drivers to see pedestrians or cyclists in the dark.
They have launched competitions for Nursery, P1-3 and P4-7.
Elaine Skinley also spoke about cycle safety in the assembly and information sheets will follow. Helmet safety and cycle checks have been the focus of road safety week this year.
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it has been a lovely day here, warm if a bit cloudy.
The bairns were up for 7am and had breakfast at 7.30. They made their own packed lunch for later in the day.
The first activity for two groups was skiing. They were amazing!
The other 2 groups went windsurfing. I think the worst but was getting in to the wetsuits!
After lunch the groups went windsurfing or canoeing.
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