We spent an excellent morning at the Shetland Museum learning more about the strategic importance of Shetland during WWII and how it was affected by the war.

We spent time looking at the WWII display case and learnt a lot of interesting information about the items within.

We were also shown some WWII artefacts and the Shetland Roll of Honour where we found the names of those who died during the war.

Having discussed shortages, the need for rationing and how people had to ‘make do and mend’, we were each given a wooden peg and scraps of material to make a toy figure to play with- just like children in WWII would have to do to make their own toys.

Here are some of the toys we made.

We had a super time and would like to thank Yvonne and Kirsty for sharing their knowledge of WWII with us.

After lunch we went to a Bible exhibition at Sound Gospel Hall. There were four different workshops to go round and we had to complete a quiz at the end of each one. There was a lot of information to take in and we had to listen really carefully to answer the questions.

We were made very welcome and they kindly gave us a drink, biscuit and crisps to take back with us.

Today all of Primary 6 and 7 went by bus up to Mareel to see a Screenplay film called ‘Secrets of War’. It was set in Holland during WWII when Holland was under occupation by the Nazis. It was about three children and how the war affected their friendship.

After watching the film we took part in a workshop to do with emotions and how the characters would have felt at different times throughout the film.

We will be writing our own film reviews for Secrets of War at school.

Niamh said, “I thought it was a good film because the actors showed the emotions very well.”

“I thought it was a very educational film,” remarked Ayla.

Eve really enjoyed the film and although it was sad, the elderly lady  in it made her laugh sometimes.

We had a visit from Community Champion Maureen Stevenson today. All the class had written lettters as part of the Fairtrade topic and Ayla had written to ask them about their Fairtrade products. Maureen brought in a whole range of food and products to taste 😋. We all enjoyed it very much 😆