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Sporting Achievements

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This weekend has been a busy one for lots of our pupils.

Kirsty and Nora have been competing at the GTS winter swimming meet at Clickimin, both winning several medals.

Dylan and Ayanda have also been away competing in table tennis. They took part in the  Scottish Primary Schools Table Tennis Championships in Bathgate. There were 64 bairns competing from all across Scotland, with 7 bairns travelling down from Shetland to take part.

Ayanda won his group and made it through to the top 12 play-offs, finishing 10th place overall. Dylan came second in his group, but went on to win the plate competition, which puts him 13th overall. Then they paired up for the doubles tournament and made it all the way to the final, where they lost to the top two seeded primary players in Scotland.

 

It is lovely to see such dedication to sport!

(Thank you to Dylan’s Dad for the following photos).

 


Christmas Concert

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This afternoon, we had our first Christmas concert and P7 were fantastic. Well done to everyone and especially to Mrs Inkster for all her help. The class started with Merry Christmas Eveyone. The instrumentalists played beautifully and the singers were superb. Then everyone sang Little Drummer Boy, Issac sang a solo, while Hannah played the keyboard. It all sounded wonderful.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE  🎄

You’ve still got time to see it tonight at 7.

Breadwinner

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On Wednesday 29th August, the Primary 7s went to see a film called Breadwinner.

It was about a young girl called Parvana who lived in Kabul, the capital of  Afghanistan, in around late 2001. Since she is a girl, she does not have the same rights that boys have. When her father is taken to prison, she cuts her hair, and pretends to be a boy, so she can be the breadwinner for her family.

It was a very heartwarming film and it made us realise how lucky we are, and that we should be very grateful for what we have.

Emmy – I thought it was a very good film and the animation was beautiful.

Ronan – It was very interesting and it made me feel lucky for what I have.

Junias – I would give it 4/5 stars.

Tryphena – I thought it was very moving.

By Emmy and Lily-Jane P7

P7 Leavers Assembly

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On Friday afternoon we did our final assembly. We each showed some of our special talents. Some people played musical instruments or sang a song and others showed a video of their skills. The P6s did a little presentation to say goodbye to us! At the end we preformed a song that a group of people wrote especially for the assembly called ‘As The Years Go By.’ Then Mrs Henderson and Mrs Hay gave us a little present, it was a great way to say goodbye! We all had a really good afternoon. By Emily and Eve

Here are some photos from our assembly.

Even some parents were given leaving certificates!

 

 

 

 

 

Staycation- Getting Creative

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On the 12th of June, Lauryn Bertie and Zara drew some pictures and the library windows. They printed off some pictures and stuck them on the outside of the windows. Then they traced the pictures with chalk pens and coloured some of them in. The finished pictures were amazing and they also had lots of fun with it.

I’m really happy with how it looks and I also had a great time. -Lauryn

I thought that doing Art like that is really fun, and other people should try it as well.    Bertie

RSPB Wading Birds pop -Up gallery

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In Art we have been working on detailed drawings of different wading birds which will be exhibited at a pop-up gallery in Quarff Hall on 12th May. This exhibition hopes to highlight the huge decline in some of the waders found across the whole of the UK.

We hope you will come along and see our work.

Here are some of our completed drawings ready to be displayed.

  

Music Festival

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This week was the Music Festival. People from our class had several performances. On Monday 12th  Carys did a piano solo and got gold, Cerys & Michaela did a duet in the open duet and got a gold, and Carys, Niamh and Molly did woodwind solos.

On Tuesday the 13th Cerys, Jemima and Emily ( The Dooblington Trio)  performed as a fiddle trio and got a gold.

On Wednesday the 14th It was our class performance. We performed as a instrumental choir and played White Clifffs of Dover and Pack Up Your Troubles. We got a gold. Lauryn, Ayla, Niamh, Molly, Carys and Zara each performed a vocal solo. Fearghas, Jacob and Michaela performed an accordion solo. Niamh was invited to play at the young musician with her clarinet solo. She didn’t win but said she really enjoyed it. Rebekha Tregonning ( who used to go to Dunrossness) won senior young musician of the year.

On Thursday the 15th we were invited back to perform at the Gala concert. We went on first. There was a raffle and Niamh won a bag of Bressay tatties.

Niamh – Getting into Young Musician was an amazing experience.

Carys – It’s always really fun going to the Music Festival.

Eve – It was a good experience and I enjoyed it.

Jake – It was good, It was really fun.

Christie – I thought it was good and I really enjoyed the schools coming together.

By Cerys, Jemima and Emmy