Mrs Kavanagh – Page 2 – Fetlar Primary

November 12, 2018

UK Parliament Week #vote100 Women’s right to vote in Shetland

Thanks to Marsali Taylor for giving us a presentation on the fight for the right to vote in Shetland. We had lots of drama activities to help us understand aspects of a complicated and long drawn out campaign. We also made a timeline and found out about the main reasons for women wanting the vote then. We then completed a ‘diamond 9’ reasoning poster to display what we thought the order of those main ideas were. Aaron thought that some of the reasons just ‘stood out’ for him so it was easy to order them.

https://www.vote100.uk/

November 8, 2018

Discovering the Archives and King Magnus Lawmender exhibition

https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/exhibitions/miserabiles-personae-the-poor-in-society

Record of food distributed to Fetlar crofters in 1804

Minutes of Suffrage meetings held in 1909. Very few left in the world.

Finding the location of a document in the repository.

How to treat naughty children in the middle ages.

Part of the exhibition on medieval Norway.

Comparisons of life for children from different social classes in Shetland during the medieval times,

Yesterday the children from Fetlar visited the Shetland Museum and Archives and gained VIP access to the repository (place where very important documents about Shetland are held). The found the oldest, largest, smallest and animal hide written documents held there. The documents are held in a specially protected vault and they got to press the button to operate the storage mechanism. They looked at documents as part of their topic on Fetlar past and present including school records and minutes of suffrage meetings held in Shetland. They also were shown around the exhibition showing how children and the poor existed in medieval Norway and Shetland, and how King Magnus Lawmender‘s new law code of 1274 affected society here and in Norway. Thanks so much to the amazing team at the Museum.

November 6, 2018

I’m a scientist get me out of here!

Today the children at Fetlar teamed up with scientists from the Wellcome institute in London to find out what was involved in being a scientist. They’d previously decided on chatting with scientists in the sustainability zone due to the work they’ve been carrying out on Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals.

In order to prepare the children prepped by discussing the qualities they felt that a scientist needed to effectively carry out their jobs. They then thought up some questions they’d like to ask and we scheduled a live chat session for half an hour.

Once the live chat started time flew and an incredible number of questions and answers were carried out. ‘It was amazing because I loved how there was always a new question being asked either by us or the scientists’ was Aarons comment and Jack said ‘ I really enjoyed the chat because I learned lots of new things and also liked teaching the scientists!’

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018

Mrs Kavanagh’s trip to Cannes

Mrs Kavanagh went to Cannes in the south of France during the holidays with other teachers from Shetland. She visited some primary schools, taught some lessons, visited centres of cultural important and experienced traditional cuisine. She’s really looking forward to sharing her knowledge with children on the northern Isles.

As part of the Erasmus programme and facilitated by LfEE’s Richard Tallaron and Julie D’Eathe in Shetland, Fetlar will link up with L’ecole primaire Bocca la Frayere. We will hopefully grow in understanding of each other through discussion in each others languages and sharing information. Thank you to everybody involved, including the Head teacher Gerard and teacher Aline at la Frayere, who along with other French teachers will be visiting Shetland at the beginning of November. We look forward to showing them a warm Shetland welcome.

October 2, 2018

NSPCC Visit 2nd October 2018

Thank you Heather Smith from the NSPCC for your visit to Fetlar Primary School today. The children are much more aware of the rights in the context of their personal safety than before and what they can do to get the help of a trusted adult.

September 26, 2018October 2, 2018

European Day of Languages 26th September 2018

We had such fun today at Fetlar from finding out what traditional foods French people eat. What words are similar to our own. Where France is. Who Henri Matisse was and what techniques he used in developing ‘The Snail’ (1953). Researching a children’s french news site and writing a multiple choice quiz about the facts (and opinions) the children found out today. We also did some grammar work using the Duolingo website. Culminating in a Euro(franco)vision song contest starring ‘Les Petit Belles’, ‘Les Rogue Rappers’ and ‘Arcenciel’, with Les Petit Belles clear winners with their rendition of ‘Allouette’. Great fun was had by all.

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

World’s largest lesson 2018

Celebrating their commitment to sustainable development learning and their own rights the children of Fetlar made a poster showing their key Goal priorities.

Yesterday during the World’s Largest Lesson 2018 Fetlar Primary took part with 344,500 other pupils all around the world. They celebrated the theme of this years campaign Take action by making a video and a poster explaining how the Global Goals for Sustainable Development affect the island of Fetlar. They posted their work on the World’s Largest Lesson 2018 website https://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/map/index.html

September 6, 2018

Global Goals Project

In preparedness for the Word’s largest lesson Fetlar pupils are getting ready to ‘take action’ in the community. They have been looking at the isle of Fetlar and deciding what the important issues are that need some attention. They have used the global goals for sustainable development to do this and chosen 6 from 17 goals that link to the issues. The next step is to meet with the Community committee to see what the adults think of their ideas. Watch this space!

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

Yell Show success for Fetlar pupils.

Well done to all the children (and adults) who submitted entries for this years Yell Show at East Yell showground. In contradiction to the weather the entries from all the entrants were stimulating, fun and delicious! Fetlar pupils did us proud by totting up a spectacular number of 1sts, 2nds and some 3rds. We are so proud of you showing your confidence and involvement and taking responsibility for your entries.

June 28, 2018

What makes a good or bad friend?

At Fetlar this week we explored what kind of behaviour a good or bad friend shows. We first talked about what we valued in a friend, what kind of qualities we felt they had to have. Then we worked across the year groups to explain what we felt ‘situation’ picture cards showed and Kaitlyn had to decide whether that scene showed someone helping or someone not helping a friend out. Kaitlyn got nearly all of them right! Well done you Kaitlyn and thanks to Imogen and Aaron for helping out with your ideas.