Global Goals for Sustainable development

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018

Planting new trees

Today with the help of one of our ferrymen Pete we learned life skills and planted out lots of trees in the school grounds and in ‘Fetlar forest’. We tried different planting techniques ensuring the location and equipment were right before we laid them down. Pete showed us how to space out the saplings so the roots don’t compete with each other and grow well.

We have chosen Global Goal #15 as one of our main goals for our life on Fetlar and so helping to look after the land and plants on it is important to us.

Also as a rights respecting school it gives us a chance to apply Article 29 from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child which states that we have a right to take part in activities which help us be the best we can be.

Amazingly, while we were in Fetlar Forest we temporarily disturbed a long eared owl nesting in the conifer trees. We got a little clip of it flying above us. I hope you’re just as excited as us.

Thank you Sainsbury’s, Woodland Trust, Peoples Postcode lottery and Yorkshire Tea for funding this initiative.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/free-trees/

https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/yorkshire-tree

https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2015/13-11-2015

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.