On Wednesday we held an assembly during which pupils shared their learning and we celebrated pupil successes.

Lower Primary shared their learning about climate change and what we can all do to reduce our impact.

Key messages they shared with us all include:  switch off lights when you leave a room, switch off devices not being used, plant more trees, don’t cut down trees.

Celebrating Sporting Success

Annual pool, badminton and chess competitions are run for lower and upper primary classes and we celebrated their success.  We also celebrated our successful S2 badminton players who won at the Shetland Schools Competition last week.

On Wednesday 8 November 2023, S2 pupils travelled to Lerwick to visit the Lerwick Power station & LEF.

During our visits we: had guided tours, learned more about electricity, engineering and fabrication; how important they are to our local economy; learned about health & safety issues, about job roles, skills and careers routes

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Our S1 pupils were lucky to have Scottish Rugby coach pop along the school to develop their rugby skills.  All pupils were very enthused by the experience.

Our thanks go to Active Schools for organising the visit.

Our S1 planned an overnight trip to Lerwick.

Plan

• Service bus to town
• Isleburgh Youth Hostel – drop off bags
• Clickimin Swimming Pool
• Tesco for breakfast, packed lunch and snacks
• Magnos for tea
• Islesburgh for film night and some sleep!
• Next day
• Coasteering with Outdoor Education (changed to Rock Scrambling at Tingon, due to high swells)
• Return to school

Fun had by all!

Working Together – Problem Solving – Challenging – Resilience – Healthy & Active – Independent – Supportive

Our S3 pupils were given the opportunity of taking part in an overnight sail on the Swan.

They departed from the Uyeasound Pier on Tuesday 12 September and arrived at Mid Yell Pier on the Wednesday 13 Sept morning.

Lucky for them the weather couldn’t of been better.  Good enough even for a morning swim!

We made Winter Vegetable Soup from the crop of vegetables from our school garden.

This year the garden has been very productive.

The peelings have been composted ready to help next years veggy supply.

On Wednesday 28 June 2023 our Duke of Edinburgh group set off on an adventure to Unst .  This practice expedition, supported by Mrs Tulloch and Mr Nicolson, was designed to build groups skills – map reading skills, walking and camping – so they are able to complete their expedition in the summer holidays.

Cooking breakfast at 5 am, looking a bit tired, but still having fun!

On Tuesday 27 June 2023 we held a sailing regatta.

Primary pupils came along to watch!

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Open Night 2023

Last night the school opened its doors to the community to showcase the work done by our pupils.

Lucky visitors were welcomed into the building with tunes played by Kaylan Brown and Peter Wood.

It was great to see so many members of the community wandering around the school – seeing classrooms, meeting teachers, viewing all the great work done by our pupils – from art, technical, science, French and much more.

A video capturing learning experiences during the year was shown.

On our trip to Glasgow, everyone had a brilliant time.  We joined with Baltasound pupils making new friends and memories.

We stayed at the Youth Hostel and we were are all happy with our rooms.  The activities were amazing – from the Wallace Monument, Science Centre, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Crazy Golf, Gravity, Laser Quest, Go Ape, Foxlake Adventure Part, Ice Skating – to name a few.  Everyone enjoyed Go Ape because it the activities were up in trees because there are none big enough in Shetland,  it was different for everyone.

All the teachers that came with us joined in too.