The MYJHS Parent Council AGM will be held on Thursday 29 August 2024 at 1800 hours.

Everyone welcome!

As part of our end of school year celebrations , we recognise the hard work, achievements and positive behaviour of our pupils with Reward Days.

On Wednesday 26 June 2024, we held the first of our Reward Days for pupils primary 1 to secondary 4, a trip to West Sandwick Beach.  It was a lovely day for everyone, filled with beach games, paddling in the sea and up the burn, exploring nature and sand sculpturing.

It was a perfect day out to end the year!  (Even the weather was good!)

Last night, we welcomed parents, carers and our community to Open Night during which they can tour our school, meet our staff and explore the diverse learning opportunities that have taken place throughout this school year, both in and out of classrooms.  Visitors also enjoyed socialising over tea/coffee and fancies.

The evening conclude with a Prize Giving Ceremony where we celebrated the successes of our junior phase learners (P1-S3).

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us!

On Friday we held our graduation ceremony for our P7 pupils. 

We celebrated Bobby, Filip and Jake’s time in Mid Yell Primary by singing songs, reading poems and sharing memories.  Afterwards we had coffee and cake. 

We wish the boys all the very best for their time in Mid Yell Secondary.

On Thursday we celebrated our Nursery graduates,  Families came along to see our young learners receive their certificates and celebrate their achievements.  We all enjoyed some refreshments afterwards and a nice morning was had by all.

We would like to wish Amber, Eilidh, Henry, James, Jessica, Lizzie and Lucia all the very best for Primary 1.  We will miss you!

Secondary pupils from MYJHS  visited the newly opened Spaceport at Saxavord, Unst.

The day started with a presentation from RFA (Rocket Factory Augsburg) about what the centre is hoping to achieve and about careers in the space industry.  RFA stressed that it was not all about scientist and engineers, but also the need for coders, accountants and support staff.

The rest of the event was split into four activities:

1. a trip along some very bumpy and uneven roads to the launch site.  Here we were driven around the site, looking at the old World War 2 structure, in amongst the modern technology.  The site is still very much a building site with only launch pad 1 built. .

2. to build, using newspaper and masking tape a launch cradle and then the largest rocket that could be supported by the cradle.  Two of the rockets where nearly two metres high.

3. using Lego Mindstorm robots.  The students had to program their robot to orbit a picture of the Earth, thus simulating a satellite.  Once they had mastered that, their second task was to orbit the Earth, locate a Lego structure pretending to be a satellite, hook it in the robot’s grab and return to earth.

4.  used Lego Mindstorms, in this challenge they had to design, and build a robot that could travel a course of three metres, turn once it reach a line and then return to the start.  The students had a range of different sensors that they could use, including one that detected colour and one for distance.  Using the various sensors they were able to code the robots to turn on reach the 3 metre line.

Our students represented the school well, asking questions, showing great team work stills and completing all the tasks and challenges ask of them.  Well done to them all and we hope that one of two of them have been inspired by the day to seek a career in space at Saxavord in the future.

Big thanks to Emma Spence DYW Co-ordinator for organising this trip.

On Monday 10 June 2024 we had an assembly to share learning and achievements.

The assembly began with our Junior Road Safety Officers sharing their presentation on how to travel safely  to school on the bus.  Their key messages were: wait safely, don’t disturb the driver, take your seat and always wear your seat belt.

Second item saw the school celebrating our Home Economic pupils achieving their Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate.   Huge congratulations to them.

Final item came from our Pupil Council – they shared their creative poster promoting safe use of the schools laptops.

UNCRC Rights: 12 – Respect for children’s views;  13 – Sharing thoughts freely; 29 – Aims of education

School Values – ISLAND- Learning, Aspirational, Developing

Bookbug week ran this year from 13–19 May 2024.  This years theme is “Bookbug says Hello!”, celebrating the many languages spoken by families across Scotland.

We excitedly said our “Hellos!” to Bookbug during two events held in our school, on Tuesday and Thursday of this week.

On Tuesday, we held a Big Bookbug session with pre-school, Nursery and Lower Primary pupils, involving listening to a story, playing games and singing.  This was followed on Thursday by our Mini Bookbug session with nursery pupils, listening, playing and singing, held outside in the sunshine.

Curious for more about Bookbug? Tammie in the library is your go-to person for all things Bookbug-related.