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Celebrating Successes Assembly Nov 2024

On Monday, 4th November, we held a school assembly to share key messages for this term and celebrate the achievements within our school community.

This year, one of our primary goals is to improve reading across the school. To support this, we’re encouraging both staff and pupils to read more widely and more frequently.

Introducing our Reading Ambassadors

Our librarian introduced our volunteer Reading Ambassadors: from P7 – Leah, Marianne, Connor, Alexander, and Izzy, and from S2 – Evie, Tilly, Daisy, Aaliyah, and Lily. These Reading Ambassadors will work together on various projects to promote a love of reading throughout the year, and they are our go-to students for book recommendations!

Reading Diverse

Our school secretary, Julia, was congratulated on achieving her Read Diverse Certificate.   Julia is a member of staff who can offer great advice on a good book to read.

European Day of Languages

On 26 September 2024, we celebrated the European Day of Languages with staff and pupils exploring new languages and making connections with people and cultures worldwide. Participants created a quiz using recordings of themselves speaking various languages, including: Polish, German, Spanish, Navajo, Russian, Finnish, Norwegian, Arabic, Croatian, French, Dutch, Italian, Mandarin, Turkish, and Welsh.

A huge congratulations to all the pupils who took part! Special recognition goes to Ava, who finished as the overall winner by identifying the most speakers and languages—bravo, Ava! Your listening skills are outstanding!

Well done also to Adam, who made the closest guess to the number of languages in the world: 7,139, as noted in the “Ethnologue” guide.

Thank you to Ms. Boulay for organising this activity!

Finally, we gave rounds of applause to our pupils who took part in various sporting events over the weekend, including our primary netballers, Shetland Rugby Squad members, and badminton players. Mr Lawson expressed on behalf our school the pride in how well they represent us in these events and highlighted their impressive achievements.

 

School Vision:  Inclusive, Supportive, Learning, Aspirational, Nurturing, Developing
UNCRC Articles:  #12 Respect Views,  #13 freedom of expression, #15 freedom of association, #28 right to education, #29 goals of education – develop talents & abilities

Mid Yell Nursery Care Inspectorate Report

Inspection report Sept 2024

We are delighted to share with you our inspection report which was published by the Care Inspectorate yesterday, following their inspection of our nursery setting  on 23rd and 24th September 2024. We hope you can find a few minutes to read through the report and see the many positive aspects of the nursery which are highlighted within it. You will see that many of the important things that we work on every day are graded as being very good.
 
You will see from the report that we do have work to be doing, the most pressing of these jobs is to install a safer entrance/exit to the nursery setting/school. We are hoping that this work will begin in the next few weeks and be completed by the end of this term.
 
We really do appreciate all the support and hard work which our families put into our nursery setting and are very aware that it would not be the successful place that it is without this input. A particular thank you to everyone who gave up their time to complete an inspection questionnaire or spoke to the inspector when she was here.
 
We are very proud of our brilliant nursery pupils and the wonderful staff we are lucky enough to work with every day. We are delighted that this report has captured the great job they all do together in making our nursery such a special place.
School Values – Inclusive, Supportive, Learning, Aspirational, Nurturing, Developing
UNCRC – Article 28 (access to education), Article 29 (aims of education), Article 31 (rest, play, culture, arts)

Shoe Box Appeal 2024

Shoe Box Appeal 2024

The shoe boxes are due for collection late next week.

It would be great if you could send in completed boxes or any items to go in them to reception early next week.

 

 

Anchor for Families Shetland

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Anchor is here for you and your family, whenever you need it.

All families can find themselves fighting to stay afloat; whether pulled under by rising living costs, health concerns or isolation. Anchor will help you back onto dry land.

What does Anchor for Families do?

The Anchor Team is always ready to listen to whatever pressures your family are under.

Working with you, we will help you get all the support you need to thrive, and will continue to do so as long as you need it.

This might be making sure your family is receiving all the financial support and benefits you are entitled to; speaking with housing or other services on your behalf; helping you communicate with the school or talking through relationship issues.

We provide practical help, like food parcels and clothing, as well as a friendly ear, ready to listen and chat about anything that is bothering you.

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BioBus Visit to MYJHS

On Monday, 26 August 2024, our S2/3 Science pupils enjoyed a great morning developing their scientific research skills with Moredun Institute’s outreach mobile laboratory.  

Staff from the Moredun Institute provide engaging lessons on various sheep diseases, such as liver fluke and scab.  They also demonstrated how to test for these diseases, use DNA testing techniques, and assess the effectiveness of medicines in treating them.

The visit aimed to educate school pupils about the latest developments in animal, to promote higher livestock standards and importance of STEM subjects and careers.

Thanks to DYW Shetland for organising this event.

Primary Pupil Council Meeting #1

Last week we had our first primary pupil council meeting.  At this meeting we chose what roles we wanted to do, I chose to be the Communications Officer.  Luckily everyone got their first choices.

We also spoke about the new swing.  We decided we need to buy hooks so that it doesn’t get damaged in the wind.

Reported by Anna Williamson, P5

Reward Day 2024

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!)