It may not have been the nicest day of weather but didn’t stop the sailing!
Secondary 2-4 pupils again took to the water sailing around Mid Yell Voe.
A great improvement can be seen in all the pupils sailing skills – more control and direction!
Only two capsizes today!
Looking forward to a competitive mini regatta on Tuesday 27 June 2023.
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We were delighted to welcome our new S1 class this week for their two transitions days. The new class got to experience a variety of subjects and met with their new teachers. There were lots of team building activities and we can already tell they are going to be a fantastic year group! There was even time to finish up with an ice lolly and game of rounders with our S4 class! Well done to all of them and we look forward to seeing them again in August!
Today we had a nice surprise – a visit from Bookbug!
We had a lovely story outside and some high 5’s.
On Wednesday 31 May 2023 S3 class travelled to Unst to take part in Youth Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Final, hosted by Baltasound Junior High School.
The four teams confidently shared their presentations to a judging panel, including YPI representative from Wood Foundation. Presentations shared the great work done by the charities: British Heart Foundation, Unst Partnership, Compass Centre and Dogs Against Drugs.
A special well done to the winning team – Emer, Lena & Lizzie – who secured £3,000 for The Compass Centre.
In the library last week primary 1-7 Mid Yell, Burravoe and Culliove investigated Roald Dahl’s book, BFG. Mrs Fraser used her net to capture their dreams and is thrilled with the results!
Last week our new S2 and S3 class were invited to the UHI Shetland, Lerwick campus to design their own windfarm. Two folk travelled up from Manchester to provide the workshop which was an action packed day. See more at
http://https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sse-renewables_shetland-stem-lerwick-activity-7001921354220371968-t0l0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
Here is also a write up about it on SSE Renewables page
http://https://www.sserenewables.com/news-and-views/2022/04/shetland-schools-experience-virtual-reality-as-part-of-viking-wind-farm-stem-programme/
They got to design their windfarm and then they had to work out how much money they would manage to spend, earn and what their profits were. Getting the opportunity to use VR headsets to look around a windfarm.
Today we were very lucky to have Built Environment – Smarter Transformation – BE-ST (http://https://www.be-st.build/) in school.
Two ladies travelled up from their Innovation Centre in Blantyre to come to visit our school and others. The sessions covered Retrofit, Passivhaus and Digital Construction.
Thanks so much to them for coming to our school – it would have been hard for us to get all our pupils to them.
Here a few pupils on the Passivhaus Taping and airtightness workshop, are learning how to correctly apply an air tightness membrane to an internal wall face and airtightness tape to a ‘window’ reveal.
An excellent opportunity to learn industrial standard skills and to get an insight into what is happening in terms of zero carbon building. It was also great to hear from them that Shetland firms are already adopting alot of zero carbon measures.
On Wednesday 17 May 2023, nice weather saw the return of sailing as part of our school curriculum. Pupils in S1/2 Wider Achievement and S3 PE classes were given the option to take part in sail training on Picos.
Picos are a great way to learn to dinghy sailing. All pupils get the opportunity to to rig the dinghy, learn to use to the wind to sail around the Voe and a few had to learn to right them and clamber back in, a little colder and wetter!
Thanks to Graham Hughson who patiently manned the safety boat.
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