{"id":3085,"date":"2026-03-07T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:23:57","slug":"cullivoe-up-helly-aa-visit-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/2026\/03\/07\/cullivoe-up-helly-aa-visit-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cullivoe Up Helly Aa Visit 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our annual CUHA visit took place on Thursday 26 February 2026 to celebrate our Viking heritage and island identity &#8211; strengthening community bonds, preserving local history, and giving people of all ages a shared sense of pride and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to Cullivoe UHA Jarl Stephen Saunders and his squad for visiting the school yesterday. We hope you have an excellent weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Well done to our Lower Primary, Upper Primary and S1 pupils who shared their brilliant acts.<br \/>\nThree cheers for Up Helly Aa!!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3085 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/midyelljuniorhigh\/uploads\/sites\/3465\/2026\/03\/07091823\/20260226_115707.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/midyelljuniorhigh\/uploads\/sites\/3465\/2026\/03\/07091823\/20260226_115707-300x123.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/midyelljuniorhigh\/uploads\/sites\/3465\/2026\/03\/07091823\/20260226_115707-300x123.jpg 300w, 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A big thank you to Cullivoe UHA Jarl Stephen Saunders and his squad for visiting the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/midyelljuniorhigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}