September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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Baking our annual chocolate beetroot cake. This has become a school tradition, each year the children want to make a chocolate cake with veg they have grown in our school polycrub. The past few years we have made chocolate beetroot cake and chocolate courgette cake, both are delicious! This year we grew rainbow beetroot for the first time.
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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We were delighted to win a cup and a trophy for our school harvest display at the Northmavine Produce Show. Everything was grown in our school polycrub apart from the tatties, they’re hardy enough to grow outside in Shetland! The children planted the seeds in our polycrub and took turns at watering everything each week. They harvested the last of our produce last week and we displayed it on our board for the show (although not everything could fit on!) We tried growing flowers in our school polycrub for the first time this year, they were a huge success and they’re still flowering.
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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The fishing industry is very important to Shetland so we went on a school trip to the Lerwick Fish Market and the Altaire to learn more about it.
We all had a great time on the Altaire, thank-you so much to Tom, Mark and Ivan for showing us around and telling us all about pelagic fishing.
At the Fish Market the children got to see different species of white fish that had been landed. They then got to bid on some boxes of fish in a mock auction… the bill came to £4,496.25! Thank-you to everyone at the Lerwick Fish Market for showing us around, we learned a lot.
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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Primary 5-7 had a great time on their school trip to Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Thank-you to everyone who supported our school fundraisers and made the trip possible.
Day 1 – Northlink ferry from Lerwick – Aberdeen.
Day 2 – Train to Edinburgh, Camera Obscura, St Andrew Square, Scott Monument, National Museum of Scotland and Greyfriars Bobby.
Day 3 – Tour of the Scottish Parliament, meeting our local MSP Hannah Mary Goodlad, Dynamic Earth, visiting Moray House School of Education and Sport (where Mrs Johnson went to uni) and watching the Sheep Detectives at the cinema.
Day 4 – Edinburgh Castle, National Galleries of Scotland, the Royal Mile and the arcade.
Day 5 – Edinburgh zoo and shopping.
Day 6 – train to Aberdeen, bowling, laser tag, crazy golf and dodgems at Codonas then the ferry back to Shetland.
We all had a great time.
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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Each year we have a school cross country race, just next to our school there is a burn and that’s where the race starts so it’s called the burn run. Welly boots and perseverance are required, there’s a steep hill for the p6-7 course but they all managed very well. A fun experience and great test of stamina. After the burn run it has become a school tradition to have a whole school water fight… staff included!
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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We had the best time on our school trip and overnight stay at Voxter Outdoor Centre. The children had so much fun, we did lots over the two days including:
– playing in the woods
– building dens
– climbing trees
– toasting marshmallows
– making Scottish s’mores (toasted Tunnocks tea cakes!)
– playing in the garden
– nature bingo
– playing rounders
– playing hide and seek
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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Our hockey team went undefeated at the Hockey Festival, they all had a great day playing teams from all over Shetland.
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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Our school is part of a crofting community. We visited a local Croft to see the animals. We also got to see the chicks we hatched at school last year, they’re all grown up now!
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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We had great fun learning about the life-cycle of a duck and witnessing it firsthand. We took care of 12 duck eggs in an incubator in our classroom for 4 weeks. 10 out of 12 eggs hatched and 2 of them hatched during school time so the children got to see them trying to push their way out of their shell. When they were ready, we transferred them from the incubator and they stayed under a heat plate to keep warm. They grew so quickly, when they were old enough we let them have a paddle in water, they loved it! We kept them for 2 weeks then they went back to the Croft that we got the eggs from. It was such an exciting learning experience for the children (and the staff!)
September 17, 2026
by Mrs Johnson
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We’ve had fun working through our cycle training with our Active Schools coordinator Danny.
