What a busy week preparing for the Fire Festival!

Primary 1/2 spent time looking at old Up Helly Aa and Fire Festival programmes, we designed and made squad torches, helmets and shields and we even made a galley!  Everyone has been busy making swords and other weapons and armour during free choose time.

On Friday afternoon Jarl Jamieson and his squad of Vikings were welcomed to Hamnavoe Primary School.  Everyone in Hamnavoe had prepared a special Viking song written especially for this year’s Jarl.  You can watch and listen to the school singing the song on the school website.  

Everyone enjoyed spending time having a good look at the Viking outfits and trying on some of their armour and weapons.

Well done to Sonny in P2 who won the class star badge this week.  Well done to Samuel in P1 who received a silver award from the Jarl for designing and creating his very own Viking axe.  Ella Mae in P1 won the competition for designing a Viking shield.  Her shield was printed and displayed on this year’s galley.

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