November 27, 2025
by Mrs Irvine
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P3/4 would like to thank everyone that donated, helped and visited our jumble sale on Wednesday 26th November. We are delighted to announce that we raised £515.00 to buy new literacy and numeracy resources for our classroom! The class have … Continue reading
June 5, 2025
by Mrs Irvine
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Primary 3/4 were delighted to visit the Heritage Centre today as part of their topic on ‘The Sea’. Thank you to Marina and David for telling us all about Whalsay’s links to the sea and the history of fishing and … Continue reading
May 23, 2025
by Miss Nairn
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The Science Fair from Edinburgh visited today and we really enjoyed it. The theme was ‘Our Changing Climate’. We learned all about what is happening to our planet in a really fun and interesting way. We learned about ways in … Continue reading
May 16, 2025
by Miss Irvine
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Whalsay Primary welcomed Shetland school music instructors this afternoon for a concert to show the range of musical instruments taught across Shetland. The group of musicians started off playing the James Bond intro and then preceded to play their way … Continue reading
March 21, 2025
by Mrs Irvine
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P3/4 have had a retro 1980s day to raise money for Comic Relief as it is 40 years since the campaign began. This week we have been using 1980s cartoons to inspire our writing and developing designs for our very … Continue reading
March 6, 2025
by Mrs Irvine
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P3/4 have had a busy couple of days celebrating World Book Day. Yesterday Ann Marie Anderson came to visit us to read her new book Hirda the Oorick. The children enjoyed hearing the story and learning new dialect words. P3/4 … Continue reading
March 3, 2025
by Miss Nairn
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Part of our topic this term has been all about our place in the world – Shetland and Whalsay. Our co-operative groups chose an area to research in depth – some chose knitting, some looked at music in Shetland, the … Continue reading
February 4, 2025
by Miss Nairn
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Creating solutions to real life problems. In P3/4 we work hard and sometimes we can get a little noisy. We decided that too much noise was becoming a problem for us – we know that too much noise can affect … Continue reading
January 17, 2025
by Miss Nairn
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As part of our RME we are finding out about Chinese New Year. We have learned that the new year begins on Wednesday January 29th 2025 and that this is the Year of the Snake. The new year is one … Continue reading
December 17, 2024
by gw19patersonelizabet@glow
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As part of this terms Friday Fun the children have been learning how to use coding with Micro:bits. The children have been using software called ‘MakeCode’ to write code that turns the Micro:bit into a name badge. It has been … Continue reading
