Daily Archives: February 7, 2019
Dogs Against Drugs
Michael Coutts came in to tell us about his job with the Dogs Against Drugs team in Shetland. He let us try on his high-vis jacket and use some of his equipment. The best bit of all though was meeting one of the drugs dogs.
Term 3 IDL – Stories of the Sea
Shetland used to belong to Norway many years ago and it was gifted to Scotland as a dowry by King Christian I. Even to this day, Shetland still has many links to Scandinavia and the Vikings. Even some of our place names come from Viking times! Did you know that Lerwick means muddy bay? And in Unst, there have been approximately 60 Viking longhouses discovered along with different artefacts from Viking times. It’s incredible!
We made Viking longships as part of a technology task and we wrote Viking poems using adjectives and alliteration. Here’s an example:
Mad, menacing, murderous Vikings!
Fierce, furious, ferocious Vikings!
Vicious, violent, victorious Vikings!
Gruesome, ghastly, gigantic Vikings!
Tiresome, terrifying, treacherous Vikings!