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Trip to the Whalsay Heritage Centre

 

On Friday, 20th of April, P7 went to visit the Whalsay Heritage Centre to learn about WW2 in Whalsay with Marina Irvine and Allison Simpson.

We went into the room on the right side and saw a table with lots of information and pictures. We sat down and Marina began to talk about facts and stories from Whalsay in WW2. One of the things we listened to was about a person who went for a walk and found the body of a German pilot. Another thing that happened was a plane that got stuck on some stones at the Symbister Ness, A lot of the metal from the plane was used to make jewellery (brooches and rings).   There was some information about the Wart o Clate and when Harlsdale was a RAF camp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After listening for a while they showed us an old pilots hat, gas mask and a large shell case.

Once we were done looking at the hat, gas mask and shell we were allowed to look through the books and at the pictures. One of the books had information about people who were in WW2 in Whalsay and some people found their relations. Another book had people stories from the war and one other had some songs.

A lot of pictures looked a lot different from now and some had newer photos next to them so you could see the difference. After a few minutes of looking at the photos and artefacts someone found a plate that they used for soup in the camp.

Before we left we got a picture taken of us but it isn’t on the schools camera.

One person said that they enjoyed it because there was so much to learn.

We really enjoyed going to see the artefacts and would like to go back again.

 

African Drumming at the Shetland Music Festival

On Wednesday, 14th of March we went to Mareel to participate in the Shetland Music Festival.

After going to Mareel on the bus we walked up the stairs and into the cinema. The screen was showing footage from a camera in the auditorium (where everyone was playing their instruments).

Each class got a row of seats to sit in whilst watching other classes, before performing themselves. After listening to a few classes songs and eating our snacks Joy gave us a choice of having coloured fabrics as headbands, skirts or other things.

Later on we learned that we had to go and play because our bus would be there soon.

We went out of the cinema into a long room where you could look over a wall and see other people getting juice, coffee and tea (or other things). The room had two couches and a few tables. We only stayed in the room for a bit before going through a door and walking into the green room to get ready. Although it was called the green room, the only thing that was green was the couches. There were instruments on shelves and a piano in the corner. On the walls were grey cuboids that looked like mattresses. We went through a door and down some stairs to fetch our drums from a storage cupboard.  Next we headed to the stage curtains to wait for the people on stage to finish.

We then headed onto the stage and there where two judges and some other people sitting on seats watching.

We began to play Salsa Jagbe, we started off quiet and began to get louder which built up suspension. We went through the whole routine without any mistakes except for speeding up at the end when not supposed to, but it didn’t matter because the judges didn’t know that!

Preforming our song.

The adjudicator (judge) decided that we deserve first place (gold).

Our award and the judges notes.

Once we were done we left to go to the ferry back to Whalsay and walked back to the school.

Sanna and Ava

 

Homework

Make – do and mend- design and make a toy using only recycled materials.

Jolene made a toy snake using a balloon and a plastic band. It was really easy to make and took only 10 minutes.

First Jolene blew up the long green balloon. She realised it looked like a snake, she wasn’t going to make a snake in the first place but changed her mind. She then cut the red plastic band and stuck it on.She also drew on two black eyes with her sharpey pen. Jolene thought this toy would be good for younger children to play with, because it wouldn’t break anything if the child threw it about.

Jolene really liked this homework because it was fun and enjoyable. She wishes she could do this homework all over again. Jolene also made two other recycled toys but was most proud about her snake.

Make a model of an air – raid shelter (3D/minecraft etc).

Faye made an air – raid  shelter made in 3D. It wasn’t easy and took the whole week to make.

First Faye got a carboard box, to make her shelter out of. She then cut the cardboard and made the shelter itself, Faye had to cover it in tin foil to make it look like metal. She cut the box again and made the garden. For the grass she had to cut a sponge and painted it green, stuck it down. She then had to make the sandbags out of fimo, Faye also made flowers for a flower patch out of fimo and beads. Faye then made the inside of the air – raid shelter, so you could see what it looked like inside too.  Faye really enjoyed doing this homework and thought it was fun.

By Faye and Jolene