Last  Tuesday Primary 1,2 and 4 walked to Transition Turriefield in Sandness to find out about local businesses and learn about how a market garden works. The children were shown all the different areas of the gardens including the big compost heaps and helped with preparing the carrots for sale to shops and reataurants.

We dug up carrots. We put them in  a wheelbarrow and wheeled them up to the shed. We trimmed the leaves We washed them. We dried them. We weighed them. We bagged them. We labelled them. We put them in a box at the side of the road for people to buy using the honesty box.

We brought some back to school to eat.

Yesterday Primary 1,2 and 4 went to the Sandness Mill to see how jumpers get made. Our topic is Sandness so we were finding out about our village.

First, when they take the wool off the sheep it goes to the mill. The wool is washed. The Shetland word for wool is ‘oo.’ The wool goes in a giant washing machine – it’s the height of our classroom, and we think it is even longer than our room, maybe into the gym hall! Next, it goes into a giant tumble drier. Next, they dye it – we loved that part! Then it gets pulled and carded. It is spun and twisted to make it strong. Then it gets put on a cone for knitting machines, with oil for the machine, or it gets washed and made into balls!

We also saw jumpers being made and made a visit to the shop where we chose our favourite colours of wool. We are going to make a wool shop in our classroom!

Thank you to everyone at the mill who made our visit so interesting!