Screen Free Zone – Secondary break times

Health and Creativity – Following discussions with parents and pupils, we are introducing a ‘screen free’ zone for Secondary pupils for first break (10:35 – 10:50)

Pupils are welcome to the Music classroom on the ground floor where pupils can read, draw, play board games etc as an alternative to being on screens.

Supervision for the area will be rotated between different staff volunteers.

Thanks (again!) to Miss O’Dwyer for kindly creating the digital poster to raise awareness of this initiative.

Responsibility – Taking responsibility for our learning and our homework.

At the request of pupils and parents, we have launched an after school Homework club.

The Homework club will run on Wednesday afternoons from 3:45 – 4:45 in the Music room.

Different staff members will be supervising on different weeks and will provide support with learning as much as is possible but this may not be in a specialist subject area.

Sincere thanks to Ms. O’Dwyer for creating the poster below:

Homework Club

There is no club running this week (Wednesday 26th November) due to the S3 Parents Evening.

Thank you to Mrs.Carr for organising a litter pick in and around the school grounds – both Primary and Secondary areas.

Well done to the pupils for taking Responsibility for making sure that our school is looking its best!

S1 class have started a new block of gymnastics. In the above lesson pupils were given pictures of Olympic Standard gymnasts and had to select a couple of the SALS that they believed fit best to “what it’s important for a gymnast”. We gathered some of them skills and created our SC and LI. This lesson focused on balance and control

. The class had time to work on individual balances and then air balances. (Where we played competitive balance bingo)! We then spoke about if we transferred that into a group balance – talking about communication and trust! And put some of the skills together in group balance work.

Pupils then needed to put the group balance into a routine! Lots of fun and great skills and discussion.

Pupils in S3, accompanied by Mrs.Carr and Mr. Healy, visited Market House in Lerwick for a charity showcase event as part of their Youth Philanthropy Initiative studies. Engagement in the YPI program allows our pupils to develop their knowledge and understanding  of different social issues that impact the quality of life for people in Shetland.

There were a number of different Shetland charities in attendance including:

The Shetland Befriending Scheme

Shetland Bereavement Support

Dogs against Drugs

Clan Cancer Support

Shetland Foodbank

Ability Shetland

OPEN Project

Royal Voluntary Service

McMillan Cancer Support

Alzheimer Scotland

Fisherman’s Mission

This afternoon we held our draw and create together event which was kindly hosted by Mrs.Carr.

What a lovely event to bring different generations of families together in the spirit of art and creativity. Some highly skilled artists were creating drawings of the local pelagic boats, coastline and local scenery.

Thank you to all pupils, parents and staff who attended and supported. Continuing to have our community involved in school life means a lot to all of us.

Mr. Healy

Poster for Afternoon Tea Drawn Together