Lots of great physical activity happening at Whalsay School today with football club at lunch time and badminton after school club. Big thanks to Eoin from Active Schools for facilitating both of these sessions. Mixed netball will also be taking … Continue reading →

Mrs Hamilton: My book recommendation would be The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.  The book is narrated by death and tells us the story of Liesel a girl growing up in Nazi Germany during World War 2.  Liesel is sent … Continue reading →

In English we have been learning about Shetland dialect.  The Picts and the Vikings were the first people that lived in Shetland. Some Viking words still exist in Shetland dialect today. Then Shetland became part of Scotland in 1469 and … Continue reading →

S3 Graphic Communication pupils have been learning about, using and comparing: 2D computer aided drawing, 2D manual drawing and 3D computer aided drawing techniques. The pictures show some of the 3D CAD models they have created and rendered. CAD features … Continue reading →

S1 have used thinking and sketching skills to create keytabs that are designed to be easy to recognise and suitable for their chosen user. They have learned about safety in the workshop and tools for working with plastic, and have … Continue reading →

The Whalsay Secondary School maakers joined in with the Wool Week Celebrations in the Symbister Hall last Friday.  Knitters from all over the world attended the hall to see the beautiful display of local knitwear and quite a few stopped … Continue reading →

European Day of Languages To celebrate European Day of Languages last week, S2 and S3 spent some time in class to research a few of the more than 225 languages that are spoken on our continent. Some of these languages … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 18th September S1 visited the Croft House and Shetland Museums. This gave them a brilliant opportunity to see what Shetland life would have been like in the Nineteenth Century. We started our day by visiting the croft house … Continue reading →

Sumdog is a games-based adaptive-learning app that tailors curriculum-aligned questions to each child’s unique level and is widely used by learners in different phases of Whalsay School. Students from P4 through to S2 have been taking on their counterparts across … Continue reading →