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

Pupils from S1 – S4 benefitted from a hugely informative and important workshop today delivered by colleagues from NHS Shetland. Learning focused on what we can do in the event of a member of the public has a cardiac arrest.

Pupils heard real life stories and statistics from across the health service as well as learning the practical skills of how to properly do chest compressions and use a defibrillator.

Winter Ball Poster

Transport Information – Winter Ball

Details attached for the SIC Winter Ball.

Tickets are being sold at Whalsay School on Wednesday 5th November (during breaks from lessons)

Back in May the S4 Biologists set one tattie while studying plant propagation.    We put it in a bucket and set it outside to grow.  We have checked on it through the year and observed the plant going through all the stages, including flowering.

On the 9 October, on the eve of “Tattie Picking Week” we harvested our tatties.

“ How many tatties do you get fuy a tattie”  was the question and there was a prize for the nearest correct answer.

This year’s winner was Alice Irvine who guessed exactly right – 15 tatties.   Well done Alice.  She gets to take the tatties home and cook them with a little rosemary from the polytunnel.

A group of lasses were entered into the Secondary Netball Tournament held at Scalloway Games Hall today.  This tournament was aimed at S3 players but due to our small numbers we had a young team of players ranging from S1-S3.  Over the course of the day we played games against AHS, Aith 1, Aith 2 and North Isles.  This was great experience for our team with many of the players having another year or two to represent the school.  The lasses showed good sportsmanship throughout and improved their team performance as the games progressed.  A huge congratulations to Ria for being awarded the player of the tournament award against some very tough competition.