Skeldorini is our imaginary island.

Skeldorini is a great tourist spot as it has lots of interesting things to see and do. Why not try and spot the Skeldorini Squirrel Monkey in the forest north of the Temple of Water. Visit the enchanted White Woods or fish in the clear blue waters from the many costal villages.

A highlight of any visit is to take a trip to see Mount ColaCola which is an active volcano. There are many guides who will take you on foot to get some great photos, or if you would rather fly then helicopter tours are available too.  Our Tourist information team have been busy this week making eye catching posters to try and entice more visitors to come and see for themselves.

Click here to take you to a PDF which will allow you to zoom in.

Well, someone has done so well at the Shetland County Drama Festival.
Here is the winner of the Junior Cup.

we are so proud of her!

It was a lovely sunny morning so we all went out in the snow.

We all enjoyed being outside for an extended period

As today was lovely we came outside to read our books.

Once the weather got a bit better we were back outside again. We would be outside more but we don’t have a space to dry wet gear.
We started with some shelter building.

The following day it was practicing our knots and trying out the hammock.

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On Friday we got a package that contained an anemometer.

We braved the wind today to test it out!

it was definitely windy. We nearly blew away!

We would agree with the wind speed, but definitely wouldn’t agree with the temperature reading. We are going to test this with a thermometer. it may be wind chill that made us feel cold.

A big thank you to SSE who organised the competition that allowed us to win the anemometer.

A Windy Day Update:

Breaktime was windy, Lunchtime was windier… the speed maximum windspeed measured 79.6km/h. The temperature dropped a lot too.

We tried the average wind speed and it was 43.5 km/h

We were really lucky today to have a visit from Katrina, Blair and Andrea from Dynamic Earth.

We looked at the history of deep-sea exploration, and how  Scotland had a role in this. HMS Challenger’s  expedition took from 1873-76. The crew found the deepest part of the ocean on 23 March 1875. This area of the South Pacific is known as Challenger deep. The scientists on the ship also found over 4000 new species.

As there were no cameras on board to record the specimens then an artist drew everything they found…

We explored pressure, food webs, ocean depths and the acidification of the ocean  through some great experiments and activities.

We were really lucky to have Joan Smith come in and give us the opportunity to try table tennis.

She was very impressed with how well we did.

At lunchtime P2/3 taught Mr. Renwick some of the skills they had learned in the  morning.

We were very lucky to be able to go and have a run into Lerwick this morning to see this year’s Up Helly Aa’s  squad go past.

We want to say a huge thank you to Josephine Scott  from the Skeld Waterfront trust for their kind donation which paid for the bus.

Some of us have never been before and luckily the weather held until we were heading back to the bus.