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Victorian Lerwick Trip

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Our final question in our Victorians topic was: What was life like in Victorian Lerwick? We were very lucky to have Mrs Nicholson take our classes on a tour of Lerwick to look for evidence of the Victorians. We also compared old photos of Lerwick to what we could see today.

The Gilbertson Park was opened in Victorian times. The Burgh Road used to also be the end of Lerwick!

The Town Hall and Police Station were built in Victorian times. We looked for clues on the buildings that tell us this.

The street has lots of Victorian buildings on it. We were surprised that the sea used to go all the way up to Harry’s Shop!

Visit from S6 AHS Pupils

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Today a group of 6th Advanced Higher Biology pupils from the Anderson High School visited our class to tell us all about the systems of the human body as part of our class topic. We had a brilliant time.

Here is what P6a had to say about it:

“We learned about skeletons, the heart, the brain and the digestive system.”

“It was fun because we got to take turns going around each station. We got to stick labels on a skeleton and the digestive system.”

“We learned about memory and if you hit your head on the part of the brain where the memory is then you lose some memory.”

“We looked at pictures at the brain station and I liked how when we looked at it once we could see one thing and when we looked at it again we could see something else.”

“It was fun to have the 6th years visiting us.”

“They brought in cool equipment.”