A huge well done to everyone at the Tingwall Priamry School as we raised an amazing £372.37! Great effort from everyone in the school and an enjoyable day had be all! Well done to the pupil council for arranging such a successful fundraising event!
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Type ‘Onsie’ day at school
Today everyone wore their onsie or pyjamas to school to help raise money for Type One Diabetes research.
JDRF is the world’s leading funder of vital type 1 diabetes research. We would like to support them so that as many bairns as possible can live life free of this life-long, life threatening condition.
There are 29,000 bairns living with type 1 diabetes in the UK and that includes someone in our school. So to raise awareness of World Diabetes Day (14th of November) we are wearing our onsies! We were supposed to do this last Friday but unfortunately the school was closed due to bad weather.
Here is Primary 45 wearing their onsies
This is the whole school
Even the teachers joined in too!
The pupil council did a great job of organising lots of games for Golden Time. There were: name the reindeer, What time did he wake up, Where’s the penguin, how many sweets in the jar, a couple of tombola’s and a target throwing game. There was an obstacle course too! People brought in home bakes that were delicious!
We ate them at snack and the ones that were left were sold in the afternoon.
We have had great fun today. Well done to the pupil council for organising such a brilliant day!
James Robertson
On the 18th we went to the shetland museum we lernd about James Robertson. We hade break after looking at James Robertson. Then at the end we got to have a look around the museum and we hade a tresure hunt.
Shetland Museum
After Kirsty told us about James Robertson and we looked around the exhibition we got to try drawing a self portrait like James Robertson’s one.
He had a globe painted with him to show he was educated and we think it also shows that he mapped around the world.
We had to think about what we would want the world to know about us. A lot of the boys drew something to do with football or computer games. There were also sports like, hockey and swimming, musical instruments and things we enjoy doing now or would like to do when we are older. We worked really hard on our portraits and coloured them in, some of us did not get them finished before we had our break so Miss Nicholson let us finish them once we had our snack. After our break we got to have a look around the museum which was great as our topic is Shetland. We had to complete a scavenger hunt. We split into 3 groups and worked together to find everything as well as having a look at everything in the museum.
We had great fun!
Trip to the museum to learn about James Robertson
Today we went to the Shetland museum to look at the exhibition on James Robertson. He is the Shetlander who put Jamaica on the map. He was the youngest boy of 10 children. He lived in a croft house in Gossabrough, Yell. His family weren’t rich but they weren’t poor. He was very clever. He made several maps of Jamaica and they are really good for the time they were made considering he doesn’t have the technology we have now. After he made the map of Jamaica he went to London and got a painting made of himself as well as buying lots of nice things since he was rich. He wasn’t nice to his nieces and nephews. It took him 12 years to make the map of Aberdeenshire. He went on trial because the people who asked for the map of Aberdeenshire told him his map was wrong but he had worked on it for 12 years so it would have been right at the time he started. He only had 3 years to make it so they thought they shouldn’t have to pay him, he thought he should be paid for all his work. So they took it to court. He died before his trial so we don’t know who would have won. He died aged 74.
Our topic
Our topic this term is Shetland. Yesterday in Topic Miss Nicholson gave us each a map of shetland and we had to write down where all the places were. We found a lot of places. We went over this as a class to see if we were right. We were learning about Fair Isle knitting/patterns and Miss Nicholson took in lots of Fair Isle jumpers which we got to try on. (they were a bit big though) We also got to see a jumper board which is what people dry Fair Isle jumpers on to keep their shape. After that we got to design our own jumpers and we got to listen to Shetland music whilst we did this.
Hundred Word Challenge
I was at fireworks night. There was a huge bonfire and lots and lots of fireworks. They were very good and they were all different colours like green and blue and gold. But there was no red ones. Suddenly… Right when I thought the fireworks were going to end a huge huge huge red one zoomed into the air. It was bigger and more colourful then the other fireworks. This one went higher and was faster. The firework stayed in the air much much longer then the rest of the fireworks did. Then I thought… This firework must be magic!
Remembrance Day
Today we looked at Remembrance Day and why we have it. We had a 2 minutes silence to remember those who was lost in the war. We also discussed why we wear poppies…
Remembrance Day is the 11th of November. At 11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 World War 1 ended.
We learned why poppies are the symbol of remembrance day…
Poppies were the only thing to grow in Flanders Fields – this is where a lot of fighting took place.
A man called John McCrae was so deeply moved by what he saw in Northern France that he wrote the famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields.’
We also learned the difference between the English and Scottish poppy.
The English poppy has 2 petals and a leaf whereas the Scottish poppy has 4 petals with no leaf. The Scottish don’t put a leaf on their poppy because it would cost more to make and they believe that this money can be better spent on supporting veterans.
Money raised from selling poppies help people who have been to war and survived and their families.
We all wrote our own Remembrance/Poppy acrostic poems and made our own poppies:
African Drumming Workshop
On Tuesday 3rd November we went on a school trip with the primary 6/7s to an African drumming workshop at the Scalloway Primary School. There were two guys that took the workshop Bruce Ncube, he was from Zimbabwe and Seckou Keita, he was from Senegal. Joy Duncan from Shetland was also there. Hamnavoe and Scalloway primary 4-7 attended the workshop too. We got numbered because there was a lot of people so we had to take turns to play the drums. They taught us how to play them which was great. When we were drumming the floor vibrated. We sung a song – some of the words were: Zebelay Zebelay zebelay, cocowah, cocowah. We had our break in the games hall. The boys played football, we had a game Tingwall vs Hamnavoe – we won 4-3. This was a fun workshop, we really enjoyed it!
Bonfire Night
We learned about the 5th of November and why we have bonfire night. We know all about Guy Fawkes and read the poem Remember, Remember the 5th of November. Some of us hadn’t heard it before. We also read other poems to do with bonfires and fireworks. We thought it would be good to create our own! So as a class we thought of all the words we associate with bonfire night and fireworks. We used all of our senses! We wrote these all on the whiteboard so everyone could see. Then in groups we made acrostic poems about fireworks and bonfires (we wanted to do bonfire night but we didn’t have enough room). Everyone in the group had to contribute! We had time at the end to draw colourful fireworks on our poems.
