Today was such a beautiful day that one of the pupils took the camera out to take pictures of our walk and the sights we see.
Last Friday me, Ashleigh and Evan all went to Mareel to play in Young Fiddler of the Year. Ashleigh was on 4th she played The Headlands. Then we had to wait for ages because I was on 28th. I played Tartan Bonnets. Evan was on in the traditional section, He played The Boannie polka. After that they announced the finalists. I was so excited when they said my name for the finalists.I didn’t win anything but I got to stand on the stage. I really enjoyed young fiddler. 
This weekend it is the Shetland folk festival. One of the bands performing came to the Tingwall Hall to perform for the school and Little Tikes. The band were from Belgium and were called WOR. They spoke Dutch. One of them played saxophone, one of them played fiddle, one of them played guitar, one of them played Flemish bagpipes and one of them played accordion. They played some songs for us then they taught us some Dutch. Dutch is quite similar to English. Hello is Hallo and taxi is just taxi. After that we got to ask them questions. Me and Ashleigh got to give them a present. I enjoyed it.
It is the folk festival this weekend in Shetland. We were lucky to have a band from Belgium come to the Tingwall hall to play to us. They are called WÖR and are a quintet. Fabio Di Meo was on saxophone, Pieterjan Van Kerckhoven on the Flemish bagpipes, Oscar Beerten on fiddle, Bert Ruymbeek on accordion and Ward Dhoore on guitar.
They played a short and lively before interacting with the classes and providing them with information about Belgium. Di Meo taught the children a few words in Dutch. Hello is Hallo, thank you is dank je, he told them it is a really easy language to learn, taxi is just taxi.
We learnt that the saxophone, chocolate and fries (apparently) were invented in Belgium!
They also had us up on our feet dancing – we had to clap our hands and stamp our feet along with the music. We also got to sing along with one song.
They were very nice and funny too. We showed our appreciation by giving them cards we made and a few gifts from Shetland. They were very kind and gave us a CD of theirs.
We really enjoyed it, they were great to listen to.
As we are learning about the Olympics this term Tingwall Primary school are taking part in a virtual walk from Australia to Rio De Janeiro passing through the various countries that have held the Olympic Games along the way. We are adding up the miles we all walk during our daily mile and adding them to our walk.
We have already reached Sydney which is 1,603,333 steps. We still have a long way to go though as it is 72,380,227 steps to get to Rio De Janeiro!!
Today we went around the school grounds to pick up any litter as it is that time of year again. Primary 1-3 went around the school grounds looking for bruck, we went around the car park and bottom of the school grounds near the road and primary 6/7 went along the roads around the school to pick up any bruck in the stanks and around the roads.
In art we made posters about circus’. We made them in groups, I was with Ailee and Rebekah. We did people jumping of trepezes and landing on Horses. It was fun.
This morning we started the daily mile. The daily mile is when we walk a mile around the school each morning. We have to walk around the football pitch, around the multi court and around the playground five times and then we have done a mile. We will try to do it every day, depending on the weather we might not get to do it. We are allowed to walk or run. Some people do more than a mile some people do two miles and some people just do a mile. But you have to do at least a mile. The daily mile is fun.
