My highlights of p 4,5 is when we did dancing with miss Nicholson in P.E, and when we participated in the music festival, and baking and the main thing is having miss Nicholson as a teacher because she is the best teacher that I have ever had in my life time.
Category Archives: Tingwall Primary School
sports day
On Monday the 13th of June we had sports day. We were really lucky for such a nice day. 1st was the 30m sprint for primary 4-7 then. The 20m sprint for primary 1-3 then the next race was the sack race. The next race was the tattie race. After that race was the 3 legged race for primary 4-7, primary 1-3 did the quoit race. Then it was the 3 lap race. Then if you wanted you could do the 8 lap race after that it was the little ones race then the adults race. After that we had a picnic lunch outside in Gotties garding.
Coastguard visit
Today the coastguards came to visit us. There were two men that came, they were called Willie and Ian. We were split into two groups, one group stayed in the class with Ian to begin with whilst the other group went outside with Willie then after about 15 minutes we swapped. It was good fun outside, we got to pretend to be coastguards and save people. 3 people went out to pretend to be swimmers whilst one person was the coastguard going to save them. We had to put this life jacket on them, a helmet and attach a rope to them. Another person got to use the megaphone and shout to the people swimming to let them know they were going to be rescued. Once the ‘coastguard’ was safe to go he ran out to rescue the swimmers, once he gathered them all together as a group we pulled them back using the rope. We did this a few times so that everyone got a shot at doing something! It was great fun! Then we got to have a look around the coastguard pick-up. We sat inside and had a good look around, they had a lot of kit in the back. Willie asked us to stand at the front of the pick-up so we could see the flashing lights when he turned them on. He warned us that we might want to cover our ears as he then put the siren on…it was loud!! The group inside listened to Ian as he spoke about the coastguards. He was really funny. He told us a few stories about when it is appropriate to phone the coastguards. He also spoke about bombs! He showed us a few photos of ones that had washed up on beaches and told us stories about them and the dangers and that if we are ever unsure about anything on the beach then we should phone the coastguards! At the end Ian let us try on the coast guard hats, he had one for boys and one for girls. Nearly everyone tried them on, Willie even put the ladies hat on Miss Nicholson’s head! 🙂
Dogs Against Drugs
Today Michael Coutts came into school to talk to us about dogs against drugs.
There are 2 dog handlers in Shetland and they have 3 drugs dogs between them.
Did you know that dogs have 30x better smell than humans? Elephants have even better smell but they are more difficult to get in the police van. :’) Bees also have better smell.
The dogs and their handlers have to go south every year for assessments.
We got keyrings that had the website on it. Here is a link to the Dogs against drugs website if you want to have a look at the dogs in Shetland, although Thor isn’t on this one : http://www.dogsagainstdrugs.co.uk/the-dogs
Thor is their newest dog, he’s still training. We got to meet him, he was lovely. He got really excited when he saw Magnus kicking the ball around at break time. He just wanted to play too! 🙂
The Daily Mile
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.
Folk Festival
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.
Road to Rio
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!!
Da Vaor Redd Up
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.
Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad visits Tingwall
We all gathered down at the Tingwall hall after dinner. The Jarl squad were a little late coming but we didn’t mind as it was exciting waiting for them. There were pupils from our school in the jarl squad so it must have been very exciting for them. We were excited to see them and what they would be wearing. The Jarl Squad came in and sang the Up Helly Aa song followed by their own song. We game the Jarl and his squad 3 cheers and presented them with a gift. They gave the school a gift of a copy of their shields and each pupil in the school got a badge with the design of their shield on it. It was very nice of them. After this we got to go mingle with the Vikings and try on their helmets and hold their axes and shields. It was good fun! We had a great afternoon!
Instrumental Concert
We had an instrumental concert this morning. The whole school gathered in the dinning hall to hear them. There were a lot of pupils from P5-7 performing songs for us, there were a lot of Christmas songs that we could sing along with. There were people playing the fiddles, a flute, a recorder, the piano and the guitar.
They all did a fantastic job of performing in front of the whole school! Well done to everyone who took part.
