Month: November 2015

Respect the brave soldiers who have died in the past in wars.

Empty ground in Flanders Fields.

Millions, millions of men fought for their countries.

Eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month.

Memories of my fearless great granddad.

Battle fields are covered in red, beautiful poppies.

Everyone should always show respect.

Remembrance day is really important.

Royal British Legion is raising money for soldiers who fought for us and died for us.

Eleventh month, on the eleventh day, at the eleventh hour.

Monuments with wreaths on them, people wearing poppies to respect the men who kept us safe.

Empty Flanders Fields but now lovely red poppies are growing.

Millions of military men have died, that is why we have a 2 minute silence.

Blessed that there is no more wars.

Everyone should wear a poppy for Remembrance Day.

Remembrance day is really special. Lest we forget.

By Rebecca

 

Over the last term our whole class have been organising the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal to help people who don’t get presents on Christmas Day.

First we sent a letter home to tell pupils and parents that they could donate empty shoeboxes, items to go inside the boxes, donations of £2.50 or complete shoeboxes.

In the end we got 37 boxes altogether and raised £42.50.  We went to the Whiteness Shop to drop off all the boxes so they can send them away to the children. 

Tingwall pupils and parents were very generous and we hope the children really enjoy opening our shoebox presents.  We will be thinking of them when we open our presents on Christmas Day.

By Kara and Freya 

On Tuesday the 3rd of November we went on a class trip to Scalloway Primary School and did a workshop on the African Drums with Hamnavoe Primary school and Scalloway Primary School. Seckou Keita from Senegal, Bruce Ncube from Zimbabwe and Joy Duncan from Shetland taught us how to play the African drums and the floor was vibrating with all the noise!
They were great singers and quite funny! We were all really impressed because they were very musical and talented and knew how to play lots of different instruments. Also the school was really big compared to Tingwall and we thought it was really nice.
By Kaitlin and Vaila

On Thursday afternoon we rehearsed our Christmas play with Izzy Swanson.

Izzy’s warm up was very funny because we had to do evil laughs and happy laughs, ‘ho ho ho’,

jazz hands and things like that.  She showed us how to change the expression and tone of our voices.

She said in a really serious voice, “We are devastated because we have run out of chocolate.”

That made us laugh because we genuinely thought she was sad about something!

Izzy will be helping us every Thursday.  There is lots to do before the big performance but she’s happy with how it’s all going so far. 🙂

By Ryan and Cian

 

We have (finally) managed to get our class blog up and running.  Check in every week to see all the fun things we have been getting up to in school! 🙂