Newsletters for the Primary and Early Years Departments attached. Please give us a phone or pop in if you have any queries.
Santie’s lost his sproots!!!!! – Miss Laurenson
Santie’s robin arrived in P1-4 today with a letter from Mrs Claus. She had a problem and needed the bairns to help. A naughty elf had stolen Santie’s favourite vegetable, brussels sprouts, which meant he was going to be without them for his Christmas dinner!!!!
Mrs Claus asked the bairns if they could please look around the school to see if any had been hidden here. As you can see, we found quite a few!!!
Trip to the Museum – Miss Laurenson
Here are some more photos from our Mareel and Museum trip this term. Great excitement on the bus on the way to Lerwick.
We had our lunch at the Museum then we all got scavenger hunt sheets to explore the Museum. Some of us were looking for pictures of Vikings, and some of us were looking for items beginning with different letters.
Christmas Festivities
Pupils and staff have had a super time celebrating the run up to Christmas. The Early Years Department held a fantastic concert with teas and games afterwards. Later on the same day the Primary Department treated parents and members of the community to ‘Hansel and Gretel’. The audience showed their appreciation by laughing at the ‘gags’. The show was followed by some fiddle playing and carol singing from our very talented pupils.
Members of the community kindly came in to show all the pupils how to make Christingles and other Christmas crafts. It was great to host this event in the school and thanks again to all involved.
A trip to da banks
Instead of gym this afternoon, P5 – 7 took Mrs Fraser for a look along the banks. We headed out the voe and found lots of cool driftwood and other flotsam and jetsam. It was a good mini adventure so next week the class are going to show Mrs Fraser the other direction.
School outing to see The Grinch
Children in Need 2018
What a great total of £106.75 the pupils raised today for Children in Need! Everybody took part and wore their pyjamas or onesies – even the teachers. Well done everybody!
Upper Primary Assembly
P5-7 led a very interesting Assembly today, where they showcased their work from last term. They shared their personal and academic targets for the term, showed their appreciation of determination and resilience through the story of Robert the Bruce and the spider and demonstrated that to get good at something – whether work or pleasure – you have to work at it. Practice, practice, practice!
Acting Quality Improvement Officer and Acting Headteacher
From now until Christmas….
Mrs Missenden will take up a QIO post based in Hayfield House. Mrs Wendy Fraser will join Urafirth Primary as Acting Headteacher from Monday. Mrs Missenden will still be in touch though, as Urafirth will be one of her contact schools. Exciting times!!
Cooke Aquaculture Visit
As part of My World of Work, we invited David Brown (nursery parent) from Cooke Aquaculture, to come in and talk to us about:
- salmon farming,
- the importance of literacy, numeracy and HWB
- the journey of food from farm to plate
A very informative and engaging session was delivered by David and Michelle. Pupils were very inspired by the session, asking lots of pertinent questions and relating to their own experiences of fishing.
The bairns were kindly given a hat each, which will be very useful in keeping them warm now that winter is fast approaching. A huge fresh salmon was gifted to the staff, so Mrs Missenden had fresh baked salmon for tea (the bairns have salmon to look forward to at school dinners next term).
Thank you
