A phone call from one of our grandparents led to an impromptu visit to the local Boat Shed near Stonecouple. A whale had been washed up, dead, onto the shore…
Jan and Pete from Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary had been to visit and were able to confirm it was an older pilot whale. The reason it died is not yet known.
We “Went Purple for CLAN” on Friday 21st September (which also happens to be Mrs Missenden’s birthday, so a great excuse for cake)…and raised an amazing £385.90! Thank you everyone for your support.
Mrs O’Neill has been running our science club since we started back after summer. The work done in class and at the club formed a display which the bairns were able to speak about to judges and visitors.
Anderson High School senior pupils led some chemistry, physics and biology activities and My World of Work let us try programming robots!
Our 2 teams took part in a series of 6 STEM challenges which included
We may not have won any trophies but we had a fantastic day!
We had a day full of “ooh”, “wow” and “gosh” on Wednesday when Chris and Scott paid a visit from AfRIS and ran a selection of workshops for P1-3 and P4-7. From “The sun and the earth”, to “Asteroids” and “Space Exploration”, a fascinating and enjoyable day was had by all.
We had a meeting where staff were briefly introduced to GLOW.
Mrs O’Neill is hosting a Science Club for interested P4-7 pupils. We will keep you posted on their discoveries.
Lights! Camera! Action!
Well, not quite….but we did have a visit from Ian (the camera man), Mari (the coordinator), a lass from Logan Air bearing gifts of Tunnock’s Teacakes and Caramel Wafers, and Sean Batty (the STV weatherman!)….all supporting our fundraising efforts for the STV Children’s Appeal.
Cat Duncan saw the advert on Facebook, asking about community groups etc who might be interested in a visit… and given that Disability Shetland are supported by STV Children’s appeal… and that the school hosts a joint Youth Club with them every month…and that some people have a bit of a “thing” for Sean…and it would be a great experience for our pupils… I got in touch with Mari and managed to book us a visit.
Sean was a great sport and did a mock weather report “live to camera” which was posted on STV Appeal’s Facebook page, along with photos from the afternoon.
Thanks as always go to everyone who helped make the event a success…from making the yummy fancies to the clearing up after…we couldn’t have raised the £112 without you!
The weather may not have been especially kind, however the spirit and generosity of our school community (and beyond) more than made up for the lack of sunshine.
Music, competitions, raffles, tombolas, plants, coastguard, fire service, poetry, kishie maakin, jewellery making, stampin up, face painting, craft, archery, stilts, unicycles, bouncy castle AND teas – there was something for everyone!
Approximately £1300 raised!!
I have no idea how we are going to top it next year!!
Preparations are well underway for our Annual Summer Fayre on Sunday 24th June. We are hoping for a fine day of weather and a great turnout . 2pm-4.30pm
Car boot tables, toy tombola, bottle stall, raffle, assorted workshops, bouncy castle, stilts and unicycles, along with “Sunday Teas”. What more could a body ask for?
Putting the FUN into FUNdraising!! Photographs to follow.
On the day we should have demonstrations/workshops from Esme Wilcock making jewellery , Ewan Balfour making kishies Sharon White (poetry), knot tying with Ian Herridge (tbc), and glass painting for the bairns.
Thank goodness for GLOW blogs!
Trying to maintain a website using Contribute was clunky, to say the least, so having been shown “how to” by Stephen Renwick I have taken the plunge and am in the process of setting up a more user friendly (and educational) version using a school blog.
I hope you enjoy having a look around. Any suggestions for additions and improvements will be greatly appreciated.
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