November 9, 2020
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We are really pleased that we were able to support the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal again this year. Here are the House Captains with the 81 boxes kindly donated by the Whalsay community, ready for collection by Whalsay Haulage this week. … Continue reading
October 30, 2020
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A bit more information on the Hallowe’en Treasure Hunt. There were 41 entries from 81 bairns. You can see some photos below. The total raised so far for the Parent Council is £282.50. Many thanks to Carolann Reid for organising … Continue reading
October 9, 2020
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It was lovely to see so many bairns in Fair Isle today. Here are a few photos from Primary with their Fair Isle garments.
June 22, 2020
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Welcome to Health and Wellbeing week for Early Years to P6 bairns! Following feedback from Little Lights Week, we decided to have Health and Wellbeing week which also includes a Sports Day seeing as we missed Sports Day last … Continue reading
March 10, 2020
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Over the winter some upper Primary pupils have been competing in Football and Netball leagues against teams from other Shetland schools. The Primary netball league has been running for a few years now and Whalsay entered 2 teams again this … Continue reading
March 6, 2020
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Whalsay Nursery and Primary celebrated World Book Day today. Almost all bairns came dressed up as book characters from their favourite books and staff were dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Everybody looked fantastic and it was a lovely start … Continue reading
February 17, 2020
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Friday Funtime has replaced our Golden Time on Friday afternoons and runs in 4-6 week blocks. To kick start the first block in January, pupils wrote down their interests and wonders on slips of paper with their class teacher. I collated this information into subjects and … Continue reading
February 11, 2020
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On Wednesday 5th February, the Nursery and Primary celebrated Global Play Day. Similar to last year pupils were allowed to bring in toys and games from home and the school provided all the usual school games as well as soft play, skipping ropes, wooden loose parts inside and outside.
Feedback from staff and pupils was very positive with one suggestion being that younger siblings and parents could come in to play!
Here are some photos from Play Day.
October 11, 2019
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Thank you to all families that took part in the Maths week challenge, it took a while to look through them all! It’s been really good seeing all the photos of maths in action this week and we will print … Continue reading
October 7, 2019
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Primary 1-3 took part in Interhouse Dodgeball this morning. Each house was split into 2 teams and they played a round robin competition with each team earning 10 points for their house. All the bairns did a great job of … Continue reading
