{"id":2119,"date":"2020-01-20T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2023-01-17T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T22:11:34","slug":"sea-skills-at-whalsay-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolarchiveposts\/2020\/01\/20\/sea-skills-at-whalsay-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Skills at Whalsay School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since August, in Wider Achievement, a group of S3 pupils have had the opportunity to do Sea Skills.\u00a0 This was a suggestion that came from the Pupil Council last year.\u00a0 After consulting Andy Sandison and John Arthur Poleson about possible content for the sessions and people in the community we could ask for help, we decided to run the sessions every fortnight between August and December.\u00a0 During that time we have had volunteers in to pass on skills in knots, splicing, net-mending and compass work.\u00a0 On Friday 17th January we finished off the activity with a visit to the Charisma.\u00a0 We are very grateful to Andy Sandison for his input and John Arthur Poleson for co-ordinating the volunteers.\u00a0 Thanks to John Arthur Poleson, Greg Anderson, Arthur Simpson, Stuart Kay, John William Johnson and\u00a0Colin Leask for giving up their time to demonstrate their skills.\u00a0 Thanks also to Magnus Polson and William Polson for showing us around the Charisma.<\/p>\n