December 13, 2022
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Please note that Whalsay School will not be opening tomorrow Wednesday 14th December. We are looking into the possibility of re-scheduling the Concerts planned for this evening and tomorrow afternoon and will update you on this on our return to school.
December 12, 2022
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All schools and early learning settings in Shetland will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday 13 December) due to the weather.
December 12, 2022
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Due to worsening conditions parents may collect pupils early this afternoon. Please come in to school to collect your children from the primary or secondary office. At the moment the bus will be at the normal time.
December 2, 2022
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On Wednesday we had a Christmas Fair after dinner. We sold things we made at Friday Fun. It was really busy with mums and dads. It was good fun making the decorations. We made £280 and we will spend the money on things for friday fun. Thank you for coming to our fair.
By Ross and Jordie
November 30, 2022
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Here’s information on the Christmas crafts on sale today in the foyer from 2:45pm. Christmas clothing will be in Room 7 so please go in and help yourself. We have a range of clothing and sizes. Any clothes not taken will go to Shoard.
November 21, 2022
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Skills Development Scotland careers advisers are hosting a webinar for parents and carers of S2 and S3 pupils on Wednesday 7th December at 6:30pm.
They will discuss option choices and the support and resources available from Skills Development Scotland to help both young people and parents and carers at this time.
Parents and carers can register for our session here: https://optionchoiceswebinar.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2022
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Today pupils and staff at Whalsay School came to school dressed like they’d just rolled out of bed all to raise money for Children in Need. Pennies for Pudsey were collected in each setting raising around £335 for the charity, what an amazing amount! Thank you for your support.
Here’s a photo of P67 and the nursery and links to the P234 and P56 Blog posts about today.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/p234/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/primaryfivesix2022/
November 16, 2022
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Thanks again to the Whalsay community for generously supporting the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal this year. Around 70 boxes were delivered from Whalsay to the Shetland Aid Trust who gathered 900 boxes in total this year for the appeal.
Here are the primary House Captains with the beautifully wrapped gift boxes.
November 11, 2022
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November 7, 2022
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On Thursday 3rd November, S1 pupils had the opportunity to take part in a ‘Design and Build a Wind Farm in Virtual Reality’ project at the Shetland UHI. The session was run in partnership with Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) Shetland and SSE Renewables.
The aim of the project was to provide a fun, interactive workshop that helped pupils find out about the range of STEM related careers available and to build on their own personal and academic skills.
The pupils worked in groups on designing a wind farm. Activities involved: choosing the turbines used, siting them on a map using computer imaging software; calculating their costs, revenues and profits; and presenting their ideas to the rest of the group and the course organisers. The winning team, Dizzy Energy (Alice, Carrie, Reuben and Michael) were commended for including information about the wider reasons for building a wind farm and for getting all their calculations right.
In addition to the 3DW project, pupils also heard from Shetland UHI representatives about the Skills4Work programme which they will be able to apply for in Term 3 of S2.
We would like to thank Emily von Tonder (DYW co-ordinator) for organising the activity, Andy Dennison from 3DW who ran the workshop and Julie Graham from SSE Renewables who funded the workshop.
