by Mia and Merryn

This week we went for a trip to the Scalloway Museum, playpark and the Scalloway College.

At the museum we split into two groups. The groups were P7 and P5/6.

The p7s went for a walk with a lady called Laurie who first took us to the Scalloway Castle and then to see the Shetland Bus memorial.

The top two layers of stones on the memorial actually come from Norwary.

Laurie told us another very interesting fact! Did you know the person the old folks home is named Walter Gray who was born there.  He moved to Canada and he was on the radio to the captain of the Titanic all the time it sunk!

Back at the museum the P5/6s were looking around at all the cool exhibits. We learned more about the Shetland Bus and where witches were burned a long time ago.

Then we swapped and looked around the museum and the 5/6 went for a walk to the Shetland bus memorial.

After that, we walked to the Scalloway playpark and had some fun before we made our way out to the Scalloway college. It was a long trek up but eventually we made it!

First, we split up into 2 groups basically consisting of P7 and P5/6. We had a STEM challenge using big pieces of Meccano and we had to figure out how to make a wheel barrow that could move from one side of the room to the other carrying an object.  We only had a short amount of time so there was a bit of pressure!

We had a tour of the labs (we saw lots of interesting sea life) and the engineering workshops.

Also, we enjoyed a VR session where we could pick up fish and inspect them.

We had so much fun thanks to all of the amazing staff at the college, Museum and Eleanor who arranged the whole Museum trip and made sure we had an excellent school trip in Scalloway!