We raised £331.29 from your loose change donations. Thank you. Well done to P123 who sorted all the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins.
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Red Nose Day
A brilliant day in school today raising £369.21 for Comic Relief. Thank you to the P6/7 class for organising this for us. We had great fun with the stocks at the end of the day with all P7’s and some staff getting a good soaking.
Stay and Play Days
It was lovely to meet the children who are moving into Primary 1 after the holidays.
Activities were all based in the outdoor area and it was so lovely to see the bairns playing so happily together. It was also a great opportunity to meet all the parents.
They explored the wildlife garden and were delighted to meet our resident frog who was quite happy to be admired.
All the children received the book ‘Bobby and the Burland Pearls’ which we read out at the Learning Logs.
The children had 4 sessions at the school and the weather was amazing so we were very lucky. They got to toast marshmallow on the Firepit, play games, sing songs and do some craft activities on the third session.
The final session was all about having fun, saying goodbye to the Early Years Staff a little farewell party.
Goodbye P7
Normally Term Four would see our P7s taking part in lots of transition activities, as well as preparing a Leavers’ Assembly, Yearbook and a trip to Voxter, before leaving; ready to head up to the Anderson High School after Summer.
However, this year’s P7s have had a very different experience with Lockdown. They have been working very hard during home learning to complete different transition activities. They worked online to create a yearbook full of memories from their time at Whiteness and on Friday 19th they had the chance to come in and say bye to their Primary school.
Our P7s came in and had some time to catch up with their friends (at 2m distance!), before watching the premiere of their Virtual Leavers’ Assembly. Each pupil prepared a video and there were messages from staff as well as photos from their years at Whiteness. You can watch the video here:
Next, P7 were given their yearbooks and signed their classmates’ books. They also started a special mural outside the school to mark this strange time. We’ll not show you that yet as other pupils will help to complete it when we get back to school.
Finally, after a quick Radio Shetland interview (which you can listen to here by skipping ahead to 20 minutes: https://www.mixcloud.com/BBCShetland/good-evening-shetland-friday-19th-june-2020/ ), P7 lined up outside the multicourt for a Celebration Drive By – the first P7s to ever have one at Whiteness. Lot of families from the school and members of staff drove by to wave and cheer on our wonderful P7s.
It was a special day which was enjoyed by all.
On Monday they had the chance to tour around the Anderson. Here is a photo of them around the school crest.
Well done P7 – you’re ready to go to the Anderson High School – stay in touch and visit us when all is back to normal! Good luck – we will miss you.
Whiteness Staff Get Wet Challenge
To all our amazing pupils who we are missing a great deal- we thought you would like to see us get a thorough soaking all for a good cause.
Euroquiz Success
A huge congratulations to our P6 Euroquiz team – Ava, Florrie, Tadhg and Michael who won the Shetland Heat on Thursday. They will be representing Shetland at the final in Edinburgh in June. They worked really hard and we are all very proud of them – well done!
Golden Time 2.0
Primary 7 have been busy this week thinking of ideas for how to revamp Golden Time. It has been renamed and in pairs our Primary 7s have planned and organised 6 activities which our Primary 2 to 7 pupils enjoyed this afternoon. Activities included different crafts, coding, comic book making, dance and football. Well done, P7 – we can’t wait to see what other activities you plan.
Sports Day
The weather was not on our side this year, but Mr Kirkness organised an excellent morning of challenges for all our Primary pupils.
Final scores for the day:
1st Flotta – 256 points
2nd Greena – 241 points
3rd Hoy – 226 points
P6 Bring Your Parent Day
Primary 6 had a great day on Friday with Bring Your Parent Day. They spend the day before thinking up different activities to do. We started the day with a STEM challenge in teams – to create newspaper table of at least 20cm tall which could hold a textbook – all teams managed!
Then we did some writing – the 100 word challenge.
After that we did Art – creating portraits using a range of mediums. After break we did some maths, working with our partners to play countdown followed by a logic puzzle. Well done to Joe and Finlay who solved it!
Thank you to all the parents who joined us – we hoped you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Whole school walk
It was such a beautiful day we decided to go for a whole school walk and look for signs of spring.
