It was super to see so many of you today, we hope your time in school was purposeful and informative.
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Our Child Led Parents’ Event
It was wonderful to see so many families in school last week enjoying the curriculum activities and walks around the school. Almost all feedback is positive and any suggestions will be brought forward to our next child led event.
Primary pupils ART entries at Bonhoga
Pupil have been working very hard on different art forms for the exhibition that is currently running at the Bonhoga Gallery until the 3rd November. Sarah Hoseason , our art teacher at school, has done a fantastic job, showcasing the amazing work of the pupils. Thank you Sarah.
Here is what Sarah shared with us about the different projects the pupils have been involved with:
P1 and 2 made clay seals looking at shape and form.
P3 and P4 made their own warp using string. They wove the weft from sea rope, organza and yarn – lots of numeracy and recycling!
P5 – P7 – could choose from different projects. The copper wiring was cut from dumped electrical cable. The class were taught 3 bending techniques using pliers. Basket-making used dumped sea ropes. The felting was made from Shetland fleece.
Posted on behalf of Sarah Hoseason – Art teacher
Moving Up Day into P1/2
After listening to the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff it was straight into some STEM challenges. The children had to start to build a bridge until they met up with their partner who was building towards them from the opposite side of the river. They could only choose 20 blocks each.
Then of course we had to make some goats and even a troll or two to go under the bridges!
And the final shot of the river with all those bridges, goats and trolls!
School Dance
We had a lovely morning doing traditional Shetland dances taught by Maria Leask over the past few weeks.
The last dance was a Grand March led by Abigail and Jack.
Dynamic Earth visit Whiteness
by Abigail, P3
by Rhuairidh, P4
Plastics writing winners announced
Our Eco Committee ran a competition in school to raise awareness of the impact one use plastics have on our environment.
Today a winner from each year group was announced in assembly. Keep your eye out as this post get updated with the winning pieces of writing which will be added shortly.
The Shetland Times wil be selecting some of the work to publish in the paper in the coming weeks.
Euroquiz Final
This year four pupils, Caoilinn, Bobby, Holly and Zander went to the Euro-quiz heats in Shetland and won. On 13th of May they travelled to Edinburgh to take part in the finals. All the schools that won their heats went to the final which was held in the debating chamber of the Scottish parliament on the 14th.
There were four rounds and all the teams took part in three. The rounds were geography, language and understanding Europe. The last round was for the two leading teams. There were buzzers and microphones and the team who got the most points won the Euro-quiz 2018.
Whiteness was representing Shetland for the quiz and came 16th out of 31 teams that were in the finals. 472 teams took part in their local heats.
They had a great time going inside the parliament and seeing Edinburgh and have learned a lot more about Europe on this experience.
They would like to say thank you to all the support and encouragement we have had from teachers and parents and another thank you to the Scottish parliament and all the people who made Euro quiz 2018 happen!
Written by Holly and Caoilinn.
Starting to plant for our new Polycrub
Today Bronwyn and Marie came in during Golden Time to help us make plant pots out of newspaper and then plant some peas, beans, beetroot and lettuce.
