Diary Dates March April - Whalsay...Enjoy reading this letter and have a great Easter break. Garry Spence - Head Teacher Diary Dates March Fri 30th—End of Term April Mon 16th—Term

It’s great to see this collection of pupils’ work and experiences over

what has been a very busy term. As usual I would like to thank Aman-

da, Leona and Caroline for their hard work in putting it together.

As I write I am trying to recover from a very good-spirited and enjoya-

ble Staff v Pupil competition in the Leisure Centre. We competed in

three sports—Netball, Tchoukball and Volleyball. The staff won out in

a keenly contested Netball game with lots of sharp-shooting from Mrs

Shearer. The Tchoukball, which involves trying to bounce a ball off a

small, angled trampoline structure

at either end of the court, ended in

a closely fought draw. The pupils

secured a draw overall with a

comfortable win in the Volleyball.

Enjoy reading this letter and have

a great Easter break.

Garry Spence - Head Teacher

Diary Dates March Fri 30th—End of Term

April Mon 16th—Term begins Thurs 19th—School Photos Thurs 26th—Parent Council Meeting Mon 30th—SQA Exams begin

SPORT RELIEF

Well done to all pupils who took part in

the Sport Relief miles on 23rd March.

The pupils took part in dancing, P.E.,

drumming and Young Ambassador

sports activities as well as doing their

sponsored walk/jog miles.

They raised an amazing £1654!! This will be split between Sport Relief

and Arthritis Research UK.

Thank You!

Lots of interesting things have been happening in the nursery over the past few months since the last newsletter.

Healthy Eating

We have spent some time thinking and finding out about

healthy eating and keeping ourselves healthy. We had a

look at different fruit and vegetables and then used some

of them to do fruit and vegetable printing with. We used to

lots of different fruits to make healthy fruit faces for snack

one day.

Here are some of our thoughts about keeping healthy. “Stretching is good,” Emilie. “Jumping is good for you,” Josie. “Pineapples make you strong,” Hunter. “Fruit and veg keep you healthy – they help you grow.”

“Water and milk are good drinks.” “Carrots are good ‘cos dir yummy. I lov carrots!” Ellyn.

Nursery

Traditional Stories

Recently we have been reading some of our favourite traditional sto-ries and using them as a basis for other learning in the nursery. The bairns really enjoyed using the character stick masks and finger pup-pets to tell stories. They were also busy making some pictures and displays of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs.

World Book Day 2018 As part of this year’s World Book Day the nursery bairns were asked to bring in a book from home with their favourite pictures in it for show and tell time. We focussed on the work of a favourite illustrator – Lydia Monks. She illustrates lots of favourite books eg ‘What the Ladybird heard’, ‘The Singing Mermaid’, and

‘The Princess and the Wiz-ard’ amongst others. We were able to watch short clips of her illustrating characters from some of her books and this gave us inspiration and ideas for our own drawings. Lauryn did an excellent drawing of the mermaid from the singing mermaid and Josie tried his hand at being an illustrator at the drawing table.

Primary 1

Primary 6 took us to the Leisure Centre

As part of their young leader’s project, with Danny Peter-son, Primary 6 took Primary 1 pupils up to the Leisure Cen-tre to take in part in their planned activities. Here is some of their feedback after the event:

“First we played catchies.” “We played Banana Catchies and Toilet Tag at the same time.” “We played Congo Catchies. We made a line of 6., then we had to split.” “The last game was Poison Bottle. It was a kind of catchie game. It was a thumbs up game. It was amazing.” “Thank you P6 100 times for playing with us.” xxx

Primary 3/4’s Recipes for Friendship

A recipe for friendship Ingredient list: 1 spoon full of kindness A handful of helpfulness A cup full of caring A splash full of fun A sprinkle of happiness How to mix it up: Slice away grumpiness Make sure to smile Keep rolling together Quickly add a splash full of

fun Slowly add a sprinkle of

happiness

By Ashleigh and Neve

A Recipe for Friendship

Ingredient list: A school full of fun. Bathtub of sweets. 1,000,000 cups of kindness. A handful of glitter. 5 spoons of love. 1,000,000 spoons of unicorn hair.

How to mix it up: 1. Destroy the sadness. 2. Get your smiley faces on. 3. Mix a bathtub of sweets. 4. Pour in a handful of glitter. 5. Slowly sprinkle in the happiness. 6. Wait one second and here is your friend. By Effie and Reece

Recipe for Friendship

Ingredient List: A splash of fun 100g of happiness A slice of kindness A pinch of glitter A cup full of giggles How to mix it up: Add the splash of fun and happiness to a bowl and mix slowly. Slice up your kindness and a pinch of glitter. Mix together then slowly add your giggles. Put in to human mould and put in the oven for 40 minutes.

By Megan and Tom

A Recipe for Friendship

Ingredient List:

A sprinkle of fun

A blob of loving

4 cups of friendliness

100g of caring and a splash of kindness

A spoon full of listening

How mix it up:

Burn away angriness.

Slowly add happiness.

Mix a dash of fun.

Then you have a friend .

Leanna and James

A Recipe for Friendship

Ingredients list:

Egg cupful of sweetness

1000g of laughter

Never ending bottle of fun

Splash of giving

2000kg of helpfulness

600,000g of happiness

How to Mix It Up:

Add sweetness into bowl and mix in laughter.

Smash the never ending bottle of fun and add.

Put in 200g of helpfulness and a splash of giving.

Add happiness and rest of helpfulness.

Mix, then boil, its ready!

By Ella and Lee

Charlie Buckets Diet and My Diet Charlie had cabbage every day and night

and bread and margarine every morning. For

lunch he ate cabbage and tatties and for

supper he has cabbage soup. He does not

get much protein.

My diet every day I eat meat or protein and

sugar. I always have differed meals at the

school. I like bacon and egg pie. My favour-

ite fruit is grapes. I have a little fat in my food

and a little oil and some sugar and other pro-

tein and energy. This gives me strong bones

and muscles. By Lori

My diet and Charlies diet

Charlie only gets to eat cabbage soup, some pieces of bread

with margarine, cabbage and he only gets one bar of chocolate

for his birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I try to eat everything on my plate and hopefully I do. I like lots of

fruit and vegetables. My favourites are melon and pear and let-

tuce, peppers and cucumber are my favourite

vegetables. To help me get strong I eat meat and fish which are

our proteins. I don’t eat too much dairy because I’m allergic to

milk. I like eating pasta. We can’t eat too many sweeties be-

cause they are full of sugar. But if we are taking part in a foot-

ball competition you can have one or two to give you energy. My

diet is much healthier than Charlie Buckets.

By Murry

Charlies diet and mine Charlie’s diet is cabbage soup, tatties and cabbage and bread with a little bit of margarine. He needs more vegeta-bles, starchy, dairy and protein. The chocolate he gets for his birthday is happiness to him but no help to his diet.

I get Dairy foods but I am vegetarian and I won’t eat too much proteins but I do eat eggs because they are proteins. I also eat a lot of vegetables and fruit we need a lot of fruit and vegetables. You also need a lot of starchy but not as much as fruit and vegetables. By Matilda

My diet and Charlies diet

Charlie Bucket only eats’ cabbage soup, tattie with cabbage, bread spread with margarine. On Charlies birthday his family give him one chocolate bar. I eat raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, oranges and lot more fruit and vegetables but I don’t always have 5 a day. The starchy food I eat is porridge, pasta, tattie and lots and lots more. It makes me full up. The proteins that I eat in-clude crispy bacon, fish, egg and lots and lots more. I eat yo-gurts, cheese and some more. This is not in the eat well guide it is sweet group. I love nearly all the sweet but try not to eat to much. I can’t decide what is the best. By Brooke

Charlie Bucket’s diet

Charlie only gets chocolate once a year. It is torture for him be-cause every day he goes right past the huge chocolate factory. Every day he smell’s the fabulous smell of chocolate. He eats’ cab-bage soup cabbage and potato’s. Charlie is very poor. He is like a skeleton. Charlie really wants to get the golden ticket to the choco-late factory.

I eat very healthy stuff like fruit and veg. I like bananas, carrots, apples and melon. It makes you very strong. Bananas are a source of carbohydrate, protein and fibre. I like meat which is full of protein and I eat fish sometimes. Charlie didn’t eat any of these things. I drink diary stuff like milk and I eat cheese, yogurt’s. Don’t not eat sweet’s or sugar because it will make your teeth rotten and they will fall out. By Michael

Charlie Buckets Diet and Ours

Charlie Buckets diet is not very good. He only

eats a little bit of bread with margarine spread

which is not good for your body. He eats

cabbage soup with 1 tattie. His life is going

really bad. On his birthday he gets a six-piece

chocolate bar.

Our diet is far better than Charlie Buckets we eat healthy foods. In the

morning we eat different types of bread like croissant’s and bagels. I

also eat cereal with milk. At dinnertime I eat carbohydrates like rice

and tatties. My favourite dinner includes protein in sausages and

starchy chips. We are supposed to eat fruit and veg with starchy food

because that’s the healthy option. I eat some fruit and veg, I really like

pears, apples, raspberries oranges and blackberries. We eat fish and

chicken which are all proteins. The best drinking level is 6-8 glasses of

water a day. It is ok eating a little bit of chocolate.

By Ruby

P5/6 – Term 3

This has been a very busy term in Primary 5/6. Our topic has been The Scottish Clearances, which has been really interest-ing and we have learned about how the clearances affected areas in Shet-land as well as mainland Scotland. Esther Stevenson came in and shared in-formation with us about places in Shetland that were affected and the chil-dren really liked hearing about the Hoswick whales. We read Rhoda Bulter’s poem “Da Clearance” and responded to it through art and group discussion, everyone had a different part they liked best and we felt it depicted the 3 stages of clearances very well. Children’s comments about our topic were: “It was really good as it was different fae da stuff we had done afore” “It was good to learn a lot of detail about things like this” “We got to learn about wir relations being cleared and the curse o the Bruce’s.”

Johnson clan The Johnson clan motto is ‘never unprepared’. The name Johnson originated in Ireland, England and Scotland. The Johnson name means son of John. Ian Johnson P6

The Polson clan

By Andi Polson P5

The Polson name is linked to the Scottish clan McKay My clan motto is Manu forti means with a strong hand.

This is the Polson tartan.

P5/6 have been concentrating on poetry for our writing and learning the different syllable

patterns that occur in different kinds of poems.

Cinquains Laptop Have a keyboard I use it for gaming, you tube I’m the only one who can play. Robbie Leask P5

Chocolate Melts in your mouth Melting, eating, biting Norwegian chocolate is the best Yummy! Cara Irvine P6

Chocolate Mouth watering Crunching, chewing, loving Milk, dark and white I love them all Creamy. Maya Irvine P6

Onomatopoeia

The crackle of wood The spit of fire The roar of flames The shouts of children Bonfires Jenna Williamson P5

Kennings

Cold – cuddler

Christmas – bringing

Snow –faller

Snowball – fighting

Hot – chocolate

Ice – slipper

Isla Thompson P5

Haiku

I really like French Learning languages is fun J’adore le francais! Summer Robertson P5 Speeding on sledges Down and up on hills and roads Sledging till night time.

Connor Kay P6

Hot weather is here Baby animals arrive I must go outside.

Mackie Reid P6

The Weisdale Evictions I chose the Weisdale evictions because it’s a good piece of history to write about and one of the biggest clearances in Shetland. It all started when 3 landowners Lord Dundas, Scott of Scalloway and the Ogilvy brothers had a bank but it went bankrupt and they had to start selling their land. The buyer, by the name of DD Black was very cruel and in 1849 he started to evict people. He was a horrible man and removed almost 200 people from upper Weisdale in around 15-20 years, he also had no consideration for people involved. 5 crofters from Hamrigarth were also removed by DD Black. After that he grouped together crofts to make farms and put one his own tenants onto each farm to look after them. DD Black died in 1875 a hated figure. Jack Wilson P5

The Lairds Curse

The story I’m writing about is called The Lairds curse. It is set

in Whalsay and the curse meant that there would be no

more Bruces left in Whalsay and that the mansion would lie

empty and bare, with children playing in its courtyards.

The curse is said to be put on the Laird by Barbara Irvine. It

is said she did this because two of her sons had been ban-

ished from the island for going to the whaling instead of

fishing for the laird. It is said Barbara walked all the way to

Symbister to plead the laird of the whaling case, but he re-

fused to remove the banishment so with that Barbara curs-

ed the laird and all his decedents to come.

I got my information from an essay Granny had to do.

Poppy Hamilton P5

Blackhouses Blackhouses were from the 1700S. They were built with big wide stones and they only had one door. The humans shared the house with the animals and the ani-mals had a little room at the end. In the middle of the black house they had a fire and a small stool called a creepie. When they sat on a creepie the smoke wouldn’t hit their face. They didn’t have beds like we do they had a bed called a box bed. It was made out of hay, heather and straw and their blan-kets are made out of animal skin. Brenna P5

The Scot t ish c learance debate

On Friday the 2nd of February p5/6 had a debate about who was right the landlords or the tenants. Our class played the roles of ten-ants and landlords. We had this debate so we could see both points of views. The landlords argued that some tenants aren’t paying their rent. The tenants said that they were paying rent and were being evicted any-way. The tenants said that they didn’t like the way the land lords men were carrying out their family furniture. The land lords replied that they have the right to take their stuff out of their houses be-cause it wasn’t actually their houses it was the land lords. They also have the right to take away people’s homes to make room for sheep the tenants said how would the land lords feel if they came and burnt all your furniture and teapots and everything that was special to them got ruined. The landlords had no reply. I thought they are o right or wrong so the tenants and the land lords have different points of views but that is okay to be different. And they can be both wrong and right. By Evie 5.2.18

Blackhouse

A Black house is a small house that Scottish crofters lived in. Black houses got their name from the fire that sits the middle of the house. All the ash from the fire makes the roof go black because they were not any chimneys and if they were it would only be a small hole. They are made out of thick stones stacked on top of each other. The roof is made out of straw and grass covered with a rope net. The floor is made out of hard packed earth, to make it fancier they add stones to the ground. The animals lived in the house with the crofters. But the animals would be at one end all the others would be at the other. But there was only one door so they all shared the same door. There were no windows or elec-tricity in a black house. The light and the warm came from the fire. The fire was in the middle of the house. There were little stools they sat on they were called creepies. They are called creepies because they are so small it looks like your creeping around. They made creepies so small be-cause all the smoke from the fire would go up that would make you get a tummy ache. So if you were sitting down low you would be okay. They slept in box beds, box beds are like a huge wooden box with a mattress in it. A box bed had sliding doors so if you want some privacy you can slide the doors and sleep. There is a huge chain on top of the fire this holds pots, pans and teapots. There is also a pan called a criddle. A crid-dle is a circle pan that you put oat scones and bannocks on. To keep their fire going they got peats. Peats come from a boggy hill. You dug out the peats with a tusker. You would set them up to dry for 2 weeks then you would turn them over and leave for another 2 weeks. Then they would gather them in a basket or creel. Then they would stack them out-side their house and use them for the fire. By Jenny Jamieson P6

P5/6 designed their own tartan to add a different dimension to their wall display.

Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never see the seashore again I’ll miss the green grassy hills So farewell Culmalie! Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never hear the sound of the sea I’ll miss the rustling of the leaves So farewell Culmalie! Farewell Culmalie! I feel so dejected Because we are leaving our happy home Farewell Culmalie! Aaron Constable P5

Farewell Culmalie

Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never see our cosy, amazing blackhouse I’ll miss sitting around our fire on a stormy night So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never hear the oink of our pig or the baa of the sheep I’ll miss the sound of our fire crackling on a windy night So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie! I feel heartbroken and gloomy Because I’ll never see you again Farewell Culmalie! Owen Irvine P6

Farewell Culmalie!

I’ll never see the lovely glow of the fire

I’ll miss fishing with Dad and crofting with Mum

So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie!

I’ll never hear the lap of the ocean,

I’ll miss the sound of the cracking fire

So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie!

I feel so emotional about the fire of the house

Because we’re leaving the only thing I know

Farewell Culmalie!

Andy Leask P5

Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never see the cows mooing over the green hills of Culmalie I’ll miss the ducks waddling through the trees So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie! I’ll never hear the trees rustling through the whistling winds I’ll miss the sound of the seas crashing on the round stony banks with the coarse smell of seaweed So farewell Culmalie!

Farewell Culmalie! I feel traumatised Because of the house burning in the cracking gold fire Farewell Culmalie! Greig Williamson P6

P7 Art Trip to Mareel

On Wednesday the 20th of February, P7s and P5/6 went on a trip to

Mareel to see an art show called The Colony made by an artist called

Dinh Q Lê. We went out on the 9:15am ferry when we got to the other

side there was a bus waiting for us.

When we finally got to Mareel we were greeted by two people called

Amy and Jane they are the people who were in charge of the art exhi-

bition. They then took us into the auditorium where the exhibition was

– before we went in we had to take off our shoes.

In the auditorium there were 3 big screens all showing different videos

on them. The first screen had the old houses the workers used to live

in, the second screen had a flock of birds on it and the last screen had

the men harvesting the guano. In the middle of the floor there was a

big paper cut out of an island with paper nests on it, the last thing in

the room was a cabinet with information in it. After we had watched

all the videos on the screens they turned on the lights and we went

back into the middle of the room to take a quiz.

The last thing we did was we had to pretend to be birds and fly

around the room to find materials to decorate a nest on the island,

they videoed us doing this so they could make another film.

We went back on the bus to catch the 12 ferry back in.

We had mixed feelings about the installation By Annie and Willam

Decimal Dancing

We were given the task of writing a song/poem/dance/rap about deci-mals (you could do a rhyming song and dance at the same time). We were all given rules which we had to do a song about. We had lots of fun. Here are a couple of the songs: Song 1: Our rule was dividing by 10 (we did it from our view):

When dividing by 10 take a jump to the left, (then we all jumped to our left), just 1 not 2 because if you do, your answer will not be true! Our decimal point then said, I’m a decimal point that cannot move, then we did jazz hands. It was lots of fun, and everyone enjoyed watching it!

Song 2: “When timesing by 100 just takeatakeatakea 2 jumps to the left, but you gotta mind the decimal point or you’ll go blind!” After that we all threw our paper with the numbers up. (Instead of jumping we passed our paper across so it was changing). After, when we knew our songs completely and had another practise, we showed them to the primary 6s, (we had a choice), they enjoyed it as well. This was a very fun way of learning, and it was very helpful to our learn-ing. Here are some photos of everyone: By Lori and Kyran