June 2006
28th June 2006
The peerie ones read the story of The Gingerbread Man today and baked some gingerbread men.
21st June 2006
Our new compost bin arrived so today we put it together and decided the best place to put it in the garden. We are going to put in some of the waste from fruit time and also some of our waste paper. We hope we can use the compost to improve the soil in the raised bed.
Burravoe Hall is having a wind generator built to provide enough electricity to heat the Hall. We walked along to have a look at them building it.
20th June 2006
Today RYA Scotland came again and it was the turn of P4 and P6 to go sailing.
Also today we won a Gold Award for our Enterprise work. There was a presentation in the Clickimin Centre for all the schools in Shetland who have won an award.
15th June 2006
Today we went to the Crofthouse Museum at Boddam, Quendale Watermill and Laurence Odie Knitwear in Sandwick.
Click here to see more photos of our day.
Brydon's model of a waterwheel and his
writing about it.
13th June 2006
In technology this term, we are trying new healthy recipes; if we find things we like Elsie, our cook, will add them to the menu. This week we made smoothies, we made a jug of raspberry and nectarine and one of banana and kiwi smoothie. Most people liked the banana and kiwi one best.
This is James' drawing and writing about Smoothies.
10th June 2006
All the schools on Yell put on a concert, at the East Yell Hall, to raise funds for the Shetland CAT scanner appeal. Lots of people came and over £1600 was raised. Click here to read more about the Scanner Appeal.
This is Kay's drawing of us playing tunes on Boomwhackers at the concert.
8th June 2006
RYA Scotland are in Yell this week giving sailing tuition. This morning it was the turn of P6 and P7 from Burravoe and Cullivoe Schools. Vladik had a great time and can't wait to go again!
7th June 2006
Today the weather was lovely so this morning we walked to the Old Haa to see the new art exhibition and to look at the crofting artifacts. The wooden baby's cradle is over 100 years old and belonged to one of the children's family. The straw baskets are called kishies, people carried them on their backs. They were used to carry heavy loads including bringing peats from the hill. There were also larger ones which would have been carried by Shetland ponies.
Afterwards we went to look at the Old Haa garden; we were lucky to see butterflies, including a Red Admiral.
At lunchtime we were playing on our bikes. We had to make a detour on the one way system as the zebra crossing needed some maintenance.
5th June 2006
Donna, our Active Schools Coordinator, comes after school on Mondays for us to have a cycling club. Today we cycled to Arisdale Brig and back. This picture shows some of us setting off.
2nd June 2006
Today we went to Mid Yell Leisure Centre to have Sports Day with Cullivoe and Mid Yell Primary Schools. We had to be indoors because it was really wet.
1st June 2006
Today we went to Mid Yell School for Activity Day. Everyone tried something different. Some of us made rockets, some clay tiles, some masks. Some of the older ones tried a new foreign language. In the afternoon we went to the Leisure Centre; we had the inflatable in the pool and the bouncy castle and football in the hall. It was a good day!
