Monday - While Mrs Coutts was in Perthshire taking part in an EEBL (Excellence in Education through Business Links) event, the rest of us were preparing for an Enterprise in Education Showcase at the Baltasound Junior High School the next day. The younger pupils prepared posters of our involvement in the community, Up-Helly-Aa and Palm crosses for Easter. The older girls had been working on a big powerpoint presentation about our greenhouse at the end of last week on laptops and pcs. When they tried to open it on the laptop, it wouldn’t! They have learned that powerpoint needs to be saved in a certain way. Fortunately, we still had a few slides on the pc, enough to get started again.
Tuesday - Up to Baltasound earlier than usual to set up for the showcase. Only two of the older girls went to the netball tournament in Lerwick so we had an extra pair of hands to help. We were the only school from the North Isles to have a powerpoint running on our table. It certainly attracted attention. We made time to look at what other schools had been doing before taking part in the challenges for the day. Each school was given a new camera. It did not stay long in the box. We were the only school to have the batteries charged up and the camera in use before the end of the showcase before lunch! How’s that for enterprise!
This was the final day of Ydance. It has been declared a great success by pupils and teachers alike. Afterwards, we found an abandoned balloon buggy from the enterprise challenge in the school hall and a great time was had by all until it was time to go home.
Wednesday - Busy in the garden and greenhouse planting out cabbages in the raised beds and lettuce under the cloche. Next years, P1 in for the afternoon. Assessment is for Learning phone survey at morning break and an ICT audit in the middle of lunch time.
Thursday - ‘The bestest day ever’ was the comment from our P1 girl as we started back up over the field from visiting the Iron Age archaeological dig on the edge of a beautiful sandy beach. She would have loved to have removed the shells from the exposed midden! The experts have taken the level down another foot so we saw the hearth in the round house and all the bits and pieces removed from the dig this year so far. Juice and biscuits disappeared in no time at all before playing on the sand and playing hide and seek in and around the Viking house further along the same beach.
Friday - The Cycling Proficiency lesson had to be classroom based because it was misty outside. And not just outside. An early call from Mrs Coutts to say the the planes were delayed due to fog. The plane landed later at the diversionary airport.
In the afternoon, some of the pupils went to Baltasound School to take part in a jewellery workshop. The rest went trout fishing with Mrs Priest. No fish but we were away from the fog on the coast at the school and a good way the finish the week.
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By: Barbara Priest on June 11, 2007 