After all the hard work last term, we just had to fork over the soil for the raised beds. Actually, hands are much more effective and fun than forks! The pupils’ metre squares cut out of the turf did not need much adjustment to make the beds fit.
Anna bakes bread on Monday. After working outside, the pupils didn’t take long to make it disappear today .
Yes, after all the measuring and hammering, the girls finished the first set of shelving for the greenhouse. While this was going on, seeds were being planted and Michael helped Joe with a birthday bake. We rounded of the day with everyone tucking into chocolate chrunchies.
Four of our pupils are off to Baltasound today to join Chroma in a tango experience!!
Gordon Williamson, another one of the candidates visitted today. Out parents have invited all the candidates to visit the school. It seems education will be an important issue in this election.
The can crusher gave up the ghost today so we will need to order another one.
It is a wonderful day. Lambing has started around us so this will be good for the lambs.
Mrs C is busy preparing a presentation for Monday. She is giving a talk at the SETT out door Learning festival at the Royal Highland Show ground in Edinburgh on Monday.
The stock pile of crushed aluminium cans is waiting to be cashed in. The money raised will go towards the Paris trip. Thank you to the hall and the gallley shed for their contributions. All contributions are welcome. No red tins as thety are made of steel.
The Voar Redd Up is also underway and the staff have tackled our patch because of the mess. Our grant from the clean up will also go towards Paris.
Work has started on the inside of the greenhouse.
Today (Wednesday) the girls were to go to a hockey tournament in Brae but it was rained off. It May take place later in the term.
Well the Paris tickets arrived and all seems fine. The accommodation has also come through. They even sent a picture of the person who will meet them and give them the key. We thought this was a really good idea.
Josie Simpson one of the candidates for the local elections also visitted the school in the last week. He seemed very impressed with our efforts. We hope all the candidates visit us over the next few weeks.
Miss Bates , Anna and the 3 big girls are off to Paris. Yes Paris!!
They spent the morning on line booking self catering accommodation and flights. They go from the 18th to 24th of May. British Airways from Shetland to Paris.
PARIS!!!!!!
Well if you do really well in your MLPS inspection you deserve a reward.
A nice quiet start to the term……… not likely!!
We have finished the greenhouse which is looking great. We even managed to reclaim some mosaic slabs from a nearby pottery to have as the path to the door. The workman has been really busy all holidays and has it ready for planting.
Pupils have been heavily involved in the construction process.
As we look forward we realise we are going to be hard pushed to fit everything in.
So watch this space……………………..
Our session started with Glass way back in August and it looks as if it will end with glass in June.
The Last 3 days of term have been spent in the company of Fiona Foley ,our artist in residence. Pupils made their own glass panels which have been fired in a kiln. We then moved on to the cutting of the glass for the main panels for Valsgarth.
Most of this work was carried out in the galley shed which has a large work bench and concrete floor. The glass could be left out for the whole three days. So we need to thank the Up Helly Aa committee.
The new man in charge of our school buildings and his deputy called along the school this morning in order to become familiar with places and faces. He says that next time he will have his boilersuit on and get his hands dirty.
Then on to an early start at the swimming pool for the annual swimming gala when all the primary classes for three schools are teamed up for the gala. Our pupils performed well in what was declared a successful event.
In the afternoon, we went to Nordale, the local care centre, to plant the bluebells dug up when preparing the site of our greenhouse at the school. We always try to leave time to say hello to the old folk. Today it was a special occasion so we sang happy birthday to one of the ladies. Sophie and Michael helped blow out the candles. Every candle represented ten years. (A good lesson there in place value!) We all had a piece of chocolate cake before heading back to join the school bus home.
When the sun shines, no-one minds hard graft. The concrete foundation of the greenhouse has been finished. The boys helped by shovelling glass chips into buckets. Everyone made Easter cards for the old folk in the community. In the afternoon, we tried out our new garden shredder. What a piece of kit! The pupils pruned, Anna and Mrs Priest shredded and the pupils mulched around the pruned fuchsia. We even had a former parent come a help for a while when he saw what we were doing.The daffodils were trampled underfoot but a small price to pay when we think about how we filled the community skip with fuchsia last year.
