Shapinsay School

We collected money for Australia to help after the recent bushfires, specifically for a place called Kangaroo Island in South Australia. We collected loose change and put it on a map of Australia.

We all helped to sort and count it.

We raised over £200!

We all helped to decorate the tree inside. Everyone made decorations at home too; they are great!

We had a great Christmas lunch.

Pupil Council did a great job for Children in Need. Everyone dressed in as many colours as possible, and we had a stall with things for sale all week. We raised £96.67 in total.

We have had a visit from recycle Orkney. They were telling us how we recycle aluminium and sorting plastic that can be recycled.We have also been making recycled models as creative home work.

Chris and Jet have been walking round the coast of the UK to raise money. You can find out more at https://www.chriswalks.com/ 

We have been doing a lot of activities through the Orkney Science Festival. We had some visitors to school, and some of us went to KGS on Saturday to do even more. 

We also had some visitors from the Primary Science Teaching Trust who spoke to the school about Miss Angier's science award.

We all went to the Heritage Centre to find out about the Vikings.

Congratulations to our strings teacher, Mark Summers, on his recent PhD qualification!

Well done Miss Angier on being awarded an outstanding Primary Science Teacher award from the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

Alastair Carmichael MP came in for lunch.