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The Olympics interviewers.

The new swimming pool interviewers.

The marine litter reporting team meet Mr Ian Harcus to find out about the 'Fishing for Litter' project.

Christmas Carols at the Cathedral

On Thursday evening we had a carol service at St Magnus Cathedral. Every class had a Christmas song to sing and the choir and orchestra, woodwind and strings group played. The audience all had a chance to join in with the carols too.

Mr Griffiths with Jordan, Joanne and Emma playing the Finnish folk song.

Primary 7 sing ' Santa Claus is coming to Town'.

We hope everyone who came along enjoyed the Service.

Tree Lighting

St Lucy and attendants.

On Saturday the St Lucy Tree Lighting ceremony was held at St Magnus Cathedral.  Children from Glaitness and Papdale took part in the choir and procession. This year St Lucy and her attendants were from our P7 class.

Class 7 participants and their certificates.

This morning at assembly St Lucy and the procession came in to light the school Christmas tree and the choir sang Sancta Lucia in Norwegian.

Thank you for a lovely start to Christmas time!

Harvest Assembly

Class 7 sang 'Herrin's Heids' and played 'Leaving Stromness' today at Harvest Assembly. Joanne, Jordan and Emma played 'Harvest Time' on the clarinets and our orchestra players played 'Hava Nagila'. Well done everyone!

Have a great holiday and see you next term!

The families visit Kirbister and Corrigall

The Taits, the Bains and the Sinclair family visit Kirbister and Corrigall Farm museums to experience for themselves what life must have been like in 1861.



After a morning's work around the farm making stooks and simmens, grinding bere and sweeping up, the families celebrated a good harvest with music, dancing and songs.

Family drama

This week we have been getting ready for our visit to Kirbister and Corrigall Farm museum.

Each family group have developed the characters in their families and created family trees.

There was a visit from a photographer, everyone sat very still for the photograph to be taken.

'Watch the birdie!'

 The daily lives of the families at this time of year are full of hard work, especialy as there are only a few men folk. Many of the younger men have already left the toonship for Hudson Bay. One of our wives has not see her husband for a year and doesn't expect to se him again for at least another 12 months!

An evening around the hearth after a hard day working in the fields.

 As usual the older members of the family tell stories of life in their youth and tell a few favourite folk tales. There is still sewing, mending and knitting to be done for the women and the men might be repairing tools or furniture. The harvest Home dance is very soon so practising the fiddle is important too.

Practising the nine-pins for the Harvest Home dance.

We are looking forward to dancing, singing and music at Corrigall next Thursday.