“The Yell News” Printed and Published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013

“The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013

Printed and Published by “The Yell Secondary Two pupils at Mid Yell JHS News” January 2013

School Dance Reporters Laura Lyth & Nicole Hughson.

On Friday 14th December 2012, S4 was in charge of or- ganising this years School Dance. The theme this year was American Prom and they managed to raise all of the money needed to make this Dance a success. In order to raise this money, they held a

suppers night at the Mid Yell Teachers embarrassing themselves at Hall, a raffle and they were the donut challenge. Miss Gear won. also selling home bakes. Jimmy, we’re disappointed in you! During the Dance, there

was a donut competition. This INSIDE year we were very disappointed in Mr. Mouat as Miss Peanuts in India……...page 3 Gear just beat him! He was the Ferry Cuts?…………. pg 6 & 7 defending champion. Everyone Fire in Gloup …………..page 8 looking stunning including Otter Saved? ………..page 10 teachers! S4’s also prepared a New Babies …………pg 12-13 short buffet snack for the mid- Off to Edinburgh ...pg 14-15 dle of the Dance. The whole Cullivoe News ………pg 16-17 night was a great success and Burravoe news …...pg 18-21 everyone had a brilliant time. E-Twinning ……………….pg 23 Well done S4’s! Badminton news ……… pg 24 MORE PHOTOS Page 2

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Morgan had to leave S4 pupils funded, decorated and ran the Christmas Dance. early to go south.

Primary in the photo for “i’i” magazine. Jenna, Emma and Mary with Josie P1.

S4 School Dance photos

Unst teachers come in The Dance in full swing handy!

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School Librarian Mrs Jeanette Nowak (or Peanuts!) has just returned from India. We asked her to tell us India about her trip.

Page design by Matthew Johnson Trip

How long were you there for?

I spent 5 weeks in India – starting off in Mamallapurnam where I stayed for two nights, then on to Pondicherry for a night before travelling down to Tharangambadi. This is the village that SIC have been supporting since the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. I spent two months here in 2006.

Where did you stay? The elephants had an impact on me. During my time in Tharangambadi I stayed in the Hotel Tamil Nadu, pictured below. My curtains were very interesting! You could see daylight all the way around the air condi- tioning unit so I had to block it up with toilet roll and gaffer tape to deter mosquitoes and other interesting insects from visiting me in the night.

What were the highlights of your stay?

So many highlights, it’s difficult to say. India is such an incredible place to visit. The temples and the elephants certainly had an impact on me as did the Hindu wed- ding I attended.

What did you learn? Hotel Tamil Nadu

I learned that human beings have a tremendous resilience and capacity to recover and that no matter how big a disaster, there is always something positive that emerges from within the chaos and destruction.

How have things changed since your last visit? Are they any better prepared? Have they managed to rebuild communities?

When I was there 6 years ago Tharan- gambadi was a village in mourning and was still in re- covery from the devastating effects of the tsunami. There was a huge sense of loss and despair and many people were still On the shore Temple roofs suffering from

Continued on Page 4 4 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 trauma. The evidence of poverty was extreme and I was humbled by some of the scenes I witnessed. Today, it is a completely different place with tremendous growth in infrastructure, small businesses and tourism. The people are empowered and have moved on and rebuilt their lives. In many instances their lives are much better now that they ever were before the tsunami struck. Traditionally, children from fishing communities did not go to school – now the vast majority attend English speaking schools where a good education can lead to em- ployment which can lift a whole family out of poverty. The tsunami has ironically brought them many gifts and improved their lives. There is now a coastal defence system in place all along the coast of Tharangambadi and at the back of the hotel where I was staying there is a newly built ‘Multiple Disasters Shelter.’

Family on bike Cow on road

All photos taken by Mrs Nowak.

Tel: 01957744376 Email: [email protected]

5 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 Yell Helps Children in Need

Last Friday, Mid Yell Junior High School raised an outstanding £301 for Children In Need. Upper primary held a Pudsey café, with home bakes that they baked by themselves during golden time. The home bakes included Pudsy-shaped decorated biscuits, Honey biscuits and Chocolate rice-crispy and Chocolate- coated marshmallows, they also sold tea, coffee and juice. All the classes and teachers were invited to the café to enjoy the lovely home bakes. The pupils in Upper primary all made two bandanas each using sewing machines, which sold for £2 each. (as reported in Shetland Times)

Reporters: Matthew Johnson, Jonathan Thomson and Laura Lyth

Cullivoe School also helped out on Chil- dren in Need Day (Photo below)

6 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 FRONT LINE FERRIES TO BE CUT?

Through this week report- The “Daggri” and ers Nicole Hughson and “Dagalien” on their daily Ashleigh Nisbet sent an route across Yell Sound. email to Mr. Graham Hugh- son regarding the current ferry issues. Here are Mr. Hughson’s replies.

Q: Are the ferry fares going to rise?

A: Yes from the 1st of Decem- ber, the non-discount fares, Cars go up from £10 to £12.50 and Adult Passengers go up from £4.30 - £5.00, Also Under 19’s fares rise from £0.50 - £1.00 & Senior Citizens change from Free to £1.00, however there is no fare increase to the discount tickets & com- mercial vehicle fares. Q: Are they going to cut nightshift on Yell Sound and if so how big of an effect do you think it will make? A: It is one of the proposals to cut the nightshift on Yell Sound, however it also has two options to keep the nightshift, the issue is that these two options doesn’t save them as much money as the no nightshift options, the likely outcome will be that the nightshifts are cut, if this does happen it will have an impact towards the social side of the North Isles, but taking things into context, the usage of these runs are not too much, therefore I think that it is more important to save money here and keep other runs at more used times, to suit businesses, commuters and domestic travel better. Q: Are they going to charge on Bluemull Sound? A: It is one of the options to start recharging on Bluemull sound, that is out for consultation, however if that option goes ahead it will mean anybody traveling on the Bluemull sound ferry, without a ticket to show that they have traveled on Yell Sound that day, then they will be charged a fare. Q: Are they going to cut out ferry hire? A: This I can’t answer, but you would like to think that if the nightshift runs are cut then some form of late night hire at an attractive rate would be put in place.

Q: Will the cuts affect ambulance runs? A: If they cut the nightshift, (which will likely happen), the proposal is that there will be two night watchmen on all night, one of these will be an engineer, who will be able to have the boat started before the ambulance gets to the ferry, as long as they are notified when the ambulance is called, at the same time then the rest of the ferry crew (who will be on standby at night) will be called so they will be there ready to go when the ambulance arrives. This is how the Yell sound service used to operate before the larger ferries came, and for those who can mind, worked well. Q: Will they cut one of the ferries on Yell sound? A: It is in their option proposals to cut one ferry out altogether in one option, the other option is to have two ferries running together in the morning, however this is only for a one

7 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 and a half hour overlap (three runs), for the rest of the day, Yell sound will only be served by one ferry. On both options Saturday has just one ferry running on Yell sound Q: What is your personal opinion of the SIC ferry issues? A: I understand that the council must save money, however I feel the proposed cuts on some of the ferry routes are too severe and will have a major impact on the structure of the islands, namely in de-population, impacting the economy of the islands and Shetland as a whole, due to businesses finding it hard to trade and expand, (especially the aquaculture in- dustry, which is growing year on year and is a major employer) due to the reduced service for getting items both into and out of the islands for them to trade. I think they need to look at making savings in other parts of the council budget, before they cut the front line services. Q: What are your suggestions? A: I would suggest that they look at saving in other places of the operation of the service more than front line services. I would like to see two ferries operating on Yell Sound, through the day, to help enable the North isles to protect its economy and sustain growth. (this is something the Yell Community Council is working very hard on at the moment).

By Reporters Nicole Hughson and Ashleigh Nisbet New House For Maths teacher

On the 12th of October Jimmy Mouat and Isabel Boulay, both teachers at Mid Yell JHS moved in to their new house, “North Punds”. It is not to far from there last house. They bought it from Ina and Alex Thomson after their decision to move back into their last, “New House”. I spoke to Mr Mouat about what he thought of their new house and he said they prefer it to their last house, it is larger and some of the fixture and fittings are newer and more modern. He also said they have laid a laminate floor in one bedroom replacing the old carpet.

By Jonathan Thomson S2 Music Instruction in danger?

We spoke to the Music Instructors about the cost of classes with them. It is now £35 a term for Music instruction or £140 a year. We have instructors for Drums, Fiddle, Woodwind and Accordion. Most instructors thought it would be hard for all the pupils who want music teaching to get it. They thought that Music teaching should be free of charge. Pri- vate tutors might work after school if the tutor was available.

Reporters Nicole Hughson and Ashleigh Nisbet

8 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 Fire in Gloup

On November the 8th a fire started in a house in Gloup causing fire, smoke and water damage to the house. Sixteen fire fighters attended the blaze. there was three fire engines that were at the home in Gloup. The Baltasound appliance to arrive, at 2:00pm then followed by the Brae and Yell engines.

The house had damage to the roof and upstairs with some fire, smoke at water damage to the down- stairs. The fire was under control at about 5:00pm but more time was needed to check that there was no chance of the fire from

starting again from any remaining embers. No one was hurt in the fire as the owners of the house, Charlie and Joanne Henderson were out. Charlie was in Lerwick and Joanne was visiting her daughter. We hope Charlie and Joanne are back in there home very soon and we wish them the best of luck.

Reporters, Louise Thomason and Mathew Johnson.

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Baby Otter Found Outside Leisure Centre

On Monday 26th of November 2012 a baby otter was found outside the Leisure Centre.

It was seen first by Ian Ogilvie, Robson Gray and James Smith. James ran into the centre and told all the very brave footballers about the otter. They all ran to see it. Rita had been in swimming and was going home when she came across the group of people and they told her what had happened.

When it was first spotted it was Baby Otter outside Leisure Centre at the automatic door trying to get Photo by Ian Ogilvie in but it couldn’t so it went into the revolving doors. The same happened to it in there and because all the box and got its two front feet on people were standing with the nor- the top of the box and nearly bit mal door open, it almost made it in, Jonathan. it got its two front feet on the carpet We got it over to the school inside but was shood out. It ran into and put in in the supply cupboard the bushes and sat there for a while in the Office and gave it water to then Logan Johnson took off his go into and keep wet. jumper and threw it on the ground Mr. Williamson took the otter for it, it went under it for a bit of down to Brae and gave it to a safety. Matthew Johnson ran over worker in the Co-op who also too the school and asked Michelle works in the Seal Sanctuary down for a cardboard box. She gave him in Hillswick. one with shredded paper in it. Logan got the otter in the box using his Reporters Matthew Johnson jumper. It tried to bite them a few and Jonathan Thomson times but it didn’t thankfully. Logan then said that there was Footnote: Sadly, when we phoned a bigger dead otter on the road near the Seal Sanctuary to check on its Gardie, so it is quite possible that it progress we were told the young was its mother. When we were tak- otter had died. But thanks to eve- ing the otter over to the school, it ryone who tried to rescue it. popped its head out the top of the

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12 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 Baby Arrives! Recently our class has been in contact with our English teacher Mrs Tonner and her husband, who have just be- come proud parents to their daughter, Ella Raine Tonner. She was born on the 16th of October 2012 at 4:23am and weighed 8lbs 9oz. She meas- ured 51cm long and was “totally beautiful!” Unfortu- nately Mrs Tonner had to go back into the hospital after the birth to have some X-rays. She is out of hospital now, but Ella Raine Tonner, the day she was born. How cute!

she is still a bit sore. Once she is feeling a bit better, she will come and visit and bring Ella with her! Mrs Tonner has also told us that Ella is very very well be- haved baby! And Vincent is a very good Dad as he does most of the nappies! We all can’t wait until she gets back!

Reporters Congratulations to Mrs Tonner and Nicole Hughson and Vincent. Love from MYJHS! Laura Lyth

13 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 THE ROYAL BABY IS ON IT’S WAY!

On the 3rd of December the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced that they are expecting their first child. This piece of news is travelling all over the world as the the Duchess is being treated in King Edward hospital and loads of the press waiting for any member of the Royal Family to leave the building. So far they’re is no date for when the baby will come.

The Duke and the Duchess Leaving the hospital 6th of December.

By Nicole Hughson.

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Primary 6 & 7 pupils from Mid Yell, Burravoe, Cullivoe, Bal- tasound, Fetlar and Nesting are going to Edinburgh on a school trip. The teachers that are going Edinburgh Castle are Alexa Coutts and another Mid Yell staff member (not decided yet, probably a man.) They are leaving on the 9th June 2013 and coming back on the 15th June. They will be gone for 6 days.

They have done some fund raising. Mrs Gear and Upper primary did a quiz sheet, there was a Table top sale and bag packing at Tesco’s and the Co-op on 22 november and 8th December. Another sale is booked for 3rd March 2013. They have been planning a sup- per night in Mid Yell. other schools are also having fund raising events.

Theme Park Originally it was £380 per person but now it has been reduced to £280.

Where are they going? Outside of Edinburgh they are going to Ratho Climbing Centre, M & D’s Theme park, Wallace Monument, Bannock- burn, Ice skating in Dundee, Butter- fly World; in Edinburgh, Edinburgh castle, Camera Obscura, Scottish Parliament, , Museum of Scot- land and Dynamic Earth, the Cinema and Ten Pin Bowling. Bairns quotes Conrad Inkster-“I don’t know i haven’t been yet” John Johnson-“It will be a good time to relax” Margo Mouat -“It will be good to have a first holiday away from mum & dad” Elouise Spooner - “It will be nice to be independent” Jayde Odie- “It will be exciting and fun” Reuben Irvine-“I’ve never been on a school trip outside shetland before” Reece Hughson – “Good to get away from my sister.”

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Theme Park in Glasgow Museum of Scotland

Wallace Monument Dynamic Earth

Scottish Parliament Ratho Climbing Centre

Butterfly World Dynamic Earth glacier

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Term 2 2012/13 They’re really busy in Cul- livoe School and have achieved their Green Flag Award. The green flag is an award you get when you help the environment and when you achieve your goal then you get a flag. They have learned about the impact of global warming and are now going to try and attract birds to the school garden over the winter. They are going to try and continue their crofting con- nections work because their new polytunnel has arrived. They are currently part of a big European project to publish a digital newspaper. They have an online work space to communicate and share information with pupils in Italy, Bulgaria, France, Norway, Finland, Belgium and Malta. Their new Christ- mas show is called “Hey Ewe”. It’s on the 11th of December 2012 in the Cul- livoe hall. It is free is to get in but donations will be taken for charity. The secondary pupils are doing “Sleeping Beauty”

In Cullivoe school p4-7

17 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 have been doing indoor bowling with John Jarmson, they have fin- ished now. The Cullivoe road safety officers, Christina, Kyle and Alfie did plan a fun week of road safety games for the 19th-23rd of November. Cullivoe school have continued their charity work and were able to give 29 boxes to the shoe box appeal. After their py- jama day they raised over £400 for children and need. All the classes are doing more about the festival Diwali. One of the staff members went to Singapore over the holidays and came back with food, clothes and decorations.

Reporter Brian Dobson

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It’s panto time! Oh yes it is! Mid Yell Hall Sunday 30th December & Saturday 12th Janu- ary 2013

6.30 for a 7pm start

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Burravoe School News

On Friday the 23rd November the Burravoe School had a Christmas Fair and sold Christmas cards and tags and made over £30. And sold candles, bath salts, lip balms, chocolate lollies and Christmas decorations and made nearly £50.

Monday 3rd December: We had hoped to have a parental involvement tree planting day yesterday to plant our Woodland Trust Jubilee trees but the weather was too bad. Today we made some tree guards to try and protect the trees from rabbits and then planted a few trees!

Information gathered by James Robertson

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There have been a lot of exciting things happening at Burravoe Primary school recently. Here is just a few of them, written by the pupils of Burravoe.

Micro Tyco

Micro Tyco is a charity that lends money to people that want to start businesses but that don’t have any money. For example Cheryl from the Philippines has 3 children and she comes from a poor country and she used her £176 loan to stock her fish stall with more products to help her business grow. Micro Tyco run a competition every No- vember. Burravoe School had two teams; one called Space Moun- tain and the other called Super Sellers. We got loaned £1 and in- vested it to make more money. Space Mountains grand total was £271 and Super Sellers total at the moment is £197.79 but they are still selling cards and they are hoping to get up to £200. Burravoe School are the only teams in Shetland.

By Mia Clark P5 Burravoe Primary School

Bradley Clark entered a Lego competition! I got 20 Lego bricks from Lego Education UK to build a model out of Lego. I got an enve- lope in the post with Lego in it. I had to build a model out of 20 bricks representing what I think is a good lesson. I built a Viking longship. It had a boy sitting in the back seat looking at the Viking. The boy was me. I had to take a photo of the model. I had a lot of hassle to put it in flickr web site. By Bradley Clark P3 Burravoe School

20 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 Going to the Gadderie On Wednesday 21st November 2012, Burravoe Primary School went to the Shetland Museum. There was an ex- hibition in the Gadderie called Shet- land School Art and Design. We went into the Gadderie and saw loads of great pictures hanging up on the crystal white walls. There were not just pictures in the Gadderie there were dresses and models. One of the pictures in the Gadderie was mine! We took our sketchbooks with us so if there were any pictures we liked then we could just sketch the picture or write down the names so then we could take back some of the ideas to do in art.

By Charlotte Pugh P6

Shetland Museum We went on the bus to the Shetland Museum. We went to learn about Vikings. The Vikings were fas- cinating. We learned that Vikings used soapstone. They used it for lamps. The Vikings burned fish oil or seal blubber. Some of the Vikings were farmers. Vikings had animals. They had pigs, sheep and coos. They used them for cooking after they cooked them they ate them. They used the fur and the skins for clothes, cloaks, leggings and shoes. When one of the Vikings died the ones that were alive buried the dead Viking with their treas- ure. My favourite bit was how the Vikings dyed the colour of the wool.

Abby P2 Burravoe School

Seeing The Egyptian Cat When we went to the museum we saw the Ancient Egyptian cat. The cat comes from London in the British Museum. The cat is made of bronze. A man called John Gayer Anderson bought it in Egypt. He gave it to the British Museum in 1939. The cat wore golden ear- rings and a nose ring and a silver necklace. A rich Egyptian bought it about 2,000 years ago. People think it is a statue of the Goddess Bastet. It was very interesting.

By Honor Smith P

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Burravoe School News

By James Robertson

22 “The Yell News” Printed and published by S2 Mid Yell JHS January 2013 There are lots of pan- tos on just now. Here is a round-up of a few. The Mid Yell community are putting on a Pantomime for Christmas, and this year it will be based on the story of ‘Aladdin.’ The pantomime will be held at the Mid Yell hall on Sunday the 30th December and Saturday 12th January. Sources believe that Mark Aqualina and Ronnie Martin are to star in the performance. Altogether, there will be more than 50 people taking part in the pantomime. Rosemary Johnson and Val Leask are the chief wardrobe mistresses along with an army of help- ers. Olga Hughson and Jennifer Nisbet will be creating the backdrops for the performance. The cost is £10 and the performances are both sell outs!

This year, Cullivoe put on a spectacular performance of the well known play of Sleeping Beauty. The secondary pupils who live in Cullivoe along with Alfie Lawson, have put on a play starring Leanne Spence as Princess Aurora, and Brodie Lawson as Prince Phillip, and a few others from Cullivoe. Costumes were provided by Julie Jamieson and lighting and sound effects by Phil Kennerley. All scenery was made by the cast. There was only nine of them performing and these nine organised the whole performance! This pantomime was held on Tuesday 11 December at the Cullivoe hall. All went very well and was a great success. Well done to all the cast!

Islesburgh Drama Group put on a performance of ‘Sinbad the Sailor,’ written by Ron Hall. It is scheduled to run from Thursday 29th November to Saturday 1st December, and from Monday 3rd December to Saturday 8th December (inclusive.) People from Cullivoe went to see the pantomime first, followed by Burravoe youth club the next day and the Mid Yell community went the fol- lowing day. Danielle Johnson starred as a Princess Yasmin, and Gillian Isbister played the role of Sinbad the Sailor. The performance went very well and everyone enjoyed themselves! Well done to the Islesburgh Drama Group.

Reporters ~ Louise Thomason and Laura Lyth.

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E– Twinning S2 E-Twinners Project

The Mid Yell Junior High school have been working on two etwinning projects called “Shetland - La Reunion” and “Islanders” which involves talking to pupils from La Reunion, a small island off the coast of Madagascar. The project involves exploring the similarities and differences of living on an island in two different parts of the world and getting to know each others culture through exchanging work.

The pupils use the website “TwinSpace” to communicate in both French and English, so the pupils get a good understanding of the opposite language. Each of the MYJHS pupils chose to talk to one or more of the French pupils based on a short description they wrote about themselves. Most of the pupils from MYJHS are talking to their friends from La reunion, using either Twin- Space or their own personal social websites, like Facebook.

Leanne Spence (S3) said “It is a fantastic experience, to get to talk to people who speak a different language and get a better understanding of how they live”. The rest of Secondary 3 said “The TwinSpace chatroom is good for helping you have a better understanding of the French language and their culture.”

Keira Thomson and Brodie Lawson (both S3), said “It’s lovely communi- cating with the French pupils and it is very interesting because their from a different part of the world with very different cultures.”

The Pupils from Mid Yell have found that quite a lot of the activities they do are different eg. some of the pupils from La Reunion take part in sports like surfing, paraglid- ing and mounting biking.

by Lauren Johnson

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Badminton S

U13s Intercounty Badminton 2012 The 2012 Intercounty badminton match was held in Orkney in March. The overall winners were Shetland. After the sin- gles, the scores were much the same. In the doubles Shetland gained a small lead but in the mixed doubles Shetland strug- gled but still prevailed. The next U13s Intercounty match will be held in the Scalloway Games Hall in March/April 2013.

U13 & U15s Shetland Badminton Development Squads Every Saturday their is a Badminton Development Squad held at the Scalloway Games Hall. The coaches, Anne Wood (U13s coach) and Stuart Sineath (U15s coach), give up their own time to coach Shetland’s young players. The U13s coaching starts at 10.00am and finishes at 11.30am. The U15s starts at 11.30am and finishes at 1.00pm. For every 3/4 months of training it’s about £30.00.

Reporter: Ashleigh Nisbet