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

“The Yell

News”

Printed and Published by

Secondary Two pupils at Mid Yell JHS

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 Hall, a raffle and they were also selling home bakes. During the Dance, there was a donut competition. This year we were very disap-pointed in Mr. Mouat as Miss Gear just beat him! He was the defending champion. Everyone looking stunning including teachers! S4’s also prepared a short buffet snack for the mid-dle of the Dance. The whole night was a great success and everyone had a brilliant time. Well done S4’s! MORE PHOTOS Page 2

INSIDE Peanuts in India……...page 3

Ferry Cuts?…………. pg 6 & 7 Fire in Gloup …………..page 8 Otter Saved? ………..page 10 New Babies …………pg 12-13 Off to Edinburgh ...pg 14-15 Cullivoe News ………pg 16-17 Burravoe news …...pg 18-21

E-Twinning ……………….pg 23 Badminton news ……… pg 24

Teachers embarrassing themselves at

the donut challenge. Miss Gear won.

Jimmy, we’re disappointed in you!

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

early to go south.

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

The Dance in full swing

Unst teachers come in

handy!

S4 School Dance photos


India 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?

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?

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 vil-

lage 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

suffering from

School Librarian Mrs Jeanette Nowak (or Peanuts!)

has just returned from India. We asked her to tell us

about her trip.

Page design by Matthew Johnson

The elephants had an impact on me.

Hotel Tamil Nadu

Temple roofs On the shore

Continued on Page 4


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]


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)

Yell Helps Children in Need


Through this week report-

ers Nicole Hughson and

Ashleigh Nisbet sent an

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 op-

tions 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 op-

tion is to have two ferries running together in the morning, however this is only for a one

FRONT LINE FERRIES TO BE

CUT?

The “Daggri” and

“Dagalien” on their daily

route across Yell Sound.


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 is-

lands, 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 teach-ing 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


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.

Fire in Gloup


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 go-ing home when she came across the

group of people and they told her what had happened.

When it was first spotted it was at the automatic door trying to get

in but it couldn’t so it went into the revolving doors. The same happened

to it in there and because all the people were standing with the nor-

mal door open, it almost made it in, it got its two front feet on the carpet

inside but was shood out. It ran into the bushes and sat there for a while

then Logan Johnson took off his jumper and threw it on the ground

for it, it went under it for a bit of

safety. Matthew Johnson ran over too the school and asked Michelle

for a cardboard box. She gave him one with shredded paper in it. Logan

got the otter in the box using his jumper. It tried to bite them a few

times but it didn’t thankfully. Logan then said that there was

a bigger dead otter on the road near Gardie, so it is quite possible that it

was its mother. When we were tak-ing the otter over to the school, it

popped its head out the top of the

box and got its two front feet on

the top of the box and nearly bit Jonathan.

We got it over to the school and put in in the supply cupboard

in the Office and gave it water to go into and keep wet.

Mr. Williamson took the otter down to Brae and gave it to a

worker in the Co-op who also works in the Seal Sanctuary down

in Hillswick.

Reporters Matthew Johnson and Jonathan Thomson

Footnote: Sadly, when we phoned the Seal Sanctuary to check on its

progress we were told the young otter had died. But thanks to eve-

ryone who tried to rescue it.

Baby Otter outside Leisure Centre

Photo by Ian Ogilvie

Baby Otter Found Outside Leisure

Centre


Attend unlimited exercise

classes in January at

Yell Leisure Centre for

Only £28 Subject to availability, booking is advised

for some classes

Aquacise

Spinning


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

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

Nicole Hughson and

Laura Lyth

Ella Raine Tonner, the day

she was born. How cute!

Congratulations to Mrs Tonner and

Vincent. Love from MYJHS!


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.


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 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.

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.”

Edinburgh Trip

Camera Obscura

Theme Park

Edinburgh Castle

Reporter— Mitchell Odie


Ratho Climbing Centre Scottish Parliament

Museum of Scotland Theme Park in Glasgow

Dynamic Earth glacier

Wallace Monument

Dynamic Earth

Butterfly World


Cullivoe School News

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 go-ing 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 com-municate and share infor-mation 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 sec-ondary pupils are doing “Sleeping Beauty” In Cullivoe school p4-7


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

“

Mid Yell Hall Sunday 30th

December & Saturday 12th Janu-ary 2013

6.30 for a 7pm start

It’s panto time! Oh yes

it is!

http://www.fontspace.com/artsylady/al-princess-jasmine


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

Burravoe School News


Burravoe School News Information collected and arranged by Laura Lyth

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


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


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!

Burravoe School News

By James Robertson


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 eve-

ryone enjoyed themselves! Well done to the Islesburgh Drama Group. Reporters ~ Louise Thomason and Laura Lyth.

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E– Twinning Project

The Mid Yell Junior High school have been work-

ing on two etwinning projects called “Shetland

- La Reunion” and “Islanders” which in-

volves 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 cul-ture.”

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 dif-ferent eg. some of the pupils

from La Reunion take part in sports like surfing, paraglid-

ing and mounting biking.

by Lauren Johnson

S2 E-Twinners


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

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