This year the older children are again working towards John Muir Awards – having progressed to the level 2 ‘Explorer Award’. The children are working on a variety of projects related to discovering, exploring, conserving and sharing their ‘place’. Once again the green house and growing projects have played a key role. Earlier this spring we planted approximately 60 more trees in our back field, including 5 apple trees. It’s
We’ve spent PE lessons over the last few Mondays delivering new ‘visitor book boxes’ to three more sites across Papay. The boxes are beginning to prove quite popular, in particular the original box at the Knap of Howar which has over fifteen pages check-ins! Remember, every person who checks in can take a special ‘doondie’ sticker. If you happen to be on Papay, there are now five boxes to watch
Ever since we worked on our ‘doondie fish’ mural with Chris Rutterford back in October, the idea of a gannet mural for the front wall has been rolling around. With a few days of good weather last week we quickly got on with this. We had a lot of fun working on this together in class. The nursery helped to paint the canvas board using wellies and the older children
