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Term 3 Update
That’s wis settled into term 3 and the bairns have been busy! Here is (a lot!) of photos of some of the things we have been up to.Story and Song of the Week
Week Beginning: 9th February 2026 Our story of the week is Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae. Click on the link below to view and listen to the story. Our song of the week is I’m a Giraffe. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.Some Recent Fabulous Artwork
What creative and artistic children we have here in Fair Isle Primary School. Over the last few weeks with Jonathan, we have been busy creating new designs for our cards that are sold when cruise ships visit in the spring and summer. As well as the classic “Puffin in Fair Isle Knitwear” design that has become somewhat of a tradition, we also had some terrific landscape drawings of famous Fair Isle views. In Fiona’s art lessons, we have been studying traditional Inuit artwork. Fiona’s mother once worked amongst Inuit communities as a nurse so we used her artefacts and the …Art Lesson
In Art p6 have been learning about the French Artist Claude Monet and have used chalks to recreate his impressionist style. We started by mixing and blending the chalk to achieve different colours and tones. We then layered on top of that with more chalk, trying to add different marks to create the impression of detail. The class have worked very hard and has resulted in lots of beautiful pictures, well done p6!! We will now be moving on to do a similar thing, but this time using paint.Latest updatesArt Lesson
In Art p7 have been using LINE to draw some realistic looking Vikings. We have tried to use wavy line to help create the feeling of movement in the hair. The details and expressions created are fantastic, Well-done P7!Thursday 5th February 2026
PE- Balancing Fun! Today in PE we focused on balancing. We practiced balancing carefully as we moved along the stepping stones and along the up-turned bench, which was very narrow and tricky! We had to stretch out our arms to help keep us balanced. We also made a small obstacle, where we had to climb up and then balance along a plank. The children used their imaginations and thought the red mats looked like lava and the blue mat was the water with some sharks in it, so we had to be extra careful not to fall in! The children…Latest News
Advent in Glow Blogs
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Canva Embeds in Glow Blogs
Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs.Fixed: PDF Issue
The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds.Glow Blogs Update 30 Sep 2025
Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference.Fixed: PDF problem
An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are ‘truncated’ to one page. We hope this is fixed soon. There are a few workarounds you can use in the meantime.
