The new term began with some wild weather and Lucy was unable to get to Fair Isle.  Ruth held the fort for week 1 and did a great job of sorting, cleaning and organising with the boys for the term ahead.

With the arrival of a Japanese film crew on the island, we decided to start the year with a mini project on Japan.  Ander was particularly keen to learn to speak and write Japanese and Luca is keen to learn about Japanese food. Fiona did some beautiful Japanese fish art work with the boys.

             

We learned that in Japan, people send New Year cards instead of Christmas cards.  We thought that our friends Harris and Heidi would like New Year cards too.

We are lucky to have so many people to help us in school.  Pat began the new year with some bulb planting, ukelele and recorder.

                 

Both boys are working hard on their maths targets. Luca is learning about fractions, decimals and percentages and the connections between them.  Ander is working on numbers to 100 and different strategies to add and subtract.

For part of our literacy, we have started free writing every morning for 3 minutes to try to give us the confidence to write more.

As well as teaching the boys a hip-hop dance routine in PE, Hollie has been very busy organsing our nursery in preparation for Brodie starting in February.  Nursery is looking fantastic and we are all really looking forward to Brodie joining us.

The Nursery Message Area

We have had an unusually settled week of weather with some beautiful January skies.

      

Our Daily Mile                              Limpet collecting after school

Next week, if the weather allows, Ander is keen for us all to go on an expedition up Malcolm’s Head with our lunch. We will also be learning about school life in Japan and tasting some Japanese food.  Look out for the photos!