It does feel like spring is on the horizon here at Fair Isle. Brighter and longer days are on the horizon and the isle is looking rather lovely.

There has been lots going on here at Fair Isle Primary School as we approach the Easter Break. Last week was World Book Day. Whilst costumes were very much optional, it was more important to us here at our school that we celebrated our love of reading and put that front and centre of a “reading themed day”. We designed new front covers for our recent class novel, “Danny the Champion of the World”, made sea creature themed bookmarks out of felt and invited our parents in for a lovely paired-reading session where we relaxed and read some favourite stories to one another. It was a great day.

In our RME lessons, we have been focussing on Buddhism. As part of this, we learned about Bodhi Day. Bodhi Day is the day that the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, awoke from what Buddhists believe was his seven day meditation underneath the Bodhi tree after achieving enlightenment. After considering what Buddhists think living a good and fulfilling life means, we made some delicious Bodhi Day biscuits (in the shape of leaves, naturally) and shared them with our friends and families.

This coming week is our school trip to mainland Shetland for swimming lessons, climbing wall excursions and trips to see our pals at Sandwick. Fingers crossed for more lovely weather.