It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Fair Isle Primary School. We have been having great fun decorating our setting for the festive season. As ever, we love collaborating and working as a team and have made … Continue reading →

So far this year, we have been very lucky to have lots of visitors (both virtually and in person) who have shown generosity and kindness toward our peerie school. Firstly, you might remember seeing our fabulous artwork created with visiting … Continue reading →

Today was, quite simply, an epic day. Children in Need is a charity that Fair Isle has been proud to support for many years, especially the Radio Shetland fundraising appeal. We don’t do things “by halves” here at our peerie … Continue reading →

We are very busy immersing ourselves in some performing arts this term, which will culminate in us performing our very own pantomime for the community here at the end of term. We stage our show in the hall and it … Continue reading →

We are very fortunate here in Fair Isle to have support from the community and (of course) our wonderful parents, who love visiting school to work with our children. Recently, one of our parents, Alice, has been joining us to … Continue reading →

School trips are really important to us. So, after being unlucky with the weather before the October break, we bravely set off to Lerwick this week for a two day trip. After a bit of a bumpy flight on the … Continue reading →

Spooky goings-on today in school as we had a day devoted to Halloween. The children pulled out the stops with some sensational costumes (and make-up). We did pumpkin carving, STEM activities with flapping bats and made our own jam jar … Continue reading →

The clocks may have gone back but the days are just as beautiful here in Fair Isle. We recently returned from our October holidays so what better way to catch up with each other than a proper outdoor wander around … Continue reading →

We had Lucy visiting us this week, which was lovely. Lucy helped to teach us before Jonathan arrived in April and it was fabulous to have her back in Fair Isle (she travelled all the way from Skye after Storm … Continue reading →

Autumn is well and truly upon us here in Fair Isle. Changing colours, sweeping weather, harvest, sheep gathering and peeled tatties. We have spent some time in our Literacy lessons thinking about how Autumn here is different to other places … Continue reading →