The children had a lovely week with their new supply teacher, Lucy.  They especially enjoyed learning about Lucy’s other job as a mountaineering guide on the Isle of Skye – it sounds very exciting! On Tuesday after school, Lucy kindly … Continue reading →

Last Friday, at Fair Isle Primary School, we had a lovely visit from Heike, a German fashion designer staying on the island. We learned about OXO patterns, colours and Shetland Wool Week. We designed our own jumpers:

Last Thursday we visited the museum.  Stewart answered all our questions!  Here are some of the things we found out: One of the oldest exhibits in the museum is the canon from the Spanish Armada boat called El Gran Grifon.      … Continue reading →

Last week, professors from the University of Nottingham visited the isle as part of their project called Ragna’s Islands. See their blog here : https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasislands/ They held a school and community event to explore Fair Isle’s Viking roots. Judith spoke about … Continue reading →

Monday Upon arrival, we had a quick lunch at the hostel flat then headed to Clickimin pool for our first swimming lesson. Afterwards (following a well-earned snack of course), we walked to Bolts to collect the minibus then had a … Continue reading →

We have been learning about soluble substances and dissolving this week by experimenting with different liquids and solids in water eg. oil, sugar, salt, chalk, sand, flour, soap, vinegar, etc. The children tried their hardest to mix the oil and … Continue reading →

We have introduced ERIC (everyone reading in class) time for 10 mins every day after break time. We recently received many old magazines and comics from Freyja, such as The Beano, The Week Junior and Nat Geographic Kids which our … Continue reading →

The children created self-portraits showing their outer and inner selves: Ander loves trees, his climbing frame, football, his iPad, love, Don dog, hot dogs, burgers and has shown his Shetland and Argentinian roots!  Harris has shown his love of Xbox, … Continue reading →