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 →

P2 have enjoyed using the laptops to type up their news for the Fair Isle Times. They love using the clicker programme which reads back their sentences and also helps with spelling. P2 are also working hard on money this … Continue reading →