Following recent interest in slaters and worms in nursery- bug & beetle walks, clay creations, wormery.

Creating our own bug inspired dance move instructions, nursery and P3.

With the help of Foula Heritage Rangers we have been exploring the formation of blanket bog looking at, sketching and investigating the water holding capabilities of sphagnum moss.

Julia Donaldson was our ‘Creative of the Week’ for National Storytelling Week in nursery – a fab sketch of the snail and the whale, we’ve been exploring with clay too.

Investigating crater, mountain and Maria formation on the Moon with layers of flour and cocoa powder.

This week we had two students from Kalø Organic Agricultural College, who are on placement with Foula Wool, come to talk to us about their studies. We wrote and presented to our visitors advice about staying in Foula. They joined us for Wednesday Together lunch and we led a guided walk for them to share our rich knowledge of our island.

Tardigrades, moss piglets, join both our blanket-bog and space projects! They mainly live on sphagnum moss but we also discovered that spacecraft containing tardigrades crash landed on the moon in 2019 and they are probably still alive in their ‘tun’ state.

We have been making model planets and creative fact zines about the Moon.

We have started investigating the construction of Earth and the position of Earth in space.