The pier at Uyeasound is in full production. For the last few months we have been watching it grow. The new pier is huge and is being built alongside the school. It is hard to concentrate with diggers, trucks and cranes flying about outside the windows.

Mrs Irvine the outreach teacher from Bell’s Brae School was here to help with one of our pupils.

Tuesday 26th August

Library day. Carol , the librarian comes down to school now. We change our books with her on a Wednesday but on a Tuesday afternoon we investigate books in depth and listen to stories. This week she brought story tapes for us all to listen to.

Wednesday

Baltasound day and a new timetable. Some new staff too. Miss Massey is now our P.E. teacher. Netta does the little ones swimming. French with Miss Mc Cormack and Learning Support with Mrs Priest. Mrs Pennington gives extra help in computing to one pupil.

THursday Mrs Priest is in all day as Mrs Coutts has to go to the head teachers’ meeting in Lerwick. All about HMIe and new inspections. We had a much better day here as one of the pier trucks carrying a big crane went off the road and got stuck. This caused a traffic jam in Uyeasound for over an hour..  It was all go for a while but they eventually got out of the drain and back on the road.

Friday

Robert was back to help out. Mrs Nelson got us to help her clean all the Art cupboards. A man was here to survey asll the insulation in the school. Mrs Coutts was under the floor and in the loft.

We opened on Wednesday August the 20th. Due to strike action we could only open in the morning which was a nice easy way to start off the term. We have 8 boys and 1 girl at the school this year.

21st August

We had 3 lady visitors. Two of them returning from a few years ago. They brought us some Terry Pratchet books to add to our library. We will make good use of them during the winter months. 

Our Music teacher Miss Dobson was here as usual and we all had music in the afternoon.

Teenie has joined us. She is on work experience and will be with us 3 days a week to help out wioth things. She goe to the Baltasound School.

22nd August

Mrs Nelson our new Art teacher arrived today. We have been really looking forward to her coming. Robert also joined us. Robert is on work experience too and goes to the Mid Yell School. It is good to have a big boy around the place.

The first half week was over before we knew it and we still haven’t got the timetable worked out yet.