Going home by boat

After our day at Papa Westray school (Papay for short, as the locals call it) we go down to the harbour where we meet  the older children of Papay coming home from school on the school boat from the larger island of  Westray – a 30 minute boat journey across  the Papay Sound. This boat is how our Papay school teachers travel home and we go with them to Westray, along with Nils Olav our Penguin mascot who you may remember from our Falkland travels!!  Here Nils is helping navigate the boat……..

Polly

Papa Westray School

The school on Papa Westray has a role of 5 primary and 2 nursery children. It compares with the composite school at North Arm, East Falkland. Pupils are taught up to Primary 7 and then travel by the school bus and school boat to Westray for S1 – S4. For any further education, they would board at Kirkwall Hostel beside the Kirkwall Grammar School.

The pupils are enjoying learning about the Falkland Islands and completing the animal distribution jigsaw map.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos : Ailsa Seatter, Teacher Papa Westray.

Sandie

Orkney – Papa Westray

We arrived in Kirkwall at 11.ooam on Monday 20th April. Within the hour we made a very short visit to Kirkwall Grammar School and introduced some S1 pupils to the Falkland Islands.

Then we took the Islander plane to Papa Westray. The flight was just about 12 minutes!

Papa Westray is a small island west of Westray. Westray is the largest of the north islands of Orkney.

Papa Westray is only 4 miles long and 1 mile wide but although small it is a beautiful island with cliffs, sandy beaches, farmland and lochs.

Sandie

Travelling teachers go to Orkney

Sandie and Polly are going to the Orkney Islands (off the northeast coast of Scotland) to deliver our Falklands Outreach lessons to some of the Orkney schools. Our main linking school in Orkney is on the small island of Papa Westray which we will get to by flying in a small 8-seater airplane – not unlike our visit to Hill Cove on West Falkland – see our photo below.  

We are travelling around Orkney from 20th April until 26th April. As we will only have limited internet access you will have to wait until our return back to Edinburgh Zoo to catch up on what we did and saw in Orkney, so watch this space!

Polly