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Today we made pictures using nature from our surroundings. The pictures show artwork of images that can be seen around Whalsay. We have created a sheep in a 'cru' and a beach.

Last week before the change of timetable, sadly for some of our youngsters, it's the end of their John Muir journey. 5 of our youngsters have achieved their Explorer awards, which we are so proud of. Today we were finishing off a couple of seats for our newly re-wilded garden. The girls look rightly happy with the job they have done! It will get a coat of paint soon to protect it. The next few weeks will be celebrations of the group, (and the SLP group's) achievements, with a big outdoor cookout in the pipeline. We will keep you updated with how that goes.

The wardens at Saltwells are creating a new tree nursery. Trees will be propagated from seed collected in Saltwells Wood. Last week we helped by starting to prepare the ground to put footpaths around the raised beds. Students worked hard digging out turf. The underlying clay soil was very dry and at first we struggled to get our spades into the soil. Then as luck would have it, the heavens opened and the rain softened up the soil making it easier to dig. Unfortunately, our luck changed again when what we hoped would a shower carried on until it became slippery under foot. This work will be continued after half term.

Another busy week in the garden at IHS. We were litter picking, prepping more ground for the grass/wildflower mix and building seats with pallet wood and tree stumps. The garden is starting to evolve into the space we want the school to have, and we are picking plants and flowers that will encourage bees and butterflies into the garden. We've included a couple of photos of the grass starting to poke through the ground, and some of the aquatic plants that our Supported Learning John Muir group planted around the pond.

Spring has sprung! We continued explore our local park and last week we celebrated all of its colours. Some of us managed to make a rainbow of colours.

Today we added the finishing touches to our presentations on John Muir.

We explored the park in early spring. Using watercolours we painted our favourite view.

We started our John Muir award back at the start of the year when we took part in the RSPB big garden bird watch and explored our local park.