Last
Friday, I took a trip over to the Western Isles to attend an event celebrating
134 years of Scalpay School – and to mark its closing at the end of this term.
There’s
something very strange about stepping over the threshold of your first ever classroom
after an absence of nearly forty years. Structurally, the room looked just the
same. The colours are brighter now (yellow, green and white instead of light
grey and dark grey) and every available wall space today is busy with words,
pictures, projects.
