Wednesday 18th August 2010
The curtain lady came to measure up and take the material to make the curtains. I think that this is going to be another of those things where I am not allowed to know the cost. I am sure we could have got a set of second hand blinds for a few quid.
It was supposed to be wet and cloudy all day today but as is usual the Orkney weather will do what it wants with scant regard for what the Met Office says it should do so we had a nice day.
The children went back to school here this week. Apparently there are 197 new starters in the 20 Orkney schools. Even North Ronaldsay school has 2 new starters so I think that they have had to open the school again.
When most of the UK is having problems with class sizes of over 30, it is not bad to have a whole school with just 2 pupils. At least they should get enough individual attention.
Unfortunately Burray school had no new starters so I suppose that means the threat of amalgamating Burray school with the school at St Margarets Hope on South Ronaldsay will be raised again. Although Burray is linked by a causway to South Ronaldsay, the people here are fiercly independant and the school is quite new so the council will have a fight if they want to close it.
If they were going to amalgamate the schools then they should have thought of it before they built new schools in both Burray and in The Hope.
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