Scotland's most remote island primary school - with just three pupils - is searching for a new head teacher.

Fair Isle, which is halfway between Orkney and Shetland, is famed for its knitwear and bird observatory.

It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018.

Headteacher Ruth Stout has worked at the school for 35 years, but is due to step down in October.

Shetland Islands Council said the post - with a salary of £56,787 per year - was a unique opportunity, with applications having to be in by Sunday night.

Mrs Stout said the island - which featured in the BBC's Fair Isle: Living on the Edge documentary series - is a great place to live and work, but urged potential applicants for the job to carefully consider the practicalities of moving there.


She said: "It's quite a different sort of life to living in other places. We are very weather dependent.

"Planes and boats are often cancelled and that can impact on school trips. You have to be adaptable and flexible living here.

"I've been here for 35 years and we've a lot of children through the school - we've had primary one to primary seven, every age and stage in the class at the same time. The children learn from each other."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58322157

The current pupils are nine-year-old Freyja, six-year-old Luca, and Ander, who is three.

Freyja said: "There are not many children so you can get to do lots of different things.

"And we grow lots of vegetables to have with our school dinners."

Eileen Thomson, the mother of Luca and Ander, said the island was lucky to have such a good school and it was vital that it managed to attract the right person to continue the work done by Mrs Stout.

The departing head teacher said a major challenge was preparing the children for secondary school, when they have to leave Fair Isle and go to board at the high school in Lerwick in Shetland.

She said: "It's a big move from them and they just come back every third weekend and holidays.

"So a lot of our time is spent on school trips to get them used to being in Lerwick and used to the Anderson High School hostel where they will go and live."

Shetland Islands Council said whoever replaces Mrs Stout would have a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Robin Calder, its executive manager for quality improvement, said: "This is a tremendous opportunity for a head teacher, or aspiring head teacher, to join the vibrant community of Fair Isle and continue to take the school forward.

"It offers a fantastic opportunity for any educationalist to develop both professionally and personally."

Nigeria is poverty stricken

On my way

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"It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a
reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018."


Reading the quoted part above, the first thing that came to my mind was, how have they been living through the cold winter time without electricity to heat their homes

I didn't see any solar panels or Hydro plant in the available picture.


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A primary school on a remote area looking so finer than our public universities in Nigeria simply because animals have been ruling the country from her Inception to date...

After over 3 decades of existence
How I ended up been born in Nigeria still dey shock me

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"It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a
reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018."


Reading the quoted part above, the first thing that came to my mind was, how have they been living through the cold winter time without electricity to heat their homes

I didn't see any solar panels or Hydro plant in the available picture.


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Shetlands is oil rich.

The whites are incredible, imagine a school of 3 pupils looking so good while some of our schools here looks like a pounded yam kitchen.

Commentor:


Shetlands is oil rich.

So that means they'll have issues with agriculture. No wonder the salary is that high, you will need the money to buy expensive food

NigeriaLimited:

So that means they'll have issues with agriculture. No wonder the salary is that high, you will need the money to buy expensive food

They don't have problems with agriculture.

They are known for fishing as well as keeping sheep.

They spend the same Scottish pound and getting produce is no problem.

Commentor:

They don't have problems with agriculture.
They are known for fishing as well as keeping sheep.
They spend the same Scottish pound and getting produce is no problem.

So if they don't have issues with oil spillage which is a common problem down here
and they have oil, how come Niger-delta has oil spillage and issues with agriculture? Where are we getting it wrong in Nigeria? Something isn't right.

Niger Delta deserves more

NigeriaLimited:


So if they don't have issues with oil spillage which is a common problem down here
and they have oil, how come Niger-delta has oil spillage and issues with agriculture? Where are we getting it wrong in Nigeria? Something isn't right.

Niger Delta deserves more

When people tell you the truth would you accept?


There's global best practice applied in the oil industry. Even in Nigeria.

But just as Nigerians vandalise rail lines, they do so on oil pipelines.

The fallout is what we bear.

We are too primitive abeg.

Please how can I apply?

I need to apply.

Post this ad for punch and vanguard about 30million candidates will apply on the first day. We get teachers nau not only doctors

I go adapt naau

What's the qualifications they are looking for, and is the opportunity opened to Nigerians,I no mind make Dem no pay me my first three months salary sef

Plut01:
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"It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a
reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018."


Reading the quoted part above, the first thing that came to my mind was, how have they been living through the cold winter time without electricity to heat their homes

I didn't see any solar panels or Hydro plant in the available picture.


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The ancient ways...their fire made out of wood...humans existed b4 electricity

Real life koro-sensei

...and I can teach o very very well and very good with kids too

It sounds like a life time experience and the kids would be so emotionally intelligent.

They would also be very hands on & be very resourceful.

Wow!! Very interesting. There are schools like that in Nigeria too, especially in some of the sparsely populated Niger Delta oil producing communities. The oil companies provide support but there are just few pupils.
Such kids have very poor understanding of city life and it will surprise you when most of them can't even mention the name of a bank.
That's why I applaud the effort of the school to take them on trips. Not really a great place to raise a child . Children are in their best elements when growing up among peers in order to build their social and communication skills.

Plut01:
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"It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a
reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018."


Reading the quoted part above, the first thing that came to my mind was, how have they been living through the cold winter time without electricity to heat their homes

I didn't see any solar panels or Hydro plant in the available picture.


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They just got a 24hr/day reliable electricity. This doesn't mean they were without electricity. It just wasn't constant. In other words, there used to be occasional power cuts. But then again, how they survived without electricity shouldn't be a puzzle, there are other ways to generate heat. Man predates electricity, you know. Some of us still love the fireplace concept even in the presence of constant power supply.

Ever8090:
A primary school on a remote area looking so finer than our public universities in Nigeria simply because animals have been ruling the country from her Inception to date...

That was exactly the same thing that bcame to my mind immediately I opened this thread.... You literally spoke my mind.

Nigeria is cursed.... NA ME TALK AM.

I'm more than competent. I can be both teacher and headmistress o.
I've got more than 5 years of teaching experience.
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NigeriaLimited:


So if they don't have issues with oil spillage which is a common problem down here
and they have oil, how come Niger-delta has oil spillage and issues with agriculture? Where are we getting it wrong in Nigeria? Something isn't right.

Niger Delta deserves more

Niger Delta matter tire me o. Looks like the Niger Deltan too don't want development. An acquaintance told me her story of how she and a foreign company wants to set up some schools, factories and some beneficiary stuff like that at one area of the Niger Delta. Do you know what the Deltans did?

When a meeting was call with the deltans to discuss how they want to build the infrastructure . Lo and behold, the deltans said they don't want any infrastructure but the money for the infrastructure should be shared amongst them. Omo.. Oyinbos shock o, the girl sef say she shock . She was shocked . They ended up sharing that money amongs themselves . That was how the foreigners left o .

Plut01:
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"It is just three miles long (4.8km) and one-and-a-half miles wide, is home to 60 people, and only got a
reliable 24-hour-a-day electricity supply in 2018."


Reading the quoted part above, the first thing that came to my mind was, how have they been living through the cold winter time without electricity to heat their homes

I didn't see any solar panels or Hydro plant in the available picture.


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I'm sure they must be using Biomass Energy

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