On The Keen
Shetland Nature
Today we enjoyed a lovely morning leading a field trip onto the Keen o Hamar National Nature Reserve on Unst, for 16 P4 & 5 pupils from Baltasound Junior High School. So much fun for Brydon and former BJHS teacher, Mike Pennington to share this fascinating and unique habitat and the rare flowering sub-Arctic Alpine plants that grow there, and even some of the bugs that live there. The pupils were wonderfully enthusiastic- particularly impressed by Edmonston’s Chickweed growing there on their island and nowhere else in the world!
A big thank you to all the pupils for being so engaged and interested- and well behaved (!), and to their teachers Miss Painter and Mrs Nivin- thank you for asking us, it was an absolute pleasure.
Our newSWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding ‘My Junior’ binoculars were a big hit too- the perfect day and way to connect the kids that bit more with nature, using binoculars designed just for them.
About The Author
P. Thomson
Paul Thomson is a full time member of the Unst community, Retained Firefighter with Scottish Fire & Rescue Service and Head Teacher at Baltasound Junior High School - the UK's most northerly school.