Burravoe Primary School

Anyone interesting in finding out more about ongoing Options Appraisals for Burravoe Primary School and Skeld Primary School is being invited to public drop-in sessions in the next fortnight.

The sessions will provide an opportunity to meet Council officers, view information about the appraisal process, ask questions and share views about the future provision of education within the Burravoe and Skeld areas.

On 19 August 2026, Shetland Islands Council approved the preparation of Options Appraisals for both schools as part of the preliminary requirements set out in the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010.  No decisions have been made regarding the future of either school.

The purpose of the current work is to gather information, explore reasonable alternatives and assess the potential educational, community, transport and financial implications of different options.

The Council is keen to hear a wide range of views and local knowledge which will help inform the appraisal process. Members of the public are also encouraged to suggest any reasonable alternatives they feel should be considered.

Drop in sessions will take place as follows –

• Skeld Primary School, Monday 21st September, 6.30pm – 8pm at Skeld Public Hall
• Burravoe Primary School, Monday 28th September, 5pm – 6.30pm at Burravoe School

Neil Beattie, Executive Manager – Learning Estate, said: “These drop-in sessions are an opportunity for people to learn more about the Options Appraisal process, ask questions and share their views.   No decisions have been made regarding the future of either school, and we would encourage anyone with an interest in education provision in Burravoe or Skeld to come along and speak to officers.”

Further information about both Options Appraisals, including online surveys and background information, is available on the Council’s website – at www.shetland.gov.uk/schools/learning-estate/4

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For media enquiries, please contact: Neil Beattie on 01595 744129

Shetland Islands Council is seeking views on the future of Burravoe and Skeld Primary Schools.

Two online surveys have been launched today, asking residents, parents, staff, and other stakeholders for their views.   The responses from the surveys will help inform the Options Appraisal process and will be considered alongside other factors, including education, community, transport and finance.  No decision has been made regarding the future of either school.

Skeld Primary School has been mothballed since August 2024, following a decision by the Council’s Education and Families Committee after the completion of the Council’s mothballing process.  Burravoe Primary School currently has less than five pupils on the school roll and would meet the criteria for consideration under the Council’s mothballing procedures.

A range of options are being explored, including maintaining current arrangements, reopening or continuing the mothballing of Skeld Primary School, and the potential for future statutory consultation on permanent closure. The appraisal process will also consider any other reasonable alternatives identified.

On 19 August 2026, Councillors approved the preparation of options appraisals for both schools.  These options appraisals are being undertaken as preliminary requirements of a statutory consultation under the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010.

• Information on the Options Appraisal for Burravoe Primary School and a link to the survey are available here
• Information on the Options Appraisal for Skeld Primary School and a link to the survey are available here

Both surveys are open until Monday 21 September 2026.  Survey responses will be collated and thereafter included in a further report to Councillors.

We had a Nativity Show on Monday 11th December.

Thank you to everyone who came along, and a special thank you to Any for taking the wonderful photographs.

We raised £67 in donations, and will share this between school fund and P7s chosen charity this year, Paige’s Musical Butterflies 

Thank you to everyone who came to our coffee morning.

We raised £105 in donations to MacMillan, and £41 for our raffle. This is a grand total of £146 for MacMillan.

We also had £17.76 in donations for our home grown onions from the school garden! We will use this money for school fund. Thank you everyone!

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Today the 14/2/23 we had a coffee morning. On Monday had to decorate, make posters, hand out invites, find some recipes to make, bake fancies, some of our school baked at home and that’s what we did to prepare. Today we did what we planned we set up table cloths on the tables, put out the decorations, made Valentines  day cards, welcomed our guests, gave out raffle tickets, got donations, after the coffee morning we had to clean every thing up. The reason we got a donation box was for the P7 and P6s is for there Loch Insh trip. We counted the donations and the money from the raffle we counted up the money and we got 1051.99£!

On Saturday last weekend the Guy Fawkes bonfire night happened, I personally think that it went well the firework display went well and nobody got hurt. The bonfire also was great and warmed everybody up and it burned for a good long time.



Also, an important thing to mention was that this year Burravoe school donated £50 of their yell show money to give, to buy more fireworks for the display.



If you would like to know more about the upcoming events in Burravoe please visit the burravoe school website. Here is the link https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sh/burravoeprimaryschool/

Also here is our twitter as @burravoeps