Author: Mr Peter Thoresen

The Shetland Careers Fair returns on Tuesday 3 October 2023, from 4pm to 8pm at Bowls Hall, Clickimin Leisure Complex, Lerwick, ZE1 0PJ and it’s set to be a brilliant opportunity!

Organised by Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) Shetland, in partnership with Skills Development Scotland and UHI Shetland, the event is open to people of all ages to come along to explore the exciting careers and opportunities available now in Shetland and beyond.

There are over 50 exhibitors attending including local and national employers, universities, and the Armed Forces, so there’s something for everyone!

The AHS is closed due to Unison industrial action from Tuesday 26 September to Thursday 28 September.

The S1 Parents’ Evening will take place as planned from 5.30pm to 8:30pm on Tuesday 26 September.

Advanced Higher work by Ruby

Ruby’s subject was the landscape, she worked from photographs and some on site sketches to create the final images. Her focus was also on mark making and colour harmony.

Still Lifes

This is a small selection of the high quality Still Life Final Outcomes produced by our National & Higher pupils last year, an impressive and colourful visual treat! The overarching theme for both year groups was “Food & Reflections”. They have responded to this theme and individualised it especially at Higher level. All these Still life paintings demonstrate the pupils observational and media handling skills and display the amount of effort, time and detail that goes into one element of the course.

Advanced Higher History pupils visited the Library and Shetland Museum and Archives this week to do research for their dissertations, and get experience with newspaper microfiche, primary sources, books and documents related to subject area.

They also got to access the Museum handling collection.

En-route, they visited some local sites connected to Lerwick during WW2, including Shetland Defence Battalion HQ at Hayfield and the NAAFI, where they took ‘then and now’ photographs

Anderson High School now has an ACHIEVE Whole School Subscription.

This allows all AHS teachers and students to use ACHIEVE with 49 courses at National 5 and Higher.

Read the Student Support Pack to find the code for AHS.

The recent Voxter residential activity supported a group of pupils in secondary two, secondary three and secondary four from the Anderson High School to benefit from employer engagement/inspiration. The focus of the event was to give pupils the opportunity to explore their curiosity and work on their collaboration meta-skills, as a group, within an employability focussed environment. The pupils had a great time, visiting employers and doing activities like den building, mindful walks, drones, robot building, music challenges, cooking challenges, crazy golf and both building and launching a rocket.

The employers pupils engaged with included Cooke Aquaculture, Busta House and the Shetland Recreational Trust.

A huge thank you to colleagues from Developing Young Workforce, the Anderson High School and the SIC’s Youth and Employability Service for organising this opportunity for some of our pupils.

On Friday 15 September, S1 pupils were treated to a performance by Shetland Youth Orchestra. A wide variety of music was performed including, amongst others, The James Bond Theme, a Lin-Manuel Miranda medley, and March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.

It was a great opportunity to hear some well-known tunes played by this talented group and we would like to thank them for coming along to entertain us and let us experience live music in this way.

Teen Triple P is a free parenting programme from Shetland Family Centre for parents and carers of teenagers, aged 12-16 years.

Other free parenting programmes include:

• Peep – For parents and carers and their children, aged 0-3 years.
• The Incredible Years – For parents and carers of 2-11 year olds.