Author: Mr Peter Thoresen

• S1-S3 Home Learning Pack 08-26 March
• S4-S6 Home Learning Pack 08-26 March

Parents and carers are one of the main influencers over the choices young people make about subjects and careers.

SDS works in close partnership with the school to support your child make informed career choices and would value feedback from parents and carers on their services. You can do this by taking a short survey.

All responses are confidential and anonymous. The results will be used to improve SDS services in schools.  The survey will be live until the 26 March 2021 and should only take about 10 minutes to complete.

We held an information evening for all S4 pupils, parents and carers at AHS and in Junior High Schools across Shetland on 02 March 2021 on Vscene.

The presentations are available here:

• AHS Information
• Skills Development Scotland
• Train Shetland
• Halls of Residence virtual tour is available to view at  https://youtu.be/U6AkjnKhhdU

Creative Earth is an art competition for people aged 16 and under from across the UK, run by the UN COP26 Climate Change Conference in collaboration with WWF.

Here are a few of the entries created by our S3 Geographers over the last week.

• S1-S3 Home Learning Pack 23 Feb – 05 Mar
• S4-S6 Home Learning Pack 23 Feb – 05 Mar

Presentations from the S3 into S4 Information Evening help in V Scene:

• Update and S4 Options
• Options after S4
• Skills Development Scotland

February is LBGT+ History Month.

Click the image to open a virtual wall with links to information and videos.

Tuesday 9th February is Safer Internet Day 2021.

This year’s theme for Safer Internet Day 2021 is #AnInternetWeTrust – exploring reliability in the online world and how young people can separate fact from fiction.

The campaign is led by the UK Safer Internet Centre and focuses on knowing what to trust online, and supporting young people to question, challenge and change the online world. They have created a pack of free materials, which includes activities, conversation starters and information to help parents and carers talk to their children about how to navigate the issue of reliability of information online in a safe, responsible and engaging way.

To celebrate LGBT History Month our Equalities Conference will be hosted online through Microsoft Teams.

The event will have equality and diversity at the heart of it and will focus on the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010.

To attend please email kevin.gillick@shetland.gov.uk by the 24th February at 5pm – workshops will be a mixture of live and non-live activities (TEDX Talks, Quizzes and much much more!)

We have a new section on the school website for Nurture, with news, tips and links for pupils and for parents.

Access it here, or by the clicking on the photo.

There is also link in the Cross-Curricular menu.