It is always sad to say goodbye to pupils and this year has been very hard. We have thoroughly enjoyed having such a fantastic bunch of young people in the school and wish them the very best for the future.
Here’s a slideshow of some of their special moments.
We were lucky to have two netball teams and two football teams participate in the Inter Schools Football and Netball Tournament.
They all enjoyed themselves and participated fully. All four teams showed great sportsmanship. The Netball A team were thrilled to win the tournament this year.
Our Eco-committee have ben busy this morning working alongside staff from Lerwick Port Authority and the Amenity Trust to plant trees in our garden.
As part of Lerwick Port Authority’s commitment to the environment they have an initiative where each year they plan approximately 20 trees to offset their paper usage. This year they kindly asked Bell’s Brae to be part of this important initiative. Our Eco-committee were thrilled to receive this offer and spend this morning learning about the different trees.
Huge thanks to the Lerwick Port Authority and Amenity Trust staff for supporting us.
And some super photos from John Coutts…………….
Yesterday we made pancakes to practice using measuring equipment independently – electronic scales and measuring jugs – and to show we could follow instructions successfully.
We followed a recipe in small groups and Miss Henry didn’t even need to help us! It was great practice for Secondary 1 Home Economics at the Anderson High School, which lots of us are very much looking forward to.
Most importantly they tasted delicious.
Jess and Johnny (Pupil Council Vice Chair and Chair Person) were busy yesterday giving our benches a new lease of life with paint the Pupil Council bought from Frank Williamson. They particularly enjoyed wearing their overalls! 🙂
Watch our wonderful P2 pupils entertain everyone!
We hope that the following clip will allow you to see the wide variety of activities we took part in and the fun that we had!
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1 June 2018
If you use the school service, have a child or young person who does so, are involved in the provision of school food and drink to education authority schools in Scotland or have an interest in school food and drink provision, you may wish to be aware of some work which is currently underway to change what food and drink children and young people are able to access during their school day.
All food and drink served in local authority run primary, secondary or special schools, at lunchtime, at breakfast clubs, in vending machines, in tuck shops, at morning break or other times of the school day, must meet the strict nutritional requirements set out in the Nutritional requirements for food and drink in schools (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (the Regulations).
The aim of this legislation is to ensure the school catering service offers a range of food and drink that will allow children and young people to see what a balanced and nutritious menu should look like over the course of a week, and to support their health and wellbeing to help prevent diet related conditions and diseases such as diabetes, dental problems and issues associated with being overweight.
When the Regulations were drafted in 2008, they were based on up to date scientific evidence and nutritional advice. Since then, some of that evidence has changed and some of the advice has been updated, for example recommendations in relation to how much sugar should be consumed in a week. As a result, in November 2016, the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, John Swinney MSP, set up a Technical Working Group (TWG) to review the Regulations in light of the manifesto commitment to increase fruit consumption in schools and recent changes to the Scottish Dietary Goals on the advice of Food Standards Scotland.
The remit of the TWG was to undertake a review of the current school food regulations and provide evidence based recommendations on what changes should be made to them in order to drive further improvement to school catering service provision. This review is now complete and the Deputy First Minister is keen to ensure all those who feel they have something to contribute to this issue are provided with the opportunity to do so before work begins to make legislative changes to the current school food regulations.
An online consultation will be launching on 4 June 2018 on the Citizen Space website at https://consult.gov.scot/support-and-wellbeing/food-and-drink-in-schools and will remain open for 12 weeks until 29 August 2018. This is a great opportunity to have your say about school food and drink provision in your school and what changes you would like to see in order to ensure our children and young people have access to a school catering service which will support them as they grow and learn.
The consultation will comprise of questions which will allow you to say as much or as little as you wish about school food and drink. The report and detailed recommendations written by the TWG will be published at the same time as the consultation but you will not have to read them in order to be able to contribute to the consultation. Each question is set out under a theme and will be accompanied by an introduction designed to explain why the question is being asked.
A report will be published in response to the consultation contributions received.
I very much hope you will take the time to participate in this consultation and look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Yours sincerely
STUART DOWNES
Policy Manager (Interim), Support and Wellbeing Unit
