The children from our Nursery have enjoyed the weather becoming better to get out on our bikes.
Bell’s Brae School Closure
Please see the following information that has been received from the Schools Service –
- Shetland Islands Council’s Children’s Services Department is closing some of its schools and Early Learning and Child Care Settings to children and young people from Monday 16 March to Friday 20 March for operational and resilience reasons.
Bell’s Brae will be closed to all pupils – Homework packs have been sent home with pupils, families can choose if they wish to complete this.
- Fair Isle Primary School, Fetlar Primary School and Foula Primary School will remain open for children and young people.
- All schools will remain open for staff.
- Children’s Services will be issuing further information to parents and carers at the start of next week, which will include information about learning that can be done at home, and electronic communication between children and schools during the closure period.
- There will also be follow-up communication from schools for parents and carers of children with complex additional support needs early next week.
Bell’s Brae Tirricks Netball Team
A huge well done to our netball players who travelled to Brae on Friday evening to compete against teams from Unst, Brae and Yell. They won two tough games and lost one.
As always, a big thank you to parental volunteers for providing transport for our players to ensure these fixtures can take place. 🙂
World Book Day 2020
The Bell’s Brae Pupil Council would like to thank the pupils from nursery to P7 who participated in our World Book Day celebrations by dressing up; attending our book sale or even just taking time to read during the day!
Our Book Sale raised a very successful £171.50 which will be used to update our classroom libraries.
Thank you to our Pupil Council photographers who captured a few moments throughout the day.
Shetland Events
Sign of the week for 2/3/2020 is ‘co-operate’.
Dancing at the ‘Hop’
With Up Helly Aa season firmly underway in Shetland the boys and girls at Bell’s Brae had their own ‘hop’. This followed a block of traditional dancing taught by Mrs Redfern and the class teachers. All pupils and staff had great fun!
Bressay Up Helly Aa Squad Visit
Today we welcomed James Anderson and his squad to Bell’s Brae. Guizar Jarl James was representing Njord, who is said to have had the ability to calm both sea and fire. His squad suits were a mixture of orange representing ‘fire’ and blue representing the ‘sea’. We were delighted that James and his squad took the time to visit Bell’s Brae and hope they all have a fantastic day and night!
P1 Teddy Bears’ Picnic
On Tuesday, Primary 1 enjoyed their ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ as part of their ‘Toys’ topic.
As it was Pancake Day, we enjoyed making and eating pancakes for our picnic. So did our teddies!
Farewell to Lynn
Today Lynn Halcrow came into school to say goodbye to staff. Lynn has come into work in the Bell’s Brae office for many years and she has always done a wonderful job. She will be a big miss and we wish her well in new role. 
