{"id":34,"date":"2023-09-28T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T12:44:35","slug":"our-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is known that there have been several small schools in this area \u2013 at Lunnaness, Lunna and Roadside.\u00a0 The SSPCK did a lot of good work throughout Shetland and in Lunnasting they established a school in 1796 at a croft house, which is still known as \u201cSchoolhouse\u201d.\u00a0 This lasted until the 1840\u2019s and at one time had as many as 44 pupils.\u00a0 The first parochial school for the area of Nesting, Lunnasting, Whalsay and Skerries was set up in Whalsay in 1800 and lasted 2-3 years but another 30 years elapsed before the permanent parochial schoolroom and schoolhouse were erected at Queeness in 1832.\u00a0 This served the community until the 1870\u2019s when it was outgrown and was considered \u201ccrowded and ill furnished<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cNew excellent premises<\/em>\u201d were built alongside and entered, by the master and pupils, on 22nd July 1876 \u201cwithout any formal ceremony or introduction from the School Board<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 This building was utilised, with some improvements as necessity decreed, for the next 120 years and was superseded by the building which we now occupy.<\/p>\n

This school was constructed around the old school building.\u00a0 The teaching areas are grouped around the Resource Area.\u00a0 The Resource Area and the pupils toilet facilities are accommodated within the original school building.\u00a0 Pockets of stonework and the original roof trusses of the original building have been incorporated in the Resource Area.<\/p>\n

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It is known that there have been several small schools in this area \u2013 at Lunnaness, Lunna and Roadside.\u00a0 The SSPCK did a lot of good work throughout Shetland and in Lunnasting they established a school in 1796 at a croft house, which is still known as \u201cSchoolhouse\u201d.\u00a0 This lasted until the 1840\u2019s and at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3925,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/lunnastingprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}