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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) – Applications Open

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is part of the Scottish Government’s agenda of encouraging access to, and participation in, further education by young people from low-income families.

EMA provides financial support for 16 – 19 year olds who are:
  • staying on at school;
  • staying on in home education;
  • following an Activity Agreement programme.

Apply for EMA

EMA Applications for 2023/24 are now open.

Please remember that if you were in receipt of EMA last year, you will need to re-apply this year.

For more information – use the ‘Anchor For Families’ Facebook page or you can access the post using the following link;

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=649826883844566&id=100064517811461

 

S1 Transition Days

We were delighted to welcome our new S1 class this week for their two transitions days. The new class got to experience a variety of subjects and met with their new teachers. There were lots of team building activities and we can already tell they are going to be a fantastic year group! There was even time to finish up with an ice lolly and game of rounders with our S4 class! Well done to all of them and we look forward to seeing them again in August!

YPI Final May 2023

On Wednesday 31 May 2023 S3 class travelled to Unst to take part in Youth Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Final, hosted by Baltasound Junior High School.

The four teams confidently shared their presentations to a judging panel, including YPI representative from Wood Foundation.  Presentations shared the great work done by the  charities:  British Heart Foundation, Unst Partnership, Compass Centre and Dogs Against Drugs.

A special well done to the winning team – Emer, Lena & Lizzie –  who secured £3,000 for The Compass Centre.

 

BFG Dream Catching

In the library last week primary 1-7 Mid Yell, Burravoe and Culliove  investigated Roald Dahl’s book, BFG.  Mrs Fraser used her net to capture their dreams and is thrilled with the results!

3D Webtech workshop

Last week our new S2 and S3 class were invited to the UHI Shetland, Lerwick campus to design their own windfarm. Two folk travelled up from Manchester to provide the workshop which was an action packed day. See more at
http://https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sse-renewables_shetland-stem-lerwick-activity-7001921354220371968-t0l0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Here is also a write up about it on SSE Renewables page
http://https://www.sserenewables.com/news-and-views/2022/04/shetland-schools-experience-virtual-reality-as-part-of-viking-wind-farm-stem-programme/

They got to design their windfarm and then they had to work out how much money they would manage to spend, earn and what their profits were. Getting the opportunity to use VR headsets to look around a windfarm.

Zero Carbon Learning workshops

Today we were very lucky to have Built Environment – Smarter Transformation – BE-ST (http://https://www.be-st.build/) in school.

Two ladies travelled up from their Innovation Centre in Blantyre to come to visit our school and others. The sessions covered Retrofit, Passivhaus and Digital Construction.
Thanks so much to them for coming to our school – it would have been hard for us to get all our pupils to them.

Here a few pupils on the Passivhaus Taping and airtightness workshop, are learning how to correctly apply an air tightness membrane to an internal wall face and airtightness tape to a ‘window’ reveal.

An excellent opportunity to learn industrial standard skills and to get an insight into what is happening in terms of zero carbon building. It was also great to hear from them that Shetland firms are already adopting alot of zero carbon measures.

Sailing 2023

On Wednesday 17 May 2023, nice weather saw the return of sailing as part of our school curriculum.  Pupils in S1/2 Wider Achievement and S3 PE classes were given the option to take part in sail training on Picos.

Picos are a great way to learn to  dinghy sailing.  All pupils get the opportunity to to rig the dinghy, learn to use to the wind to sail around the Voe and a few had to learn to right them and clamber back in, a little colder and wetter!

Thanks to Graham Hughson who patiently manned the safety boat.

 

Coronation Celebrations

On Friday 5 May 2023, our S1 class hosted an event to celebrate the new King’s coronation.

They baked cakes, decorated the dinner hall, organised for Peter Wood to play at our dance.  On the day they served, cleared and managed to get everyone to join in the dance.

They even managed to surprise us all with guests of honour, Prince Charles and Camilla!

Brilliant, fun-filled afternoon!