On Wednesday 16th September, we welcomed a range of visitors to the school to deliver workshops focusing on various aspects of Health and Wellbeing that are particularly relevant to current social issues, including online safety, AI, anti-bullying, hate crime, and smoking and vaping.

Our pupils engaged positively throughout the day and shared the following reflections:

• “Words can make a massive difference to someone’s life.”
• “It shows how a fun can have consequences.”
• “We purposely got to break the rules then learn the consequences.  Definitely never doing that in real life!”
• “I learnt that the police can get access to everything.”
• “Vaping can affect your whole body, not just your lungs.”
• “I like a good debate about the affects of AI.”
• “I didn’t know some of these things were crimes.  I am going to be kinder to people.”
• “Make it more interactive and hands on.”

The following video link gives a greater insight into the coverage of the day:

Whalsay #VSVS event 2026

Thank you to Miss Irvine and all the organisers for a worthwhile event.

A group of lasses were entered into the Secondary Netball Tournament held at Scalloway Games Hall today.  This tournament was aimed at S3 players but due to our small numbers we had a young team of players ranging from S1-S3.  Over the course of the day we played games against AHS, Aith 1, Aith 2 and North Isles.  This was great experience for our team with many of the players having another year or two to represent the school.  The lasses showed good sportsmanship throughout and improved their team performance as the games progressed.  A huge congratulations to Ria for being awarded the player of the tournament award against some very tough competition.