Pupils from our Primary 6 class travelled to Brae yesterday to participate in the Shetland Schools Hockey Festival. Thankfully the weather was in their favor this year and everyone had a super time 🙂

Congratulations to our P7 STEM Group, who came runners up in the ‘Celebration of STEM’ Event at the Shetland Museum & Archives in April.  Schools from all across Shetland participated in the Event, which saw groups showcasing their projects and participating in a ‘Construct A Crane’ Challenge where teams received free kit to design and build a working model crane.

Our Footballers aren’t they only ones to have made it to the Finals of their league games. Our Sound Swifts Team played in the Final of the Schools Netball North League and played very well, placing 2nd overall in the North League – Well Done Sound Swifts!

Many thanks to all parents for their support and a special thanks to our netball coaches, Jennifer and Alina.

Well Done to our Sound 1 Football Team who played in the Schools South League Final on Monday night.  The top 2 teams from the 2 winter leagues met at Scalloway and Sound 1 played Aith, Tingwall, Baltasound and South Mainland. In a very closely fought last match, Sound 1 came away runners up after some great games of football.

A huge well done to all involved and parents for their support.

A special thanks to Tony for accompanying the Team to all their games this season, and to both our Sound School Parent Council and the Tesco Stronger Starts Grant Scheme for funding the purchase of new strips for both our Netball and Football Teams 🙂

Welcome back to Sound School for the final term of this session. It is always a busy term with lots of transition events for P7 and our new P1 and Nursery children taking place, along with events  like STEM week and Sports day.

Our values for this term are:

Happiness and Inclusion

P4 and Miss Stewart took part in the Shetland Youth Music Festival and sang 2 beautiful songs in the choir category. They received lovely feedback from the judge about the positive messages in their songs.

Here is a link to a video of them performing:  https://youtu.be/THCbOKAWmC0

Sound Swifts netball team did very well to come 2nd in the School’s Netball tournament. The final was between Lunnasting Primary School and Sound Swifts. The Swifts played an very good game and came in 2nd overall to receive a silver medal. Well done Sound Swifts!

Back in May 2025 pupils from P5-7 worked with the ‘A Place In Childhood Team’ and members of the SIC Development Plans & Heritage Dept on an experiential mapping session.

During this day, pupils co-created:

• An experiential map highlighting their views and experiences of their local place including:
  • Planning a local tour
  • Co-creating a final map and set of priorities for action through photography, in-depth discussions, and creative exercises.

The final stage of the plan culminated in a half-day Showcase event where pupil representatives presented their ideas directly to local stakeholders.

Mrs Birrell accompanied our representatives to Islesburgh last week, where they did a fantastic job of sharing their ideas for change in their local community!

Welcome back to a slightly delayed term 3 due to weather conditions. We hope that everyone had a restful festive break.

We are looking forward to an exciting term 3 and our values for this term are Determination and Respect.

The pupils at Sound certainly know how to party! Over 140 pupils enjoyed the P1-3 and P4-7 discos on the 4th of December. The photo booth really helped to capture some of the fun.