February 7, 2020
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Civic Soup are a Design Collective from Edinburgh who have been commissioned by Shetland Arts to create one of four art installations that will form a trail in Lerwick. The project is called LOCUS and is being organised by Living Lerwick in … Continue reading
January 20, 2020
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Since August, in Wider Achievement, a group of S3 pupils have had the opportunity to do Sea Skills. This was a suggestion that came from the Pupil Council last year. After consulting Andy Sandison and John Arthur Poleson about possible … Continue reading
September 28, 2019
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A new venture for Wider Achievement in Secondary is our Sea Skills group which will be developing skills like knots, splicing and netmending between now and Christmas. John Arthur and Greg came in this Friday when the focus was on … Continue reading
September 19, 2019
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On 30th August Penny and Alan from Transition Turriefield visited to support the school to make the most of the polytunnel by growing crops during the winter months. This is a great project for two reasons: traditional growing results in … Continue reading
September 15, 2019
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Our P2/3 class have been collecting T-shirts and shorts to send to the Akamba Project in Kenya. On the 5th September Dr Buckle visited the class to tell pupils about the project and collect in their donations.
May 2, 2019
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S3 have been doing a project called “Fishing by Numbers” since January and all of their work came to fruition this week when they shared their learning with Primary classes. In their module class every other Friday the class … Continue reading
April 26, 2019
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On Wednesday we held this year’s YPI Final. YPI stands for Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. Two groups of pupils pitched for two local charities: Dogs Against Drugs and the Whalsay Heritage Centre. The Final was attended by representatives of the charities; Janet … Continue reading
December 1, 2018
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Nursery and Primary pupils would like to thank the Parent Council for funding a 4 week block of traditional dancing from Maria Leask. Maria has thoroughly enjoyed coming back to teach the bairns and said in all her years teaching dancing she … Continue reading
May 18, 2018
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Local charity, Dogs Against Drugs came to visit Whalsay School yesterday. Michael Coutts and trained dogs, Thor and Axel, spent the whole day visiting classes from Primary 1 to Secondary 2 delivering workshops suitable to the age and stage of … Continue reading
