Author: P. Thomson

Watch our highlight video from 2016/2017 which shows a small snippet of what happens in a school year at Baltasound JHS.

As is tradition, the BJHS students and staff helped prepare and serve at the first Baltasound Church of Scotland Kirk Teas at St John’s Church. This involved the

Our Ground Maintenance Crew have been hard at work over the past month or so, helping to paint the fences around the school. They are using their own

Today, the S2 students organised a Wear An Orange Wig (or something crazy) Day to raise money and awareness for people affected by or at risk of anaphylaxis &

Today we had a visit from the team at Morrison Construction. They are the company who are building the new Anderson High School and Halls Of Residence. They

Friday 5th May saw all of our school, from Nursery to S4, out and about taking part in the Redd Up. The school have 2 stretches – one

Tying in with our Health & Wellbeing focus this term (to try something new), the Middle and Upper Primary students learned a host of circus skills. This included

We are very lucky to have Joy Duncan in school, teaching all of us African Drumming. This is something we all look forward to and is so much

Before the Easter holidays the whole of Secondary took part in a Textiles Day. We were split up into our House teams (Flugga, Balta and Uyea) and took

The S3 class recently took part in a Shetland wide Bridge Building competition. We sent our team of expert engineers to Shetland College to take on schools from

As part of our Shetland Arts project, we are exploring the concept of ‘home’ and ‘the future’. As part of this we had the opportunity to go to

Before the Easter holidays, we got to take part in activities at the new 60:40 facility in Lerwick. We all enjoyed some tag rugby, club golf and football.

The Dogs Against Drugs team came into school last week and we all learned about the hugely important role they play in Shetland, preventing drugs from coming into

We held our Secondary Parents Evening last week which saw another excellent turnout. Each member of staff was able to spend time with each parent to discuss their

Emma Chittick, from Skills Development Scotland, came into school last week to work with the Upper Primary and Secondary students. In what was a really exciting and inspiring day,