Category: Expressive Arts

This week we took part in the Scottish Opera performance at Mid Yell JHS. The students in Upper Primary have been practising for weeks, learning the songs and

We were very lucky today to have Lewis Hou, from Science Ceilidh, in school. The Science Ceilidh is an award-winning educational project bringing people together through science and traditional arts.

Pete’s Posse, who are performing at the Shetland Folk Festival this year, visited us in school this week and gave the whole school a demonstration of their unique,

This year, our Nursery and Primary students performed It’s Chriiiiistmas!, the nativity story that puts the beat into Bethlehem, whereas the Upper Primary and Secondary students performed Peter

The Pupil Council have spent some time organising and planning the school Halloween parties – one for P1 to P5 and one for P6 to S4. Once again,

Baltasound JHS were delighted to welcome The Neon Effect, who came to the school and led a workshop with our Secondary students. They then all performed for the

Upper and Middle Primary classes went to Yell recently to work with other schools and Scottish Opera on a production of Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter.

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

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

The students and staff were exceptionally lucky to have author and illustrator Debi Gliori in school last week. She worked with the Primary 1 to 5 students, discussing

We are into Year 2 of our project with Shetland Arts. Through an inspiring education programme delivered both in the gallery and the classroom we will work towards

Last week the school welcomed the Northumbrian Ranters – musicians from schools all over Northumbria. We were extremely grateful that they all made it to the UK’s most

Tuesday saw the celebration of Roald Dahl Day whereby our students and staff dressed up as Roald Dahl characters or dressed in yellow, Roald Dahl’s favourite colour. Everyone

Only 2 weeks into the new term and we’re already talking about the year’s highlights as the Secondary 1 to 4 students took part in a BeatBox Workshop