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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.

Our S1 pupils went to learn more about the single greatest loss in one incident in Shetland during WW1. We learnt the youngest person aboard had not yet

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,

On the 2nd March, the whole of Baltasound JHS (Nursery, Primary and Secondary) and some keen parents, came into school to celebrate World Book Day. We were dressing

Uyeasound Up Helly Aa is a major fixture on the Unst calendar and this year saw Guizer Jarl Christopher Gray lead his band of fearsome (and not so

Monday saw Mrs Tulloch take out all the students who are working towards their John Muir Award, be it the Discover, Conserve or Explore Award. A very interesting

As usual, the BJHS Christmas Concert was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. The evening began with pupils from Nursery to Primary 5 performing Baubles, in which the pupils of

The festive season is really well under way now as on Friday 16th December we had Christmas Jumper Day and our Christmas Dinner!  

Baltasound JHS recently attended the Shetland Youth Volunteering Awards having been nominated in the Organisation category. This was to recognise the hard work that staff at BJHS do

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