Category: Science

Alongside pupils and staff from Mid Yell JHS, we were invited to the SaxaVord Spaceport for a day of STEM activities, including a visit to the launch site

Our S1 class have been learning about Scottish Scientists; with each having a different scientist to research, sharing with the group the impact they had.

Huge thanks to the RAF STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) team who put our P4-S3 pupils through their paces today. They were tasked to build their own

The inter disciplinary learning (IDL) challenge we have set ourselves is can we create a quiz show style buzzer system for end of year events. This could be

Mrs Tarby and our S1 were testing the Red Cabbage indicator which they had made . The S2 class were investigating how effective indigestion tablets were, when neutralising

Today, the Marine Wildlife Roadshow came to school. Andy Peters from Devon runs The Whale Workshop – www.whaleworkshop.org –travelling around the UK, Europe and beyond visiting schools 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.

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from Katie and Garry from Generation Science. The challenge was to build robots to complete different tasks using Cubelets

Thanks again to Sue White, Paul Goddard and Stephen Hawking for teaching our young people about Peat Restoration. We had an excellent day, with glorious sunshine and very

Our John Muir Award Conservers and Explorers were lucky to be involved in some Conservation in action on Monday. They were joined by staff from Shetland Amenity Trust,

A video which one of our pupils masterminded has been used in the recent Promoting Inclusion, Transforming Lives conference hosted by Dundee University. STEM Administrator for the University

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,

Tuesday 28th March 2017 – Former pupil Amanda Gray will be in school to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) careers for girls. Go to outboxincubator.com/documentary for

The Good Vibrations show from the Edinburgh Science Centre visited Baltasound JHS and had P3 to P7 well entertained and informed about the science of sound. A great

Our science department have been accepted to take part in I’m an Astronaut, Get me out of here! Taking place from the 7th to the 18th March. We will not be