russaway

Just because some are in constructin doesn't mean there won't be more. There will have to be a use for the school if it is shut, a big building standing empty is stupid.

The super primary idea will almost definetley happen I think. Either that or more council offices. Speaking of council offices why aren't savings being made in Hayfield before school closures? l don't think having offices next to a school would have a good affect on primary education and there are a hundred arguments against closing cluster primaries

we aren't talking about primary education here. Scalloway acctually has quite a modest amount of teachers. 2 for maths, 2 for english, 2 for music, 2 for PE, 2 for foreign languages, 1 for each of the sciences, 1 for each of art, history, home ec and geography. The geography teacher is also the Modern studies one. There is one computing teacher to cover computing, admin, bussiness managment and accounts. Also I think there are 3 "teaching asisstants" they are for ASN. I really don't think that Scalloway has too many teachers for it to be considered an arguement. Some of these teach primary as well, Primary education at scalloway would be affected by closure of the secondary department by the reduction of specialist teachers. There would be a lack of P.E, music, science and language teacher for them.

The SIC need to really think about what they are doing here. The population of Scalloway is increasing every year. The Scalloway primary department has as many or more bairns as the secondry. Add the pupils from the catchment areas and the years are going to get bigger and bigger. The Anderson just might be able to take the pupils in Scalloway just now but think about in a few years time when we have even bigger years there just won't be enough room.