Education

After a recent Highland Council report warned that 26 Caithness play parks were under threat of closure a Thurso protest group made its views known.

A Keiss Primary pupil conjured up a brilliant new name for one of BEAR Scotland’s trunk road gritters.

Lybster Primary School celebrated becoming the first gold-level accredited reading school in Caithness with an assembly attended by special guests.

P6 pupils at Pennyland Primary have been learning about natural disasters, hearing from someone who knows about them all too well.

A Caithness book publisher has once again been awarded funding as a Book Week Scotland partner.

The mass closure of play parks across the region, including 26 in Caithness, is being discussed by Highland Council at a meeting next week.

More than 16,000 Highland pupils from over 100 schools and nurseries will stay at home today after heavy snow hit classes.

Primary pupils from Thurso, Wick and Dunbeath got some hands-on experience of agriculture at an educational event in Caithness Livestock Centre.

Dunbeath Heritage Museum will be hosting a special craft night and raising funds for the local primary school next week.

New figures show the north is behind the national average in 13 out of 15 areas.

The youngest pupils at a Thurso school have helped put together more than 150 filled shoeboxes for an annual appeal.

In common with many other schools across the Highlands recently Keiss Primary and Nursery also marked Remembrance Day.

A Keiss-based artist has a book-themed solo show at Thurso Art Gallery called ‘War Horse and Other Stories’ fittingly within the town’s library.

School staff in the Highlands are suffering an average of almost eight physical or verbal assaults every day, official figures have revealed.

Community Land Scotland chairwoman Ailsa Raeburn warns ‘availability of homes now at crisis level’.

Wick Academy manager Gary Manson heard about Noss primary’s bid to be recognised for its sporting endeavours when he paid a visit to the school.

Victoria Erasmus will take the chair for UHI Inverness in 2025, while Eilidh Kennedy McLean MBE will take up her position for UHI Moray in December.

The annual competition is open to all University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) students and anyone over 16 living in the Highlands.

Tickets are now on sale for the playful new production of Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights, which comes to Thurso High School in March next year.

Pupils at Thurso High School raised more than £1200 for Macmillan at a coffee afternoon held earlier in the autumn.