Save Scalloway School Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/save-scalloway-school.html Online petition signatures en-us Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:48 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Jill Slee Blackadder [Signature #182] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9172433?utm_medium=rss Scalloway has ideal multi-community catchment, ensuring long term stable pupil numbers. Facilities, buildings and staff are excellent. Pupils are highly motivated and successful learners.

Many Anderson High School buildings are decrepit, classrooms cramped, building lay-out inefficient and age-limited relaxation areas limiting and stressful. All these factors would disadvantage Scalloway pupils.
There are no good, valid reasons for sending them there at this time.

]]> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:26:57 UTC 9172433 Caroline Malcolm [Signature #181] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8710374?utm_medium=rss Scalloway High School is a fantastic establishment, which meets the needs of its pupils in a most unique way, by ensuring that they have top quality education and have a close relationship with their teachers, which develops over time. This not only permits educational growth/achievement, but also allows the pupil to gain essential elements in their personal life. This, I believe can't be achieved in larger establishments such as the Anderson High School simply due to size/lack of 1:1 support.

]]> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:16:22 UTC 8710374 Eden Leask [Signature #180] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8710325?utm_medium=rss I DONT WANT TO GO TO ANDERSON AND I DONT WANT THE SECONDRY TO CLOSE >:(

]]> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:09:32 UTC 8710325 Cathrine Coutts [Signature #179] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8679681?utm_medium=rss Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:26:14 UTC 8679681 Michaela Goodlad [Signature #178] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8674661?utm_medium=rss Just plain stupidity to close a school that works well and move the students to a school that is falling apart and is packed as it is!

]]> Sat, 9 Oct 2010 04:23:46 UTC 8674661 george reid [Signature #177] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8674389?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Oct 2010 03:25:58 UTC 8674389 patricia reid [Signature #176] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8674388?utm_medium=rss Sat, 9 Oct 2010 03:25:09 UTC 8674388 William Fox [Signature #175] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8671280?utm_medium=rss The standard of education at Scalloway Junior Secondary is second to none.

The financial savings claimed in closing the school are seriously open to challenge.

It would not be in the best educational interests of pupils either at Scalloway or the Anderson High School in Lerwick, where the addition to the school role would have a detrimental effect.

]]> Sat, 9 Oct 2010 04:37:28 UTC 8671280 Rosalynn Fraser [Signature #174] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8666465?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Oct 2010 07:39:44 UTC 8666465 Graham Fraser [Signature #173] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8666456?utm_medium=rss Fri, 8 Oct 2010 07:37:57 UTC 8666456 Brian Morgan [Signature #172] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8613378?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:03:48 UTC 8613378 Raymond Laurenson [Signature #171] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8601324?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:05:32 UTC 8601324 Grace Laurenson [Signature #170] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8601307?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:02:51 UTC 8601307 Kirsten Inkster [Signature #169] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8561352?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:01:07 UTC 8561352 Alan Inkster [Signature #168] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8558248?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:16:31 UTC 8558248 Olga Inkster [Signature #167] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8558238?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:15:38 UTC 8558238 Sylvia Jamieson [Signature #166] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8557642?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:18:21 UTC 8557642 Suzanne Talbot [Signature #165] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8557238?utm_medium=rss Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:33:19 UTC 8557238 Gunna Juniusdottir [Signature #164] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8554906?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:39:03 UTC 8554906 Ross Maclennan [Signature #163] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8554898?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:37:30 UTC 8554898 Karen Mullay [Signature #162] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8544762?utm_medium=rss I think it is unbelievable that the Council can even consider closing Scalloway Junior High and transfer the pupils to Anderson High when the Anderson High School building is already in need of so much repair and the new Anderson isn't going to be ready for another 7 years!

]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:31:08 UTC 8544762 Sherrell Sutherland [Signature #161] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8543465?utm_medium=rss As a former pupil of both scalloway and Anderson, I think it is madness that the council wants to close scalloway. Anderson is falling apart and full. It won't save money and it'll destroy a community.

]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:46:46 UTC 8543465 Mark Burgess [Signature #160] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8372713?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:39:16 UTC 8372713 Karen Eunson [Signature #159] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8362729?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:52:53 UTC 8362729 Al Hidden [Signature #158] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8247394?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:18:31 UTC 8247394 Jan Hidden [Signature #157] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8247363?utm_medium=rss Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:15:30 UTC 8247363 gideon johnston [Signature #156] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8201606?utm_medium=rss Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:34:15 UTC 8201606 Craig Smith [Signature #155] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8158286?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:49:18 UTC 8158286 Tracy Arthur [Signature #154] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8149046?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:00:32 UTC 8149046 angela gifford [Signature #153] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8145104?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:30:29 UTC 8145104 Sheena Knight [Signature #152] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8144528?utm_medium=rss Get rid of the councillors who have wasted all the money ,before making cutbacks that affect the people of Shetland. Scalloway school should continue to educate all bairns from Scalloway & surrounding areas.

]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:28:57 UTC 8144528 Anonymous [Signature #151] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8144328?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:48:19 UTC 8144328 Anonymous [Signature #150] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8135243?utm_medium=rss they would need to go to an already crowded

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:28:25 UTC 8135243 Gary Shewan [Signature #149] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8132339?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:01:05 UTC 8132339 Kathy Reid [Signature #148] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8123223?utm_medium=rss Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:57:42 UTC 8123223 Rosemary McLaughlin [Signature #147] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8121221?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:44:24 UTC 8121221 F.E. Henry [Signature #146] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8121056?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:57:07 UTC 8121056 Naomi macIvor [Signature #145] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8119460?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:56:57 UTC 8119460 Lorraine Carroll Miller [Signature #144] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8119417?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:47:42 UTC 8119417 Angela Hardie [Signature #143] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8117960?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:55:05 UTC 8117960 Jayne Smith [Signature #142] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8110646?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:00:31 UTC 8110646 Davina Leask [Signature #141] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8107331?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:56:36 UTC 8107331 Jolene Rainey [Signature #140] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8106666?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Jul 2010 05:23:40 UTC 8106666 Alexandra McIntosh [Signature #139] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8070459?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 Jul 2010 08:49:58 UTC 8070459 Paul Wood [Signature #138] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8062620?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 04:24:17 UTC 8062620 seamus mc loughlin [Signature #137] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8061154?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:56:11 UTC 8061154 Shirley Jones [Signature #136] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8060810?utm_medium=rss I fully appreciate that there is a need to close schools that only have a few pupils but when the existing school secondary school is not fit for purpose why close a perfectly good school that serves the purpose of the local area.

]]> Sat, 3 Jul 2010 07:12:34 UTC 8060810 Eleanor Macklin [Signature #135] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8060696?utm_medium=rss One of the best, if not the best, schools in Shetland - it would be daft to shut it down!

]]> Sat, 3 Jul 2010 06:33:50 UTC 8060696 jane burns [Signature #134] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8060558?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 05:44:29 UTC 8060558 Melissa Reynolds [Signature #133] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8060263?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2010 03:22:44 UTC 8060263 Neil Polson [Signature #132] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8058782?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:27:59 UTC 8058782 Lorraine Kelly [Signature #131] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8057806?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:02:00 UTC 8057806 Euan Mackenzie [Signature #130] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8057398?utm_medium=rss Scalloway school is vital and important to the village, also I have many fond memories of my time there.

]]> Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:47:09 UTC 8057398 Jo Leedham [Signature #129] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8057100?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:42:34 UTC 8057100 helen powell [Signature #128] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8057041?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:24:01 UTC 8057041 Steven Farquhar [Signature #127] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8056908?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:55:15 UTC 8056908 Morag Morton [Signature #126] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8056903?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:54:02 UTC 8056903 Margret Paton [Signature #125] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8056894?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:52:32 UTC 8056894 Orla Moore [Signature #124] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8056830?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:37:28 UTC 8056830 Elaine Moran [Signature #123] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8056815?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:34:22 UTC 8056815 Brian Nugent [Signature #122] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8055293?utm_medium=rss What is the educational argument for closure?
I have always found Scalloway Junior High to be a welcoming place, one that my children are keen to get to each morning.
Scale is important, I would argue that Scalloway Junior High is an ideal size for children to learn in, with teachers knowing their pupils and having time to spend with them individually.
My children gain by attending Scalloway, they have lost out on nothing but have gained so much.

]]> Fri, 2 Jul 2010 04:31:19 UTC 8055293 Sarah Sandison [Signature #121] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8055033?utm_medium=rss Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:02:28 UTC 8055033 BERT SINCLAIR [Signature #120] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8051616?utm_medium=rss Hope petition does the trick .

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 02:15:33 UTC 8051616 Janie Orr [Signature #119] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8051512?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 01:57:51 UTC 8051512 Tommy Isbister [Signature #118] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8051126?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:40:31 UTC 8051126 Rex Sandison [Signature #117] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8051039?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:20:49 UTC 8051039 Marjory Dawson [Signature #116] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050965?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:06:42 UTC 8050965 Raymond Dawson [Signature #115] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050961?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:06:05 UTC 8050961 Ray Dawson [Signature #114] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050952?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:03:40 UTC 8050952 charlotte verdcourt-lawrence [Signature #113] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050777?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:26:29 UTC 8050777 Jodi McCarthy [Signature #112] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050729?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:16:52 UTC 8050729 Anonymous [Signature #111] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050682?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:09:35 UTC 8050682 Vivian Wood [Signature #110] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050663?utm_medium=rss As a past pupil of Scalloway School I was very disturbed to see that the SIC was considering closing the school. I fail to understand why they would even think of doing so. Surely there are enough pupils in the close vicinity to warrant keeping a Secondary school in Scalloway?

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:06:41 UTC 8050663 Scott Young [Signature #109] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050523?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:42:21 UTC 8050523 Kayleigh Young [Signature #108] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050516?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:41:24 UTC 8050516 Davie Young [Signature #107] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050502?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:40:19 UTC 8050502 kennith manson [Signature #106] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050496?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:39:30 UTC 8050496 Jill Young [Signature #105] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050491?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:39:16 UTC 8050491 isobel manson [Signature #104] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050488?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:38:58 UTC 8050488 john scollay [Signature #103] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050471?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:37:11 UTC 8050471 ingrid ryder [Signature #102] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050463?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:36:24 UTC 8050463 andrew Flett [Signature #101] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050451?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:34:49 UTC 8050451 Kirsten Flett [Signature #100] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050431?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:31:55 UTC 8050431 Kendal Davies [Signature #99] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050421?utm_medium=rss Scalloway for the win!!!

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:29:30 UTC 8050421 Mhairi Garnier [Signature #98] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8050316?utm_medium=rss I do not think that closing the secondary dept will save any money why not use teachers in more than one location or make all secondarys, high schools sharing resources and teachers!!!! and close the hostle surely that would save much more money

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:13:00 UTC 8050316 Ailin Slater Liset [Signature #97] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049943?utm_medium=rss Scalloway should grow as a community. It can not do that while closing down parts of the school.

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:21:33 UTC 8049943 Ruth Priest [Signature #96] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049782?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:54:33 UTC 8049782 sean fillingham [Signature #95] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049668?utm_medium=rss Leave the schools be !

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:39:25 UTC 8049668 jean aaron-walker [Signature #94] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049604?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:28:23 UTC 8049604 Norman Jamieson [Signature #93] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049540?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:16:14 UTC 8049540 Leigha Williamson [Signature #92] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049385?utm_medium=rss Yet another bad decision from Shetland Islands Council. Moving pupils from a perfectly good school to a condemned school is surely not the way forward. The pupils education will be affected as more pressure is put onto the teachers. Will the council ever get it right?

]]> Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:44:56 UTC 8049385 Fraser Priest [Signature #91] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049228?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:12:02 UTC 8049228 Linda Hughson [Signature #90] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049190?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:01:39 UTC 8049190 Lowrie Halcrow [Signature #89] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8049060?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 06:33:38 UTC 8049060 Jane Ledgerwood-Barr [Signature #88] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048713?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 05:26:58 UTC 8048713 michael leask [Signature #87] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048479?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 04:22:07 UTC 8048479 Dorothy White [Signature #86] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048327?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:39:19 UTC 8048327 DMD White [Signature #85] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048322?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:38:29 UTC 8048322 Elaine Waddell [Signature #84] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048240?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 03:19:40 UTC 8048240 Faried van Wyk [Signature #83] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8048016?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Jul 2010 02:03:58 UTC 8048016