News / In brief – 30 March 2010
New head teacher for Sound school
Shetland Islands Council has appointed Kate Grieve as new head teacher of Sound primary school, in Lerwick.
Mrs Grieve has been the depute head teacher at the school since 2003, and will take up her new post when current head teacher Yvonne Laurenson retires in June.
She has 30 years experience in education most of which she has spent in Shetland.
The council’s schools service said that her appointment would ensure consistency for the school in a time of great change in education both nationally and locally.
Aviation group seeks members
AN AVIATION history group, based in Orkney, is taking off on a membership recruitment drive and are looking for new members from Shetland.
The aim of the Aviation Research Group of Orkney & Shetland (ARGOS) is to research and document all aspects of both military and civil aviation in the northern isles.
The group maintains a busy website at www.crashsiteorkney.com and publishes a quarterly magazine’ The Argonaut.
Anyone interested in becoming a member of the group can contact its chairman Kevin Heath at 8 Dundas Street, Stromness, Orkney, phone: 01856 850 408 or e-mail: kjh1702@aol.com
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