Welcome to Burravoe Primary School
2008 was the 40th Anniversary of the school being in its present building. P6 put together a newsletter as part of the 40th Birthday celebrations.
Yell is the second largest of the Shetland Islands.
It has a population of about 800. There are 3 schools and a nursery. There is another primary school in Cullivoe in the north of Yell. When children from Burravoe reach S1 they go to the JHS in Mid Yell.
Yell is the same area as Manhattan Island.
Burravoe Primary School serves the south end of the island from West Yell to Gossabrough.
There is a Leisure Centre with a pool, a Health Centre, a Carehome and every community has a Hall.
The island is a haven for wildlife, particularly birds. In the summer it is home to many wading birds including; whaaps (curlew), shalders (oystercatchers), plivvers (plovers) and ebbsleepers (dunlin). On the cliffs there are breeding colonies of tammie nories (puffins), weegs (kittiwakes), tirricks (arctic terns), tysties (guillemots), sea craa (razorbills) and skarfs (cormorants). Otters can be sighted as can, occasionally, whales and dolphins.
Yell is reached by a 20 minute ferry trip from Mainland Shetland.
Burravoe is about an hours journey from Lerwick, Shetland's main town.
If you would like to know more about Burravoe and Yell, Undiscovered Scotland has an interesting page about us, please click here or click here to see visitShetland's page about Yell.
Yell is one of the North Isles. There are schools on 2 of the other North Isles; Fetlar Primary School on Fetlar and Baltasound JHS on Unst.
We have a battery recycling box at the school so, if you live in Burravoe, please bring along any spent batteries.