Filmimg school history for enterprise project

The small school in South Nesting on Shetland is moving to a brand new building. Elspeth Hamilton, the teaching head, had the idea of commemorating this by making a video about the school and its history for the P7 Enterprise project. The ambitious video, involving interviews with former teachers and pupils and re-enactments of past events, is being made with the help of Tony Peaker, a project leader employed on a project-by-project basis by the education authority. 

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Teacher profile

Ms Hamilton studied at Glasgow and has been teaching for 23 years. She is teaching head at South Nesting Primary School and currently has the P5-P7 class. Ms Hamilton has been to evening classes in ICT and has had New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and in-service training.

South Nesting Primary School has 25 pupils who come from a rural area around the village of South Nesting on the Shetland Islands. The school consists of two multicomposite classes with two teachers, one of whom is Ms Hamilton, the teaching head. There are two pupils recorded as having special educational needs, no pupils have free school lunches and there are no pupils with English as a second language.

The school has seven computers with an ISDN connection. Each classroom has a computer. New Opportunities Fund (NOF) training is available to teachers.