Galloway and West Dumfries MSP Finlay Carson has challenged SNP education secretary John Swinney MSP over a claimed reduction in subject choice for school students.
Nearly 400 primary school children from around the Rhins of Galloway enjoyed a special insight into the natural world during a week of themed sessions at Logan Botanic Garden, near Stranraer.
Oran Bagraidh, a band of ten of the UK and Ireland’s finest traditional poets and musicians which has brought an extinct dialect of Galloway Gaelic back to life through song, is set to perform in the language’s home area in May.
New research by an independent think-tank claims to “expose” a disturbing decline in the number of exam subjects the region’s school pupils are being allowed to sit.
Not only has courageous Castle Douglas lad Cupar Rush beaten a rare form of leukaemia, he’s become a ‘mini-boffin’ to find out how the NHS helped him win that battle.
Pupils from the senior classes in Leswalt, Kirkcolm and Portpatrick recently came together at Portpatrick Primary to have a morning of active learning together.
Parents of children attending Wigtown Primary School have been left scratching their heads in puzzlement over a council decision to cut its number of classrooms just when it is about to need more.
The local MSP, who chairs the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Heart Disease and Stroke, Labour’s Colin Smyth, has been backing a campaign by charity the British Heart Foundation to have CPR training delivered in every secondary school in the country.
With recent events at a Dumfries secondary school, Galloway and West Dumfries Conservative MP Finlay Carson has called for “zero tolerance” of illegal substances in schools.
There’s nothing better than seeing a group of inner-city or otherwise disadvantaged kids out in the fresh air of the country, rather than having their heads stuck in iPads and mobile phones.
