Bumper year for BCHS drop-in
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A SCHEME designed to ease P7 pupils into secondary school life in Buckie has enjoyed a bumper year of success.
Since January, Buckie Community High School has played host to the latest in a series of drop-in sessions aimed at helping P7 integrate with pupils who will shortly be their classmates.
Forming part of BCHS’s overall transition programme, the scheme is led by a group of senior High School students, two of whom are using the experience to help study for their Leadership SQA award level 6. Planning for the initiative this year was undertaken by S6 students Emmie Main and Iona Balfour.
Community Learning and Development Senior Youth Worker Barbara Leitch was one of those delighted with the response to this year’s scheme.
“The drop-in has been running for the last six years or so but this is by far the best response we’ve had,” she said. “Each Monday we’ve had in the region of 70-80 young people turning up, which is just fantastic.
“Usually we start with higher numbers which subsequently drop, but this year it’s stayed high.
“There is a very different programme each week, with the likes of arts, crafts and games on offer.
“The students involved from S4, 5 and 6 in leading it have done an excellent job again, especially as the whole thing is run on a shoestring. Basically the only money coming in is from selling juice and snacks.”
