Uist school closes its doors after 130 years

A WESTERN Isles primary school shut its doors for the last time yesterday after more than 130 years of education.

Stoneybridge Primary School, on South Uist, which opened its doors as an evening school in 1879, was closed after it was decided to move the eight remaining pupils to the nearby Iochdar School, which is seven miles away, where they had already been receiving part of their education for the past 18 months.

The islands council, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, said this was a reason for closing the school now.

Stoneybridge is among 18 schools the local authority proposes shutting down over the next eight years.

As a final project the school's pupils looked back at Stoneybridge Primary's long history.