School’s Out!

School’s Out is Big Hearts’ holiday club for local pupils facing social isolation.

Long school breaks can be challenging for vulnerable families.

To make a positive difference in South West Edinburgh, Big Hearts launched School’s Out! over the summer 2018 with one aim: helping isolated young people thrive outside school term.

Delivered in partnership with the teachers at Tynecastle High School, School’s Out! provides free breakfast, a nutritious lunch every day and a set of engaging activities during the summer holidays and the winter break. Activities include baking, arts & crafts, owls petting, football or music tuition.

For more information contact scott.ritchie@bighearts.org.uk – 07552 860 062.

Big Hearts is working with the schools in the Gorgie/Dalry area to identify pupils in P1 to S3 who could benefit from attending the project.

Schools’s Out has initiated new areas of work in tackling food poverty and social isolation during the longest schools holidays.

The initiative is funded by Edinburgh Council and the charity ‘Radio Forth Cash for Kids’.