S2 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening

On Wednesday the 22nd of April 4.30pm – 7.30pm, the online S2 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening will be taking place.

The system that we use for S1-S6 Parents’ Evenings is called ‘Parents Booking’ (see website https://www.parents-booking.co.uk/lasswade).

Dates for your diary – the booking system opens at 6pm on Sunday 29th of March and will close at 10am on Thursday the 2nd of April. 

You will not be able to log in to your account before this time.

Please note that as we are opening the parents’ booking system on a Sunday evening, our admin staff will not be able to respond to any issues, or respond to any calls until Monday.

All of our Parents’ Evenings are now fully online (video call), so if you have not taken part in an online Parents’ Evening at Lasswade HS before, please read the Parents Booking User Guide ahead of the evening or watch this useful video: Video Meetings Demo, with Troubleshooting. If you have any issues logging in or making appointments please contact the school admin team lasswadehsoffice@midlothian.education who are happy to support.

Each appointment lasts for 4 minutes (on screen timer) and will be automatically end when the 4 minutes is up.

If more than one parent/carer wishes to join the video call, the identified ‘main carer’ (person who makes the appointments) must be the person to share the joining details with the other parent/carer.

SDS Careers Advisers are available for telephone appointments to discuss any career related queries.

 

Mandy Kaur is the contact for pupils in St Leonards and Mount Esk

Mandy.Kaur1@sds.co.uk 

Ailsa Morgan is the contact for St Anne’s and Melville

Ailsa.Morgan@sds.co.uk

 

Please email the careers adviser for your child’s house and they will get back to you to agree a time to contact you by phone (or your queries could be answered by email.)

Online Senior Phase Course Choice Evening – 28/01/26

Parents, carers and young people are invited to attend our Online Senior Phase Course Choice Evening on Wednesday 28th January, 5:30–6:30pm.

The session will provide a clear overview of the course choice process, key timelines, and signpost the range of options available.

The evening will include:

  • An overview of the Senior Phase course choice process
  • Input from Skills Development Scotland, focusing on employability skills, career planning and labour market information
  • A presentation from Heriot-Watt University, offering insight into routes into higher education and how school subject choices can support future study

A link to the session will be shared next Tuesday via Groupcall. 

We look forward to seeing you there, if you are unable to attend you can find the course choice guide and video here

S3 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening

On Tuesday 13th January 4.30pm – 6.30pm, the online S3 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening will be taking place.

The system that we use for S1-S6 Parents’ Evenings is called ‘Parents Booking’ (see website https://www.parents-booking.co.uk/lasswade).

Dates for your diary – the booking system opens at 6pm on Sunday 4th January and will close at 10am on Sunday 11th January. 

You will not be able to log in to your account before this time.

Please note that as we are opening the parents’ booking system on a Sunday evening, our admin staff will not be able to respond to any issues, or respond to any calls until Monday.

All of our Parents’ Evenings are now fully online (video call), so if you have not taken part in an online Parents’ Evening at Lasswade HS before, please read the Parents Booking User Guide ahead of the evening or watch this useful video: Video Meetings Demo, with Troubleshooting. If you have any issues logging in or making appointments please contact the school admin team lasswadehsoffice@midlothian.education who are happy to support.

Each appointment lasts for 4 minutes (on screen timer) and will be automatically end when the 4 minutes is up.

If more than one parent/carer wishes to join the video call, the identified ‘main carer’ (person who makes the appointments) must be the person to share the joining details with the other parent/carer.

SDS Careers Advisers are available for telephone appointments to discuss any career related queries.

 

Nicola Croft is the contact for pupils in St Leonards and Mount Esk

nicola.croft@sds.co.uk

 

Ailsa Morgan is the contact for St Anne’s and Melville

ailsa.morgan@sds.co.uk

 

Please email the careers adviser for your child’s house and they will get back to you to agree a time to contact you by phone (or your queries could be answered by email.)

S2 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening (Student Support)

On Wednesday 7th January 4.30pm – 7pm, the online S2 Student Parent/Carer Consultation Evening will be taking place. This consultation evening is led by our Student Support team (Melville, Mount Esk, St Anne’s and St Leonard’s). The Student Support Team teach all S2 students on a weekly basis as part of the Personal and Social Education curriculum and they provide all of our S2 students with regular support. The system that we use for S1-S6 Parents’ Evenings is called ‘Parents Booking’ (see website https://www.parents-booking.co.uk/lasswade).

Dates for your diary – the booking system opens at 6pm on Thursday 18th December and will close at 10am on Tuesday 6th January.

You will not be able to log in to your account before this time. 

Our Parents’ Evenings are fully online (video call), so if you have not taken part in an online Parents’ Evening at Lasswade HS before, please read the Parent/Carer User Guide ahead of the evening or watch this useful video Video Meetings Demo, with Troubleshooting.

Each appointment lasts for 4 minutes (on screen timer) and will be automatically end when the 4 minutes is up.

The curricular S2 Parent/Carer Consultation Evenings will be taking place on Wednesday 22nd of April .  During these evenings you will have the opportunity to speak with your young persons subject teachers, also using the online meeting system (video call).  This will be available to book during April, more information will follow.

If more than one parent/carer wishes to join the video call, the identified ‘main carer’ (person who makes the appointments) must be the person to share the joining details with the other parent/carer.  The link to share will be available by logging in on the day of the consultation.

If you have any issues logging in or making appointments please contact the school admin team lasswadehsoffice@midlothian.education who are happy to support.

S2 into S3 Course Choice

S2 into S3 Course Choice: Online Information Evening – 25/11/25

On Tuesday the 25th of November we are holding our online S2 into S3 course choice information evening. This will run from 17:30 to 18:30 and is designed to guide parents, carers and students through the course choice process. A link will be sent via e-mail to all parents and carers on 24/11/25, if you do not receive this and wish to attend please contact us at lasswade_hs@midlothian.gov.uk

Further information on our courses, and the process can be found here. All key information will be shared on the website following the event. We look forward to seeing you there. 

New Timetable – Session 25/26

This year our new timetable will begin on Monday the 2nd of June. Timetables for our new S2-4 students will be handed out during class on Thursday the 29th of May, timetables for our new S5/6 will be handed out following exam leave on Monday the 2nd of June.

All students timetables have been created using course choice submissions. In some cases, reserve choices may have been used as outlined throughout the process. If there are any errors students should see Miss Petrie in room 112 who will support with this. It is important that students follow the timetable provided for attendance purposes until this has been resolved.

Senior Phase Course Choice Evening

A huge thank you to all parents and carers who joined us for our online Course Choice event. The presentations shared during the evening will be added to the school website shortly. For those that were unable to join us please find a step by step guide in the link below, this will take you through the process from start to finish.

As promised, a follow up Q&A session will run on Thursday the 6th of February from 3:30 – 4pm, a link will be sent via groupcall.

https://lasswadehsc.mgfl.net/senior-phase-course-choice

 

Course Choice Evening – 05/02/25

On Wednesday the 5th of February we hold our online Senior Phase course choice information evening. This will run from 18:00-19:00 and is designed to guide parents, carers and students through the course choice process. We have guests from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh college and Skills Development Scotland joining us to discuss the broad range of Pathways open to our students. All of the key information from the evening will be shared online following the event, details on our courses and the course choice process can be found here.

A link will be sent via e-mail to all parents and carers on 04/02/25, if you do not receive this and wish to attend please contact us at lasswade_hs@midlothian.gov.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

S3 Student Progress Consulation – 29/01/25

On Wednesday the 29th of January 4.30pm and 6:30pm, the online S3 Student Progress Consultation will take place. The system that we use for S1-S6 Student Progress Consultation is called ‘ParentBooking.com’ (see website https://www.parents-booking.co.uk/lasswade).

Dates for your diary – the booking system opens at 6pm on Sunday 19th January and will close at 10am on Monday 27th January.

You will not be able to log in to your account before this time.

We are continuing to trial opening the booking system in the evening to improve our service for parents/carers who have found accessing the booking system during normal working hours challenging.  As a result, please be aware that our admin staff will not be able to respond to any issues, or respond to any communications until Monday morning.

All of our Parents’ Evenings are now fully online (video call), so if you have not taken part in an online Parents’ Evening at Lasswade HS before, please read the Parent/Carer User Guide ahead of the evening or watch this useful video Video Meetings Demo, with Troubleshooting.

Each student can book a maximum of 10 appointments. Each appointment lasts for 4 minutes (on screen timer) with a minute in between consecutive appointments.

If more than one parent/carer wishes to join the video call, the identified ‘main carer’ (person who makes the appointments) must be the person to share the joining details with the other parent/carer.

S2 into S3 Course Choice: Online Information Evening – 27/11/24

On Wednesday the 27th of November we are holding our online S2 into S3 course choice information evening. This will run from 18:00-19:00 and is designed to guide parents, carers and students through the course choice process. A link will be sent via e-mail to all parents and carers on 26/11/24, if you do not receive this and wish to attend please contact us at lasswade_hs@midlothian.gov.uk

Further information on our courses, and the process can be found here. All key information will be shared on the website following the event. We look forward to seeing you there.