HT Update: Week-ending Friday 24th October 2025

Friday 24th October 2025

This concise weekly HT Update is generally published every Friday afternoon.  It’s a simple opportunity for you to also feedback/ask questions via the link at the bottom of each Update.  Any feedback received will be responded to and published on Monday afternoon on the school website.  

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Key messages from this week  

Calendar:  Significant events week beginning 27/10/25;  on Monday our School Captains are leading on our first Fright Night experience aimed at S1/S2;  on Tuesday we begin 3 days of LassLan activity which aims to highlight, with P7s from our Associated Primary Schools, the benefits of learning a Modern Language,  we’ve our Pod Parent’s Consultation and Enterprise Showcase Evening and also it’s the second of our S1 Student Progress Consultation Evenings, this time for the parents/carers of SA/SL students, see below;  on Thursday S6 and staff are asked to Dress-Up for Halloween, it’s the last day of LassLan and we’ll have our second Parent Council meeting of the session, see below;  Friday is a Dress Down Day for all students  

Staffing:   This week we welcomed Sophie Irvine as a new Learning Assistant. Sophie will be working within the POD. We have no posts currently live on myjobscotland. 

Google Guardian: Following last year’s successful pilot of Google Guardian all of our S2-S6 years groups now have this feature enabled for parents/ carers who opt in.  Over the next couple of weeks we will roll this out to our S1 students. Information will be sent to all S1 parents/carers on Monday about this aspect of Google Classroom, which allows parents to have a weekly overview of assignments and classroom work set through Google Classrooms.

Student Action:  I was absolutely delighted to hear about and meet with two of our students this week.  Grace in S1 and Poppy in S2.  These girls had taken decisive, mature and empathetic action in what must have been a stressful, health related context to support an older family member.   Their calm and responsible action may have been life saving. These girls are a credit to their families and we are proud they are part of our school.  I am privileged to lead our school that contains many ‘Grace’ and ‘Poppy’ characters and know that you recognise that too.  Please, as parent/carers,  continue to keep us informed about actions such as this.  We’ll respond to offer our praise and thanks.  

Creative & Cultural Showcase 2025, Thursday 13th November:  We would like invite all parents/carers to our annual Creative & Cultural Showcase celebrating the hard work and creative skills of our students. Doors open at 6.00pm for our exhibition, featuring a wide range of student work from creative subjects. This part of he event is not ticketed.  From 6.45pm we’ll hold a media show reel, dance performance, fashion show and awards ceremony in the Assembly Hall. This part of the evening is ticketed, via ParentPay.  Further details are available on the website, click here.

Change of Date:  Please note our Christmas Fair will now be held on Monday 24th November.  Our School Calendar, available on the website, has been updated.  Ignore my message on Friday 10th October!

Parent Council:  Our second meeting of the session will take place on Thursday 30th October.  This meeting is via Teams and we are keen to see as many parent/carers there as possible.  The meeting starts at 7.00pm.  You’ll receive the meeting link, via text, on Thursday morning.  Further details, including the agenda are available on the website,  click here.  

S1  Student Parent Consultation Evening:  This on-line evening for SA/SL parents/carers is on Tuesday 28th October,  more details are on the website,   click here.

 

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Take Care

Campbell Hornell,  Head Teacher

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