Staffing
We
look forward to welcoming our new Head Teacher, Mr Ross Hunter, who joins us on
Monday 3 November. Assemblies have been
arranged for him to meet all the young people in school.
As
a result of his arrival there are a number of staffing changes to be made with
staff returning to substantive posts. I
will resume my role as Depute Head Teacher and would like to thank you all for
your support during my time as Acting Head Teacher. Ms Pretswell will resume her role as Pupil
Support Leader for Skye pupils and Mr Knight will return to the Science faculty
but will retain some input with the Support for Pupils team. They have both
done a tremendous job in supporting your youngsters and their efforts are very
much appreciated. These moves have a
knock on effect in Science with Dr Fiona Scott leaving us and I thank her for
all her work to date.
Our
congratulations go to Ms Barker who has secured an English teaching post at
Denny High School. We are in negotiation
with her new school to agree her start date and are currently advertising her
post.
We
will be interviewing next week to fill vacancies in our Social Subjects Department
and in the meantime supply staff are covering these posts. We also have supply staff covering in English
for Mr Patterson’s absence.
This
week we welcomed 25 ESOL student teachers on a visit from Edinburgh University
Moray
House. They were very impressed with
the good classroom practice they observed throughout the school.
The
Parent Council
The next Parent Council meeting will
be held in the library on Monday 03 November at 7pm. Please note that any
parent/carer can come along to these meetings and will be made very
welcome. It is a great forum to hear
what is happening and make a contribution.
Dance for Mr Drain
Well
done and thank you to Kirsty Farmer and the Charities Committee for organising
this fundraising event on Friday 24 October.
Staff and pupils danced the afternoon away and raised £144 for Macmillan
Cancer Support in memory of Mr Drain. A
great time was had by all.
Applications
for Outward Bound 2015 Trip - Closes Monday!
I am pleased
to report that we have yet again had a good response from pupils wanting to go
on the Outward Bound trip next May. Just
to let you know however there are still a few places available, so it is
not yet too late to sign up. Pupils
who are still interested should see Mr Wyllie or Mrs Towers for further
information and an application letter. To secure a place return the tear off
slip from the letter plus a £28 deposit to the School Office. The deadline for
this has been extended very slightly to the end of school on Monday 03
November. Thanks to a generous donation
the cost of the trip will be highly discounted for all participants and costs
£158 for the week or less for any of our pupils eligible for free school meals.
GRACIE Focus Fortnight
The current
Focus Fortnight has been ‘C’ – Calm, Considerate and Co-operative.
I am pleased
to tell you that lots of our pupils were awarded raffle tickets as a result of
their good efforts and the lucky winners are:-
Bradley Bryce
2L3, Chris McKellar 6L2, Jay Watson 2L2 and Richard Nye 3S9
October WOW
class IS Mr Gregor’s Wednesday period 6 S4 core PE class.
Well done to
all and keep up the good work.
The next
FOCUS FORTNIGHT is from Thursday 30/10/14 to Wed 12/11/14
‘I’ – Instructions – “follow them
first time, without argument, to enable learning and teaching”.
We will be focusing on rewarding those who do.
L Sinclair
Acting Head Teacher
