Headteacher's update 31.01.2020
Happy New Year and welcome to the first HT update of 2020.
Our National Qualification Prelim examinations are now complete and young people will be receiving their results over the coming weeks if they haven't already.
More importantly, perhaps, is the guidance, advice, support and hard work that follows Prelim examinations irrespective of Prelim performance.
We have introduced a tiered intervention approach to supporting young people which will mean that class teachers, principal teachers, our guidance team and our Depute Headteachers will be working closely together to ensure all young people are supported to continue to raise their levels of attainment as we proceed towards the SQA examinations. This may mean that someone from the school will be in contact with you shortly to discuss how best we support your young person.
I know I can count of your support to continue to work in partnership with us to encourage and motivate our young people to achieve their very best in their SQA examinations.
Ski trip
28 young people, 3 staff and 1 volunteer had an amazing start to 2020 by spending a week in France skiing. See some photos below:
My thanks go to Miss Steele (Trip lead), Mr Duncan, Miss Stitt and Mr O'Kane for supporting the trip and ensuring that our young people had an excellent experience.
Listening to our school community
Prior to the Christmas holidays and similarly to last year, I forwarded a questionnaire to all parents and carers as part of our school’s self-evaluation. I shared the full analysis from this self-evaluation activity with our Parent Council last week and I share with you today extracts from this linked to our 3 school improvement priorities as well as the leadership and management of our school (see below).
For all graphs, orange circles and lines represents the percentage of parents and carers who Agreed or Strongly agreed with the highlighted statement. Blue circles and lines represent the percentage of parents and carers who Strongly agreed only.
Our Parent Council is well attended and discussion very much focusses on how we can, collectively, continue to progress on our school improvement journey. You are all very much welcome and the next meeting is to be held on Monday 2nd March at 7pm, Strathearn Community Campus.
Leadership and Management of the school
Self-evaluation for self-improvement
Learning, teaching and assessment
Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
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Celebrating success - slice of success
Celebrating success - S1 Enterprise
Well done to Pink Pamper Package for their excellent S1 Enterprise poster and presentation. All young people involved performed well, well done.
Celebrating success - Rotary young musician
Celebrating success - Badminton
Staffing update
Martin Blacklaws retires after 30 years service at Crieff High School and 38 years service to Perth & Kinross. We wish him well in his retirement at the end of term. The vacated Teacher of PE post will be advertised over the next 2 weeks with interviews to be held shortly thereafter.
We have welcomed a number of student teachers to Crieff High School this term in English, Social Subjects, Biology, PE, CDT, Maths and French. We look forward to working with them over the coming weeks.
Finally, I wish the 31 young people, 4 staff and 1 volunteer a safe and enjoyable trip to New York next week. I hope you have an excellent experience.
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As always, please be in touch if you have a success story to share.
You can email us at CrieffHigh@pkc.gov.uk or phone us on 01764 657700.
