Dear colleagues,

Welcome back! I hope that you have all had a good holiday and have been able to recharge after a busy and positive winter term.

Attainment Matters

Thanks to all of the staff who were able to give time to deliver our Easter School.  I know this was much appreciated and will have made a positive difference to the confidence and progress of pupils who were able to attend. If you delivered sessions, please could you complete this short evaluation to help me report on the short term impact of our Easter School: Evaluation 

Leavers

It is the final timetabled week for our seniors.  S6 brunch and graduation is on Thursday.  Thanks to all involved planning and running this.  Staff are welcome and encouraged to join us in the atrium first thing and the theatre between 930 and 11am. Your presence to say goodbye at 11.15-ish  in the atrium would be lovely for the leavers.

Your support to keep an eye on the behaviour of leavers on Thursday morning and Friday throughout the day in corridors and the atrium is much appreciated.  As well as the usual focus on S6, I am aware that we have some pupils in S4 and S5 who are leaving on Friday.  If you hear of any planned high jinks, please let one of the senior team know immediately.

Improvement Matters

When the seniors are on study leave, we will be focussing our time on improvements and completing plans on our SIP and TIPs for next session. To support some whole school improvements, the following short life working groups will be running.  Where possible, it will be helpful to have someone from each area to contribute to these.  Details will follow.

• Bereavement

• Celebrating, recording and tracking achievement/participation

• Uniform

Here is a draft of our inservice programme.  Massive thanks in advance to Michelle and the working group leads who have worked hard to support and inspire us to work on our 'plus ones'.  They have promoted collegiality and planned our 2nd annual Learning Festival. I am really looking forward to it. As always, support staff are welcome to join in and see what teaching staff have been working on.

I am so pleased to confirm that our new minibus will be delivered on Tuesday.  Given that it has been funded by The Paul Charitable Trust, we have planned for the Stirling Observer to do an article and some pictures on Wednesday at 10am.  Congratulations and thanks to Shona Hyde who designed the graphics.  She and some young people representing school teams will be needed for the photos. The bus will be available for school use after the photos are taken!

Good luck to our rugby teams who are competing in the Glasgow Warriors Semi-Final Championship on Tuesday.

Thanks for your hard work and professionalism.  Every small act makes a difference. #buildingfuturestogether

Have a great week.

Elaine