Balfron Matters 

Good morning,

I hope you have all had a relaxing weekend and you‘re ready for another busy week at school. 

In my first week as Acting HT it has been really good to see extracurricular clubs and the Interhouse Programme up and running.  Thank you to all involved, your commitment is much appreciated.

The Equally Safe at School (ESAS) programme was launched through assemblies last week and young people are being asked to complete the surveys.  Thank you to Nikki Buchanan, Andrew Burns, Connor Heath, Elaine Johnstone and Andrew Lauder for presenting at the assemblies. The information generated is important as it will be used to inform our next steps.  Please encourage all young people, who are interested, to get involved; if they would like more information they can speak with Elaine Johnstone or myself. 

On Wednesday morning S5/6 were involved in a variety of health & wellbeing workshops through their PSE Programme. The guest speakers included Organ Donation, Kooth talking about managing stress and anxiety, a talk by Breastfeeding Network Scotland and CPR training.  A Google form is on the S5/6 Year Group Classroom to seek the views of our young people.

Following the initial session at the beginning of term, the Learning & Teaching Workshops met again last week; thank you to our pedagogy leads for their input.  There were some great discussions and interesting ideas to improve practice which we will look at in the coming weeks.

In the week ahead, we will be hearing about Reading Schools in assemblies and the Expressive Arts Team are launching the school show. The latter has always been a real success for Balfron and again I ask that you encourage participation where you can.

Thank you for your continued hard work and professionalism. Have a good week.

Claire