Balfron Matters 





Monday 2nd October 2023

 Weekly communication for staff 

Morning everyone,

Last week was action packed, with S1 Activity Days, a Climate Change residential and a Geography field trip, as well as a group on the Columba 1400.  Thank you to the staff who supported all the activities, giving generously of their time.  It is very much appreciated.

The S4 Work Experience got underway, despite last minute changes for the team organising it.  Many thanks to Neil Cameron and Elaine Johnstone. 

Hope you all enjoyed the activities provided my the Maths Team for Maths Week Scotland.  Thank you to them for organising.

This week is Challenge Poverty Week.  Fiona Fisher, Kate Reid and Ansley Clark will be leading the assemblies.  We are also appealing to the Balfron Community to bring items for the Balfron Larder.

The Head Prefects are keen to launch the Thankful Thursdays again. Please nominate pupils and colleagues for a hot drink as part of  Thankful Thursdays .  It is a really positive gesture that bring smiles to the faces of those nominated. (This week they will deliver on Friday).

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their hard work this term.  As we head to the October break and a well earned rest, we can all reflect on a very busy start to the academic year. There have been a number of senior leadership changes and with these in place we hope to return to a more settled period. Thank you, from the Senior Leadership Team, for all of your support this term.

Take care all and enjoy the break.

Best wishes

Claire









This week at Balfron High:

L&T Working Group Meetings

Challenge Poverty Week


Mon: S3 Assembly

MVP Training

L&T Working Group Meetings


Tues:


Wed: S4 Assembly

Outstanding Awards Ceremony, 7pm


Thurs: S5/6 Assembly

Interhouse Movie Trailer


Fri: S1/2 Assembly

Interhouse Swimming Gala

Last Week at Balfron High School


Balfron High School

The collection of photos are from Auchengillen Activity Days, Columba 1400, the Geography Field Trip and Balfron Science Club.

Challenge Poverty Week 2023

Form Class CPW Activity 23

Our Priorities for improvement 2023-24



Improvement Plan 23-24 draft

New for session 23/24

Learning & Teaching Working Groups 



We will celebrate our learning in a Pedagogy Festival, at April In service 2024.


The groups and their leads are as follows:

Climate for Learning - Routines and Relationships for inclusive, productive learning environments - Connor H, Andrew L & Shari L

Digital Technology - Exploring technologies to enhance learning experiences - Dougie S & Cari M

Lesson Structure - What we do and how we keep can doing it even better - Pam G & Fiona F

Meeting Learners Needs - Exploring the practices that make our lessons more accessible - Nicola D & Oonagh M

Formative Assessment - Developing our feedback loops and increasing challenge - Andrew B & Alistair B


Assemblies - August-October 2023

BHS Assembly Programme Aug-Oct 23

CLPL Corner

 CLPL opportunities

Digital CLPL  


 always available through the links below:

Below is a link to Dougie's Tech Tips Play list.  Always worth a look - great tip on getting rid of adverts from presentations using YouTube this week.

External CLPL

BHS Professional Learning Notice board. 

Search. Click. Book

Powering up our seniors for successful studying

Teacher's Guide to the BHS Study Planner.webm

Teachers Guide to the BHS Study Planner - 3 min watch

Weekly Study Planner 2022

BHS senior study planner

e-sgoil weekly online supported study timetable

One portal to hold all information

ERP MyPortal.pdf

Health & Wellbeing - Counselling for staff

Did you know counselling is available through Stirling Council?


Employee Counselling is available through our Occupational Health provider, People Asset Management (PAM)

There are a few ways employees can request Counselling. 

If you want some more information about counselling, what to expect or looking for self-help resources then please pop in and see Karin Figliolini or drop her an email.

Useful Links