Dear colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who supported the Humanutopia day last week. I have had much positive feedback from staff and young people. I have gone ahead and requested a booking for our current S2 cohort. The first available date is January 2023 so I pencilled that in.

It seems as if study leave has past at a pace as we enter the final week. It will be great to start our new timetable on Monday 6th with our school day back to our pre-pandemic times. Please note that Tuesday period 1 starts at 8.45am. Thanks to our admin colleagues who have been preparing new school time cards for you - I hope you find them useful.

Claire, Phil and I attended a meeting about our ASN Base, proposed for August 2023. It was agreed that the costs to make changes within the buidling will be compared with the costs of creating an addition outside next to the polytunnel. These costs are being worked up. I will keep you informed.

Stirling Council has recently updated guidelines on Pupil Voice and Participation activities, for the clasroom, team or school. You can access these on the Source through the link below:

http://source.stirling.gov.uk/files/cms_attachment/attachment/21846/pupilparticipationguidelines.pdf

Congratulations to Danielle Martin who was successful in securing a permanent maths post with us. Also joining the maths team in August is Stuart Baines. Stuart has experience in both secondary and primary maths and we look forward to welcoming him and learning from his experience. Stuart will be replacing Joanne who will leave a massive gap in maths and activities across the school community (Young Carers, numeracy, primary visits, etc). We will all be very sorry to see Joanne go at the end of term and wish her well in her next chapter back down south of the border.

Have a great week.

Elaine