Order of Assembly:
Tuesday - Skye
Wednesday – Lewis
Thursday – Tiree
Purple Friday
Thank you to everyone who has managed to
wear something purple today – your support for LGBT equality is greatly
appreciated. We would love it if you could pop up to the Drama Classroom
at the end of the school day for a quick #purpleselfie which we will post on
twitter. A limited number of purple pins are still available from Mrs
Whyte – minimum £1 donation, monies goes towards LGBT Youth Scotland. The LGBT Group
S1 Outward Bound Trip - 2nd Payment Now Due
A
reminder to S1’s that your 2nd Outward Bound payment (£50) is due on
Monday! Please hand in your money to the school office. If there are any
problems meeting this payment deadline then please could you get a parent or
carer to write me a brief note and pass this to me on Monday.
Mr Wyllie
Mr Wyllie
Nice
Trip Meeting
There
will be an important meeting for the Nice Trip 2016 in Ms Davies’ classroom at
break on Tuesday 1st March at 10.40am. Full attendance is required
since you will receive important documents.Ms Davies
EE2
Forms - Gallery
German pupils going to the Gallery on Thursday,
3rd March 2016 must bring in their EE2s by Wednesday 2nd
March at the latest.Mrs Towers
Visitors on Thursday, 3 March 2016
On Thursday 3rd March we
will be hosting 8 teachers from Panama. They will be around our school and
perhaps in your classes. Thank you for making them welcome.Mrs Towers
S2
Parents Meeting on Thursday 3 March 2016
A reminder to all S2 pupils that there is an opportunity for their
parents to come along to hear how well you are doing in classes. The parent consultation evening is next
Thursday at 4.30 – 6.30pm. Please encourage your parents to come
along. Don’t forget that the course
choice form for next year’s S3 should then be completed and returned by Monday
March 7 at the latest.
Ms Sinclair
Ms Sinclair
A Quiet Space for Pupils
Any pupil who wishes to pray or
have a quiet space for reflection at lunch time or after school should come
to the reflection room between the DHT offices. If it is busy another
room in the purple corridor will be available.
For further information please
contact Mohammed Tariq or Ms Sinclair.
Ms Sinclair
World Book Day Thursday, 3
March 2016
There are a
number of activities for pupils to take part in over the next week in the
Library
1. S1/2 quizzes and competitions during Library time
2. World Book Day Tokens
Each pupil is entitled to a £1 Book Token. Ask your Registration
Teacher for one.
The token can be used to either swap it for a special £1 World
Book Day Book (see the titles below) or get £1 off a book costing £2.99 or
more. The £1 World Book Day Books are available at WH Smith. Waterstones,
Blackwells and at some ASDA and Tesco stores. If pupils want to, they can
get a copy of the £1 books and donate them to the library once they have read
them.
3. Inter-house
Literary Quiz
If you
know your Wimpy Kid from your Tom Gates; your Harry Potter from your Alex
Rider, then sign up for the Inter-house Literary Quiz. Please sign up for
either Lewis, Skye or Tiree in the Library next week. The Quiz will be
held the week beginning 7th March.
4. Teen
Fest - meet the authors
On
Wednesday, 2nd March 6pm - 8pm, there will be an opportunity to contact some of
your favourite authors via social media.
WEDNESDAY
2nd MARCH 6-8PM
LIVE ON
FACEBOOK
Terri
Terry at 6.10pm
Darren
Shan at 6.40pm
Joss
Stirling at 7.10pm
Rainbow
Rowell at 7.40pm
AND ON
TWITTER
Non Pratt
at 6.10pm
Philip
Reeve at 6.40pm
Lucy
Saxton at 7.10pm
Ally
Carter at 7.40pm
This will
be an evening event, so please see Mrs Brown for more details.
A reminder
to all Senior Artists
It is four weeks until the deadline for all practical
work to be completed. GASS is running
every night after school. Miss Grisdale
School Immunisation Programme
Immunisation helps protect our
communities from a wide range of illnesses.
Thanks to immunisation, diseases such
as polio have disappeared in the UK. However, these diseases could come back as
they are still seen in many countries throughout the world - which is why it’s
so important to get your jabs. The
NHS Lothian school nurse team carry out an annual immunisation programme.
HPV vaccinations for girls will be
given in spring 2016. Consent packs are
being issued now. Please discuss the consent
pack at home and return it to school as soon as you can.
The HPV vaccination for girls helps to protect
against cervical cancer and is designed to protect against the 2 types of HPV
that cause 75% of the cases of cervical cancer.
The vaccine also protects
against two other types of HPV that cause about 90% of cases of genital warts.
