On Monday we had a session for senior pupils called ‘Safe Drive’.\u00a0 Every school, including Harlaw Academy, has had pupils who have been killed\u00a0or injured in road traffic incidents involving young drivers. ‘Safe Drive’ is a hard hitting, high impact event\u00a0aimed at trying to reduce the danger.<\/p>\n
As the week went on we also had pupils taking part in Basketball (boys and girls) and football matches.\u00a0 In a previous blog and in my October newsletter I provided information on the extensive range of opportunities for pupils.\u00a0\u00a0It is great to see\u00a0large numbers of pupils taking up these opportunities.<\/p>\n
In order to better ensure that we link pupils to opportunities and continue to\u00a0gain recognition for the\u00a0time pupils spend on extra curricular activities etc we have created a new promoted post of Principal Teacher of Wider Achievement.\u00a0\u00a0After an extensive process we\u00a0undertook interviews this week and I am delighted to report that Mr\u00a0Whyte, one of our present staff, has been appointed to this new post.\u00a0 He will take up his duties in\u00a0January but I hope it really will offer\u00a0‘added value’\u00a0for pupils who are taking advantage of the opportunities on offer.<\/p>\n
We also held interviews for vacancies we had in the English Department.\u00a0\u00a0Several schools in the City are short of English teachers and I was not hopeful of filling our two posts.\u00a0 I was therefore delighted to secure\u00a0two teachers\u00a0one who will start in November and a second who will join us in January.\u00a0 I\u00a0cannot stress enough the key part pupils play in ensuring we can recruit good staff to Harlaw Academy.\u00a0\u00a0If the school has a good reputation we will attract staff and a significant part of that reputation comes down to ‘are the pupils positive, hard working and well behaved’.\u00a0 I ask all parents to reinforce this message at home as I will always want to attract good staff to the school.<\/p>\n
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