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Developing our Young Workforce (DYW):<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have seen in the local newspaper a focus on recruiting apprentices.\u00a0 This is part of a bigger piece of work, sometimes referred to as DYW, aimed at ensuring that all our school leavers are work ready and can leave for positive and sustained destinations.\u00a0 It is a National initiative and will involve businesses, schools, colleges and many others.\u00a0 We are likely to see a significant push on this work over the next few months and over the next few years.\u00a0 This work will go well beyond anything we currently do as it is essential that our young people leave school able to compete in a global jobs market.\u00a0\u00a0The employment situation for young people in NE Scotland is a matter for some concern and\u00a0we will be putting a great deal more focus on\u00a0ensuring pupils not only achieve good qualifications but also\u00a0are equipped with the skills and\u00a0experiences\u00a0needed for\u00a0working life.<\/p>\n

Wider Activities and learning from defeat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been a busy week for staff and pupils.\u00a0 On Monday we held an information for Global Rock challenge – a very big dance\/performance event we are taking part in.\u00a0 Through the week we hosted an inter schools\u00a0Dodgeball event and an inter schools Netball event.\u00a0 It was great to see so many other schools from the City and Aberdeenshire using the Harlaw facilities and competing with each other.\u00a0 Unlike some people I do see benefit in competition\u00a0– all\u00a0the successful people I have met speak of the\u00a0most valuable learning being when they lost.\u00a0 Most also\u00a0mention that they have lost far more times than they have won.\u00a0\u00a0The main message is that failure or defeat can be a really good thing – it can spur us on, it can focus our attention on what we need to improve and it can make the eventual success\u00a0more meaningful.\u00a0 I encourage us all to push\u00a0each other\u00a0on and to fail more often.<\/p>\n

On the subject of trying and failing I want congratulate the 4 pupils who represented Harlaw Academy in the Regional final of the UK Maths Trust – Senior team Final.\u00a0 We finished 3rd but to put that in context the winners were the international School and the second placed team were a private school.\u00a0 Our team finished ahead of several other private schools and were the best from the NE Scotland state sector.\u00a0 they should be really pleased with their achievement.<\/p>\n

On Friday we had over 100 pupils taking part in a streamed language lesson as part of an attempt to break the record for the worlds largest lesson.\u00a0 Thanks to\u00a0all who took part and helped organise the event.\u00a0 Numbers and evidence needs to be sent off and processed before we know if\u00a0we were a small part of a world record or not.\u00a0 Will let you know\u00a0when we hear any more.<\/p>\n

On Friday we\u00a0also had 8 pupils\u00a0in Edinburgh on Friday visiting the Scottish Parliament at a “Language in Parliament” event.\u00a0 I followed their progress on our new Harlaw English twitter page and as well as being delighted on how they did non the day I was also proud to hear how they had supported a fellow train passenger who had fallen unwell on the journey home.\u00a0 I received a message from\u00a0members of the public to say how proud we should be of our\u00a0pupils – I want to share that sense of pride with all who read this blog.<\/p>\n

We also had around 70 pupils from S1 and S2 to see a film called ‘the scorch trials’ at Vue in Aberdeen.\u00a0 The group were all pupils who had been successful ‘star readers’ and this had been a reward for their participation on our reading scheme.\u00a0 It was a busy week for some of these pupils as four of them\u00a0were also taking part on a STEM (Science, Technology, engineering and Maths) event at the start of the week.\u00a0 In midweek 8 pupils from S3 visited the Childrens’ Book Awards at the Beach ballroom.<\/p>\n

Happy 10th birthday Harlaw Leos:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The week ended with an evening event to mark 10 years of Harlaw Leos.\u00a0 Senioor officials from Lions International attended the event and made special awards to the club, the school and\u00a0some staff who had given the club service over that time.\u00a0 Pupils, staff and visitors enjoyed a night of cake, ceilidh dancing and the occasional ‘selfie’<\/p>\n

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