At the end of last week our seniors left to prepare for their exams. We had a holiday on the Monday and on Tuesday staff had an in-service day. In the morning we had a range of activities for staff to work on these included; Commenting on our improvement plans for this session Identifying priorities […]
Author Archives: David Innes
25th-29th April 2016
My last blog mentioned 3 events which were happening over the weekend: A league play off decider for our der 13 football team the NE heat of the Global Rock Challenge the first of the our Duke of Edinburgh awards expeditions for for the year I am delighted to report that the football team won […]
18th – 22nd April 2016
Firstly apologies for a few weeks without a blog towards the end of term. Had I managed to keep it going I would have reported on a dozen remarkable successes and events including; S1 football team won the two cup competitions open to them, finished tied top of their league. They have a play off […]
29th February – 4th March
Thinking of others: At the start of the week one of our first year classes discussed a plan they had to help refugee children in Calais and Dunkirk. They are collecting donations of clothing through to March 24th and then sending items south. It was very moving to hear the Harlaw youngsters not only speaking about the […]
22nd -26th February 2016
Participation: Every day the school day begins with form time and during this time pupils get the daily bulleting read out. It is full of so many opportunities for pupils to participate in the wider life of their school. This week for example we had notices about; a golf league, a weekend trip to watch […]
15th – 19th February
I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Whether it was staff who were off on the Monday, pupils who had three days off or parents it is important we take time to relax. I know some of you took time on the Saturday to attend a very moving funeral service for Kathy Rohan Head […]
8th – 12th February
Earlier this year we had the offer to work with the above initiative which links world class athletes to schools. The athletes commit to 3 sessional in the schools to help groups of youngsters to set goals, learn to cope with setbacks and hopefully meet personal targets. We met our athlete Fiona Duncan to make a plan for Harlaw. Fiona is a […]
1st – 5th February
I am very aware that I spend myself in Education. Although I am a parent my view of the world is through the eyes of a teacher. I am very aware of the need to help find ways to help describe my world in a way that makes sense to parents and to learners. In […]
25th-29th January
This week we had the S2 course choice event. Leading into this event we had seen a lot of media coverage about job losses in the energy sector. It would have been easy to be pessimistic about future prospects for youngsters. However a phrase was in the back of my mind as I prepared for meeting […]
18th – 22 January 2016
This week saw senior pupils start their prelim exams. These exams serve several purposes; they give pupils practice for the main exams in May they give us all a clearer idea of how pupils are doing in their course they better inform decisions for levels of study for next session they provide us with evidence […]