Staffing

In the absence of Mrs Leighton (Curriculum Leader of Health and Wellbeing), Mr Paul Gleeson will be acting Curriculum Leader.

Assemblies

We had two assemblies last week.

House Assemblies focused on raising awareness of the additional new House which will begin next year, and Mr B Maxwell will be the Pupil Support Leader for that House (currently the PSL for S1 Learners). Learners were told about the new House by Mr Maxwell and Ms Holmes. They were told we would like their views on a few ideas and they have been asked to respond to these by this Friday, Our young people have been asked for their opinion on whether they would like to simply add the name of a new House or rebrand and rename all Houses in the school. They have also been asked to consider if they would like to have register groups, which are simply year group classes (as they are at present) or whether they would like register classes with a mix of year groups each of these. This would allow siblings to possibly be in the same register group. So far, we have 300+ responses to our questionnaire.

Our assemblies on Friday were for all pupils (in year groups), where we had a visitor from Soluna, a Mental Health Support Service ( Soluna ) which is available to all East Lothian young people. Thomas from Soluna told our young people all about this service, which is a free, requires no referral or no travel to appointments. The support is accessible online 7 days per week, until 10pm in the evening. An App is available for young people to access this support easily and quickly (by Mrs Falconer, DHT).

Rights Respecting Schools (RRSA)

The right of the week is Article 3 - Best interests of the child

All adults should do what is best for children.  Governments should make sure children are looked after by their parents or if others if this is needed.

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