SCHOOL UPDATE – 17th DECEMBER 2021
It’s been another busy week in Grange Academy with the added challenges of increased staff absence and, as in wider society, an increase in the number of pupils and staff self-isolating. Despite these challenges, there continues to be a positive energy and lots of exciting things happening within the school.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
This week has seen us offering LFD Asymptomatic Testing kits to pupils in the Street at the start of the school day. Any pupil who wishes to have some for the return to school in January can collect them from the school office.
PARENT COUNCIL RAFFLE
Our Parent Council’s 12 Days of Christmas raffle was a tremendous success raising £954. A huge thank you to all those supported the initiative by buying tickets, to our Parent Council members who not only organised the entire event but also donated and collated the incredible range of prizes and to our very own Mr Adams (PE Department) for selecting the winners each day and Mrs Carrie (School Office) for admin and ParentPay support throughtout.
P7 TRANSITION EVENTS
Miss McBride (PT Transitions) has been out visiting our associated primaries over the last few Friday afternoons. Visits to Shortlees PS, Crosshouse PS, Hillhead PS and Annanhill PS have already taken place and Miss McBride will be undertaking two Teams calls with Gargieston PS this afternoon. We look forward to our Transition programme continuing in 2022.
ADVENT REVISION CALENDAR AND STUDY SKILLS
Our Grange Advent Revision calendar continues to give daily tips and advice for Senior pupils in the run up to the January Assessment Block. These daily videos will continue right through until the 24th December being released at 9:30am each day.
ONLINE RESOURCES
A reminder to our Senior Pupils who may want to undertake some studying over the holiday that resources are available on our Grange Academy Tile on Glow (Sharepoint). Information on how to set that up is available on our school website here.
SENIOR PHASE ATTAINMENT REVIEWS
Mr Cowan (DHT) and I have been meeting with all Principal Teachers (Curriculum) over the last two weeks to review Senior Phase attainment following the recent S4 reports and S5/6 Parents Evening. These have been very fruitful discussions allowing a chance to hear about the hard work of our Senior Pupils in the run up to the January Assessment Block.
CHRISTMAS IN THE COMMUNITY
Thanks to Mrs Brotherston (DHT) who has been working with some pupils to record Christmas Festive messages that will be shared with the residents of our local care and nursing homes.
STAFFING
A very warm welcome to Mr D Baird (Technical) and Ms J McKenzie (Art) who will join us full time from Monday 20th December.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
As intimated last week, we close for the Christmas Holidays on Wednesday 22nd December at 2:30pm and reopen on Thursday 6th January 2022 at 8:45am.
Have a lovely weekend
Robert Johnston
Head Teacher
