Grange Academy

GRANGE ACADEMY – HEAD TEACHER UPDATE – Friday 11^th March 2022

Dear Parent/Carer,

Please find some school updates to conclude the week……..

THANK YOU
A huge thank you to all parents and carers once again for your warm welcome to the Grange Campus this week.  It’s a privilege to be appointed to this role and I look forward to serving the community, but particularly our young people in the years ahead.

COMMUNICATION
As you are aware, there is a huge volume of information communicated through the school app – this will continue and develop moving forward in order to ensure parents/carers are kept fully abreast of school business and good news stories.  As Head Teacher, I will attempt to keep my communication as succinct as possible and share on a Friday morning.

SQA – SCENARIO 2
Mrs McLean issued an update through the school app on Wednesday of this week in relation to the ‘Revision Support’ available to Senior Phase learners in preparation for the forthcoming examinations.  Departments will be working closely with learners on this in the coming weeks, however we ask this is reinforced at home if possible.  Your support on this would be very much appreciated.  Information can be found here – https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/100366.html

LUNCH TIME
On Monday of next week we will be moving to a single lunch time (13.10 – 13.55) for all year groups.  Information will be shared with pupils’ period 1 today.

HEAD TEACHER / HEAD OF CAMPUS TRANSITION
As you are aware, I have been very fortunate to be released from my previous school to work with Mr Johnston for the next three weeks in order to ease my transition as Head of Grange Campus; many thanks to East Ayrshire for allowing this to happen.  Mr Johnston and I work closely together to ensure the school is operating as effectively as possible and will continue to do so through until the Easter break.

Around the Easter break time, I plan on holding a virtual meeting with parents and carers across the campus whereby I can introduce myself and present on how I see Grange Academy and Grange Campus moving forward.  More information to follow in due course.

SCHOOL LEAVER DESTINATIONS
Every February/March the Scottish Government release a series of pupil leaver statistics from schools across Scotland.  As previously shared, Grange Academy achieved our best ever pupil positive destination figure with 97.29% of leavers in a positive destination.  A huge thank you to staff for making this possible and for parents/carers for your support of the school.

CONSULTATION
Over the next couple of months I intend carrying out a significant amount of consultation with all school stakeholders.  This will provide me with lots of information on the school/campus and will also allow me to begin planning the 22/23 Improvement Plan.  The first piece of consultation I ask parents/carers to engage with is the Education Scotland inspection questionnaire.  The link to this is below and I would ask this is completed no later than 2pm on Friday 18^th March.  Many thanks in advance for taking the time to complete this – https://forms.office.com/r/snhRBHWnvi

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Robertson