We are now only one week away from the ‘handover’ day when the new school building will be passed over to East Renfrewshire Council.

I had the opportunity of a visit to the new school on Friday. It was exciting to see things almost completed with most of the painting finished and most of the classroom furniture now in place.

The kitchens look ready to serve lunch and the multi-coloured lockers and general paint schemes look very smart – and very Barrhead High!

They will still have a busy week finishing things off – fitting the remaining furniture, some final painting and cleaning up – but they are confident of being on track.

The old building is a shell now and there is still no phone nor internet connection to either the old or new buildings. Consequently we have alternative working arrangements  in place, in particular for SQA results day next week – see separate post.

Remember that pupils will not return to school until Thursday 17th August and we will detail the timings next week once we see that everything is in place.

We are moving into a very exciting period and it will be great to take possession of such good facilities!

Mr S