A reminder to all parents of current S4 and S5:
The S5/6 Options Pathways Information evening will take place on Tuesday, 30th January 2018 from 7pm – 8pm.
You will have the opportunity to hear about school course on offer for next year as well as the range of vocational courses, Foundation Apprenticeships and Modern Apprenticeships available.
We look forward to welcoming you on the evening.
Our ‘Tea with a Refugee’ event today related to holocaust Memorial Day and aimed to get the S3 pupils thinking about the lessons that we can learn today.
Bill Clark from the Holocaust Educational Trust, opened the event and introduced the main speakers.
The S3 pupils had the privilege of meeting Henry and Ingrid Wuga who escaped the holocaust in Germany 
and heard something of their story of how they escaped from Nazi Germany during the war to end up as refugees in Glasgow.
They also heard from a more recent refugee to Glasgow, Alex Deng from Kenya. Although he arrived in Glasgow 65 years later, it is sad to realise people are still facing similar issues. Pupils then had the opportunity to ask questions of the three visitors.
The event was organised by S6 pupil Kirsty Robson assisted by Erin Brown and Chris Hughes (all of whom have visited the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with the Holocaust Memorial Trust) with some help from Mrs Smith and Mr Maybury. 
We appreciated the presence of local MP Paul Masterton and Councillor Paul O’Kane.
After the presentation, some of the pupils from the Rights Respecting School and members of staff had the chance to meet and have ‘tea with a refugee’. It will be a special event in the young people’s memory.
The Official Opening of the new Barrhead High School took place on Thursday 11th January 2018.
Representatives of pupils, parents and staff joined together with East Renfrewshire Council councillors and officials 
as well as partners who were involved in bringing the project to such a successful conclusion.
Our own singing group and band performed.
Paul O’Kane, Convenor for Education and Equality, formally opened the building.
If you were not fortunate enough to be there on the day, you can now experience the full ceremony through the link below to an excellent video (thanks once again to the skills of our Multimedia Technician, Matthew Mathieson).
A reminder to all S3 parents:
The S3 Parents’ Meeting will take place on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018 from 4pm – 6.30pm.
Students are currently making appointments with their teachers, and can do so up until 4pm on Tuesday.
We look forward to welcoming you on the evening.
The S5/6 Prelim Examinations start on Monday the 5th of February.
A copy of the timetable can be accessed using the link below.
All of our students need to be familiar with the day and time of their exams.
All pupils have been handed a paper copy of the timetable. Pupils with additional support requirements will be issued with a separate personalised timetable from the support department.
If you would like extra advice on studying and dealing with exam stress then visit the SQA study guides section of their website (link below).
Mr Beaton
A reminder to all parents of current S4 and S5:
The S5/6 Options Pathways Information evening will take place on Tuesday, 30th January 2018 from 7pm – 8pm.
You will have the opportunity to hear about school course on offer for next year as well as the range of vocational courses, Foundation Apprenticeships and Modern Apprenticeships available.
We look forward to welcoming you on the evening.
Representatives of pupils, parents and staff joined with East Renfrewshire councillors and officials as well as some of the partners who were involved in building the new school, for the official opening earlier today.
Provost Jim Fletcher welcomed everyone to the new school before a very powerful video showing life in the new school, created by our multimedia technician Matthew Mathieson, was played. It can be seen at the link below and is already on the East Renfrewshire Facebook site with some photos and videos (check also the Parent Council Facebook page and Twitter for more).
The pupil singing group then gave us 2 very appropriate songs – ‘We are the Children’ and ‘Follow Your Dreams’, beautifully sung, followed by Pachelbel’s Canon played superbly by the band.
Head Teacher Andy Sinclair gave some thoughts around the new building from a school perspective before Councillor Paul O”Kane, Convenor for Education & Equalities, spoke and unveiled the Commemorative Plaque.
Councillor Tony Buchanan then made the closing remarks before the band played us out with ‘Best Years of Our Lives’ and our own catering staff provided an excellent buffet for the guests.
It was an appropriate and meaningful way to ‘officially’ welcome in the new school and all present spoke very highly of the whole event.
In the New Year, our S5 & S6 students will be preparing for their prelim exams, which take place in February 2018.
To support students with their learning, a number of supported study sessions are planned throughout January.
We would encourage all students to attend as many sessions as possible.
For all students with access to Glow: