{"id":250,"date":"2011-04-17T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:46:59","slug":"welcome-from-headteacher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/about-us\/welcome-from-headteacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome from Head Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Welcome from Head Teacher<\/h1>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #2b2b2b;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">I am delighted to welcome you to the Mearns Castle High School website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/outside-photo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11811\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/about-us\/welcome-from-headteacher\/outside-photo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/MearnsCastle\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/08\/17151911\/outside-photo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"844,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1596805291&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00059488399762046&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"outside photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/MearnsCastle\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/08\/17151911\/outside-photo.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/MearnsCastle\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/08\/17151911\/outside-photo.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-11811 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/MearnsCastle\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2020\/08\/17151911\/outside-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a>Having joined the school in August 2020, it is clear to me that this is a vibrant and successful school community.<\/p>\n<p>The school has clearly benefited from strong leadership, committed and highly skilled staff, pleasant and hard-working learners and very supportive parents.\u00a0 All of these ingredients have helped to ensure very high levels of attainment, a range of exciting extra-curricular opportunities and a friendly and caring school ethos.<\/p>\n<p>It is a privilege to lead this excellent school and I look forward to working with you to ensure our pupils experience the very best educational opportunities.\u00a0 I hope you find this website of interest and please do not hesitate to contact the school if you require any further information.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. S. Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@MearnsCastleHT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome from Head Teacher \u00a0I am delighted to welcome you to the Mearns Castle High School website. Having joined the school in August 2020, it is clear to me that this is a vibrant and successful school community. The school has clearly benefited from strong leadership, committed and highly skilled staff, pleasant and hard-working learners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/about-us\/welcome-from-headteacher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome from Head Teacher<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/15447"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/MearnsCastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}