Dear Parent / Carer,
End of term letter December 2025
It is a pleasure to write to you at the end of our second term this session. In many ways, this has been a very busy term but has been positive and fruitful for our learners. It has been great to see many young people leading various aspects across school from assemblies to school improvement.
The term was marked by an HMIE Inspection, the schools first since 2012! Although I am not in a position to share outcomes from the inspection yet due to quality assurance processes, I do think it’s important to note that the team got a real flavour of what we are all about as a school.
The team were very aware of our journey over the past few years and rightly positive about many of the changes and improvements we have made together as a community, based on our values. The team noted improvements in many areas including leadership, support, learning and teaching. The team also noted improvements in our outcomes for learners based on the school’s previous results. We know that we must continue, at speed, to improve outcomes, in line with national and comparator measures. This work is ongoing.
Once HMIE go through their quality assurance processes, the letter and Summarised Inspection Findings will be published and I will share this with you. We are expecting this to be around the end of January / beginning of February.
As ever, thank you to all our families, young people, partners and colleagues for your support over this very busy term. We could not do it without your time, effort and support.
S5/6 Assessment Weeks – w/b 19th and 26th January 2026
Please find, the timetable for S5/6 assessment weeks. This is an important opportunity for learners to prepare for their SQA examinations in May. It is vitally important that they put in maximum effort to ensure this provides a true reflection of their abilities and allow for young people to identify areas of strength and development. N.B. Anyone with assessment arrangements will get a separate timetable from Mr Mooney.
S5/6 Winter Formal
A huge well done to our S5/6 event class for organising this year’s Winter Formal. This was the first Winter Formal post COVID and was a real success. All of our young people had a great time and the evening was held in the right spirit by all. Thank you to all staff who supported the organisation and the event itself.
Transforming Learning (iPads)
Please remind your child to charge their iPad and bring it to school in their bag everyday. I would also ask that young people take care of the devices and ensure that they act responsibly. This has been a great addition to learning and was noted by HMIE in the recent inspection as a positive for learners.
Staffing
Some staffing news to share with you…
Mrs P Morris was successful at interview and has moved to Bell Baxter High school as Depute Headteacher. Mrs Morris was a committed, loyal and hard working colleague who had our young people and values at the centre of all she did. We wish Mrs Morris the very best in her new role.
Following Mrs Morris’ departure, Mr G Stewart has taken on the role of acting PTC Humanities in her absence. Mr Stewart will be in position until 1st February 2026. I am grateful to Mr Stewart for supporting this.
After interviews for the permanent PTC Humanities post, Mrs L Macmorris will start with us on Monday 2nd February 2026. Mrs Macmorris is currently PTC Modern Languages at Beath High School and has a wealth of experience that will be an asset to our young people and community. We are looking forward to her starting with us.
As you will be aware from my last letter, Ms Thomson (Teacher of BGE) left at the end of last term. We interviewed for this post just before the end of term 1 and Ms S Leiper was successful and is joining our school as permanent Teacher of BGE. Ms Leiper will be primarily working with maths and numeracy in S1-3. We are looking forward to Ms Leiper starting with us.
Mrs Moerman, PT HWB (HE) has also left KHS and is moving to a career out of teaching. We wish her every success for the future.
Ms Akers, acting PT Raising Attainment, was successful at interview and will take on the permanent role of PT HWB (HE) from 5th January.
We have been unsuccessful in appointing a new HE teacher and therefore plans for S1/2 continue with learners continuing to develop skills through Developing the Young Workforce period over next term.
Mrs Little is due to return from maternity leave on Monday 9th February and will continue in her role as PT Raising Attainment. Until then, Ms E Johnston will undertake the acting role. We wish Ms Johnston well in this role.
Over the term, Mr Broadway has not been in school, with Mrs Stewart taking on Mr Broadway’s responsibilities. This will continue into the new term. Families affected by this were made aware by letter of changes to named person responsibility.
Lastly, there will be some changes to remits for Senior Leaders from January 2026. The updated remits are available. There are no changes to year heads, just strategic remits.
Notable dates for the terms ahead
Please see notable dates below:
Parent / Carer Evenings
The dates for our parent / carer evenings are below:
- S2: 14 January 2026
- S3: 17 March 2026
Dates for our parent / carer information evenings are below:
- P7: 10 June 2026 – Information Evening
- S2,4 and 5: 2 Feb -Parents Curricular Pathways Evening
All Parent / Carer evenings will be in person at KHS unless otherwise stated.
Reporting Dates (Term 3 and 4):
- S1-3: 13th March 2026, 15th May 2026
- S4: 23rd January 2026, 3rd April 2026
- S5/6: 27th February 2026, 3rd April 2026
Parent Council – Provisional dates (1 meeting per term):
- Term 3: w/b 19th January 2026
- Term 4: w/b 4th May 2026
*Parent Council meetings take place online (TEAMS). All parents / carers are welcome. Agenda and link will be sent out to all parents / carers the week prior to the meeting.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can support in any way. I hope you have a restful and enjoyable festive break. Wishing you and your family a merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes.
Best wishes,
Chris McKay
Headteacher
