{"id":21210,"date":"2026-09-18T18:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:06:53","slug":"our-week-our-school-18-09-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/09\/18\/our-week-our-school-18-09-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Week, Our School 18\/09\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Parent \/ Carer,<\/p>\n

Welcome to our weekly family and community communication that provides a Headteacher overview of the weeks events and other school-based information.<\/p>\n

The week that\u2019s been\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope your week has been as busy and productive as ours here in KHS!<\/p>\n

Going around school this week, it was great to see and hear all the learning conversations taking place with our learners in S4-6. Colleagues are working on tracking reports, and these conversations and learning logs are vital in ensuring that learners are aware of strengths, development needs and their initial levels, target and working grades. We are keen to support all learners to achieve their potential and would ask for families to discuss this with their young person now and following the reports. Over the next couple of weeks, we will also be focussing on in class attendance and may be in touch to discuss any concerns.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, we held our first fire drill of the new academic session. Colleagues and young people evacuated in an orderly way and managed to follow all policies as expected. Most learners remained calm and supportive throughout. Some young people let themselves down with some unsafe behaviour and we are in the process of following up on this.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, I visited S3 classes with Mr Young period 1 and S4 with Mrs Hamilton period 2. As ever, it is great to visit learners in class and speak to them and teachers about their progress. We also did some uniform checks, and almost all our young people continue to support our uniform policy. We have emailed families where issues arose. Well done to everyone for their hard work and effort that was reported by class teachers.<\/p>\n

A reminder that we are making changes to our Guidance and Support structure following the October break. Thank you for sharing your views. We will pull key themes from this together and share them with you in due course.<\/p>\n

Our key principles around this change are:<\/p>\n