{"id":3035,"date":"2025-02-09T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/?page_id=3035"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:04:59","slug":"leaders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/?page_id=3035","title":{"rendered":"School Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Head Teacher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Claire McInally<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Head Teacher here since 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Deputes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mr Stephen Henry<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S1 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLPL Co-ordinator; Learning and Teaching; P7 Transitions; Digital Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link for Digital Learning & Teaching PEF PT; Pupil Voice PEF PT; Link for Business Education & Computing Science department and Performing Arts department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Louise Morrison (Associate)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S2 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probationers and Student Teachers; Literacy; Raising Attainment BGE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mr Paul Young (Acting)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S3 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probationers and Student Teachers; Literacy; Raising Attainment BGE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Laura Farrell<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S6 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Care Experienced Designated Manager, Student Support GIRFEC lead (including Learning Community JST chair), Equalities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to Maths Department, PT Health and Wellbeing; 6 PTs Pastoral Care;  PT Support for Learning and Support for Learning Department including Support for Learning Workers and Health and Wellbeing Support Workers,  EAL department, MCR Pathways Coordinator, Action for Children Engagement Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Orla Ritchie<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S4 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SQA Co-ordinator; Monitoring and Tracking; Promoting Positive Relationships; Self-Evaluation; Senior Phase Curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link for Raising Attainment PEF PT; Campus Police Officer; Link for Design & Technical department and Home Economics department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Claire Meehan<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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S5 Year Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child Protection Officer; Timetabling <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Principle Teachers of Curriculum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Principle Teachers of Pastoral Care<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Pastoral Teachers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Principle Teachers PEF<\/h3>\n

Digital Learning & Teaching – Mr Scott Adams<\/h5>\n

Resposible for managing our iPads, which each pupil and teacher is supplied with to support learning and teaching. Training and support staff and pupils to be digitally enabled and engaged in a digital first curriculum. Enacting the connected learning policy and developing further policy to improve the learning. Furthering the digital footprint of the school.<\/p>\n

Pupil Voice – Mrs Caitlin Rodgers<\/h5>\n

Responsibilities center around ensuring that our pupils feel as though they have a voice and their opinions are listened to and heard. In charge of the Pupil Parliament which consists of 4 pupils per year group in the BGE; meeting monthly focusing on a different HIGIOURS theme to discuss what we do well already and how we can improve as a school team. Organise trips to the City Chambers as a part of the Glasgow City Council School Forums where our young people meet with other schools and discuss issues related to our curriculums, community and world!
Embedded in the role is promoting equality within our school and as such I work closely with Alistair our PT for Health and Wellbeing to achieve our Rights Respecting School Award, Level Bronze. Working on our Anti Racism Charter and school suggestion box.<\/p>\n

Raising Attainment – Mr Gary Howe<\/h5>\n

Responsible for leading the school\u2019s work on supporting pupils to achieve their full potential. Organising Supported Study programmes: Study Skills programmes with pupils and parents\/ carers; Easter School; managing Mentoring and Interventions. Engage in data analysis and will support the Transitions process to ensure all pupils can maximise their attainment in the Senior Phase.<\/p>\n

Developing the Young Workforce – Mrs Sarah Keenan<\/h5>\n

Working in partnership with school-based staff, such as the FARE worker, the school DYW co-ordinator, PTPC with responsibility for OFA as well as SLT. Working in partnership with local staff, the DYW regional Group, Skills Development Scotland, colleges and universities, apprenticeship providers, and key employers and partners. Ensuring all young people are fully prepared and can make informed decisions about their next steps and that they will be better prepared for the world of work.<\/p>\n\n\n

Family Engagement – Miss Anna McLure<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Planning a programme designed to engage our hardest to reach families in the life and learning of the school. Ensuring that the staff in school and our partners are familiar with the data about the demographic of our school to ensure that we understand the communities we are serving and are able to plan programmes to best meet the level of need. In partnership working within and beyond school to share good news about the work we do with and for our community. Consulting our families on all matters relating to school life so communication with staff at all levels to ensure that systems are being followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pupil Leadership<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

School Captain: Emmanuel Makinde<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice Captains: Eva Macdonald & Yun Xi Liu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Head Teacher Mrs Claire McInally Head Teacher here since 2019 Deputes Mr Stephen Henry S1 Year Head CLPL Co-ordinator; Learning and Teaching; P7 Transitions; Digital Learning. Link for Digital Learning & Teaching PEF PT; Pupil Voice PEF PT; Link for Business Education & Computing Science department and Performing Arts department. Mrs Louise Morrison (Associate) S2 Year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28185,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3035","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3035\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}