{"id":10024,"date":"2023-04-19T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:56:04","slug":"sqa-examinations-study-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2023\/04\/19\/sqa-examinations-study-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"SQA Examinations &amp; Study Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All S4, S5 &amp; S6 pupils have now been issued with their individual SQA Timetable detailing exactly when their exams are taking place.\u00a0 All pupils should check that the details outlined in this are correct and contact the school as soon as possible if they have any questions, or corrections need to be made.\u00a0 Pupils, parents and carers are advised to visit the SQA website for useful information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/100863.12012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for more info<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courses at Higher level, and most at National 5, have an external exam. This is a compulsory part of the course. All courses at National 4 level are based on internal assessments.<\/p>\n<p>As the SQA exams are run nationally the date of exams cannot be changed.\u00a0 Some exams will run over bank holidays and in-service days, however the school will be open on these dates to allow pupils to sit their exams.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National 5 &amp; Higher History: <strong>Tuesday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of May 2023<\/strong> (in-service day).<\/li>\n<li>National 5 &amp; Higher Art &amp; Design: <strong>Friday 26<sup>th<\/sup> of May 2023<\/strong> (May weekend Holiday)<\/li>\n<li>Higher Psychology: <strong>Monday 29<sup>th <\/sup>\u00a0of May 2023<\/strong> (May weekend Holiday)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2023\/04\/19184740\/SQA-exam-timetable-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQA exam timetable 2023 &#8211; click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pupils sitting Highers, or one or more National 5 exam, will be on study leave from Monday the <strong>24<sup>th<\/sup> of April until Thursday the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of June<\/strong> inclusive.\u00a0 Pupils must make the most of this opportunity and spend their time preparing for exams.\u00a0 Please note staff are available in school and are always happy to assist pupils.\u00a0 Should your son\/daughter wish to attend school to revise &#8211; this can be arranged.\u00a0 School policy is that pupils coming into school <strong>must wear school uniform, this is also the case when sitting<\/strong> <strong>exams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Friday the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of June<\/strong> there will be an induction day for all pupils returning to S5\/6.\u00a0 It is imperative that <strong>ALL<\/strong> pupils attend this session so that they can be issued with their new timetables.<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any difficulties relating to the SQA Examination Arrangements, or if your child is unwell during this period, please contact: Ms Kerr (Deputy Head Teacher).<\/p>\n<p><em>Info above taken from SQA Exams 2023 letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2023\/04\/19185405\/SQA-Exams-2023-letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here <\/a>for original<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All S4, S5 &amp; S6 pupils have now been issued with their individual SQA Timetable detailing exactly when their exams are taking place.\u00a0 All pupils should check that the details outlined in this are correct and contact the school as soon as possible if they have any questions, or corrections need to be made.\u00a0 Pupils, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2023\/04\/19\/sqa-examinations-study-leave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SQA Examinations &amp; Study Leave<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13766,"featured_media":7488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14908],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whole-school-news","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2020\/03\/13182024\/sqa-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}