All Future Fridays activities are running this week. See image for more details or speak to Miss Small in S015.
BBC Scotland News
3 of our fantastic S6 pupils were interviewed by BBC Scotland about their feelings about sitting their SQA exams after 2 years. This was transmitted on BBC News Scotland on Tuesday 26th April. Euan, Chloe and Aminah were a credit to the School Community.
You can access the article from the BBC News website below:
Exam Revision – Drop in Timetable
Subject Specific Revision classes will be available during exam leave for S4-S6 pupils. Please take advantage of this excellent opportunity available to support achievement in the final exam.
Study Leave – S4-S6
Study leave will begin on Monday 25th April 2022 for pupils who are sitting at least 1 National Qualification exam (N5-Higher) in S4, S5 and S6. This also applies to pupils undertaking 1 National 5 exam.
Pupils will return to school on Monday 6 June 2022.
Any pupil who is not undertaking at least one exam at N5 to Higher level should continue to attend school to complete their N3/N4 coursework.
During the study leave period, study facilities will be available in school. Pupils who wish to take advantage of these facilities should arrange with their subject teachers in advance and report to Reception on arrival.
SQA Your Exam Guide 2022
As our Senior phase pupils undertaking exams at N5, Higher and Advanced Higher prepare to go on study leave from this Friday we thought it important to share with you the “Your Exams 2022” booklet from the SQA.
This schools edition reviews all the important points that pupils and parents should be aware of with regards the forthcoming exam diet that beings on Tuesday 26th April.
Please click on the link below to access the digital version of the document
Easter School Arrangements – 4th April to 8th April
NLC Virtual Easter School – April 2022
As part of our universal offer of support for our senior phase learners, the Digital School have coordinated an online supported study programme that will run from Tuesday 5th April to Thursday 14th. These online study ‘masterclass’ sessions will help learners reach the standards required to achieve their potential in their desired subjects. The link below will allow pupils to sign up to any of the 28 sessions that are running:
Spring Break 2022 Supported Study Sign Up
The link will be open until 5pm on Thursday 31st March. This will allow us to build the Teams for each session and add the pupils before the start of the programme. There will be a late sign-up form that will go live on the Friday (1st April) evening and this will be tweeted out by the @NLDigitalSchool Twitter account. This will be primarily for students who cannot make in house offers or whose circumstances change at short notice.
The attached document has a copy of the full NL Digital School offer as well as the e-Sgoil offer (including the details on how to sign-up) and access to the National E-Learning offer that includes Scholar and West OS.
Update on LGBTQ+ 29th March 2022
Parents/Carers,
Our LGBTQ+ Pupil Parliament Committee have been working hard over the past year and wanted to share our success with you. Please click on the links which showcase our successes.
lgbtq+ PP Parental briefing 2022
Non Uniform Day 25th March 2022
It is a non-uniform day. There will also be the opportunity for each year group to pay to pie the S6 students at a different time during the day. We will be charging £1 per pie and the times for each year group to take part are listed below.
Period 1 8:55-9:20 (S2)
Period 1 9:20-9:45 (S3)
Break/ 10:35-10:50 (S5)
Period 3 10:50-11:15 (S4)
Period 3 11:15-11:40 (S1)
Period 4 11:40-12:00 (S6)
Friday Dress Down Day – 25th March 2022
On Friday, there will be a dress down day for all pupils. All money raised will go towards our S6 Prom. The dress down day for Ukraine will be announced for a later date.
