My Account will be unavailable from 7pm tonight (Thursday, 25th October 2018) until 6am tomorrow (Friday, 26th October 2018) which means that parents/carers will not be able to log into iPay Impact and pay for school meals or other school expenses during that time.

Over the course of the last two academic weeks we have made three appointments that you will need to be aware of as your young person is in Arran House. Mr MacPherson has been appointed as the Acting Depute Head Teacher for Arran House. To cover Mr MacPherson’s secondment we have made the following two appointments: Mrs Mullen will be Acting PT Pupil Support for 2A1, 3A1, 4A1, 5A1 and 6A1 pupils Miss Mackie will be Acting PT Pupil Support for 1A1 As always the first point of contact with the school in all matters should be through our young peoples’ PT Pupil Support followed by the Head of House who at this time is Mr MacPherson. Kind regards, Mr McGilp

The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day was ‘changes’ and we celebrated by having a poetry competition for our 1st year pupils’. We had three categories this year, a standard poem, an acrostic poem and a French language poem. All the poems are displayed in the library and the winning poems will be sent off to the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Well done girls!

Due to unforeseen circumstances the EMA payment due to be paid to students this Friday 26th October 2018 has been delayed. The payments due will not be paid into students bank accounts until Monday 29th October 2018.  

Basics Food Bank, the Pupil Council and myself wish to express a very sincere thank you, thank you, thank you to all the staff and pupils who contributed to this week’s collection. The Pupil Council were exceptionally busy this morning, organising almost 2000 items of food. Wow! Nearly 2000! This will go such a long way in helping local families. The House competition was unbelievably close, neck and neck between Arran and Skye. Skye just managed to overtake at the very end, winning by only 2 more tins of food. Well done to all three houses! It was an absolutely AMAZING effort put in by our fabulous Coltness pupils  

Congratulations to Mr MacPherson who joins us again on the school’s Senior Leadership Team. He will become the main point of contact on an interim basis for Arran House beyond any contact with PTs Pupil Support (Guidance Teachers). We are currently in the process of trying to find a replacement for his PT Pupil Support post. Mrs Anderson on an interim basis will also continue as SQA Coordinator. As always however your main and first point of contact with the school should be your young person’s PT Pupil Support.

One of our first years has done exceptionally well in the Open European Championships in Poland at the weekend. He reached the quarter finals for patterns and the semi finals for sparring where he picked up a bronze medal!

Tempest Photography will be taking official school photographs for S1 and S4 on Monday 22nd October. Please be ready that day in full school uniform including tie and blazers.

Personal Statement Draft 1 deadline is 27/10/2018 Please submit these to your Pupil Support teacher on or before the deadline. Your PTPS should also be made aware if you have any concerns / if you have decided to withdraw from the UCAS application process.