Depute – David MacPherson

Mr MacPherson graduated from Edinburgh University with a BEd (Hons) in Physical Education and has worked with North Lanarkshire Council since 2008. He came to Coltness High School in January 2015 as Principal Teacher of Pupil Support before taking up the position of Acting Depute Head Teacher of Arran House in 2018.

• Deputising for the Head Teacher
• Head of Arran House, with discipline and related matters
• Pastoral includes Child Protection, Inter Agency Link, an overview of Attendance and Exclusion and Nurturing School. Also Lockers, in conjunction with SfL
• BGE Tracking & Monitoring
• S1/2/3 includes IDL, Prize Giving, Parents’ Nights, reporting and other such age specific matters.
• Education Coltness Committee (Learning & Teaching)
• e-portfolios
• SNSA (+SSLN)
• Literacy*
• Numeracy*

Links – (includes management of non-teaching staff) Languages, Mathematics, SfL & Teen Talk

*these areas are the “responsibility of all” teachers within the school and have leads at Principal Teacher level. The DHTs allocated these on their remit have an overview