Mr Robertson, our Headteacher, is retiring at the end of December 2024.  He has been in post for over nine years.  Mrs Jennifer Di Mambro will taking on the role as Acting Headteacher of Calderhead High School from January 2025.

Mrs Di Mambro is currently a highly experienced Depute Head Teacher within North Lanarkshire. She is excited about taking up the position of Acting Head Teacher at Calderhead High School and getting to know the school community.

The link below is a letter from Mr Barry Smedley, Chief Officer (Education – South) to parents and carers.

Letter to Calderhead HS HT

We are proud to publish our School Improvement Plan for session 2024 -2025. This sets out our priorities and what actions we will be taking to improve Calderhead High School.

24-25 Annual Improvement June 2024

The biggest single thing parents and carers can do to improve a pupil’s attainment is to make sure that they have excellent attendance.  Spoiler alert, you cannot have excellent attendance if you take term time holidays or regularly have days off such as a Friday.

Why is attendance at school so important?

Having excellent attendance at school is key to your child having the best opportunity to learn, and therefore the best start in life.

Below are some great reminders of why it’s important for our children to attend school:

• To learn
• To meet friends and socialise
• To build and develop social skills
• To understand responsibility
• To develop a healthy work ethic
• To be active
• To gain new experiences in life
• To develop new life skills – useful for life in the workplace, as well as at home and in the community
• To develop a wider sense of self
• To encounter and learn about different beliefs / religions / cultures
• To grow as individuals into mature young adults
• To gain qualifications in preparation for moving onto a positive destination
• To achieve their full potential

We have put together an information sheet on why everyday counts and why missing school is missing out.

Attendance Support document for parents June 2024

We have been impressed this week by our new S5 and S6 pupils.  On Monday and Tuesday we had an intensive induction programme to prepare for the year ahead.  We have made some changes such as  supervised study in the Library to help focus on attainment.

We have also updated our Learning Agreement which all returning pupils have signed. Learning Agreement June 2024

As part of our annual improvement process we again asked all parents and carers on their views of Calderhead High School. We are very pleased to share the results. A particular highlight for us is that 92% of respondents said they were satisfied with Calderhead HS.

Although we provide 4 tracking reports and a full written report  to S1 parents/carers plus a face to face meeting, we recognise that we need to do more around what the information is telling you.

Self Evaluation for Improvement May 2024

CHS LT POSTER v4 (003)

We have created a poster to make it clear what a lesson at Calderhead High School looks like. This is the first in a series of posters, the next two will concentrate on what is means to be ready to learn and what does very good learning look like from a pupils perspective.

As per the Whole School Calendar the new Timetable will start on Monday 3^rd June. House Time will be extended on Monday to 0915 to enable House Time staff to issue new Timetables.

It has always been our intention to keep House Time teachers with their House class as they move through the school. As such the current House teachers will have the exact same pupils/class from Monday as they have now and pupils should report to their normal House Class on Monday morning.

New S2 pupils ( current S1 pupils) all have PE on Monday and should bring their PE Kit as normal. The current 3F class also have PE on Monday, the PE department have already let these new S4 pupils know.

On Monday, New S5 and S6 pupils will have an extended Assembly from 0915 to 1040 as part of their induction programme.

John Robertson

Headteacher

Tickets for our ‘The Wizard of Oz’ performances will be on sale from Tuesday 4^th June.

These will be available from Mrs Moore’s room during House time only.

The ticket cost is £5.

There are two evening performances (Thursday 13^th June and Friday 14^th June) and a Matinee for pupils only (Thursday 13th).

Our Police Scotland School Liaison Officer, PC Andrew Park, has asked that we make parents and pupils aware of Fearless. Fearless is part of the Crimestoppers Charity that allows young people aged between 11 and 18 to anonymously report a crime or pass on information. This can be done by phone on 0800 555 111 or on http://crimestoppers-uk.org