The link above takes you to the School Calendar for this session. This includes the dates for all Parents’ Nights, Tracking Reports and Full Reports. It also includes when the official school holidays are. The S4 Prelims begin on the 12th of December and the S5/6 Prelims are scheduled to begin on the 8th February. The SQA exams will begin on Monday 24th April 2023 and finish on the 31st May 2023, as yet we do not know the exact days of each exam.
This year we celebrated 10 years in this new building and we are inviting the Shotts Community to come and get a tour on Monday 29th August. First tour will leave at 6pm and the last tour will start at 6:45pm.
The Prelim Exams scheduled for Friday 18th February have been postponed until Tuesday 22nd February due to the weather warning issued by the Met Office. “Storm Eunice may cause disruption due to heavy snow and some strong winds on Friday.” The warning is in place from 0300-1800 on Friday.
This should ensure that the pupils and invigilators have a stress free journey on Tuesday prior to these important exams.
We are delighted to publish our Handbook for session 2022/2023. Each year we update it with new photographs, holiday dates, the current staff list etc. The School Captains, Kayla and Kenzie, have written a welcome page for all the P7 pupils who will be our new S1 pupils in August. They share their own experiences of being in P7 about to move to a new building and how it has worked out well for them. Hopefully, if you are in Primary 7 you will recognise older pupils in the many photographs who also attended your Primary School. Soon it will be your turn to be enjoying adventures and many new experiences at Calderhead High School. We look forward to welcoming you in August.
The letter below sets out the new arrangements for COVID-19 positive cases. The major change is that Test and Protect will solely handle the close contact situation and be responsible for making contact with pupils.
Another change is the definition of a close contact
“Your child would only be identified as a contact if they have had prolonged close contact with the case (someone who tests positive for COVID-19) – e.g. same household, overnight stays.”
S4, S5 and S6 pupils do not need to come into school tomorrow (Friday, 18th June) to collect their provisional grades as they will be posted out to them tomorrow afternoon.
Due to lockdown last year, we were unable to hold our annual prizegiving last summer but we held a belated socially distanced award ceremony in the Assembly Hall in the school yesterday.
We plan to celebrate 2021’s awards later this year, when the pandemic restrictions will (hopefully) have abated.
Congratulations to all our prize winners, as detailed in the attached list.
We are very sad to report the tragic passing of S4 pupil Jay Gallacher on Saturday night.
“Jay was a lovely pupil and we are all devastated by this tragic news. Jay was in S4 and had just finished his Nat 5 assessments in all seven subjects and was about to make his course choices for S5 this week. He was proud of his achievements and had a bright future ahead of him.
He will be missed by everyone who knew him and our thoughts are with his friends and family. We will provide our full support to pupils and staff in the days and weeks ahead.”
We fully anticipate pupils will be wearing full uniform for the start of the new session in August 2021. Blazers and sports t shirts (for PE in House colours with school badge) can be purchased on-line from Academy Uniforms.
We are very sad to report the tragic passing of S4 pupil Jay Gallacher on Saturday night.