{"id":961,"date":"2021-09-13T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:10:47","slug":"september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/2021\/09\/13\/september-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"HT Blog &#8211; 13 September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils continue to settle in well and there is an element of normality around the school despite the circumstances.\u00a0 Staff and pupils continue to adhere to guidelines in place in order to help minimise the spread of the virus.\u00a0 This includes the wearing of masks inside the building, hand sanitiser at all the entrances, cleaning of desks between classes, staggered entry into the building at the start of the day (as well as after interval and lunch) and double periods (to minimise movement around the school and the number of contacts in a day).<\/p>\n<p>I recently met with Principal Teachers to discuss results from last year as well as departmental plans for the coming years.\u00a0 These were all very positive meetings and it was great for me to have the chance to talk about where we have been and the direction we are taking.\u00a0 Hopefully we will be in a better position this year to take things forward without the same interruptions.\u00a0 Our whole school priorities this year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning and teaching<\/li>\n<li>Health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Digital<\/li>\n<li>Wellbeing, inclusion and equality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-962 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150020\/Congratulations-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150020\/Congratulations-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150020\/Congratulations.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NLC have funded a Principal Teacher in the school to help with the running of the new \u2018Future Fridays\u2019 \u2013 congratulations to Mr McGurk in PE who was appointed to this position. We have a large number of pupils staying on for the Friday afternoon and hope to expand the offering that is there as we move forward.\u00a0 To keep up to date please follow the new Twitter account <strong>@FridayOlhs<\/strong> .\u00a0 There are also a number of lunchtime and after school sports clubs now running in the PE department throughout the week, which a number of pupils have signed up to.\u00a0 Pupils should get down to the PE department if they are interested and speak to one of the PE teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations also to Mr McHugh who was appointed permanently to the post of DHT vacated by Mrs Moore who retired at the summer.<\/p>\n<p>We had our first meeting of the Parent Council on Monday 6<sup>th<\/sup> September. The school is lucky to have such a strong group in place to support the school.\u00a0 If you are interested in joining, please contact the school office and we will pass your email on the relevant people.\u00a0 The next meeting is the AGM that will take place on Monday 4<sup>th<\/sup> October.\u00a0 Again, if you would like to attend the AGM, please contact the school office.\u00a0 The email address is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"mailto:enquiries-at-ourladyshigh@northlan.org.uk\">enquiries-at-ourladyshigh@northlan.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-795 aligncenter\" 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Thanks to Mrs Smith for all her work in organising these activities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-963 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150412\/ucas-logo-300x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150412\/ucas-logo-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2021\/09\/13150412\/ucas-logo.png 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the time of year when pupils, mainly in S6, start to think about their application for University, which is done using UCAS.\u00a0 A presentation about this was emailed to all parents of S5\/6 pupils.\u00a0 Last week Mr McVeagh organised for Focus West, who support pupils into Higher Education, to have 1-1 meetings with pupils.\u00a0 We are hoping this has provided them with relevant information which will help them in this process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-429 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2018\/09\/COMING-UP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday 24<sup>th<\/sup> and Monday 27<sup>th<\/sup> September:\u00a0 September weekend holidays<\/p>\n<p>Monday 11<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 Friday 18<sup>th<\/sup> October: \u00a0school closed for October week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils continue to settle in well and there is an element of normality around the school despite the circumstances.\u00a0 Staff and pupils continue to adhere to guidelines in place in order to help minimise the spread of the virus.\u00a0 This includes the wearing of masks inside the building, hand sanitiser at all the entrances, cleaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42177,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olhshtblog\/uploads\/sites\/34469\/2018\/01\/icon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhshtblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}