St Andrew's High School

The January 2022 edition of the Rights Respecting Schools Newsletter can be accessed at the link below

Jan 2022 issue

A copy of the new school handbook can be accessed at the link below.

St Andrews HS Handbook 2022

Please find below the link to our 2021 Standards and Quality report.

https://sway.office.com/oZ2imw9mZmLORElZ?ref=Link

A copy of the School Improvement Priorities information for parents and carers has been added to the Parents channel on the top menu.

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As part of our ongoing mental health support in St Andrew’s High School and as part of the school’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have implemented a Positive Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy to help aid recovery and minimise the negative impact on our school community. This document describes our school’s approach to promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing and, as well as providing guidance, also includes a variety of sources of support and details on how to access these.

SAHS Positive MHWB Strategy

We welcome everyone back to another academic school year in St Andrew’s High School.

• New School Times
  • There has been a change to the school week from pervious years.  The new school day times are as follows
    • Monday – Thursday, 08:55 – 15:45
    • Friday, 08:55 – 12:30
• Future Fridays
  • On Friday afternoons the Future Fridays programme will run across all North Lanarkshire School.  There will be lots of opportunities for students to take part in a variety of different activities and programmes throughout the year.  Students should pay attention to the Notice Boards, Teams pages and the Future Fridays twitter account for information on what is available each week and how to sign up.
• New Staff
  • We welcome a number of new staff to the school, we hope they enjoy their time here in St Andrew’s and look forward to the contribution they make.
  • Ms Jankauskaite (Business), Ms Murdoch (Computing), Mr Butler (Drama), Mr Bryans (Maths), Mr Martin (Maths), Mr Rutherford (Social Subjects), Ms Flanagan (Social Subjects), Ms McShane (Modern Languages), Ms McPherson (Science), Ms McCulloch (Art), Ms Ogugo (Art)
• Face Masks
  • Staff and students are still required to wear face coverings in school unless medically exempt.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Rights Respecting School Silver Award by UNICEF UK.   This has been a great accomplishment given the continued COVID restrictions placed upon us all.

Congratulations to all the pupils and staff involved, and a special thanks to Mrs Lowry for leading the project.  

Our Primary transition visits has been running slightly differently to previous years.  As a result of the continuing COVID restrictions each primary school has been coming up individually for their visit to St Andrew’s rather than the usual two day visits involving all schools. We hope everyone enjoys their visit ahead of joining us in August.

Our S6 Pupil Voice team have been a key part of this years primary transition programme. Not only have they been assisting with the visits but they have also put together our St Andrew’s HS Primary Transition 2021 video for associated primary schools.

The video can be accessed below

Primary Transition 2021

In normal times, we would hold an information evening for parents & carers and have P7 visits for the pupils. Unfortunately, due current restrictions this is unlikely to happen so after listening to some questions our P7’s and their families had, we have tried to answer as many as possible within this booklet.

This booklet will hopefully answer some of your questions prior to starting S1 at St Andrew’s High School in August 2021.

P7 WELCOME & INFO BOOKLET 2021

We look forward to welcoming your child to our school community in August

A reminder that the school will be closed on Monday the 3rd of May for the May Day Holiday. School will also be closed for pupils on Thursday the 6th of May due to it being an in-service day. Enjoy the long weekend & we will see everyone on Tuesday the 4th on the Green Timetable.