St Andrew's High School

RRS Newsletter September 2022

Congratulations to all our senior students who were recognised for their academic success for session 2021/22 at this years Awards Ceremony. Thank you to all parents, carers, family members & staff who came to support our students.

Congratulations to Madeleine Carlin who was awarded the Dux Medal. The Dux Medal goes to the highest performing pupil in the school & Madeleine is a thoroughly deserving winner following her hard work & success in S5.

Congratulations to Rosie Hamill & Matthew Caddle who were Proxime Accessit winners. The Proxime Accessit award is awarded to the 2nd highest performing pupil in the school.

The Head Teacher’s Award was shared by two thoroughly deserving students in Erin Kearney & Ciaren Connor. The Head Teacher’s is given to a student who has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to their studies and the wider life of the school. The Retronix STEM Award was awarded to Aaron Condron for his success and commitment to STEM within the school. Our Sports Comprehensive Award winners were Maria Chalmers, Erin Sludden, Sophie Hamill & Kaitlyn Berry for their outstanding contribution to Physical Education & Sport. Caitlin Moran & Ami Robertson were winners of the Excellence in Sport Award.

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We recently celebrated the successes of students in S1-3 for the Academic Year 2021/22 at the BGE Awards ceremonies.  Each year group was recognised for their effort & hard work throughout the year with a Gold, Silver or Bronze Award.  Well done to all recipients of awards and thanks to the music department for providing 3 excellent pieces of musical entertainment during each ceremony.

We celebrated together with our outgoing S6 students for the final time at their Prom at Dalziel Park.  Thanks to our Prom Committee for organising this spectacular event, to all our S6 students and to all staff who celebrated our class of 2022.

We wish all our students every success for the future and good luck for whatever path they choose to follow.

Pictures from the Prom can be accessed at the link below.

Prom 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.

SIP202122 Poster

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 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