St Andrew's High School

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 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

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Unfortunately we are unable to host our usual Senior Awards Ceremony to recognise the achievements of pupils following their SQA results in 2019/20. Congratulations to all our award winners from S4-S6 at National 5, Higher & Advanced Higher level.  The virtual awards video can be viewed at the link below.

In our Special Awards category we had 3 winners of the Proxime Accessit award. This is awarded to the 2nd highest performing pupil(s) in the school. Congratulations to our 3 winners of the Proxime Accessit Award – Aiva Martin, Abba Saviar & Saoirse McDavitt.

The Dux Medal is awarded to the highest performing student and we are delighted to announce that our Dux Medallist for 2019/20 is Erin Wilson. Congratulations Erin, a thoroughly deserved award after all your hard work and commitment to your studies in S5.

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Senior Awards 2019/20 – Video

The Digital School has created two guides which will support the information that we issue to parents/carers and children/young people on digital learning.

The guides have been attached below but can also be accessed in the Parents & Pupils tabs of the website menu.

• Child and Young Person Digital Learning
• Parent/Carer Digital Learning

There will be a Virtual Get into Medicine UK Online Conference for years S3 – S5 students and their parents on Saturday 29/08/20.  To access this students and parents will need access to Zoom.

What’s covered on the day:

• What it is like to be a doctor?
• Perspectives from recent successful and Current applicants
• CV Building
• Getting Work Experience
• Medical Personal Statements
• Medical School Interviews
• Entrance Exams: UCAT & BMAT
• How to access Medical Awards, Prizes, Leadership Programmes, and Scholarships to study Medicine at University.

A variety of talks looking at experiences from university and leading to life as a fully qualified professional. Along with lectures covering work experience, personal statements, interview techniques etc, led by our team of doctors.

Please register with the funding code sds2020 for a free place as you proceed through checkout. This will clear the balance in the basket as pupils/parents register. Register and find out more information here: https://medicmentor.co.uk/national-healthcare-weekend/

If pupils experience any difficulty registering for their free place, Please Contact: Josh Jones, School Liaison Co Ordinator – joshjones@medicmentorfamily.org