St Andrew's High School

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.

Congratulations to our S6 leadership Team for session 2021/22

Captains

Sophie Hamill & Kyrystian Tomasiewicz

Vice Captains:

Roan Mina & Rhiannon Cooper

Year Group Leaders

S1 – Aaron Condron & Lucy Grierson

S2 – Mathew Mullen & Abbie Burt

S3 – Matthew McAra &  Molly Minnis

S4 – Sasha Edwards & Kenzie Ross

S5 – Shannon McEvoy & Katie O’Rourke

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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.

A copy of the April Newsletter can be accessed at the link below.  The newsletter has the latest on the SQA Alternative Curriculum Model as well as all the key important dates for the remainder of the school year.

April Newsletter 2021

Please find attached the Subject Information Booklet for senior students for 2021-22.

S4 pupils should be choosing their best 5 subjects going forward. S5 pupils should choose 5 subjects.  If choosing S6 Service, this should be discussed with Ms Morrison in the first instance. All students should be looking at college & university entry requirements if this is an intended pathway.

SDS support is also available if required and this can be arranged via your Pupil Support teacher.

SENIOR OPTIONS BOOKLET 2021-22

Please find attached the “Subject Information” booklet for S2 into S3 subject choices for 2021.

We’ll be asking S2 to select soon, keep your eyes open

S2 will all study Maths, English, RE, PSHE and PE(core)

When the time comes, S2 pupils need to pick 6 First Choices, 6 Backup choices and 6 choices they don’t want to study.

S2 need to pick at least one;

• Science (Biology, Chemistry or Physics)
• Social Subject (Geography, History or Modern Studies).

Please don’t pick too many subjects from one curricular area, select a ‘broad’ range of choices from all over the school

The S2 Team will look at all choices to make sure S2 have made the best choice and we may come back to S2 with suggested changes.

Please keep in mind that all subjects may not run, some classes may be over/under-subscribed hence the school may have to review individual option choices.

S2 OPTIONS BOOKLET March 2021

We begin our Blended Learning journey and welcome students back into the school for face to face teaching on Monday the 15th of March. Students should attend in full school uniform (no PE kit needed) with an outdoor jacket and report to the Netball Courts before being admitted into the Games Hall.

Remember when you are not in school you will still be following the remote learning approach that we’ve had over the last 9 weeks & on your PINK timetable but please be mindful that some of your teachers may be teaching in school & not available online at certain times.

Please make sure you attend on your given day, wear your face covering at all times whilst in the school (in class, in corridors & social areas) & sanitise your hands regularly. We look forward to see you on Monday – S5/6 Tuesday – S1 Wednesday – S4 Thursday – S3 Friday – S2

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