St Andrew's High School

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 

The setup information for the Fusion App can be found a the link below.  The Fusion App can be used by pupils to pre-order their food from the canteen.

Fusion App – Additional Parental info

The updated Pupil Support information for 2020/21 is as follows.  Mrs Halavage retired at the end of last term & we wish her a happy retirement, any pupil who had Mrs Halavage as their Pupil Support Teacher will have have the named Pupil Support Teacher for their year group.  Miss Donnelly (Social Subjects) will be the acting Principal Teacher of Pupil Support for S3 due to Mrs Roy being on maternity leave.

• S1 – Ms Veldon
• S2 – Miss Banks
• S3 – Miss Donnelly  (maternity cover for Mrs Roy)
• S4 – Mrs Gray
• S5 – Ms Trainer
• S6 – Miss Doyle

City of Glasgow College will host a virtual event on Monday 10th August 2020 between 12 and 2pm and/or 4pm and 6pm.

On behalf of Mr Holmes, Ms Taggart, Mr Elder, Mr Cluckie and the staff of St Andrew’s High School we welcome you to our 2019/20 Achievement Awards presentations which celebrate the  achievements over the past year for students in S1-3.

The staff of St Andrew’s High School are extremely proud of the large number of pupils who have been nominated to receive one of these awards. There are three classes of award, Gold, Silver and Bronze and pupils are recognised for their achievements in the following categories

• Effort
• Behaviour
• Attendance
• Homework

It is extremely unfortunate that we are unable to celebrate the achievements in person but we thank students for all their hard work and dedication this year and we look forward to welcoming everyone back into school in August.

Congratulations S1, S2 & S3 award winners, we hope you all enjoy your summer break.

Please follow the link to view the Achievement Awards presentation on our YouTube page below

S1 Achievement Awards 2019/20

S2 Achievement Awards 2019/20

S3 Achievement Awards 2019/20

This week the UCAS Hub have a series of live sessions designed for those students who are looking to apply for a course that has a 15th of October application deadline.

• Tuesday, 23 June – Q&A with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge
• Wednesday, 24 June – Applying for medicine courses
• Thursday, 25 June – Applying for dentistry courses
• Friday, 26 June – Applying for veterinary courses

Every session will be led by subject-matter experts and start at 14:00. To get involved, all you need to do is join  live in the UCAS Hub and click the banner at the top inviting you to join.

The University of Glasgow will be hosting a Virtual Undergraduate Open Day on Tuesday 23rd June from 09:00 – 18:00 for students interested in applying to any of their undergraduate degree programmes for 2021 entry. Parents will be very welcome too.

• University of Glasgow Virtual Open Day

Senior girls who are considering a degree in Geoscience, the Girls into Geoscience event will take place on Monday 6 July, 9.30-4pm.  This will be an excellent introduction to the course and further information can be found at this link.

• Girls into Geoscience event

In addition to Open Day The University of Glasgow will also be represented at the UK University Search Virtual Fair, 17 June, 12 -6pm.  Students should sign up at the link below.

• UK University Search Virtual Fair