Author: Mrs Thomson

School Improvement Plan 2025 26

 

We’ve already been able to make some key improvements around our school environment:

  • S1 Social Area now has new smart  seating.

  • Lower Primary Classroom has plants and various items to make it feel more homely.

  • Upper Primary Classroom has comfortable seating area.

Thank you for your donations, we couldn’t do this without you – your support really makes a big difference for the children.

John Swinney, First Minister visits MYJHS

On Wednesday, 20 August 2025, John Swinney visited our school to meet with our nursery department and speak with community members about the impact of participating in the Early Adopter Community.

The project, which has been running for around five years, has provided access to childcare within our nursery department for two-year-olds.  Its aim is to support families by providing childcare places within our nursery, that enable parents to access employment—something that had been limited due to the lack of childcare options across our island.

Welcome School Year 2025/26

Welcome to the New School Year 2025/26


Here is a copy of our school calendar for 2025/26. It will be available throughout the year under School Information – Documents.

We look forward to a successful year for everyone!

P6/7 School Trip June 2025

We’re excited to share that our P6/7 pupils have just set off on their much-anticipated week long trip to Loch Insh!

Everyone was in great form this afternoon as they boarded the bus, ready for a week of outdoor adventure, teamwork, and fun.

More photos and news on their return!

UNCRC 
Article #6 – I have the right to live and grow as a person

MYJHS Values
Inclusive – Supportive – Developing

Bookbug Sleep Over

Our Lower Primary and Nursery had a visit from big Book Bug, who read them lots of stories with Mrs Fraser.
Peeire Book Bug then had a sleepover with our Lower Primary and Nursery pupils’ teddies. They got up to all kinds of mischief around the school!

UNRCR
Article #31 – Every child has the right to play.

MYJHS Values
Learning – Supportive

Celebrating Success – School Assembly – June 2025

We had much to celebrate at our whole school assembly this week.

We are delighted to share we are now a Reading School. This accreditation highlights our schools commitment to developing a love for reading across our whole school community.

We are also proud to share that we have achieved our Silver Rights Respecting School Award, recognising the importance we place on children’s rights in our school.

Both the Upper Primary and Lower Primary classes have been awarded Brilliant Brushers certificates from our school dental check ups.

Our S2 pupils were awarded “Young Stem Leader” certificates for their participation in STEM workshops this term.

Daisy, in S3, received a special promotional copy of the Generation Archives from Rachel Boxall as she was the secondary pupil who took out the most books from our library this year.

 

Qui c’est?

Our S3 French pupils have prepared presentations about celebrities. The presentations included slides with clues about each celebrity for guest judges to play “Guess Who?”

It was a fun and engaging way to demonstrate their learning, including their use of different tenses.

Thank you to the judges for embracing the game!

NHS Bus – Careers Education

On Wednesday 4 June 2025 we went to visit the NHS bus which is used for training actual NHS staff!

We had to complete an escape room and finish the tasks before the time was up. We learned a lot of things, including how to dress a baby after its birth, practiced CPR, how to give air to a person who’s not breathing, and stuff about EpiPens.

We learned that you loose lots of heat out of your head so that’s why lots of babies wear hats.

We were doing CPR on dummies and learning about why they might be shocked and how to give them to someone if the person is unresponsive.

We learned about EpiPens, why, how and when to use them. 

By Cassie T