Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award: Rights Aware Dear Parent/Carer, I am delighted to announce that following our assessment visit Firrhill has been accredited with the unicef UK Rights Respecting Schools Silver: Rights Aware Award. The second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award. We are the first school in the UK to
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29 January 2018 Dear Parent/Carer, The S3 Parents’ Evening takes place on Tuesday 6 February 2018 from 5:00 to 7:30pm. To access the online booking system please go to: www.parents-booking.co.uk/firrhill PLEASE NOTE: You need to type this address into your website browser’s ‘address bar’. Do not try to ‘Google’ this website
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Dear Parent/Carer, Last session we introduced a new online parents’ evening booking system. This system will be used for the S1 Parents’ Evening which takes place on Tuesday 28 November 2017 from 5:00 to 7:30pm. To access the online booking system please go to: www.parents-booking.co.uk/firrhill PLEASE NOTE: Do not try to ‘Google’
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2017/18 Firrhill Senior Assessment Fortnight 27th November – 7th December 2017 For those of you with alternative arrangements including extra time and separate accommodation, arrangements for your assessments will be issued to you during the week beginning 20th November by Mrs Adams. Please take careful note of the following: S4 only: S4
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We Did It! Thanks to a fantastic effort right across the school and especially in the final shift by S6 we have managed to beat our challenge for 2017 to climb the 75 highest Munros. We have managed a total of 86,514.67 metres! Well done everyone! That is well ahead of our target
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22 September 2017 Dear Parent/Carer, In an effort to make the organisation of parents’ evenings easier for parents, pupils and teachers we implemented an online parents’ evening booking system which was used for parents evenings last session. This system can also be used for booking an S1 Parents’ Settling-In appointment with your child’s
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FIRRHILL HIGH SCHOOL AWARDED GOLD STATUS BY SPORTSCOTLAND Dear Parent/Carer, I am writing to you to pass on the great news that Firrhill has, once again, been recognised with a prestigious national award for innovation and achievement in delivering physical education and extra-curricular sport. Firrhill was first awarded the two-year Gold status
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Dear Parent/Carer, After a longer than expected period of time our new website is officially up and running. It can be accessed by using the school’s official web address which is: www.firrhill.edin.sch.uk The new site is deliberately rather bare-bones at the moment. New content and selected older content will be added in
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Provisional Results 2016-17 Dear Parent/Carer, The results for the 2016/17 academic year which were published in August are presented below. I have also included historical results going back to 2014 for S4 (when the new NQs started) and to 2012 for both S5 and S6. These are a summary of results using
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New Term – August 2017 Dear Parent/Carer, Welcome back. I hope the summer holidays were a pleasant and enjoyable time for you and your family. The first full week of the new term is just about over and it has been, in most respects, a great start to the new school year.
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