New School Year August 2021 Dear Parent/Carer, I know that August and the new school year seems a long way off. However, it will soon come around – the summer holiday never lasts as long as it seemed to when we were young! There are a number of important pieces of information in this update
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End of Term Update 24.06.21 Dear Parent/Carer, I write to you with just a day of this unusual and testing school year to go. The long summer break beckons, the weather has been pretty good so far this summer and we have the prospect of something much closer to normality when we return to school
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Alternative Certification Model Dear S4-6 Parent/Carer, It seems appropriate that today is the longest day of the year – the summer solstice. Appropriate because the long days and shorts nights are a reminder that the summer holidays beckon and also appropriate because for our senior pupils (and their parents too) this will feel like a
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Dear Parent/Carer, The Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, provided additional detail regarding school closures earlier today. In that statement he made it clear that examinations will not take place this year. The arrangements for how grades will be awarded to examination candidates are still to be finalised. You can find the latest statement from
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Uniform Focus Week (19-23 February) Dear Parent/Carer, At the last meeting of the Whole School Council pupils raised their frustrations that whilst the great majority of pupils follow the school dress code some do not. The Whole School Council suggested that a pupil-led uniform focus week would be a good way to revisit
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Dear Parent/Carer, As this is my first message of 2018 let me begin by wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. I hope that you were able to relax over the festive period and enjoyed the company of family and friends. The start of a new year has traditionally been
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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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