Firrhill Plays the Jazz Bar!
A few images of the Firrhill Soul Band, the school Jazz Sextet and the piano & vocal duet of Alan and Eilidh headlining an afternoon concert at the Jazz Bar on Chambers Street on December 3rd 2017. Nice!
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S3 Parents’ Evening – 6 February 2018
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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START OF TERM – JANUARY 2018
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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S1 Parents’ Evening – Tuesday 28 November 2017
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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Senior Assessment Fortnight
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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Whole School Challenge 2017
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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S1 Settling-In Meetings 2017
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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Gold School Sport Award
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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Website Now Live!
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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Results Summary 2017
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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