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Edinburgh students celebrate Career Ready graduation
Lorna Macdonald, Principal Officer for Creative Learning, reports from the Scottish Career Ready graduation event, which saw S6 students from across the country gather with their mentors at Perth...
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Book Week Scotland Across the City
A wide variety of events took place in school libraries across the city last week as staff and students celebrated Book Week Scotland. Lindsay Nealon at St Thomas of Aquin’s organised quizzes for S1 –...
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Active Schools Awards: Club of the year
Over the next week Jude Salmon, Active Schools Manager, will be running through the nominees for the club category of the Active Schools Awards. This post covers the nominees for club of the year. See...
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Edinburgh Schools Holocaust Memorial Day 2016
Photo by Ian Cowie On 28 January, Firrhill High School hosted Edinburgh’s Holocaust Memorial Day 2016, an event that sought to remember the millions murdered in genocides across the globe, to honour...
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Winter Windows exhibition lights up the city
Click the image to enlarge At the start of the month we reported on the launch of Winter Windows, an exhibition of the best festive artwork by pupils from our primary, secondary and special schools...
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Book Week Scotland Across the City
A wide variety of events took place in school libraries across the city last week as staff and students celebrated Book Week Scotland. Lindsay Nealon at St Thomas of Aquin’s organised quizzes for S1 –...
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Firrhill High becomes the first Gold School Sport Award winning secondary
Firrhill High School has been recognised with a prestigious national award for innovation and achievement in delivering physical education and extra-curricular sport. The sportscotland Gold School...
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Round up 3 July 2015
This week we brought you a reminder for Children and Families staff about the Achievement Awards deadline report on the end of term concerts by the Youth Music Initiative. In other news… Children and...
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Firrhill High launch Diversity Day film in style
Firrhill High’s Sheila Watson, founder and manager of the Diversity Day project On Thursday 12 February 2015 Firrhill High School launched their Diversity Day film at Oxgangs Library. Members of the...
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Round up Friday 6 February 2015
This week we brought you resources for the forthcoming Safer Internet Day, courtesy of our Digital Learning Team, an update from Family Solutions on how the service is getting on after being...
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Firrhill High lights the way to diversity
On 18 November Firrhill High School held their first ever Diversity Day to help raise awareness of the terrible consequences of bigotry and to encourage diversity and inclusion. The day was a great...
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Round up Friday 14 November 2014
This week we brought you another update on the winners of the Children and Families Achievement Award for improving literacy outcomes. In other news… Councillor Godzik addresses budget challenges...
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Round up Friday 3 October 2014
This week we brought you news of the launch of a poetry collection by Forthview Primary, a report about the charity single to be released by Holy Rood RC High to help the homeless across the world, an...
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Round up Friday 26 September 2014
This week we brought you news of Edinburgh students’ momentous experience at the referendum count and our director’s update featuring news of the recent Children and Families Leaders’ Event, cycle...
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Round up Friday 19 September 2014
This week we brought you the news of our consultation on 20 mph speed zones, the fantastic enterprise programmes at Craigmount High, a report from Live Literature events pairing authors with primary...
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Round up Friday 5 September 2014
This week we brought you a report from the launch of Green Pencil Award 2014, news of Davidson Mains Primary’s film making foray as they made a Movie in a Day and a piece on Wester Hailes Education’s...
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Director’s update – Commonwealth sport events, Corporate Parenting,...
Director of Children and Families Gillian Tee A regular update from Gillian Tee, the Director of Children and Families, on recent meetings, visits and events. In this update we hear about the new...
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Firrhill High plant their Anne Frank tree at special ceremony
Firrhill High School planted a tree for Anne Frank on what would have been her 85th birthday on 12 June. Gordon MacDonald, MSP Edinburgh Pentlands, and Stephen Brent, a Holocaust survivor, planted the...
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Round up Friday 13 June 2014
This week we reported on the wealth of information being showcased in our Education Village at the Edinburgh Learning Festival and the interesting Holocaust exhibition and interdisciplinary work going...
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Firrhill High exhibition commemorates Anne Frank
An exhibition telling the story of Anne Frank’s life is currently running at Firrhill High School.It was opened on 29 April, by Bailie Elaine Aitken, and runs until 9 May. The exhibition, created with...
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