Winter Newsletter
Hope you enjoy reading our Winter 2025 newsletter highlighting the achievements and amazing work this term. Have a great holiday.
Children First Support Line
Children First stand up for every child because all children should have a safe childhood. We protect children from harm, keep them safe and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national support line and in their homes, schools and communities.
Children First support line offers free emotional, practical and financial support to families across Scotland.
Call free on 08000 28 22 33 or start a webchat at www.childrenfirst.org.uk/supportline
SAMH Young People’s Panel Survey
Help us to improve mental health services for young people in schools
Take part in a short survey created by our Young People’s Panel
The SAMH Young People’s Panel (YPP) is made up of a dedicated group of young people aged 12-25 who are united by their passion to transform youth mental health in Scotland.
The panel are working together with SAMH teams to drive meaningful change through campaigns, services and raising awareness of the issues which matter to young people.
The panel has chosen mental health in schools as the focus of their work. They are currently working on two projects around this:
A campaign to introduce mental health link workers in secondary schools. Mental health link workers would be a non-clinical role, working with young people experiencing mental health problems to help identify and connect them with the right support for their needs.
Co-designing a resource for schools to help ensure they are a mental health-friendly environment. This resource would set out what schools need to do and how they can equip young people to take the lead.
We need your input!
To help shape this work, the panel is looking for young people (aged 10-25), school staff and parents/carers to complete a short survey to share your views and experiences.
The survey should only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Young people can earn 100 Young Scot points for taking part, and everyone who completes the survey has an option to enter a prize draw to win a £50 voucher!
Please share this onto anyone else who may be interested in taking part.
Thank you for your support!
Team SAMH and the SAMH Young People’s Panel
Daily Bulletin – Tuesday 16 December
Christmas Lunch
Christmas Lunch will be on Wednesday 16th December.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the staff in the kitchen.
Just a Reminder that Football Club, and all lunchtime clubs will restart the second week back after the Christmas Holidays.
Bebras UK Computing Challenge 2025 – Winners Announced
A massive congratulations to everyone who took part in the Bebras UK Computing Challenge 2025 within the Business and Digital Education Faculty. This is a computational thinking challenge where participants were presented with a series of puzzles and tasks to solve in 45 minutes. The results are in and we are delighted to announce that 215 pupils in S1 – S3 took part with 3 Gold certificates, 54 Certificate of Distinction and 55 Certificates of Merit awarded. There were also 106 Certificates of Participation. Well done to everyone, certificates will be issued next week in class.
The Gold certificate winners were Josh, Rhydian and Emma in S2 who came within the top 10% of their year group in the UK – a brilliant achievement.
S1 – S3 Christmas Minecraft Competition
All Digital Education pupils are taking part in a Christmas Minecraft competition where they have been challenged to build their most innovative and exciting Christmas creation. Each pupil starts from an empty world and can choose anything from the list of Christmas ideas, to get them inspired, or they can create their own Minecraft Christmas extravaganza. Next week is the last week and entries require a video to be taken giving a tour around their Christmas inspired Minecraft world. Entries close on Friday 19 December and prizes will be awarded. Good luck! Digital Education Minecraft Competition
Daily Bulletin – Thursday 11 December
S1 Sports Leadership Programme
Active Schools is running the ‘Get Ready to Lead’ sports leadership programme for S1 pupils in Term 3. The course teaches pupils the skills to lead a sport, the rules of small games, how to work with different participants and be inclusive. Please collect an application form from PE if you wish to attend. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 17th December.
Fair Trade Shop
There will be a pop-up fair trade shop on Thursday lunch time in the corridor outside SLT offices. Cash or card can be used to buy products made by people who are paid a fair wage and who work in safe and healthy working conditions.
School Netball
After school netball is cancelled today but will be back for the last session next Thursday.
Music Pupils
Could all pupils who play orchestral strings, brass and woodwind instruments please remember to bring your instrument this Friday 12th December and attend the rehearsal at lunchtime in the Music Department. This is a rehearsal for the Christmas services which are taking place next Thursday.
Daily Bulletin – Monday 8 December
Candy Canes are going to be sold Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 50p per candy cane with all profits going to Charity.
School Netball
Can all pupils who are playing in the home netball matches against Banff today please remember to go for an early lunch at the start of P4. You need to be down in the PE department ready to play for the start of period 5.
Daily Bulletin – Friday 5 December
House Competition
The house competition this week is who can make the tallest structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows. Come along to D0-68 to earn house points.
Support Reading and Writing at Home
This is a reminder regarding the Read&Write Workshops tomorrow, 4th December at 4pm and 6pm.
We are delighted to welcome specialists from Read&Write, who will be hosting this session. They will be providing a live demonstration of the tools to show how they can support your child’s literacy and independent learning at home.
How to join: There is no registration required for this event. Please simply open the attached flyer and click the meeting link inside to join us live at your chosen time.