The latest newsletter is available. Click on the link below to view or download.
Topics:
- Staffing
- Adverse Weather
- Hydro Scheme Trip
- COVID testing
- Flu immunisations
- McBeath Memorial project
- End of Day arrangements
Information for Parents
Adverse Weather
Guidelines for Parents – Travelling to School During Adverse Weather
Guidelines for this winter have been issued. Please click on the link below to view or download.
The Guidance includes information on the Council’s advice line on closures (updated daily) as well as links for the Council’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Local schools will also try to contact all parents regarding closure via telephone. There will also be messages on the North West Sutherland Schools Facebook and Twitter pages.
Kinlochbervie High School – Newsletter August 2021
A new session has begun. A big welcome to all returning and new pupils and staff.
Click the link below to view/download the first Newsletter of this school year.
You will find information on:
- Staffing
- New Directions for Our Leavers
- Odering A Uniform
- Funding for Resources and the Library
- John Muir Trust Award
- Food for Thought
Extraordinary Parent Council Meeting – 29 April 2021
Staffing Issues:
An extraordinary meeting of the Parent Council was held virtually on 20 April 2021 in order to discuss staffing.
Highland Council has reduced the number of teach staff allocated to Kinlochbervie High School. Using a formula, the high school has only been allocated 7.5 whole time equivalent teachers. In previous years, the school has always been allocated a better staffing level but Highland Council has refused any increase this year. The staffing reduction will mean that the school will be able to offer fewer subjects. The school feels that 9.0 whole time equivalent teachers is required to deliver the curriculum satisfactorily.
Councillors Hugh Morrison and Linda Munro attended the meeting and will take parent concerns back to Highland Council and ask them to reconsider the allocation. If the request is refused, the parent council will consider whether further action can be taken.
Click the link to view/download the minutes of the meeting.
Extra-ordinary Parent Council Meeting 29-04-21
Date of next meeting:
26 May 2021 at 6.00 pm via Google Meet
Parent Newsletter – April 2021
The summer term has begun. Click the link below to view/download the April parent newsletter. Among the topics covered are:
- Staffing News
- Holiday and Inset Days
- School Lets
- Day Trips
- Immunisations
Parent Council Meeting – Thursday 29 April 2021
A discussion of the High School Staffing Allocation will take place on Thursday 29 April 2021 at 6.00 pm.
The meeting will be held via Google Meet.
May Dates
| April 2021 | ||
| Thursday 27 April | Parent Council Meeting to discuss High School Staffing Allocation | Google Meet – 6.00 pm |
| May 2021 | ||
| Monday 3 May | May Day HOLIDAY | |
| Tuesday 4 May | Virtual Performance/Cyber Awareness for all Pupils | 2.15-3.00 pm |
| Thursday 6 May | Inset Day (Polling Station in High School) | |
| Thursday 13 May | S1/S2 & Catchup – HPV Immunisations | |
| Wednesday 19 May | S2-S3 – Ridgway Adventure | |
| Thursday 20 May | S2-S3 – Ridgway Adventure | |
| Tuesday 25 May | S1 – Ridgway Adventure | |
| Wednesday 26 May | S1- Ridgway Adventure |
Reopening Schools – Next Phase
- Pupils in P1-P3 are already back at school
- Pupils in P4-7 will return to school on Monday 15 March 2021
- From 15 March 2021 all secondary pupils, where possible, will receive a combination of remote learning and in-school teaching
More information is contained in a letter from Nicky Grant, Highland Council Executive Chief Officer for Education and Learning in regards to the re-opening of schools.
Please click the link below to view/download the letter.
Item 4 – Letter for parents – Phase 2 of return to school v4 (003)
More detailed guidance is expected to be published next week by the Scottish Government.
New SCHOLAR Video – For Parents and Carers
To all parents and carers:
Are you curious about on-line learning? Would you like to know more about the resources available to enliven learning at home?
To give you a sense of the variety of engaging activities available, SCHOLAR have produced a new 3 minute video, “Information for Parents and Carers” which is aimed primarily at learners in S3-S6.
Our new video is available at https://bit.ly/ParentsAndCarersInfo
Letter from Executive Chief Officer, Education and Learning
Click below to view/download the letter to parents (dated 6 January 2021) from Nicky Grant, the Executive Chief Officer of Education and Learning, regarding the current guidance for schools.