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School Holiday Consultation

Scottish Borders Council is carrying out a public consultation on school session dates for the years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 and would be very interested in your views on the options set out in the consultation document, which is available on-line at www.scotborders.gov.uk/consultations. If you would prefer to receive a hard copy of the document, please request one from your local contact centre or library, or by telephone on 01835 826814.

Feedback on New Website

The school would welcome feedback on this new website, if you have any comments or ideas please email the webmaster in the first instance.
We are still in the process of completing content for the learning and teaching section.

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Dear Parent/Carer,

New Probationers Joining Autumn 2010

New probationers joining Peebles High School this autumn are as follows:

Lynn Duncan: Teacher of PE
Charlotte Massey: Teacher of Drama
Stephanie Reid: Teacher of English
Lynn Wells: Teacher of Modern Languages
Qi Zhu: Teacher of Mandarin

New Staff Joining August 2010

New members joining Peebles High School this autumn are as follows:

Helena Adair: Teacher of Learning Support
Alison Filshie: Teacher of Geography
Lesley Johnson: Teacher of Chemistry
Andrew McHugh: Teacher of English
Lianne Millar : Teacher of english
Justin Noon: Principal Teacher Maths & Numeracy
Nicky Toneri: Teacher of Drama

Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)

Staff continue to embrace the challenges of Curriculum for Excellence and are focussed more on how our students are taught, how they learn and how they think. We are already delivering many of the Government’s expectations in developing young people’s skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work.

Next year’s first year will be the first group of pupils to follow the Curriculum for Excellence. Skills development will play a major part of the pupils’ learning. Standard Grades and Intermediate examinations will disappear after June 2012.

Senior Leadership Initiative (SLI)

The sixth year is involved in many projects, which involve leadership and team-building activities with outcomes benefiting the school and the community. These projects are local, within Scotland, Europe and Africa.

Senior Student Council 2009

Our senior school council maintains an important role in the school. Recently they organised and led the Remembrance services within the school as well as the Peebles Community Remembrance Service. They will end the school term by leading the whole school in a Christmas service in the Old Parish Church. They have undertaken many other leadership roles including organising a sponsored walk for primary seven pupils.

2009 International Developments

The school gained the International School’s Award three years ago as a result of the international developments taking place within the school. We have been invited to re-apply for the award. Many of the projects are summarised below:

Namibia
A group of students, former students and teachers spent four weeks working in a school helping the Namibian teachers and pupils in English Mathematics and Science.

Rwanda
Several S6 students and former students are travelling to Rwanda as part of a Law and Justice project next summer.

Extra Curricular Clubs

Clubs and activities continue to thrive with rugby, hockey, volleyball and basketball attracting many students from S1 to S6. Many of our rugby and hockey teams have excelled at a national level. Musical activities continue unabated with a Christmas Concert being performed by the musicians and singers. We also have many other clubs including mountain biking, chess, juggling, volleyball and House competitions etc.

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