Inverness High School

S3-S6 Course Choice Information
We are in the process of options and pupils have access to the information on their year group google classroom and parents can see further information on our school app. Guidance will be interviewing individual pupils over the next few weeks.

Today some pupils were making bird boxes with the HLH countryside ranger John Orr. The boxes are to help increase biodiversity at Whin Park miniature railway for the Highland Hospice.

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MERKINCH UNITED WILL BE HOLDING TRIALS AND FRIENDLY MATCHES SOON FOR THEIR UNDER-15 TEAM AND UNDER-17 TEAM.
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S2 pupils were given a ‘taste’ of opportunities in the hospitality industry when Chef Kenny Humphreys from the Kingsmills Hotel gave a talk and demonstration. The pupils enjoyed watching him fillet and bone seabass before cooking it into a tasty dish.

Inverness High School S2 pupils were given an insight into the Fashion and Textile industry when Irene Cathcart owner of True Kilt Makers and Jean Dundas owner of Ragged Rabbit came to the school to give them a talk and demonstration. The High School will be introducing Fashion and Textile Technology as a new subject choice for next year’s S3 pupils. They also had the opportunity to see arrange of items that had been hand made by staff from the school.

On Tuesday, Mr Grainge and the Life Skills Active Group took part in the Decathlon Agility Challenge at the Inverness Leisure Centre. The group had great fun testing their sporting skills in numerous activities!

Today S3 Hospitality pupils were treated to a demonstration and cooking session with the Royal Navy. Pupils heard about the exotic locations the Navy had been to along with a great time cooking meatballs and gnocci. Our thanks go to Paul “Jaffa” O’Neill, Gavin Anderson and Ann-Marie from the Royal Navy.

The pupil council will be selling crisps at a bargain of 20p tomorrow outside the office. All money raised will go towards the animals affected by the recent Australian bushfires.

S1 Photographs
All S1 pupils will have their photograph taken tomorrow morning in the hall during period 1 for their Young Scots card.

Inverness High has been awarded a cycling friendly secondary school award for encouraging pupils and staff to cycle more. We have recently had pedal cinemas, bike smooth ie breakfasts m, bike maintenance classes and essential cycling skills.

We have had a number of absences recently due to winter bugs so it seems like a good time to remind parents and carers of the school's attendance policy.
Please take the time to read the information below and follow appropriate procedures.
Thank you.
... Attendance and lateness
It is the legal responsibility of parents to ensure that each pupil attends school every day unless medically unfit. If a pupil is not well enough to be in school parents must contact the school as soon as possible to let us know. If this is not done, the school has to make efforts to contact parents to find out the cause of the absence and this is time-consuming.
On returning from absence, pupils must bring a note, signed by a parent, to their register teacher, stating the dates of absence and the cause of the absence.
If the parent can give advance notice of absence or make a telephone call to the school, this can prevent enquiries from the school, or the attendance assistant being sent to the home. In the case of long illness, e.g. an appendix operation, it will also give the school an opportunity, where so requested, to provide homework to help the pupil keep up with the rest of the class. Any explanatory note on return to school makes sure that records of attendance are accurate, and that misunderstandings do not occur. It is important that parents let the school know if an absence is expected to be for more than three days.
It is important for your child to establish a good attendance pattern from an early age.
Employers want to recruit people who are reliable therefore pupils who have a good attendance record have a better chance of getting a good job.
Attending school every day = 100 % attendance Attending school 4 ½ days a week = 90 % attendance (4 weeks missed per year)
Attending school 4 days a week = 80 % attendance (more than half a term missed per year)
Attending 3 ½ days each week = 70 % attendance (more than a quarter of the school year missed)
Being late for school also reduces learning time. Being on time is important and arriving late can be disruptive for pupils, their classmates and the teacher. Guidance staff are requested to write references for pupils’ job, apprenticeship, college and university applications and must comment on their punctuality.
Pupils who are late must go to the school office to fill out a blue slip before reporting to Senior Management to explain reasons for their lateness. If a pupil is late on three occasions a letter will be sent home and if after six occasions the situation has not improved parents and carers will be contacted by guidance staff. Occasionally detentions are issued for persistent lateness to class after break and lunchtime. In some cases parents and carers are invited to meet with a member of the Senior Management Team.
If your child is 5 minutes late every day they will miss three days of learning each year.
If your child is 15 minutes late every day they will miss two weeks of learning each year.
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Happy New Year! We hope that everyone had a lovely holiday.
Here are a few pictures we can now reveal (as some were given as presents) of some of the delicious Christmas cakes our talented S3 pupils made in Home Economics. The pupils worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks of term to deliver such beautiful cakes - well done!

It'ssss CHRISTMAS!! Regi classes have been competing to create a recyclable christmas trees for the last day of term.

All ready for tonights senior dance. 7pm-9.30pm. Please remember to bring your ticket along.

A few pictures from yesterday's S1-S3 Christmas party

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.....