19th May 2015: Councillor Paul Godzik has called our attention tothis press release regarding pressure on primary school places in South Edinburgh. He also mentioned that the Finance & Resources Committee prioritised funding from the sale of the Boroughmuir building towards securing the Oaklands site.
18th May 2015: A Masters student at Edinburgh University would like input from parents who were involved with the HubCo community consultation on the new school. If you can help, please contact her on:
21st April 2015: Following concerns raised about the progression from old Higher to new Advanced Higher, the PC wrote to the Minister, Angela Constance. We have just received this reply from SG on the issue. Please let us know if you have any comments.
20th April 2015: Councillor Godzik has shared this report on Active Schools provision, which we discussed at our last meeting
8th March 2015: Survey for parents of children with additional support needs.National Parent Forum would like togather views about additional support for learning, particularly any changes to the provision your child receives. You can access the survey here
26th February 2015: National Parent Forum of Scotland Parent Focus Group on Improving Attainment, Thurs 12 March, Holy Rood High School, 7pm is seekingviews on attainment generally in high school (eg do you know how your children are doing? how is progress reported? are your children involved in planning their next steps etc? how are parents involved?) and improving attainment (what helps young people to achieve their full potential? what more can be done? what makes the difference?) If interested, please email
5th February 2015: The Council is running a survey on proposed future school holiday dates. The survey can be found here and parents are encouraged to contribute their views.
31st January 2015: Parents are invited to attended the annual lecture and AGM of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council on 3rd March at 6pm in the Glasgow Science Centre. For more details and registration, please see
29th January 2015: We wrote to Cllr Godzik regarding a number of areas of proposed budget cuts that concerned us. He has replied that they feel they already support Arts & Creative learning in other areas, and that long term staff absence is an issue for schools to manage rather than being centrally funded. However, they may reconsider the proposed cuts to the Active Schools programme. 1 out of 3 is better than nothing...
23rd November 2014: Children 1st are inviting parents to produce "Parents’ video selfies". They hope tofocus on the positives of being a parent and are asking parents and carers who live in Scotland to make a video 'selfie' sharing what they love about being a parent. If you are interested in taking part, please see the Children 1st website
15th November 2014: Would you like to help parents understand how numeracy is taught, and how this changes in the transition from early years to primary and from primary to secondary? What would have helped you understand the changes, and what are the key things parents need to know? Come along and share your views at Education Scotland's focus groups for parents, which are taking place on Monday 24th and Thursday 27th November 5-7 pm at Saughton House, Edinburgh EH11 3XD.For moreinformation, please contact l 0141 2825207.
14th November 2014: The Council's budget consultation runs until 19th December. Although schools have been largely protected fromcuts, parents may wish to comment on some of the proposals. There's also an online budget plannerwhere you can play around with the overall budget numbers.
7th November 2014:*** PARENT COUNCIL WINE TASTING EVENING AND QUIZ ***
Thisregular and entertaining event takes place on Thursday 20 November 2014 in Butterflies Café, part of the Marchmont St Giles complex at the top of Kilgraston Road.Once again Michael Romer of Peter Green will entertain and educate us about different wines. Tickets are £10 and include 6 wines for you to sample - fantastic value! Contact Anne Steele on 667 6595, or email , for tickets.
28th October 2014: Parents' focus group meeting on pupil progress reporting will be held on Tues 25th November, 6.30 pm at Darroch. This group will look at the current reports that we use and to look at where we can amend this to provide a more meaningful report for parents. Please email Neil McCallumto confirm attendance.
21st October 2014: Edinburgh Council has published its draft budget for 2015/16. Please have a look at the proposals hereand let us know your comments, or email your Councillors directly. We were successful last year in reversing some of the more severely impacting cuts, so it is important that we respond.
22nd September 2014: A consultation is underway to help draw up plans for new 20 mph speed limits across Edinburgh. Following a successful pilot in South Edinburgh, a 20 mph speed limit is now proposed for the City Centre, main shopping streets and residential areas.You can email your views or use the online questionnaire. Drop-in events, public meetings and exhibitions are also taking place across the city.An interactive map of the draft proposals, a list of frequently asked questions and details of the engagement events are available on the Council’s website at
6th September 2014: Here's some new information we have been sent on the new Highers, plus an event that may be of interest: New Highers Nutshells - headteacher eletter Aug 2014.pdfandParentsConnectFlyer.pdf
25th August 2014: We have received 2 documents on the first year of the new SQA exams. Please see MB report on first year of new qualsand MR Thank you letter 20 Aug 14
15th August2014: Welcome back to our new school year. We plan to continue posting items that may be of interest on this page, so please keep checking back. You can also see our session 2013-14 news archive.