What’s happening next week?
| Date | Year Group | Activity |
| Tuesday 7th November | Young people / staff | Flu Immunisations |
Our website has all the dates for the school year (as currently planned), click here to see them – https://www.kelsohighschool.org.uk/calendar/
S4 Parents’ Evening – Tuesday 14th November 2023
We are holding our S4 Parents’ Evening on Tuesday 14th November 2023 from 5.00pm until 7.30pm. These meetings will be booked online and then held in-person at the school. Our members of staff will be located within our Assembly Hall, Canteen and Flexi-space to limit movement time between appointments however parents / carers are able to take the time to tour the school.
Each appointment will be for a maximum of 5 minutes, if required there will be members of our Pupil Support and Senior Leadership Teams available throughout the evening to answer any questions or queries.
You will be able to book appointments from 5.00pm on Friday 3rd November 2023 and the system will remain open to take your bookings until 5.00pm on Monday 13th November 2023.
Details were sent by groupcall yesterday to parents/carers with more information.
S2 Reports
In session 2023-24, we will continue to generate our own in house reports. These will be emailed to you directly this afternoon. This first report provides you with information on Attendance (%), Progress in Learning and being Ready to Learn.
In addition to information contained within the Report, each Faculty is sharing information on the Learning Strengths for each learner and the Areas for Development for each learner via Showbie Portfolio. Please can we ask that you also regularly ask your youngster to share work, activities and progress updates that they have completed via their iPads.
We are keen to get your feedback on the new content of these reports. Please let us know your thoughts by clicking the following link – https://forms.office.com/e/RTeHcqJeXU
Charity Movie Night
On Thursday 16th November, our S6 Charity Committee are holding a movie night open to all pupils in S1-S6. This will be in the assembly hall starting at 6pm and ending at 8.45pm. The movie is Iron Man 1. Tickets are £5 payable on ParentPay now and this includes popcorn and refreshments.
S1 Parent Information Session
Following our recent S1 Parent Information Session we received feedback from those parents who attended. Please find attached a summary of this feedback along with we have already done or proposing to do. This will also be accessible on our website along with a copy of the presentation.
https://www.kelsohighschool.org.uk/s1-parent-carer-information/
Flu Immunisations
All pupils who have returned completed consent forms will be given their flu immunisation next week (Tuesday 7th November). The timetable for the day has been shared with pupils already on Teams and the Daily Bulletin.
S2 CDT
You may have gained an hour at the weekend resulting in some dark evenings, but if you’re an S2 parent you’ll want to count the hours and minutes until these fabulous creations come home to brighten up your day. Here we see 2.2 learning the joints they need for the frame. #pridekhs#ticktock#woodwork#skills#cdt
S3 Engineering Science
S3 Engineering Science students have been busy learning the basics of Electronics this term. They have learnt about Analogue and Digital circuits and are now building prototypes of their circuits. To bring their ideas to life, they are creating a model shed complete with doors/windows which are wired up to demonstrate how the circuits could be used in real life. It is great to see everyone learning in such a hands-on way.
S2 Languages
There was lots of Halloween iPad and Green Screen fun in the Language Option class today when green screen magic was used to create some fantastic Halloween movies!
Learners were tasked with creating pumpkin puppets, creating an animation and adding a Halloween song in a different language.
Saltire Award
Huge well done to our young people who received Saltire Awards this week. They organised and did a litter pick from KHS to Kelso Skatepark at Shedden Park.
Support for Learning
This week our fantastic Support for Learning Department hosted a Halloween Party in the Pupil Support Kitchen. Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely and there were lots of fun activities to keep everyone entertained. There was a Scavenger Hunt, Pass the Parcel and even a quick game of Apple Bobbing with a twist!
A huge thank you to our SfL team for arranging this fabulous party for our young people.
S6 Quiz Night
Well done to our S6 Legacy Committee who organised and led a successful Quiz Night this week. Thank you to family and friends for their support.
Kelso Girls Rugby
Yesterday Sunday 29th October saw Kelso host over 120 girls – from three different age groups – across two venues Kelso High School and Croft Park.
There were some fantastic displays of rugby on show in what were at times some very testing conditions. Well done to all who took part.
Active Schools – Basketball and Netball
S1 and S2 pupils only – see information below about signing up for basketball and netball.
Canteen Menu
