Head’s News 29 March 2020 - 29th Mar, 2020

EMAIL WHICH WAS SENT OT ALL PARENTS ON FRIDAY 27 MARCH 2020 Dear Parent / Carer / Family, We hope you are doing as well as possible in these circumstances. Thank you for following the guidance where possible and keeping yourself and your children / family at home. This will help the work we are […]

Head’s News 24 March 2020 - 24th Mar, 2020

UPDATE FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS OF LEITH ACADEMY The announcement last night from the Prime Minister and First Minister naturally is triggering conferences and meetings as we adjust to the situational developments. I have tried to take the significant amounts of information coming in at present and provide you with what may be useful to us […]

Head’s News 23 March 2020 - 23rd Mar, 2020

STATEMENT FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS AT LEITH ACADEMY You will have seen from Sunday’s update there have been some developments in certain areas; SQA and coursework. Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister spoke plainly that pupils are not to be in schools to complete SQA coursework. Schools have been shut for medical reasons in preventing disease spread, especially […]

Head’s News March 20 2020 - 20th Mar, 2020

Thank you to all stakeholders; Parents, Partners and Pupils for the supportive stance you have taken and are taking during this challenge. My Teaching and Support staff have worked extremely hard under tight timelines and conditions to provide the support they can to our pupils. This will continue where possible, as we now go into […]

Head’s News 19 March 2020 - 19th Mar, 2020

STATEMENT FOR LEITH ACADEMY STAKEHOLDERS 19 MARCH 2020 I have attached a letter for Parents from Andy Gray, Chief Education Officer, Edinburgh Council for your information. There will be more Council updates to follow, please continue to check the council website and our Leith website / twitter. Since yesterday we have had updates from different […]

Head’s News 18 March 2020 - 18th Mar, 2020

STATEMENT AND UPDATE FOR ALL LEITH ACADEMY STAKEHOLDERS Announcements have been made today around the planned closure of Schools in a bid to take sensible steps in curbing the pandemic in the United Kingdom. There will be further details to the announcements which are carried by various media streams, I will keep you updated as […]

Head’s News 13 March 2020 - 16th Mar, 2020

We are in a reactive position to respond to any announcements from government. We will keep you updated as matters develop across Scotland and the UK. The update we would send you today, as you can expect is largely dominated by current affairs linked to the Coronavirus. See below; PISA Recently, we were randomly selected […]

Head’s News 6 March - 9th Mar, 2020

We are keeping a close eye on any updates regarding the Coronavirus. Both at home and at school we can work with young people on taking sensible steps to support them in busy public spaces. Business as usual presses on in schools as we are in the process of SQA internal assessments for our Seniors […]