Some important updates and news below;
Scottish Careers Week 2025 Launched at Leith! – We welcomed Ben McPherson MSP to Leith for the National Launch on Monday. He spoke with youngsters about their skills development, the working world and the many qualifications we offer to help young people take their next steps. Link SDS nationwide research reveals pupil career aspirations broadening to meet opportunities. – Skills Development Scotland
Remembrance 2025 – It is a historic event at Leith Academy where the Prefects create and lead a memorial service, each year this changes with different influences and voices being heard. If you would like to view our act of remembering this year you can see it here https://clickv.ie/w/9YZ3
Reminder….CEC Communication guidance – We regularly receive requests for information or calls / emails to help young people / families through a range of situations. In a School of 1000+ young people this can be busier at certain times. To help, the council has guidance linked to the return of calls / emails for all Schools, see below;
Thank you for contacting the School. Leith Academy is committed to supporting positive mental health and wellbeing for all members of our school community. Our staff have fixed commitments throughout the day such as meetings and classes therefore they may not be able to get back to you immediately. We aim to resolve your issue within 5 working days, as per council policy. If we can we, will do our best to reply sooner.
If you need to raise a matter urgently, please contact the school office on 0131 554 0606. From there we will look to direct your query to the best placed colleague to support.
Anti Bullying Awareness work – This is always an area of work that is on our radar in schools, in helping young people to speak up and in helping to prevent it as youngsters mature and realise the harm it can cause. We have refreshed our posters and policies this week and also Inana Khnaiser (S2) and Sara Kamleh (S4) have produced excellent lessons and have been delivering to all S1s this week. This is great work from both!
Flu vaccine – The NHS will deliver their annual flu vaccine (nasal spray) to pupils who have returned their consent forms from Families on November 18th.
Formula 1 in Schools – See a photo of our 2 teams that went to the STEM Racing final on Friday. The competition as ever was a high standard and our Staff leads said the teams were great and really enjoyed the event, the teamwork, the problem solving – the life skills! Well done to all.
Maths success – See update from Ms Gunston, Head of Maths
Well done to Ciao, Maisie, Anne-Marie and Meernan who all attended the UKMT Senior team maths challenge at Loretto yesterday and came 10th out of a high number of entrants! Very proud of them as this is a very competitive competition, between both state and private schools. Photo attached.
Parent Council – Our PC meet on Thursday next week at 7pm, if you have any questions or would like more information please email Leithparentcouncil@gmail.com .
Have a good weekend.
