Welcome to
@CraigmountHS
High School. Record 3 time winners of the Donald Dewar National Debating Championship. LGBT Youth Scotland Gold Charter 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Gold Charter from
@LGBTYS
🌟
Our GSA and staff have played an enormous part in leading this in the school and we are immensely proud of their work and success! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We sent this letter home today from our new headteacher.
More information will be shared later in the week following the announcement by the First Minister regarding the part-time return to school for pupils in the senior phase for practical activities.
We were delighted to award Pranay with his award today for winning the
@scottishcilt
Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual poetry competition. His poem was written and performed is his mother tongue which is Telugu! Well done Pranay 🤩
We had a superb afternoon recognising the success of our pupils during our Celebration of Achievement today!
We were inspired listening to former
@CraigmountHS
pupil and footballer
@mstewart_23
talk to us about drive, ambition, hard work and achievement.
Well done 🎉🎉
An emotional day for the Class of 2024 dressed as British Icons as they enjoyed their last official day at
@CraigmountHS
!
We celebrated a phenomenal group of young people who have been a credit to our school over the last 6 years 🥳
It was a privilege to have
@DinaNayeri
speaking to our S2 pupils
@CraigmountHS
about her new book The Waiting Place.
She shared her personal experiences with us and it opened up discussions about the experience of being a refugee. Thank you Dina!
@BBCScotland
@univofstandrews
We are delighted to be able to share the outcome of our recent inspection in March with our school community today.
Most importantly, it recognises the achievements of our pupils and our staff team.
We are looking forward to continuing our improvement journey together.
It was a pleasure to invite parents/carers into school today for our S1 Open Evening. We started with some information and then our expert guides took people around the school 🎨🎬🎹🧪➕
A superb morning celebrating with our S6 - the class of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣!
Sophie and Cameron gave really impressive speeches and we loved the superhero theme.
We are really proud of this amazing group of young people.
We’re looking forward to sharing all the photos next week 🤩
As part of our staff wellbeing session this afternoon it was time for appreciation mocktails!
Everyone had to make a mocktail for a different member of staff, give their mocktail a unique name and share with the person why they’d made it for them 🥳
Outstanding performances this evening at the
@CraigmountHS
Christmas Concert.
The talent was superb and the number of pupils involved continues to grow 🎉
If you didn’t manage to see the news on Tuesday then here are some of the clips about the SQA exam results.
We’ve even included a behind the scenes preview of the live lunchtime bulletin filmed in our library 📺
Superb to see our new S1 on the first day of their P7 Transition Visit today.
Our S3 guides did an excellent job showing them around the school and getting them from class to class.
We can’t wait to see everyone again tomorrow 🥳
A phenomenal run for High School Musical this week 🤩
Outstanding performances and effort from everyone both on and off the stage - congratulations to everyone involved for making it such a success 👏
Also a big thank you to our sponsors of the show 🥳
We really enjoyed seeing the emotion in the choreography and performances of pupils who are studying National 5 and Higher dance!
We also loved having the first performance of our P7 transition dance group.
Well done to all dancers in the
@CraigmountHS
Learning Community 🎉
What a night of shared memories with fun and laughter as we celebrated the final event for our S6!
A fantastic end for a fantastic year group
#CraigmountProm
🥳
An exciting and nerve-racking day as pupils
@CraigmountHS
and in schools across the country find out their
@sqanews
results for 2023.
We enjoyed having the opportunity to share some of our success stories together 🥳 and reflect on some surprises too.
We are delighted to share with you our new S6 House Ambassador team for 2021-22!
Congratulations on your achievement and we can’t wait to work together this year 🥳🥳
An excellent night at the
@traversetheatre
for our AH Drama pupils who had their work performed by a superb line up of talent including
@gregjmchugh
!
Very impressive work 🎉
We’re delighted to share that we achieved our Digital Schools Award after a visit which included conversations with staff and pupils.
Thank you to
@Schools_Digital
for a supportive visit and for the excellent feedback. We’re looking forward to continuing our digital journey! 🤩
The talent was outstanding with singers, guitarists, brass, wind, our trad group, choir and rock band!
We really have an amazingly talented group of pupils
@CraigmountHS
🥳
What a great atmosphere at our S3 and P7 Open Evenings this evening.
After a short presentation, it was time to experience a day in the life of a
@CraigmountHS
pupil! It was superb to see such a huge range of activities in all classes 👍
What a joy this evening celebrating the achievements of so many young people
@CraigmountHS
!
We were also entertained by Fay and the trad group between awards - a very talented bunch 🥳
We have thoroughly enjoyed the last 3 days with our primary 7s in school preparing for their new S1 experience.
It was a pleasure to meet their parents and carers this evening and talk about the transition to Craigmount.
Outstanding performances tonight at the
@CraigmountHS
Dance Showcase!
The talent was off the chart and the energy, passion and drive in the performances was clearly visible!
A massive well done to everyone who received their SQA results!
You have worked incredibly hard this year and everyone
@CraigmountHS
is really proud of your achievements!
It was superb to see pupils and parents in action and the step counts were high experiencing a typical day at school! We can’t deny that
@mrmeikle
thoroughly enjoyed the cookies in
@chsfct
😋 Thanks to everyone for a great turnout for our S2 Open Evening 😀
We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone back to
@CraigmountHS
tomorrow!
Just a reminder that everyone should go to Tutor to start the day and then period 1 will start at 9am. We’re then following the new timings of our school day.
What a great atmosphere at the
@CraigmountHS
Christmas lunch this afternoon!
We were all feeling festive with the food and the music in the concourse 🎄⛄️🎁🌨
We thoroughly enjoyed welcoming
@gavinoattes
to
@CraigmountHS
this morning to talk to staff as part of our in-service day.
A brilliant start to the new term and reminder to channel our inner Mary Poppins, plant trees we’ll never see and focus our energy to
#BeTheMilk
🌟
Our transition visit ended with a parent/carer information evening where we welcomed all our families into school to hear about starting
@CraigmountHS
in August. It was great to host our first in person meeting in what feels like forever! 👏
A packed evening for our Developing the Young Workforce
@DYWScot
Open Evening.
It was great to welcome such a wide range of partners to the school to share information and answer questions.
Our staff Project Based Learning Strategic Planning Day was a great success today and we’re exited to share the plans soon!
Thanks to Craigsbank Church for letting us use their facilities. And the toasties from
#ToastieThursday
were an added bonus! 😋
From everyone
@CraigmountHS
- we wish you a well-deserved holiday.
Take time to relax and enjoy the time off to spend with family and friends.
Happy Easter! 🐣
It was great to have the opportunity to speak to everyone about the different pathways we have in each faculty.
We also loved having everyone back again in school in person!
We’re looking forward to talking to pupils about their curriculum choices after the February holiday.
It was a pleasure to welcome colleagues from Hong Kong to
@CraigmountHS
today as part of the School Improvement Partnership programme.
We look forward to working together in the future 🇭🇰🏴
Looking for an exciting leadership opportunity?
At
@CraigmountHS
we’re recruiting for a PERMANENT Depute Headteacher starting in August 2021.
The advert is live now on mjs:
Some of our barista skills class were on hand to show off their skills at our Curriculum Information Evening and the scones were superb 😋
Loved the atmosphere in school and looking forward to sharing more about what we do in the future 🤩
What a great atmosphere tonight as we welcomed the P7 pupils with their parents and carers to find out more about
@CraigmountHS
🤩
We shared someone initial information about the school and then it was off to experience a day in the life of an S1 pupil!
We hope you’re enjoying all the photos and videos from our S1 residential to Dalguise being shared on Twitter and Instagram!
It’s great to see all the smiling faces 😀
Another exciting day with our second day of the P7 transition visit.
A full range of activities across all faculty areas.
We’re looking forward to our final day tomorrow and meeting parents tomorrow evening 🥳
We are delighted to announce our School Captain, Vice Captains and Pupil Action Group (PAG) Leaders for session 2024-25.
We are looking forward to working with you as we continue to grow pupil voice at Craigmount!
#AimHigh
#ADAPT
#Succeed
Thank you to
@alice_beveridge
from
@Tree_Of
for leading a superb staff workshop using lego to allow us to discuss our new Learning at Craigmount vision.
We’re looking forward to putting it into action this year 🤩
Good luck to all pulls in
@CraigmountHS
and across the country who are receiving their SQA exam results this morning!
We are proud of your achievements
#NoWrongPath
It was a pleasure to welcome Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu
#Dreyer
and Clemens Hoch (Minister for Science & Health) to
@CraigmountHS
yesterday.
As a learning community we celebrated German language learning and the valuable relationship we have with the German
What a finale at the
@BalernoSPB
concert this evening!
Congratulations to everyone for organising such a successful event and well done to Alfie, Robbie and Bruce from
@CraigmountHS
as part of the pipe band 🌟
You may already have seen some of the outstanding art work produced by
@CraigmountHS
pupils.
Check out our virtual art gallery by clicking the link below:
What a year - from last August to now restrictions have lifted and we’ve been able to bring back lots of different aspects of school life which we’ve been missing - and we can’t wait for more next year!
We wish everyone in the
@CraigmountHS
Learning Community a superb summer 😎
Outstanding achievement for pupils in S2 who received the most positives between January and now!
They all enjoyed a celebratory picnic to recognise their work - congratulations 🥳
We wish everyone in the
@CraigmountHS
Learning Community and beyond a lovely October holiday.
We are looking forward to welcoming pupils back to school on Tuesday 24 October.
A superb two days for Ms Thompson and Mrs Maxey-Anderson who have been exploring Project Based Learning with
@CurriculumInnov
!
We’re excited to see what this will look like in our revised BGE curriculum as we introduce PBL very soon 🤩
#watchthisspace
Let the summer holiday begin!
From the entire team
@CraigmountHS
we would like to thank you for your support throughout this year and wish you all a superb summer holiday!
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone again in August 😀
You could feel the excitement and nerves in
@CraigmountHS
today as we reflected on the second year of exam results following the pandemic.
Remember there is
#nowrongpath
and these results are a stepping stone to build on for future success 👏
What a week it has been welcoming P7 pupils who will be joining us as our new S1 next year.
It’s been great seeing you work in class and we’re looking forward to seeing you ready to start at
@CraigmountHS
in August 🤩
We are looking forward to welcoming all pupils back to school tomorrow!
Remember that it’s full school uniform and that all pupils need to wear face coverings.
You should arrive as close to your start time as possible and enter through your allocated door.
See you tomorrow! 👍