School transport arrangements

School transport arrangements

P1 and S1 pupils

Letters were sent in the post on 4 August confirming if your P1 or S1 child/young person qualifies for school transport and the arrangements. P1 and S1 pupils should take their letter to the school bus and show it to the driver on the first day of term. Their school will give them a bus pass in coming weeks. Indicative pick up times and the name of the bus company transporting your child will be available tomorrow (Tuesday) on the school’s website. if you were expecting a letter for your P1 or S1 child/young person and did not get one or you have misplaced your letter please email travelteam@midlothian.gov.uk. 

P2-7 and S2-S6 pupils

Pupils in P2-7 and S2-S6 who previously qualified for school transport should go to the same stop and get on the same bus as per previous terms. Please use last year’s pass until a new one is issued. If you can’t find the pass, operators will still let your child/young person on the bus. Indicative pick up times and a reminder of the name of the bus company transporting your child/young person will be available tomorrow (Tuesday) on the school’s website. 

Additional Support Needs pupils

The travel team is contacting parents and carers of children and young people with Additional Support Needs (ASN) directly about new arrangements. Otherwise the same arrangements will be in place as previous terms for returning ASN pupils.

Get in touch

If your child/young person has moved homes and their previous arrangements no longer suit please contact travelteam@midlothian.gov.uk who will be happy to help. Please also email the travel team with any other school transport queries.

Remembrance Day Competition

These are the winning entries for the House Competition we ran for Remembrance Day.

All of S1 and S2 learned about the significance of the poppy symbol and participated in creating a commemorative poem, postage stamp or memorial to remember those who sacrificed their lives in the First World War.

Big 5 Newsletter

Penicuik High School adopts a research-informed approach to raising attainment. The Big 5 is our approach to embedding the 5 key formative assessment strategies described by eminent educationalist, Professor Dylan William in his 2018 publication, Embedded formative Assessment

The newsletters below show some of the ways staff at PHS have been using these strategies in the classroom with our learners

Big 5 Newsletter – Issue 1

Big 5 Newsletter – Issue 2

House Points Update

Senior Phase Awards Ceremony 2021

2021 Ceremony
On Wednesday 2^nd February, S4 and S5 award winners (new S5 and S6 students) were invited to a Covid-safe in-school celebration where they were presented with their certificates (trophies and medals distributed at a later date).
For students who were absent, please collect your certificates from the school office or Mr Dewar when you’re back in school.

S6 Students of 2020-2021
We also celebrated the S6 award winners and we would encourage them to watch our celebratory video as their achievements are also widely recognised by the school. Certificates for leavers will be sent in the post and we will be in touch about trophy collection shortly.

Thanks
We would like to thank the following people for their contributions and for making the video and celebration possible:

• Office staff Lynda Davidson
• Mr Smith and the Media students
• Media students Heather Young and Megan Webster for filming and editing the video
• Mrs Dixon and her Photography student
• Media student Ellis Murray for all photographs taken
• Guests Caroline Steel (SDS careers advisor) and PC Louise Cassidy (Community Police Officer)
• Depute Head Teacher Mr Dewar
• Head Teacher Mr Biddick

Awards Ceremony Video
The video below has given us the opportunity to celebrate and share the achievements of our Senior Phase students with their friends, families and the wider community. We hope you enjoy the video.

 

Student Support Review – Survey Links

As communicated in the parent update today 27 October 2021, please find links for the Student Support Survey for parent/carers and students.

Students will have some opportunity in school to complete their survey but please direct them to this link to support then having a voice in the review. I would strongly encourage all parent/carers to complete the survey so we have the widest possible coverage of your views to evaluate our strengths and areas for development.

The Survey is open from Wednesday 27 October 2021 to Sunday 7 November 2021

The links are:

Parents     https://ask.hashtag-learning.co.uk/surveys/fskNjm/

Learners   https://ask.hashtag-learning.co.uk/surveys/ZEcZ3v/

 
Many thanks

Craig Biddick,
Head Teacher

Film Award Winners

Congratulations to Craig Doyle and Michael Hood, S6 students 2020-21, who both won awards in this year’s Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition, hosted by the Edinburgh International Film Festival, for films created as part of their Media courses.

Craig won the award for Best Sound for his Higher Media assignment film ‘Isolated’, which featured a song written, performed and recorded by Craig himself. Michael won the award for Creativity During COVID for his NPA creative project film ‘qwertyuiop’.

The films were created during lockdown and Craig and Michael both showed real creativity and resourcefulness in adapting to the limitations this imposed.

Craig’s film:

Michael’s film:

Return to School

Please see attached letter from Mr Biddick.

Parent Update – Return to School 18.08.21

Penicuik High School – Dux Litterarum Award

We recently announced a series of senior and junior awards that would have been presented last June as part of our 2019-20 Senior Prizegiving. These awards covered a range of subject awards including high achievement awards.

The premier academic award – the Dux Litterarum Award, a traditional school award for the top academic student in a school was awarded as part of this presentation on our website.

It is our pleasure to announce that Abigail Stuart who has attended Penicuik High School since entering at S1 in 2015-16 is our Dux for the session 2019-20 (her S5 year). Abigail has excelled academically as a student at Penicuik High School and this award is a just recognition of her commitment and application to learning. Abigail is to study medicine next year and we wish her well in her studies.

Congratulations Abigail from all the Penicuik High School Community

Parental Update – Senior Virtual Awards – Prize Giving 2019-20

Dear Parent/Carer

Parental Update – Senior Virtual Awards – Prize Giving 2019-20

As you will be aware we have not been able to hold last session’s Senior Prizegiving or note excellent performance in the lower schools as part of a formal Prizegiving.

Last week we announced further BGE Pride Awards which are our ethos based awards recognising students who display our values. This week we will release two further virtual award announcements which can be accessed below. I would like to note my thanks to Mrs Murphy in Music, and Mrs Davidson in the office for all their work on these presentations.

These are announcing our Senior Prize giving winners for last session 2019-20 split into two presentations – S5-S6 and S1-S4. Our S6 Leavers have been recognised and they received their personal awards, recognising their work in school during S5 in person last Friday. A number of them are going on to study at University and have good offers from some of our top Universities. We wish all students well in their future endeavours and thank them for their contribution to the life and ethos of the school.

We are very proud of all the winners from last session and are pleased we can finally recognise their achievements and hard work. In particular the school community congratulates our 2019-20 Dux – Abigail Stuart – who has excelled academically over her time in school and is going to read medicine at University. We wish her all the best in her future studies.

Finally we are hoping that this session’s Prize Giving for 2020-21 may be able to be held in person at school and we will update you on these arrangements in August. As part of this we do have some long serving members of the school community we want to acknowledge.

Kind regards

Craig Biddick

Head Teacher

S5-S6 Awards

S1-S4 Awards