February saw the first part of Penicuik High School’s ‘Dragons Den’ activity. The S1s recently began
the topic of Entrepreneurship as part of their Employability curriculum. 6 local business owners, who
all work in or around the Penicuik area, were invited to speak to students about why and how they
set up on their own. Students took part in workshops from the Dragons on how to create successful
businesses and also gave pupils an invaluable insight into skills and qualities needed for their
projects.

Since then our S1 Employability classes have been working hard to come up with new business ideas
and pitches as part of the Dragons Den project. All classes produced some fantastic new business
ideas and each class decided upon a finalist to present to the whole year group as well as face the
panel of Dragons.

Our fantastic Dragons – Angelina Coffee Snug, Sandra Vick Artist, The Jordan Murray Band and
NuGen returned to form the judging panel today for the Final. The pupils presented their very
impressive and creative pitches, some even involving websites and products they had created for
their projects.

Our winners were:
1st place:

Cats and Co – Atanas Yordanov, Josh Anderson, Christopher Dunlop and Alex Crawford

Joint 2nd place:

Totally Truffilicious – Dominic Young, Finlay Carter, Hunter Milne, Struan McGregor

Little Miss Lashes – Rheia Black, Lily Dunbar, Lily Millar, Erryn Anderson Hogg

Well done to all involved, the event was a real success and was a great experience for pupils to put
the content they are learning in the curriculum into practice!

SQA Exams – Preparation & Support

Senior SQA Examinations: Preparation and Support

All S4-S6 students have now attended year group assemblies to outline our expectations around examination preparation, the supports in place and received their SQA ‘Your Exams 2023’ booklet.
Our supported study sessions will still run during the first week after the Easter Break. These sessions were outlined in our recent study leave letter.
We are also finalising our Subject Immersions Days – details will be shared with students and parents/carers immediately after the Easter break. These days, usually the day before an exam, offer a final opportunity for students to work with class teachers.
Together with individual Google Classrooms there are also some online platforms that we would recommend. Achieve is an excellent online revision resource which supports knowledge and skills development across many subjects. This provides the opportunity to learn, test and track progress. https://achieve.hashtag-learning.co.uk/. E-Sgoil are running a two week, virtual Easter School. This covers a wide range of subjects. See the link below for their timetable and sign-up instructions.https://e-sgoil.com/easter-study-support-2023/.
Study Leave will begin on Monday 24th April, full details were outlined in our letter last week.

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Easter Holidays

3^rd to 14^th April 2023

Monday 3^rd April 2023

£21.00 per Primary School pupil

£23.00 per Secondary School pupil

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