Our first meeting of 2013 began with many happy faces after the Christmas break! 

In matters arising, the lunchtime radio is still in progress with CD's being made by Donald Turvil, all which will hopefully be aired soon. Also, an S3 representative expressed that some of the year group were still unsure about the changes from Standard Grades to the new curriculum so an assembly was held for S3 to try and make the changes clearer and some information was posted on the school website for parents to look at. Posters were also created to explain that some of the school toilets were closed due to vandalism and the only toilets in use are the ones in the social area. We have had numerous complaints about some of the toilets being closed but we hope this makes the current situation clearer to understand. We also spoke to the dinner ladies as many pupils have asked for the food products to be individually priced and they told us that pupils have just to ask them the prices of products as they find it very difficult to find the time to price things.  

The new dress code has been fully enforced and many pupils seem to be following it well! We would also just like to clarify that navy is allowed in the new dress code as this seems to have caused some confusion. Four of our council representatives will be taking pictures to show what is excellent dress code and what is not acceptable. Watch this space for these photographs.

Now on to the S1-S6 issues, we only received one complaint. S4 reps stated that pupils would like ore places to sit at break and lunch. Myself and the Head Boy have already discussed this with Mrs Ingham and we think that bean bags could be a possibility. However, much of our budget was spent on seating last year so we will see what we can afford but we would like to remind pupils that many teachers allow pupils to sit in their rooms at lunch times. The Head Boy and Head Girl have an email address (erin_ben@hotmail.com) so if you have any issues please get in touch and we will do our best to try and resolve these issues.

The School Council has a lot to do in the coming months. We will be giving an assembly to the school on our progress so far and we will be helping Mr Blair and Mr Dempster film the S1 FAQs.