Adult learning classes at Craigroyston

Happy New Year!

Our adult learning classes begin next week and we still have spaces available for some courses. Please spread the word! Starting from Monday 23 January for an 8 week term.

We also have FREE Walking: Tuesday mornings 10.15-11.15am free walkers group to encourage people to become more active. They will be gentle walks building up into longer sessions. These start from Tuesday 24^th January. Just come to the school for 10am. Wear waterproofs and good waterproof shoes and bring a bottle of water.

Plus a drawing class on Monday afternoons, Scottish History through Novels on a Wednesday afternoon and Mindfulness on Thursday afternoons and a New year, New You class on Saturday mornings to help make 2017 your best year ever!

Courses cost £48 for the 8 weeks (£24 for senior citizens and £15 for people receiving concessions)

All the best

Fiona Henderson

Cash for schools to close attainment gap

More than a hundred secondary schools will receive up to £11.5 million for projects to close the attainment gap, Deputy First Minister John Swinney confirmed yesterday. In Edinburgh Castlebrae Community High School, Wester Hailes Education Centre, Holyrood High School and Craigroyston Community High School will benefit from the funding. Continue reading Cash for schools to close attainment gap

Craigroyston: back in the swim!

Friday morning swimming is back at Craigroyston Community High School!

Friday mornings from now on we will have a ladies only / mums and toddlers from 10.30-11.30am and a mixed adult swim 11.30am-12.30pm.

Ladies can come anytime from 10.30am and stay until 12.30pm, men from 11.30am only.

Katie Tuff will be the lifeguard (except for the 30^th September).

Hope you can come along – same super duper rate and super duper facilities!

Fiona.Henderson@craigroyston.edin.sch.uk |www.craigroyston.edin.sch.uk | community@craigroyston.edin.sch.uk

Exam results: help and advice available

Free helpline for students expecting SQA results today

A free helpline offering advice, information and support for young people and their parents has opened, ahead of today’s SQA results. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) has a free helpline which will be open from 8am to 8pm today and tomorrow and then from 9am to 5pm until 17 August. Continue reading Exam results: help and advice available

Saving community space at Craigroyston: complete the survey

Craigroyston Community Centre’s management committee, which oversees the adult community wing at Craigroyston Community High School, has sent out an unofficial audit (see below) to raise awareness of the cuts in community service provision in Craigroyston High School.

CommunityAudit July 2016

Have you used the facilities at Craigroyston? Do you plan to use them, and if not, why not? Please complete the attached survey and email it to

vanessacousins@blueyonder.co.uk

or drop it off at the Community Shop on Pennywell Road.

Thank you,

Craigroyston Community Centre

Still time to view Roost exhibition

Monday 2 – 5pm, Tuesday 2 – 6pm

Wing your way to the artists unit in Muirhouse Shopping Centre, have a look at the birdhouses designed by Craigroyston Community High School’s S2 students and vote for your favourite!

Roost Exhibition opens tomorrow

Roost is part of an artists residency, Arcadeum, linked to the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre. This £12 million Centre, being built in Muirhouse, is a joint development between NHS Lothian and the City of Edinburgh Council, bringing increased health and social care services for the local community, including new GP accommodation and additional physiotherapy, podiatry, dentistry and child health services.

Arcadeum is based in the ‘satellite’ space in the shopping mall next to NEA. Artists Lindsay Perth and Hans Clausen have been leading the Arcadeum programme over the last 12 months.

Craigroyston’s adult learners in last ditch appeal

Fight to keep the ‘community’ in Community High School

Craigroyston Community Centre, the adult education wing of Craigroyston Community High School, has appealed to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for her support in retaining a full adult education service at the school. Continue reading Craigroyston’s adult learners in last ditch appeal

Roosting tomorrow

ROOST Exhibition opens tomorrow

Friday 17 June 1.30 – 6.30pm

Craigroyston summit: ‘a common focus to drive up standards’

‘everyone around the table shared my desire to ensure Scottish education is the best it can be’ – Education Secretary John Swinney

Headteachers across Scotland will be provided with extra support to deliver excellence in schools and work to close the attainment gap, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday as she hosted a summit on raising attainment in Scotland’s schools. Continue reading Craigroyston summit: ‘a common focus to drive up standards’