Hello,

Tomorrow is SQA exam results day! We hope your pupils get the grades they were looking for. However, we know this can be a worrying time of year for students who are not sure of their next move following their results.

Edinburgh College is holding a Course Drop-In Surgery on Friday 12 August for anyone who wishes to discuss their options for starting a college course this year.

Course advisors and funding experts will be on hand to give students support with fast track applications for courses with places available for starting in August.

Course Drop-In Surgery
Friday 12 August 2016
12 – 4pm
Sighthill Campus
Bankhead Avenue
EH11 4DE

If pupils are unable to make it to Sighthill Campus, they can discuss exam results and make a course application over the phone by calling our course recruitment team on Friday 12 August on 0131 660 1010.

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Additional Summer Mailing documents are now available for download in the Letters to Parents section of the website under the heading “Summer Mailing 2016”

All Letters included in the Summer Mailing are now online in our Letters to Parents Section.

School breaks for the Summer Holiday on Thursday 30^th June at 12.00.

I wish all our staff and pupils a refreshing and relaxing break.

School resumes on Monday 15^th August with 2 days in-service for staff and for pupils on.Wednesday 17^th August at 8.32.

Congratulation to our Junior and Senior debaters who took part in The Donald Gorrie Schools Debating Competition 2016. The competition was held at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church on George Street. It was established in 2013 in memory ofDonald Gorrie, an MP,MSP and former teacher.

The motion for debate was “This house believes that legislation is the only way to save the earth’s environment for future generations.” Both teams gave an excellent performance and our senior team were successful in winning the competition.

Well done to all the participants.

Fabulous morning at Hillend on Friday 17th June 2016 for the first ever Boroughmuir Ski Race Club Annual Race. We managed to have 44 racers in total including Boroughmuir former pupils, Buckstone Primary and South Morningside Primary. Some great racing from all the kids and we even had a little Primary 2 boy racing. Stella Cobb in S5 took the faster senior school girl category and Fraser Hunter S2 took the fastest senior boy. There were medals and prizes galore, and everyone went away with something, albeit a trophy, medal or prize. I even managed to get the ribbons on the medals with the school tie colours. Four of the trophies were paid for by the Parent Council and the other trophies were donated by Iain Innes, our very own former pupil and junior Olympian.

Overall a great morning, and I think we might just do it all again next year.

Sean Hadfield, 23, began his hockey career at Boroughmuir High School aged 14. He asked to play in goal and the rest is history. By the end of that season he was selected for Scotland U16’s. Pretty good for a relative novice. He then went on to represent his country at U18 and U21 levels. This weekend he earned his 1st Senior cap agaihst Italy in a tournamrent in Poland. Hopefully he will not stop there but go on to represent GB.

Many congratulations go to Sean from all current and previous Boroughmuir High School hockey players and coaches.

Stephen Brown won a special merit in this years Tescobank art competition. There were only 53 awards out of 7400 entries so this is a considerable achievement. His winning lino print  is hanging in the National gallery before touring the country. Well done!