Student Absence Reporting

A gentle reminder, if your child is absent from school please call the office on 0131-664-7440 or reply to the absence text with the reason your child is absent.

Thank you.

Information for Parents/Carers on Mumps

Please see information below received from the NHS:

Mumps is currently circulating in the community at a higher than usual level in Lothian.  Most cases are young adults, older than school age, but we are starting to see cases in school children.

Mumps is a viral infection which is not usually a serious illness but it can take up to ten days or more to feel better.  The infection can be easily spread from person to person by direct contact with saliva or droplets of saliva (e.g. via coughs and sneezes) from an infected individual.  The signs, symptoms of mumps include:

• Fever
• Headache
• Swelling of parotid glands on one or both sides of the face (‘like a hamster’)

Occasionally mumps can cause more serious complications.  Pupils with symptoms of mumps should not attend school until they are recovered and at least five days after the parotid (facial) swelling began.

The best protection against mumps is with the MMR vaccine - two doses are required (usually given at age 12-13 months and the second dose preschool). Although mumps can occasionally occur in people who have received two doses of MMR, the disease is much milder. Pupils who have not received two doses of MMR are recommended to contact their general practice to complete the course now.

Further information is online about mumps, go to:

MMR Vaccine
Mumps

Dr Lorna Willocks
Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Careers Event 2020

A very successfull careers event took place at Gracemount High School on Thursday 9th January 2020.  Many thanks to all who attended.

Autism Football Open Day

Edinburgh South CFC in partnership with Team United

Autism Football Open Day  

Saturday January 25th 2020

10am – 12noon. 

Peffermill Playing Fields 

Registration is essential 

alex@teamunited.org.uk

Attendance Matters – Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 Update

Gracemount High School Attendance Target is striving for pupil to have 90%+ attendance. Currently 65% of our pupils have above 90% attendance, Great!. We need to work together to achieve our target of 70% to have an attendance figure of 90% and above.

Well done to all our 95%+ attendance – 43% of the school

Special mention to all those who have 100% - 13% of the school – You are AMAZING!!

Pupils who have 100% receive a Gold Award Certificate. 95%+ a Silver Award Certificate and 90+% Bronze Award Certificate.

Do you know what your child’s attendance is at school?

All s1-6 pupils who attended tehir PSE lessons prior to the holidays have been told their attendance figure and worked on target setting to improve this if needed

Did you know at the end of the school year if you have…

95% attendance = Ten whole days of school has been missed

90% attendance = Twenty whole days of school has been missed

85% attendance = 6 weeks or half a term of schooling has been missed and a possible referral to the Education Welfare Officer

Who can you contact if you are concerned about your child’s attendance? Contact your child’s guidance teacher or year head.

Lewis House – Ms Wilson

Skye House – Mrs Ellis

Tiree House – Ms O’Connell/ Mr Nicholson (Mondays only)

Year Head – S1/3/5 – Mrs Scott

Year Head – S2/4/6 – Miss Gordon

We need your views: Edinburgh Children’s Partnership Services

The Edinburgh Children’s Partnership Services Plan is hoping to gather the views of parents, carers and parent councils. 

We would appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to complete this survey as an individual parent or carer.  Parent Councils have been written to separately.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ecsppc

The survey is open until 29^th January 2020.