24 January 2025: The Parent Council meeting will be held this week on Wednesday 29 January at 7 pm in the school library – all parents and carers are most warmly invited to join with us.

Agenda

• Update on Parent Council activities, including:
  • Capacity and rising rolls at JGHS
  • SQA scheduling of Higher English and Psychology
  • CEC Inclusion review
• Finance report – PC Treasurer
• Delivery of the science curriculum at JGHS – Science Curriculum leads 
• School updates – Neil McCallum (HT)
• Q&A

Due to availability of school staff, the planned presentation about inclusion, health and well-being support at the school has been moved to the meeting in March. 

As always, if you have any points/questions/concerns that you would like to raise with the Parent Council, please contact us by email:

Parent Council Finance Report

Summary of PC budget 29 January 2025

Letters and deputations

Recent communications sent by the PC to Council officers about rising rolls, SQA timetabling and other issues can be accessed below:

Parent Council documents and papers

Previous Parent Council meetings in AY2024/25

Parent Council meeting 26 November 2024

Parent Council AGM 9 October 2024

Parent Council meeting 10 September 2024

9 January 2025: Happy New Year, and welcome to 2025!

The first Parent Council meeting of 2025 wil be held on Wednesday 29 January at 7 pm in the JGHS library.

in addition to the usual updates from the Parent Council, and the Headteacher’s report, the main item on the agenda will be a presentation and discussion with Mrs Nikki Graham about the support for pupil health and well-being in the school. This will also touch on the new Inclusion policies from the City of Edinburgh Council.

All parents and carers are most warmly invited to join us.

If you have any questions that you would like to raise in advnace of the meeting, please do get in touch:

26 November 2024: Many thanks to those who joined the online meeting of the Parent Council.

The meeting heard an update on recent activities by the Parent Council, a presentation by DHT Nigel Cotter on the SQA exam results at JGHS in 2024, and a report from HT Neil McCallum.

The presentations from the meeting, and the link to the meeting recording on YouTube are now available.

James Gillespie’s High School Parent Council meeting, 26 November 2024 (opens on YouTube)

Parent Council November 2024 update (opens as pdf)

SQA results at JGHS (opens as pdf)

Headteacher update November 2024 (opens as pdf)

If you have outstanding questions that were not addressed by the meeting, please let us know.