1 May 2025: The Developing the Young Workforce newsletter for Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian is now available:
The newsletter has details of offers and opportunities available to young people. Please contact Claire Howe, the DYW Coordinator at JGHS, to find out about any offers listed.
There is also a library of pre-recorded videos from inspirational speakers:
23 April 2025: The April newsletter from Connect is now available, with content about the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme, new ‘Quick Tips’ films for Members, plus an ‘open to all’ live session “Online Safety with Police Scotland”.
27 March 2025: Connect has published its spring edition of Backchat.
This edition has info about:
25 March 2025: Many thanks to those who joined the Parent Council meeting this Tuesday.
Watch the meeting recording (opens on YouTube)
Summary of meeting discussion (from transcipt, opens as pdf)
Inclusion X suport at JGHS (Anna Kirkwood and Ian Porter, opens as pdf)
PC report 25 March 2025 (Hilary Snaith, co-chair; opens as pdf)
Finance update 25 March 2025 (Kirstin Leighton, treasurer; opens as pdf)
Headteacher’s report 25 March 2025 (opens as pdf)
The headteacher mentioned a number of school policy documents in his comments. You can access a range of these policies on the JGHS website:
The next meeting of the Parent Council will be on Wednesday 4 June in the school library at 7 pm – all parents and carers are very welcome to join us.
20 March 2025: Connect is gathering information about the travel habits, school transport provision, and safety measures around travel to/from school. for young people and parents.
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and has a comment section at the end for anything not covered in the questions.
The survey will close on Thursday 10 April 2025.
The next meeting of the JGHS Parent Council will be on Tuesday 25 March at 7 pm. The meeting will be held online via MS Teams – the link will be shared via the school email.
All parents and carers are most warmly welcome to join us.
If you have any questions that you would like to see addressed, please contact the PC by email. It will also be possible to ask questions via the Q&A during the meeting.
13 March 2025: The latest update from Connect is now available, covering a range of topics including:
13 March 2025: Engineer a Career is on a mission to inspire, empower, and encourage the next generation of engineers. Through our podcast, “The Engineer a Career Podcast,” we share the stories of today’s engineers with tomorrow’s.
On 4 March 2025, Tuesday of Scottish Apprenticeship week, the first episode of Series 2 went live on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. For 8 weeks, every Tuesday a new guest shares what sparked their interest in engineering, their own route to a career in engineering, the jobs they’ve had and the projects they’ve worked on, who has helped them along their career, and what keeps them passionate about engineering.
Each episode is a great opportunity to learn from an engineer and understand the challenges they have faced and how they navigated them. Across the eight guests we explore the school to college, school to university and school to apprenticeship routes.
Whether you are a student, parent, or educator this podcast will give you a greater understanding of engineering careers.
So far, the podcast has released 14 podcast episodes in 6 months.
Follow the link below for the podcast pack:
Contact the Developing the Young Workforce team at JGHS:
28 February 2025: Next week, 3-7 March 2025, is Scottish Apprenticeship Week.
This is an opportunity for young people and their families to learn more about this pathway into employment, view live apprenticeship vacancies, and hear from employers about their offerings.
DYW – Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2025 – Employers and Vacancies
Connect Virtually, Train Locally: DYW Virtual Webinar for Scottish Apprenticeship Week
If you have any questions, please get in touch with the school, or the Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) School Co-ordinator, Claire Howe:
25 February 2025: The Scottish Government has published its latest summary statistics for attainment and initial leaver destinations for school leavers in 2023-24.
This publication contains the latest statistics on Scottish school pupils’ initial destinations (their destination three months after the end of the school year) and their attainment during their time at school.
The statistics show that:
The full publication is available on the Scottish Government website.
JGHS Parent Council 