Gracemount High School is a small non-denominational secondary school serving the community of SE Edinburgh. RRSA Gold Award. Responsible ~ Respectful ~ Safe
(1 of 2) Mr Dimeck, Mr Hunter and everyone in the Gracemount Community would like to say a huge thank you to Andy Prime, the pastor of Gracemount Community Church. Andy ran 5k every day in February and raised £11,440. Half of this will go to our Lunch Stop.
We are delighted to introduce our new S6 Pupil Leadership Team 2020.
This years team will be made up of 3 x School Captains, 3 x Depute School Captains and 3 x House Captains.
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Dress Down Day tomorrow 👚👖👌 (Friday 27th April) in aid of Firrhill pupil Kira and her fundraising campaign for life-saving treatment
#KiratheMachine
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Firrhill pupil Kira only has until the 10th of May to raise £340k for life saving treatment - please donate what you can, fundraiser even more, and share with everyone ❤️💪
#KiratheMachine
⭐️ GHS Class of 2021 ⭐️
Goodbye to our wonderful S6 pupils who celebrate their final day at Gracemount High School today. What a journey it has been! All the best for future, you will be missed!
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Congratulations to Mr Yusaf, Maths Teacher here at Gracemount High School, who won
@Edinburgh_CC
Probationer of the Year! Well done for winning this prestigious award 🥇
@gtcs
#npegtcs
Fantastic to have the return of whole school assemblies to round off our term. A huge thank you to Sam and Ketsia for compèring and performing. Zoe is also pictured here - first time singing for us! Many more showcased their Music and Dance abilities bringing festive cheer 🎄🥰
Thank you to our wonderful pupils, staff & parents for their generous donations over the last 3 weeks. Pupils delivered these items to our local food bank at Blythswood Care Edinburgh this afternoon 🎅🏽
#Community
Team Tenzing showing great resilience to complete their gorge walk. And some brave Gracemount pupils taking a shower Outward Bound style!
@OutwardBoundUK
@UllswaterCentre
Thank you to
@on_lothianbuses
who visited us yesterday to deliver Careers Day talks. The level of excitement about getting to sit in the driver's seat was off the scale!
Not even a Global Pandemic can stop the staff at Gracemount wishing you a Merry Christmas!!! 🎅🏽🎄Stay safe and have a well deserved break everyone!
#TeamGracie
Our end of term assembly was a fantastic way to finish for summer break ☀️ Sam and Ketsia brilliantly compèred, and the show opened with Ava, David and Mr Foley’s rendition of Seven Nation Army, followed by singers, musicians and dancers sharing their talents 🎤🎸💃 (1/2)
A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Sponsored Walk this year. All money has now been counted and we have raised an amazing £2120.30 for the Opportunities Fund. This will go a great distance in supporting our pupils 🙏
Congratulations to everyone involved in tonight’s Gracie Does Strictly! Well done to Hannah and Mr Gregor for taking first place 🏆
#keeeeeeepdancing
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Well done and thank you to the school community for raising just over £900 for Kira. Thanks also to
@GHScharities
for organising. Anyone who would like to donate can do so via the link below:
Urgent! Pls help us raise £340K by 10 May for life-saving surgery for Kira,14. Donate here: . Kira's fought rare neuroblastoma since age 11. Despite best medical efforts her tumour remains. Give her the chance of a cancer-free life.
#KiratheMachine
#Cancer
Friday’s Coffee Morning in the Staffroom was a big success! Well done to Evie, Lilah, Miss Neil and our Staff Bakers who supported the event. Our students have been doing it as part of their Personal Development Award. Money raised will go to the 1 in 5 Opportunities fund 🙏
This week is Challenge Poverty week. Pupils from S1- S6 will be taking part in activities which aim to challenge the stigma around poverty. Pupils will be completing lessons around the theme of poverty in PSE, History, Modern Studies, Art & English.
#challengePoverty
#TurnTheTide
Former Gracemount pupil Sylvana Cheng has graduated from Heriot Watt with a first class honours degree in fashion and textiles. Not only did Sylvana achieve all A's she has been awarded a prize for the most innovative designs. Miss Grisdale and staff at Gracemount are very proud.
Delighted to announce the 2018/19 Senior Pupil Leadership Team are:
Head Boy - Conor Glasier
Head Girl - Kelly Reilly
Depute Head Boys - Thomas Jamieson and Derek Polowyj
Depute Head Girls - Louise Hume and Jamie Lee Aquino
The standard of all the candidates was exceptional 👏
Congratulations to Mrs Brown, who won the Head Teacher award for service to the school
@LibGHS
@GracemountHigh
. Wishing you all the best & a great retirement. We will miss you Lynne!
'Power Hour' starts this week, on Tues, Wed & Thurs (after-school.) Power Hour is a quiet room to complete homework or catch up on any missed work. Unlike GASS, this isn’t subject-specific support, but we will support pupils with their literacy and understanding of tasks etc.
A fantastic night at ‘Gracie does Strictly 2018’ raising money for our trip to Ogwini in February. Well done to all the dancers involved... and a special well done to our winners Mrs Gordon & Miss Vidotto 💃🏽💃🏽
Congratulations Ashley Kalczak in S3 who is the overall winner of the Van Gogh Alive schools competition. You can view her work along with Ryan Inglis, Leah Rahr and Natalia Tkaczyk in the online exhibition:
From the 3rd Sept we will be providing bags of household essentials such as pasta sauces etc. Anyone in need can collect a bag from Gracemount Playpark, opposite the Primary from 2:45pm-3:45pm.
Our S5/5 Volunteering class collecting their Saltire Awards. These pupils provided over 400 hours service to the school community this session. Well done and thank you!
A BIG WELCOME to our new S1 Students who will carry out a three-day P7 Transition on Tues 16th to Thurs 18th June. Check out the link below to access your virtual timetable for the visit and meet the staff:
We look forward to seeing you in August! 😀👏
Christmas Concert - well done to our musicians and dancers for a brilliant evening of entertainment for families to enjoy. For many of these pupils, this was their first performance to an audience, and feedback is they’re keen to participate again! Thanks to all who supported 🙏
The ‘Grab and Go’ community food bank starts tomorrow at Gracemount Community Park, just next to the Primary School between 2:45-3:45pm. Anyone in the community can collect a bag of food essentials and we will be there every Thursday. Thank you to Fair Share for providing this.
Respect Week took place this week - activities included assemblies and themed lessons. Thank you to our Art department and their pupils for creating this eye-catching sign!
If anyone is in need of some extra help with food & household essentials, the Grab and Go service is back on every Thursday, at Gracemount Community Park from 2:30pm- 3:15pm.
We are delighted to welcome our Guest Speaker, John Loughton BEM, joining us at our Celebration Evening tonight to recognise and celebrate our prize winners. Thank you for your inspiring words.
Everyone took part in a beach clean up, trying to leave the environment even better than we found it. Well done to all four clans! We will be updating our social media pages this afternoon to keep parents and carers updated on our journey home. (2/2)
#gracemountdoesoutwardbound
The rest of our new S4 iPads were issued today! 👏 We hope that they will help with your learning during this difficult time. Please read Mr Whyte's email that has been sent to all new S4 students. There's also a useful initial help video below:
Well done to all of our fantastic pupils and staff for working so hard during this very tough lockdown period. A video of this week’s efforts can be viewed below:
Many thanks to Miss Grisdale for collating and creating this!
(2 of 2) This means that once we are back at school we can continue to run our "Grab & Go" service providing food & essentials to our community. We cannot thank Andy and everyone that donated enough. It is amazing to see how how our community has pulled together during this time
Opportunity for two S5/6 pupils to go to Auschwitz on 3rd Oct, funded mostly by the Holocaust Education Fund. There also will be a preparation and feedback session in Edinburgh. Once completed, the pupil becomes a Holocaust educational trust ambassador.
To apply, see Mrs Fleming.
Thank you to
@PassDance
for two wonderful workshops with our S3 and Senior Dancers today. An excellent opportunity for our pupils to see what opportunities are available in the Dance industry... and led by our former pupil
@Hanz_Mason
Ogwini Comprehensive High School in South Africa turns 50 years old today. We have had a strong link with Ogwini since 2008. Please read on for more information:
Parents, carers and pupils from any year group are invited for Coffee & cake on Wednesday 26th October. With the cost of living crisis on all of our minds, this is an opportunity to get some extra support this Winter. For further information please contact Miss Grisdale.
Congratulations to our prize winners 🏆 Thanks again go to John Loughton BEM for Guest Speaker duties. Thanks also to staff who supported tonight’s event, to School Captains for presenting, and performers who provided our audience with music, dance and poetry readings throughout.
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For this week's segment on Feel Good Friday we spoke to one of our volunteer community coaches, Craig Cruickshanks.
Craig coaches
@Stenhousemuir05
. We spoke about why he coaches and the season so far.
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CYCLE... COMPLETE!! Well done to all our pupils who were involved in today’s fundraiser for South Africa 2019. Sponsorship donations can still be made by clicking on the link...