Delighted to announce the publication of our fantastic Inspection Report today!
So proud of all of our pupils, staff, parents, families and partners who work so well together to make our school such a success! 👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟
We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded the LGBT Youth Scotland Silver Charter. This recognises our commitment to LGBT+ support and inclusion. We now need to start planning our celebration!
Thanks to Mr Hamilton for collecting these resources - 600 pairs of gloves and 90 masks - from our school today to donate to NHS and frontline workers.
#PPE
#WeAreAllInThisTogether
What a lovely goodbye with our S6 pupils today who had a great day enjoying some snacks, signing shirts and saying good bye to everyone. We will miss you all but are looking forward to seeing all the great things you do!
Great to see so many S5 & S6 pupils making the most of the various study supports on offer over the break. For those coming into school please remember to collect your study stationery pack.
Some great masks on display today amongst our staff. Many staff and pupils are choosing to wear face coverings when travelling around the school!
#teamhillhead
#facecoverings
Great to see so many senior pupils come in today for revision sessions - despite the rainy start to the day. Stationery packs and top ups are available in the foyer of the main building. Thanks to all staff giving up their time to provide this support.
#ambition
We are delighted to share that we have been awarded our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award today. We could not be more proud of our school community. 🎉🌍💖🥈 Many thanks to
@garycondie67
for all of his support on the journey!
@HillheadParents
@EdISGlasgow
Thank you so much to all of our school community - our pupils, staff, parents, families and partners - for all of your support, understanding and kindness. Things are challenging at the moment but we will get through it together.
#TeamHillhead
#kindness
#integrity
Absolutely delighted to have been awarded
@GlasgowsDofE
Centre of the Year. Congratulations to all pupils who achieved their awards this year and to Mr Richardson, Mr Gillespie and Mr McFarlane who lead the award in school. 🌟
Congratulations to all of our pupils who received their Duke of Edinburgh Award at tonight’s ceremony. Delighted also that Hillhead High won Centre of the Year!!!
#proud
#DofE
#achieve
Parents/Carers of our Primary 7 pupils coming to Hillhead High this year, here is a preview of virtual transition tour video of the school to be found on school website now. Further transition material will also be sent out by your primary school soon.
Huge well done to
@MukadassJ
for winning the 2018 Young Scot Award for Equality and Diversity. You have contributed so much to Hillhead High and we are all so proud of you!
#YSAwards
#YOYP2018
A huge well done to our S6 charities committee who raised £633.56 for the Morocco and Libya appeal last week. This was thanks to the kindness of pupils and staff across the school. This money and effort will make a huge difference.
At the end of a very unusual week it is important to take a moment to thank everyone who is part of our school community for your work, your support, your kindness and your patience. You are all amazing and deserve a virtual round of applause! 👏👏❤️
#teamhillhead
#staysafe
Some more great examples of face coverings this time from some of our senior pupils who are leading the way and choosing to wear face coverings whilst moving around the school.
Thanks to our S6 Charities Committee who have been collecting items for
@Refuweegee
over the past two weeks and to pupils, staff, parents and carers for your donations. 💗
@HillheadParents
A few more photos from today. Huge thanks to the BBC team and
@bbclaurak
for the inspiring Share Your Story event today. Well done everyone!
#sys100
#shareyourstory
We've got our bus! Thanks to
@itisoncom
for generous donation, to all parents & carers who've donated & raised funds, to Parents council past & present who worked so hard to make this happen & to the school for their work & contributions too. What a team!
It was wonderful to welcome all of the student teachers joining Hillhead High this morning for their first placement. Great to have you as part of the team and remember that we are all here to help you on your journey.
@UniStrathclyde
@UofGEducation
@EdinburghUni
Congratulations to the pupils who beat the staff team 5-1 in yesterday's annual Staff v Pupils Football Match. First victory for the pupil team in 7 years! Thanks to all involved and to everyone who came along to support.⚽️
Parents& Carers: This week's S1-S3 re-connection packs have a small token of thanks to parents and carers for you support and kindness this term. It has meant the world to us! 🧡💙❤️💚💙👏
#ThankYou
@HillheadParents
We are delighted to introduce our new S6 Leadership Team. They will play an important role this year in leading the school and supporting pupils. First of all we have our School Captains, Mia and Cameron
#newnormalequalsnewopportunities
#leadership
SSERC's 2024 Honorary Fellow is Hannah Christie, a highly regarded education practitioner, currently the Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care at Hillhead High School in Glasgow, with previous leadership roles in Design and Technology in secondary schools.
So proud of our brilliant senior pupils. 👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟Last day at school for many of you. You are a credit to the school and your families and you are terrific role models for younger pupils. Good luck with exam revision!
#respect
#kindness
#integrity
#ambition
#resilience
Many thanks to Ms Logan for all her work as Acting Principal Teacher of English over the past two months following the departure of Ms Hislop. Today we are delighted to welcome Miss Southern as our new permanent Principal Teacher of English.
#teamhillhead
@EnglishDept_HHS
Well done to all of our fantastic Duke of Edinburgh's Award recipients! Thank you to
@DofEGlasgow
for another fantastic award ceremony at the Royal Concert Hall!
Another fantastic year has just come to an end. Well done to our speakers & all of our prize winners today. Thanks to all of our pupils this year who have given us so many memories. Best wishes to staff and pupils moving on. Have a lovely summer & we will see you in August.
Week 3 of term completed. Once again our pupils have made us so proud with their hard work, their resilience, their responsible attitude, and their kindness towards each other. Wishing our whole school community a relaxing weekend. See you all on Monday. ❤️💛💜💙💚
#TeamHillhead
Pupils/Parents: A reminder there will be stationery supplies available from the entrance of the school from 10.00am-2.00pm Mon-Fri. Please bring along your own bag.
SCOTTISH CUP CHAMPIONS!!! 🏆🏀 We are all so unbelievable proud of our senior basketball team winning 87-84 to be crowned the Scottish Cup Winners! What an achievement! 🏆🥇🏀
Wishing our whole school community a relaxing mid-term break. Well done for all the hard work over the last month - now it is time to put work away and have a proper break from screens so we are all ready to start again on Wednesday.
#TeamHillhead
❤️💚💙💜
Congratulations to
@Hannaheducate
who secured the permanent post of Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care at interview last week. Miss Christie will start her new post at Hillhead High next term. 🌟
@HillheadParents
Thanks to the kindness of our staff and pupils, our S6 Leadership team raised £788.03 for the Pakistan Flood Appeal. Thank you to everyone who donated money and/or tinned products and to our S6s for their incredible work
@GCEducationScot
#PakistanAppeal
First full week of term completed! Thank you so much to all staff, parents, families and partners for your support this week and, of course, our incredible pupils who have looked out for each other, coped with change, worked hard in class, made us smile and made us proud! 🌟😃🌟
Every parent and carer deserves a huge thank you for all you are doing right now to balance work, school and family life. It is not easy for anyone but please know how grateful we are for your support and partnership and get in touch if we can help.
#TeamHillhead
Heartfelt thanks to our wonderful Parent Council for dropping off these goodies today. You are amazing and we are so touched! Thank you to all of the Hillhead High community for your support and kindness.
@HillheadParents
#kindness
#teamhillhead
❤️💚🧡💛💙💜
The weather was so nice today our S6 Leadership Team were collecting donations for the Pakistan Flood Appeal outside in the sun. 😎 Thanks to all who have donated so far - pupils are collecting all week.
@HillheadParents
@GCEducationScot
Thank you so much to all of our whole school community for everything this year - you have been incredible! Wishing you all a happy and healthy holiday.
#TeamHillhead
#TimeToRelax
Well done to Hannah and Kayla who received their Mark Scott Leadership for Life Award tonight at the City Chambers. A fantastic achievement 👏 👏
#mslfla
#achievement
#community
Two fantastic days with Primary 7 pupils who will be joining us in August, So brilliant to meet you all and get to spend time with you. Plenty of exciting things in store for the next two days. 😀😀
Well done to all of our pupils who were following the new one way system in the school. This will take a bit of getting used to throughout the week. Some of your journeys will be longer but they will be safer for us all. The following tweets help show this movement.
A very big thank you to Rhona
@tiecampaign
for delivering an excellent workshop on LGBT inclusive curriculum development to our staff this morning. Lots of great discussion as well access to so many resources to support our work. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
@EqualitiesEdGCC
Thank you so much to all staff for the huge amount of work done since the start of term on Wednesday to prepare for pupils returning on Monday. You have been absolutely incredible! Thanks to our school community too for your support.
#TeamHillhead
@HillheadParents
It was great to be back together as a staff team today, welcome new colleagues, reflect on the successes and strengths of our whole school community last session and make plans for the journey ahead this year.
#exciting
#TeamHillhead
@HillheadParents
It was fantastic to be back together as a whole school community today! Thanks to everyone who has worked incredibly hard over the past few weeks to prepare for this full return and to our amazing pupils who make it all worthwhile. ❤️💚💙💛💜
A huge well done to Mustafa, Sulaiman, Jeffrey, Caelan, Suleman, Lily, Alexandra, Kaela, Niamh, Rafeo, Adeola, and Niky. They entered The Power of Poetry competition run by Young Writers. Their work has been selected and will be printed in a book entitled The Power of Poetry.
After the announcement today that the 2020 SQA exam diet has been cancelled, please rest assured that our staff are working hard to ensure that our S4 leavers and our S5 and S6 pupils achieve their potential and complete any outstanding coursework. More info will follow.
Today’s notable figure for Black History Month UK is Andrew Watson. Thank you to Alex, one of our school prefects who delivered the information to pupils this morning.
#BlackHistoryMonthUK
#BHM2021
#BHM
#BHMHHS
Wonderful to see our brilliant school captain Ali on
@bbcalba
tonight sharing his story of his life in Syria, making a life in Glasgow and his passion for making music. We could not be more proud of you, Ali!💗
#rolemodel
#resilience
#TeamHillhead
We have a winner!!
This year's
#EstelleBrisard
winner is Kirstin Campbell. Very well done Kirstin & great to have a teacher-researcher
@StrathEDU
winner.
Title of the winning submission: ‘From Science to Social Subjects: A Practitioner Enquiry in Climate Change Education’.