Ebrahin Hassan - Regional Winner for Edinburgh, Midlothian and Shona Valentine - Santander Employability Champion of the Year Award - Scotland Career Ready – Graduating 2019 Chloe Calver-Wood, internship at Standard Life with mentor Kathleen Wilkie “I am interested in Career Ready as I have never done anything like it before, it could help ...
All senior pupils were issued with the Easter Attainment School program today which will run from 8th April to the 22nd April. Please encourage your children to attend the relevant support classes that staff are offering and ensure that they are studying at home on top of this. The SQA exams are fast approaching and ...
Well done to our Amazing Hospitality - Skills for Work team who ran a brilliant coffee morning for staff on Friday. The tables looked great and the homemade treats were fab! The team did fantastic job of organising and running the event form start to finish and all the staff were very impressed.
26 S2 students took part in our yearly trip to Jupiter Artland as part of our outdoor learning program with the aim of closing the attainment gap.The day consisted of a tour around the park exploring the sculptures followed by a Lost Girls workshop. This offered our students the opportunity to develop an emotive, ...
We are pleased to announce that the PE halls will be re-opened for community use from Wednesday 27 March. The changing and showering area will remain closed but customers can make use of the pool changing facilities. We are awaiting further work but we anticipate that teaching in the PE halls will resume ...
On Sunday 24th March at 0130, there was a break in, where two masked perpetrators set fire to a small area within the PE Department. Whilst there is relatively little physical damage, the resulting smoke and fire damage has meant that the PE Department will be closed to all users until further notice. This morning ...
HPV (cervical cancer) vaccineConsent packs are out now for HPV vaccine for girls in S1 and for some girls above. The HPV vaccine, given to girls in S1 and S2, protects against the main strains of the human papillomavirus which cause cervical cancer. It is important that you get this protection early enough for it to ...
Lothian MSP Gordon Lindhurst was recently delighted to present two fair trade awards to our pupils. The MSP, who is also the Deputy Convener of the Cross party Group on Fair Trade, presented S3 student representatives Brogan and Jack with the certificates, alongside their Geography teacher Miss Lamb. Mr Lindhurst visited the school to ...
Our AMAZING Hospitality - Skills for Work class would like to invite staff to a coffee morning in Home Economics this Friday at break. They will provide yummy Friday treats, along with tea and coffee. This is part of their final assessment, so we would love for as many of you to make it as ...
As a result of the hard work being done to promote Rugby at WHEC, we were rewarded by a visit from the Heineken Champions Cup trophy (Rugby’s version of the Champions League)! Rugby is building momentum at WHEC with regular games for our S1/2 and S3/4 teams. Get yourself along to training with Murray after ...
Pupils from across the school are enjoying learning more about Spanish culture, food and playing Spanish games in the new Thursday lunchtime club with Mrs Gee, Ms Martinez and Mr Arricibita.
As part of their Natural Regions topic our S1 Social Subjects class were joined by some rainforest animals this week. Zoolab brought in a range of animals, including snakes, scorpions, spiders and frogs, and delivered a great presentation on the rainforest. We learnt lots about the different animals, where they live and why it ...