Thursday 23rd September 2021 5.00pm - 5.45pm Come and join us online to meet our Faculty Leaders and learn information about the S1 curriculum. This will take place on TEAMs and to join on the night please click on the link below: _________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting _________________________________________________________________________ Any questions please contact Miss ...

The NHS Lothian Vaccination Bus will be at Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart and other Edinburgh areas and beyond in the coming days. No appointment necessary.

Please see latest COVID update from Lorna French, Chief Education Officer in the City of Edinburgh Council:

Hutchison Vale Girls are recruiting new players born 2006, 2007 & 2008. Training sessions will be held twice weekly, with games on Saturday. If you are interested, contact details and more information is available below:

Introducing Miss Chisholm, our new Pupil Support Officer, who will be supporting our pupils and their families with School Uniform. Miss Chisholm will be at the gate each morning to welcome our pupils in and do a uniform check. We will a have a stock of uniform in school that can be provided for any pupil ...

An information session is now planned for parents/carers about ASD and Restricted Eating. Find out more in the below document:

Wester Hailes High School would, for this session, like to email your child’s report to you. Please provide us with your child’s name and year group along with your current, case sensitive, email address. You can do this in writing or by using the admin@whec.edin.sch.uk email address. We will assume consent to email your child’s ...

Active Schools, working closely with our PE department, are providing a range of extracurricular activities sport, dance and more from September until December for all the Wester Hailes High School pupils.   Keep an eye on our Social Media sites along with the School webpage as we hope to include more clubs later on in ...

Dear parent/carer. First and foremost I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your patience and understanding over the course of the last four days. You, and you children have had to adapt to these new extenuating circumstances and I know many will be concerned about the potential impact this may have ...

Dear parent/carer, I am pleased to inform you that the repairs have been completed following the water damage. The final check is to conduct ‘ a water health check’  at 7am tomorrow (Friday 27th August) and if all goes to plan, the school will reopen. As a result of the disruption to service there will be limited ...

Dear Parent/Carer, It is with the deepest regret that I am writing to you once again to inform that the school will remain closed tomorrow (Thursday 26th August). Our contractors are informing us on a real time basis of their progress and doing their utmost to reopen the school however they encountered an unforeseen issue today that ...

Dear Parent / Carer Thank you for your patience and understanding with this emergency situation. Regrettably Wester Hailes High School will remain closed tomorrow (Wednesday 25th August)  due to the water damage sustained over the weekend. Please be assured that City of Edinburgh Council contractors are working around the clock to ensure that the school is safe to ...

Wester Hailes High School will remain closed tomorrow due to the water damage from the weekend. Contractors are working on site and our intention is to open the school as soon as possible once all repairs and checks have been carried out. In the meantime our home learning programme will continue. Parents and carers have been updated ...

Further to the Headteacher's Update 23.08.21 we will be continuing the Home Learning programme into Tuesday 24th August. S1-S3 Home Learning resources can be found via ‘Home Learning Hub’ on the school website. Resources are found by year group and then by subject. Work can be returned to your class teacher. Please ignore the dates. S4-S6 Home Learning resources ...

Dear parent/carer, Please see the latest update from the City of Edinburgh Council regarding COVID guidance in schools. In the update it has all the latest changes to COVID procedures in schools however one I feel I should emphasise is how COVID cases are managed. Instead of isolating large groups of pupils, a new Warn and Inform letter ...

Dear Parent/Carer First of all I  hope this update finds you well and in good health. I realise this update comes to you later than normal and I apologise for that however there have been some extenuating circumstances with some of the construction work over the last four days that has required my undivided attention – ...