The new Speakeasy programme for Parents and Carers that has been launched by NHS Highland Health Improvement Team & Planet Youth. Speakeasy is free and is provided by trained facilitators. The focus of this programme is to help parents and carers of children of any age to tackle the difficult and often confusing issues of growing up, safety, sex and relationships. We provide relaxed and informal small group work sessions around aspects of growing up, keeping your child safe, relationships and sexual health and in these sessions we discuss information, resources, and support to help parents/carers to confidently chat about these things at home. We want families to feel more knowledgeable, confident and ready to have these conversations with their children.

The programme is currently delivered to small groups of parents in relaxed and interactive learning sessions that are delivered online.

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We are overwhelmed with the amount we have received for our Sponsored Walk! Thank you so much! So far we have raised an amazing £15286.59
We will keep the JustGiving page open over the holidays for any last minute donations

Last night we held our first Art Studio Session!

We plan to hold these at the end of each term to give our senior pupils the opportunity to work on their expressive folios, share good practise and enjoy a social evening. We also invited staff to take the opportunity to see the hard work and super standards produced at this level

Science in the Atrium

Science in the Atrium returned on Monday night with a talk on the Physics of Music. An audience of over 100 enjoyed the talk given by Dr Jonathan Kemp from the University of St Andrews. Dr Kemp explained his topic in an entertaining manner using musical instruments along with visual displays and was accompanied on stage by pupil Daniel Finnigan who played the trumpet It was great to see so many pupils in the audience and we hope they'll come back for the next talk in the series This is on the 6th of November and looks at New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN).