A reminder that school will be closed to pupils on Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st February due to holidays and an in-service day.
Please remember that the office will also be closed on all three days 
Today, our school held the first of three training sessions for our own Mental Health Mentors! 🌈🤝
✨ We're thrilled to announce that a group of talented and compassionate S4 and S5 students have successfully applied to be a part of this incredibly important programme. They will be honing their mentoring skills and then matched with incoming S1 students in the new school year.
🌟 Not only that, but these dedicated students will also have the opportunity to run Mental Health Workshops and be actively involved in promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing across our school.
💪 As they complete the Level 4 Mentorship Award, we have no doubt that these students will develop valuable lifelong skills and qualities that will support them in their personal and professional lives beyond school.
Big thanks to our fantastic Pupil Council Health and Wellbeing group for their immense support throughout this journey. We truly appreciate their insights and dedication. 🙌
Let's give our Mental Health Mentors a well-deserved round of applause! 👏👏👏
Check out our photos in the Photo Gallery section of the website.
There will be a dress down day on Friday 16th February in aid of Crocus Highland - Child Bereavement Charity. Come along dressed in purple or yellow if you would like to join in. There will also be a bake sale in the atrium tomorrow and Friday!
P7 Transition Meeting for parents/carers will take place on Tuesday 26th March. Details to follow.
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Halò a chàirdean,
Tha Eden Court agus Fèisean nan Gàidheal uabhasach toilichte latha trèanaidh dràma a thabhainn Disathairne 16 Màrt 10m – 4f aig Eden Court. Tha sinn ag amas air daoine eadar 16 – 25 bliadhna a dh’aois a tha fileanta ann an Gàidhlig agus le ùidh ann a bhith a’ teagasg no a’ cuideachadh le clasaichean dràma. Airson com-pàirtichean a nì an trèanadh, bidh cothrom ann obair fhaighinn a’ teagasg aig fèisean no aig clasaichean dràma Gàidhlig aig Eden Court. Cosgaidh e £10 agus thèid cosgaisean siubhail a phàigheadh air ais. Gus clàradh no airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh nach cliog thu air a’ cheangail seo: link
Eden Court and Fèisean nan Gàidheal are delighted to offer a training day for Gaelic speakers with an interest in teaching or assisting with drama classes. Participants that take part in the training will be offered opportunities to teach or assist with Gaelic drama classes at fèisean or at Eden Court. The training costs £10 and travel expenses will be reimbursed. To register or to find out more, please click here
Family Learning @ Inverness Royal Academy - Katherine MacInnes
Snow Widows
Monday 12th February @ 7.30pm
Through newly-found archive material and photographs, Katherine MacInnes reconstructs the lives of five women – wives, mothers and sisters of the men participating in Robert Falcon Scott’s polar expedition – offering a fresh and utterly different perspective on the race to the South Pole. In a gripping and remarkable feat of historical reconstruction, she vividly depicts the lives, loves and losses of the ‘snow widows’, describing the women’s attitudes to the expedition, their place in society, and the agony of distance, where it could take a year to receive news from the expedition, “a world of dangers that [they] cannot share.”
Tickets purchased at the door (£10 / free for under18s) cash only.
🚌 Update from Highland Council Buses 🚌
Update from Highland Council Buses.
In order to get all pupils home the following arrangements have had to be made.
• 301 Service Torness, Croachy, Farr. – This bus will not travel past Croachy. It will drop off all Farr and Inverarnie pupils but will terminate at Croachy.
• 302 Service Foyers – They are able to send a 22 seater to take pupils to Foyers. This will travel via Whitebridge. This bus should be for pupils that live in Foyers only. No pupils from Ness Castle or Dores should travel on this bus. Ness castle pupils should walk home or arrange a lift. Dores pupils should travel on one of the minibuses that Highland Council are sending for them
• 14 Service – Whitebridge – This service should now depart as normal.
Road Conditions – Foyers, Whitebridge, Dores
We have been in touch with Highland Council Buses regarding the current road conditions. Currently the roads to Whitebridge and Foyers are closed due to landslip and/or flooding, and the road to Dores is badly impacted by flooding. The bus operators are hopeful that they can transport pupils from school to Dores by using minibuses. However, they are not hopeful that the road conditions will improve for taking pupils to Whitebridge or Foyers. At this stage we have been asked to inform families to begin making provisions for families to contact their Inverness city contact. Families that travel in from outside Inverness city would have nominated a contact of this kind on enrolment. We would ask parents to make alternative arrangements to either pick up their child (if safe to do so) or make arrangements for their child to be picked up, and to stay with relatives or emergency contacts in Inverness. Staff will remain in school with pupils until confirmation of these arrangement are received.
On Friday of last week over 60 students took part in our Pupil Voice – Congress where they worked on a new UN Right’s Respecting School charter for the school. The group also discussed related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Well done to all involved. Please see the photo gallery for photos of the day.