Mini Trials
On Saturday past, 9 Forrester students participated in the annual mini-trials competition. Students had to prepare both a prosecution and a defence case, providing both lawyers and witnesses/victims. All students put in an enormous amount of work and they were a credit to the school on the day. A number of the lawyers we had […]
October Holiday Coach Education Courses
Active Schools – Coach Education WEST OCT 17
S4 Work Experience
Self found forms for placements should be in now with Mrs MacPhie. Students will be allocated jobs within the next week. Please discuss this at home with your son/daughter and contact Mrs MacPhie with any concerns or queries – kate.macphie@forrester.edin.sch.uk
S3 Youth Philanthropy Initiative
All of our S3 students are now embarking on this adventure through their SE time. They have been busy working in teams identifying social issues that they can relate to with a view to representing a charity which identifies itself in helping these issues. They will soon be contacting their chosen charities to gather information […]
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Sarah Brown who has been chosen as Young Ambassador for Children & Young People’s Commissioner of Scotland. Great achievement Sarah!
Friday 22nd September – Dress Down Day
This coming Friday will see Forrester High School host its first dress down day of the new school year. Learners can donate £1 to wear non-uniform. Following the passing of Miss Anna Burnett, the S6 charity committee have elected to use the monies raised to purchase a memorial bench in her memory and as a […]
Sports Aid
Between the 25th September- 1st October all S1-S3 students will challenge themselves to clock up as many miles as they can during their PE lessons. Students will swim, run, cycle or walk for Sports Aid. We hope to clock up 650 miles as a school. If you feel you would like to contribute to this […]
Weekend Success!
Congratulations to Lauren and Leya Bevis for outstanding achievement this weekend. Lauren won Inhand VHS Champion and Leya won the Wildcard Champion. Fantastic ladies!
The Wee Jaunt 2017
A huge WELL DONE to the students and staff who were up at silly o’clock yesterday to head out to Linlithgow for “The Wee Jaunt” bike ride back to Edinburgh! Far from being exhausted at the end, our young people were talking about doing the full 45 miler from Glasgow next time. It really was […]
Duke of Edinburgh Gold
An opportunity has arisen for any students from S5 or S6 to complete their Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. This can be undertaken as a direct entrant as there is no requirement to have completed the Silver or Bronze Award. Although this would be a huge undertaking with a great deal of commitment, it would […]