James Gillespie's High School

Welcome. James Gillespie's High School is situated in the heart of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. We are a modern multicultural comprehensive High School, educating pupils aged 11 to 18 years of age. We recently celebrated our 200th. anniversary and our campus enjoys a wonderful mix of ancient and modern architecture. We hope that you enjoy our website. Click here for a slideshow of our school >

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What's On Experimental! We are trying out an electronic school calendar of forthcoming events. Click here>

HT's Blog New Head Teacher Mr Macdonald has launched a blog to share thoughts and information with colleagues, pupils, parents and friends of the school. Click here to read http://htjghs.blogspot.com

Extra Curricular Clubs All clubs will start on Monday 23rd January and run until Friday 30th March. Full information about what clubs are available, and when, on our Extra Curricular Page.

S5/6 Prelims S5/6 Prelims will take place from Monday January 30th to Wednesday February 8th. Click here to see the full timetable.

GLOW James Gillespie's has started to use GLOW to share ideas, provide on-line learning resources and enable communication between pupils and between schools. All pupils will receive their GLOW log-ons soon. Click to download a guide to logging on to GLOW for the first time. Click to download a guide to using GLOW email. Click here to find out more about GLOW >

Scholar SCHOLAR is one of the world's largest school e-learning education programmes and it is available to every pupil studying Intermediate Maths and Highers/Advanced Highers in almost every school in Scotland. If your child does not have a SCHOLAR password, please encourage him or her to ask their teacher for this. Click to download SCHOLAR's Parent Information Leaflet.

FACE The new issue of FACe, the children and families' e-newsletter has just been published at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/face

THE JAMES GILLESPIE’S TRUST £10k CHALLENGE! Calling all students in S4, S5 and S6, parents and staff! Click here for more info.

Celebrating Success Full list of Merit Awards for 2010-11 Click here >

Fidelis et Forte A CD collection of 13 piano solos by pupils available to buy. Full details and order form. Click here >

Qualifications are Changing! Parents can find out all out the new Curriculum for Excellence and the new qualifications by visiting the SQA website or by downloading the parental information leaflet. All parental information is also on our Parents page >

March Newsletter............! Download our latest JGHS Newsletter now, this issue is packed with information for Parents and Pupils. News from departments and success stories,.........and much more. Click here to view >

School decant and new school building Information for parents which will be updated as progress is made and descisions are taken. Click here to view >

HMIe Inspection Report HMIe published their Inspection Report on JGHS on 30/03/10. You can read the report online or download a PDF copy by visiting the HMIe website.