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 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

JGHS Bulletin Information about events and activities in the school. These are shared with students at Personal Support Time on Monday and Wednesday Click here to read online http://jghsbulletin.blogspot.com

School Day Following further consultation, the format for the school day for the session 2012-13 has now been agreed. Click to see New school day structure.

Diversecity This year's Diversecity performance will take place on Thursday 14th, Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June in the school hall, with food available on the Saturday. Further details including Ticket prices and availability soon - watch this space!

JGHS Trust Car Boot Sale Saturday 26th May - clear out those old books, cds, dvds, games, toys, clothes... and turn them into cash! Full info and application forms on the JGHS Trust Website

Course Choices Information presentations shown at the Parents' information evenings are now available from the Parents' Courses info page of the website.

Revision and Support Classes Additional Revision and Support Classes are available in many subjects in the run up to the exams. Download the timetable.

South Africa Trip Follow all the news and updates of the South Afric trip on our new JGHS South Africa blog. Click here to read

Ski trip 2012-13 We are now taking deposits for next year’s ski trip to Les Deux Alpes. It’s an all inclusive week skiing for £925 from December 29th 2012 to January 5th 2013. Have a look at the presentation and if you have any questions please get in touch. The deadline for deposits is Feb 24th to allow us to make the booking. Peter Green and Jill Pringle Click here for more info

Extra Curricular Clubs All clubs will start on Monday 23rd April and run till Friday 15th June Full information about what clubs are available, and when, on our Extra Curricular Page.

Sci Fun 2012 Sci Fun came to JGHS and the S2 classes had great fun trying out the experiments and learning about how Science affects their lives. Click here to view a gallery of pictures.

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. Update: Follow Through Report January 2012