4 of our young people are heading to Malawi next June to help lead learning with primary pupils. If you are able to support them by making a donation it would be much appreciated. www.justgiving.com/campaign/jun...

Well done to Brooke who last night represented @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social in the Articulation final at Stirling Uni. You spoke beautifully and it was a pleasure to watch. Well done to the other speakers too! Special thanks to @mrcharlick.bsky.social for assisting us in Brooke’s preparation

What a truly fantastic night! Every instrumentalist and vocalist put in an amazing performance! Holyrood Young Musician winners have been chosen but you have ALL made us proud ❤️

Well done to Ava Rose, our winner for Junior instrumentalist of the year. Isabella a very close second! Great work!

Well done to Al Monzer, our winner of Senior instrumentalist of the year for his performance on clarinet. Well done to Daniel our runner up for his performance on xylophone - two amazing performances! Al Monzer will now go into the Glasgow competition next year 🤗

What competition is complete without the tech team!! Well done to Irim and Ayesha for their work on sound, and huge thanks to all music staff & instructors for their efforts preparing & accompanying pupils, and their work to make the evening run smoothly. We ❤️ you all!

Finally a huge well done to Rose, our Vocalist of the year with Lucy a close second! Rose will now compete in the GCC competition next year. Fantastic work!

Our Advanced Higher Chemistry students were kindly invited to Langside College for some soooky escape room fun in their chemistry department. All pupils escaped successfully and had a great time. Thank you to the team at the college for the invite 👻🎃

More photos 🎃👻

Miss Budd’s class were also in on the Halloween action with some impressive pumpkin experiments 🎃👻

Happy Halloween + Feliz día de los Muertos when it arrives from Holyrood Languages. Check out our super talented language leaders- took part in the Battlefield Parade last weekend on stilts, even better some of the workshop instructions were in Italian, French and Spanish and they managed all 3!

Great fun, whether it's your first Glasgow Halloween or your 50th 👻🦇

New Fair Access courses available for eligible young people. This is excellent preparation for entry to several undergraduate degrees at RCS - including BEd Music. Speak to Mrs Simpson if interested. www.rcs.ac.uk/fair-access/...

In addition, we’ve been gifted 75 new books for our school library. Also part of the SLIF- Youth for Equity- project. Our keen readers will be delighted ! 📚🎉

We enjoyed our visit from Tawona Sitholé today, leading us in celebrating our many spoken languages, with a bit of drama and fun😄 Well done to Mr. McGrath’s & Mrs. Cooper’s excellent pupils.

Well done S1 & S2 at lunchtime and thanks to Claire, Glasgow Life STEM Co-ordinator. We made circuits using graphite ✏️⚡️& turned our black-out poems into ‘talking poems’ using iPads voice recording 💖 #STEM #poetry

Two rooms were filled tonight with pupils dedicated to improve their maths skills, supported by our committed teachers. Remember supported study runs every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after school, as well as Wednesday lunch time. Check Teams for details. 📚🧑‍🏫 #AspireBelieveCommunicate

Welcome to our first Holyrood Languages newsletter put together by our S6 Language Leaders. We hope you enjoy reading it! sway.cloud.microsoft/qJ5tbPDXqIIS...

A super fun day at school today as our Language Leaders lead the way in community engagement. They have been learning to walk on stilts this week to take part in Battlefield Lantern Parade this Sunday with the theme of “ El día de los Muertos.” We’ll see you there! ¡Nos vemos allí!

Great team tonight @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social working with Kindness

Having lots of fun, Hallowe’en decorating. Great Helpers in action😀 We re-use the same decorations every year to be sustainable♻️ Growing very fond of mr. Pumpkin 🎃

The start of the St Carlo Acutis exhibition today @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social

Fantastic day yesterday at the City Chambers, with the first meeting of the Gender Strategy group for what will be a 6 year council project. Well done Ava, Joy, Milisa and Sophie. We are excited to see what you do as a team over the next six years 😀

It was lovely to welcome visitors from the Netherlands to Holyrood today.

It's like meeting famous people in the flesh!

Thank you to our Language ambassadors for organising today's tannoy. Great music and great competition focusing on language, culture and music.

Another great Family Games Night. Thanks to all who came along and to all our staff and young people helpers.

@holyroodsec.bsky.social families please remember to sign up for Games Night 🤩

Well done to our cost of the school day representatives who spoke on the school tannoy about challenge poverty week.

Last week at the COSD summit we started to build a Young People’s Poverty and Education Manifesto to present to politicians. Please see Teams for your chance to take part! Lets take action during this year's Challenge Poverty week💪

All of our readers at Holyrood are absolute stars 📚🤩 Well done Sep/ Oct ‘Readers of the Month’ : Rayan, Aisha, Zainab & Prableen 👏

Amazing photos of our performers from Thursday night! Well done Orlaith and Ciaran!

The first of the official pictures from Thursday's Awards Ceremony. Thanks to Craig Dunn for the photography! 💙

Special well done to our performers Orlaith and Ciaran 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

So lovely to see last year's award winners! Well done to everyone, here are some pics of our Music Special Award winners. Proud of you all ❤️

A new subject in our EAL Mornings' curriculum. "I love this subject!!" one pupil announced on leaving the class!

Thank you Grow73 for letting us explore your amazing garden. Inspiration for our own school garden ideas!

Last week at gardening club we had some recently harvested apples to take home. Look at the delights our gardeners made at home with them over the September weekend! Homemade apple pie 🥮😍

Making a difference across Scotland 💪

Well done to all our young people who collected awards at our ceremony this evening. Mairin and Michael were superb hosts! Thanks to Austin Lafferty for being our Guest of Honour.

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." –Ralph Waldo Emerson We need patience in our school garden at the mo-weeding to be done, 🌱but our trustygardeners arrived with bundles of enthusiasm and new stories to tell. We were joined by Evie from Urban Roots sharing knowledge on seed saving.

Love Gardening Club ❤️ Huge thanks to Evvy from Urban Roots for some brilliant advice - and seeds 🌱. Great work by the team as always 👏

Thanks to all involved in the preparation and to all who helped raise money for Glasgow Children's Charity. Special thanks to Mr Marks, our very own Karaoke King.

This one required a lot of preparation

And let's not forget the dancers

Great lunchtime today with our S6 leading the whole school Karaoke. Our very own Head Boy and Head Girl showing how it's done!

This month's charity is Glasgow Children's Charity. Well done to our S6 for all their work. Can't wait for whole school Karaoke at lunch 🎤

And the full team! #classof2026 #therealslt

And here are the official photographs of #mrandmrsholyrood #captains #classof2026

@holyroodsecondary.bsky.social parents and carers thank you for attending family learning cook school it was a pleasure to work with you each week. Last night was family choice cookery.