Final date for s1 Benjamin Piat Poster competition: Monday 11th May. Hand in to your class teacher or to Mrs MacInnes

Did you know? 70,000 plant species are used for medicine.ALL plants have a Latin name. Plants purify the air you breathe by removing up to 87% of volatile organic compounds (present in rugs, vinyl, plastic, man-made fibers, paint). There are many reasons to plant and sow. Vive les plantes!

Super well done to our S3 pupils who designed these fabulous anti racism T-shirts in French and Spanish as part of their language learning. A huge thank you also to Mr Ferry who lead the project and made sure the final product came together so well. More photos to follow. @scilt.bsky.social

Our International Art and Film Club has designed a raised flower bed using recycled materials and has included messages in different languages about the importance of protecting nature. They celebrated by planting flowers 🌷 A great way to sign off for the Easter holidays!

Bellas flores y muy lindo el mensaje!

If you enjoy the CAD aspects of our Graphics courses and have a passion for design or architecture then this is a great event to help you plan for your next steps.

Merci Benjamin Piat🎸🎶 What a great way to celebrate 'Journee de la Francaphonie'!! The pupils loved it - they were singing along, picking up some great French phrases!! 🎉 🎶 🎈

Give an hour for Earth Make an impact by doing something – anything – positive for our planet. Whether you’re into food, fitness, the arts, or the outdoors, anyone, anywhere can Give an hour to care for our planet. Join on 28 March 2026, 8.30pm your local time for Earth Hour 2026 shorturl.at/pNwZQ

God give us the courage of Oscar Romero. Assassinated 46 years ago whilst celebrating Mass in San Salvador. #oscarromero

These can be found in our Library’s Anti-Racism section : biographies, history, geography and celebration of multicultural values, very important within our school community #RoodReads

SCILT has now opened registrations for Discovering the World of Arabic 2026-27. With courses designed specifically for Primary, BGE and Senior Phase learners, this programme offers your school a unique and valuable L3 experience. https://loom.ly/NA19UgI . #Arabic #LanguageLearning

Tea ceremony this week in Mandarin club in Languages 2. Cultural symbol of harmony and mindfulness. We’ll all have a cup of that if you please! 🫖

A great afternoon with our 50 S3s taking part in Havana Film Festival learning about Cuban language, culture and history

More photos 🎃👻

A trully inspiring Saturday spent at the SALT conference in Glasgow. @unistrathclyde.bsky.social #lovelanguages #EAL

A fun CPD Saturday at the SALT conference today. Important networking and exchanges with languages colleagues across the country sharing ideas for « evolving practice fir a changing world » Some superb workshops as always! Thank you SALT

Appreciated the opportunity to co-present with @sheenascilt.bsky.social at @saltlangs.bsky.social #SALT2025 Conference. Launched a 🆕 primary teaching resource in time for #ScotCareersWeek25. Great to be among teachers exploring #LanguageLearningInMotion together @unistrathclyde.bsky.social today.

👀A cracking programme for @saltlangs.bsky.social #LanguageLearningInMotion bit.ly/SALT2025Prog... 🎯Just ahead of #ScotCareersWeek2025 @sheenascilt.bsky.social & I co-present a #SALT2025 input for secondary & primary teachers abt Making languages work for your learners #DYW in action​ See you there!

@holyroodseccosd.bsky.social Parents&Carers please click the link to sign up to attend Family Interfaith Evening forms.office.com/e/QEZJ5TnaM2 @mmccoyx.bsky.social @mrswol.bsky.social

Have you heard the buzz from Baldragon Academy?🐝 Learners are gaining hands-on experiences and transferable life skills, thanks to the National Progression Award (NPA) Beekeeping at SCQF level 5. 🍯Read about how the school is embracing this buzz-worthy qualification. ➡️ info.sqa.org.uk/4nydbpE

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

Tawona really brought language to life today for our S2 and EAL learners. He talked about a friend who, when she was learning English, felt that every word she learned was like a fire 🔥lighting up the darkness!!! Thanks for making it happen @fionakindness3.bsky.social

🔊 St Andrew's Day Anti-Racism & Anti-Fascism March and Rally 2025! 🔊 📍🚶🏾🪧 Barrowlands Park to Adelaide Place ⌚ 10:30am > march at 11am > rally 12pm Please share!

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!

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!

Have you seen @howdec.bsky.social's latest resource? This creative Toolkit supports upper primary & secondary teachers to facilitate creative, learner-led "artivism" projects focused on social justice. ✅Curriculum for Excellence links ✅Links to the UNCRC 🔗 highlandoneworld.org.uk/for-teachers...

Looking to develop your confidence in teaching students how to analyse media, identify bias, and understand the influence of digital platforms? Join us for this free session full of interactive activities and practical strategies in partnership with @tie.scot. 🔗 buff.ly/mHt8ual

Looking to explore this #BlackHistoryMonth's theme of "Standing Firm in Power and Pride" in the classroom? Check out our resource which explores the life of Nelson Mandela and connections to the Scottish anti-apartheid movement, and links to modern day injustice. buff.ly/9dwX7QF

Looking for practical approaches to identifying and critically analysing disinformation, misinformation and mal-information? Join us for this session where we will explore practical approaches for identifying misinformation and how to discuss it in the classroom with learners. 🎟️ buff.ly/NubFiqs

Fun free Lantern workshops in Battlefield during the October holiday

A big thank you to Scots Makar, Peter Mackay, for helping launch this year's Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual poetry competition in Scotland! Find out more about the competition for all pupils P1-S6 on SCILT's website: https://loom.ly/SVsNS_U #poetry #languages #NPD

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 🥮😍

Ma fleur 🌸 du jour. Bon mercredi tout le monde. Malgré tout, soyez heureux. #UnJourUnePhoto #flower #fleurs #flowers #challengephotoaday #photo #photography

📢@saltlangs.bsky.social and SCILT are looking for presenters for our upcoming Six in Sixty event! If you are a primary practitioners who would like to present for 8-10 minutes on an aspect of your practice then get in touch. Find out more and register via our website: https://loom.ly/CGt7vSw

Applications for the 2026-27 Tianjin Scholarship are open! This immersive, life-changing experience can broaden young people's horizons, develop their intercultural competences and open their eyes to endless possibilities for their future. Find out more on the CISS website: https://loom.ly/zQIJYjw

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

"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.

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.

Here is a great opportunity for Roma families in Govanhill to find out about high school 🏫 @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social #Roma #EAL

Happy European Day of Languages! S6 Leaders of Language and Culture have been delivering their very own Holyrood Language detective quiz with S1 classes celebrating the almost 70 languages spoken as mother tongue. « If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. » Johan Huizinga

During Recycle Week pupils are being encouraged to help keep their schools and the surrounding areas clear from litter - read more in the View https://orlo.uk/s2vWm

📢@saltlangs.bsky.social and SCILT are looking for presenters for our upcoming Six in Sixty event! If you are a primary practitioners who would like to present for 8-10 minutes on an aspect of your practice then get in touch. Find out more and register via our website: https://loom.ly/CGt7vSw

Have your say on Learning for Sustainability (LfS) in Scotland in this survey exploring LfS practices across Scotland. The survey aims to explore how LfS is implemented across settings, capture diverse approaches & understand barriers. Closes 27 Oct qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9Eqwij4UAm8vh1Y

@holyroodsecondary.bsky.social Parents/Carers all of our school communications can be found on the school website #communication #newsletters holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk/news/newslet...

Fun afternoon planting lettuce with some new S1 gardeners, full of enthusiasm. Shared stories of planting olive trees in Syria, harvesting, washing and drying out the olives in the sun ready to cure, and about planting potatoes last spring in Glasgow and having them with dinner last weekend!

First Eco Committee meeting of 2025-26 school year. Great to see lots of familiar faces, and some new ones too! ♻️

Language Explorers Scotland (LES) is designed to inspire learners before they make their senior phase subject choices, providing them with motivation and insights to embrace the world of #languages. Find out more at our online information session for schools on 23 September! https://loom.ly/rg0ASxg