Another fantastic session with the Forth Valley Sensory Centre last week.

Thank you very much to @conicfilm and Felipe Bustos Sierra for allowing us to screen @kenmurestreet at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk. We displayed poetry written by our separated young people seeking sanctuary. Thank you to Sanam for the delicious food. And thank you to everyone who attended. 💚

@stmungoshs.bsky.social We were delighted to hear that our former pupil Harris MacDonald was the winner of the Shining a Light exhibition with Maria Rogan also collecting the runner up prize. Congratulations to both.

Izzuddin and Murtada with their certificates for taking part in the Mother Tongue, Other Tongue poetry competition. Their poems were wonderful. We will find out the winners this week.

Traditionally as pastoral head I looked after S3-S6 in Columba and Ogilvie. Changes were made because of Covid which means that the present S6 C and O pupils are the first year group I have been pastoral head for since S1. What a privilege that has been. They are a very special group of young people

‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ is a moving documentary about community & hope. It opened the Glasgow Film Festival & won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. It is currently in cinemas. The filmmakers have given us a disk for a free screening in school. Let me know if you would like to attend.

Initial planning meeting for the project with the Royal Conservatoire. Sounds very exciting.

S6 were brilliant in the sensory centre workshops.

S1 loved the Sensory Centre workshops

Incredibly proud of the S6 well-being peer educators who delivered 5 mental health literacy classes to S1.

Murtada, Izzuddin and Ramesh did and excellent job in their lessons teaching Arabic and Dari to staff.

My three S1 PSE classes did an excellent job talking about Decider Skills.