Senior Management Team
Scott Steele
Head Teacher
Elizabeth Gow Depute Head Teacher |
Eric Groat Depute Head Teacher |
Isobel MacKenzie Depute Head Teacher |
Donald MacLean Depute Head Teacher |
Remits
Scott Steele - Head Teacher
Specific Duties
General Duties
Faculty Duties
- Responsible as an officer of the authority to contribute to the development and implementation of the ECS Service Plan and associated policies and practices.
- Contribute to the effective delivery of ‘Getting it Right for every Child’, through effective joint working with other agencies; the Associated School Group and appropriate public, private and voluntary bodies.
- Develop productive partnerships in the community within which the school is situated.
- Effectively self-evaluate the service that the school is giving to its pupils and to ensure that a culture of self-evaluation exists at all levels in the school.
- Ensure the school delivers a quality service, including specific strategies to improve identified weaknesses, taking the necessary action and developing strategies for the improvement of identified weaknesses.
- Promote and support learning and teaching at all levels and to encourage the sharing of best practice across the school and the authority.
- Promote achievement for all in a culture of equality and fairness that values every pupil. This to include the development of explicit, attainable and valued goals for each person.
General Duties
- Provide effective leadership, good management and strategic direction of the school.
- Lead and encourage a culture of respect and good behaviour within the school.
- Lead and develop staff, ensuring collegiality and the development, empowering and support of effective teams and individuals within the school.
- Lead and manage learning and teaching within the school ensuring the development of the overall curriculum.
- Engage with those in the school community and the parent body to encourage and support a culture of achievement and attainment.
- Lead and promote the continuing professional development of all staff, ensuring all staff receive an annual review of their development needs.
- Work in partnership with parents, children and young people and other professionals, agencies and schools to encourage and embrace the agenda of lifelong learning.
- Lead, support and maintain existing good practice and encourage and promote constant improvement in the development of children and young people.
- Manage the health and safety of all within the school premises.
Faculty Duties
- Management responsibility for: Art, Design & Technology Faculty and English, Drama & RME Faculty.
ELIZABETH GOW - Depute Head
Specific Duties
Faculty Duties
- Year Head of S3 (rolling).
- Responsibility as Year Head for enrolment of new pupils; behaviour management of pupils; liaison with Guidance and Support for Learning.
- Manage and develop pupil support in the school to include the co-ordination and harmonisation of guidance and support for learning contributions.
- Contribute to the effective delivery of For Highland’s Children through effective joint working with associated agencies and the Associated Schools Group (ASG).
- Co-ordinate strategies for pupils requiring intensive support.
- In liaison with Guidance Teachers, undertake an overview of attendance and punctuality of students.
- Whole School responsibility for Safeguarding and overall responsibility for Child Protection policy and procedures.
- Responsibility for the Behaviour Support Unit (PSB).
- Responsibility for the Support Base.
- Responsibility for Support for Learning.
- Liaison with external agencies on pupil support issues.
- Responsibility for LAC in partnership with other agencies.
- Develop partnerships with associated agencies to promote joint working and solution focussed approaches to the care and welfare of pupils.
- Develop pupil support partnerships within the Associated Schools Group to ease transitions.
- Post- school Transitions.
- PEF.
Faculty Duties
- Management responsibility for: Guidance, Support for Learning, Pupil Support Base.
- Direct line management for allocated staff and the provision of professional advice and guidance to colleagues.
- Promotion of and responsibility for the continuing Professional Development of allocated staff, ensuring that allocated staff have an annual review of their development needs.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reviewing of progress in teams – including discussion of attainment, engaging with individual and departmental self-evaluation and taking part in classroom observation.
- Regular attendance at Team Meetings in order to communicate significant issues between teams and the SMT.
ERIC GROAT - DEPUTE HEAD
Specific Duties
Faculty Duties
- Year Head of S5 & S6 (rolling remit).
- Responsibility as Year Head for enrolment of new pupils; behaviour management of pupils; liaison with Guidance and Support for Learning.
- SEEMiS Manager.
- Whole-school responsibility for ICT.
- Whole-school responsibility for Tracking, Monitoring and Progress Reports.
- Whole-school responsibility for learning and teaching, and classroom observation.
- Whole-school responsibility for subject choice and school timetable.
Faculty Duties
- Management responsibility for: Maths & Computing, and Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
- Direct line management for allocated staff and the provision of professional advice and guidance to colleagues.
- Promotion of and responsibility for the continuing Professional Development of allocated staff.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reviewing of progress in teams – including discussion of attainment, engaging with individual and departmental self-evaluation and taking part in classroom observation.
- Regular attendance at Team Meetings in order to communicate significant issues between teams and the SMT.
ISOBEL MACKENZIE - DEPUTE HEAD
Specific Duties
Faculty Duties
- Year Head of S1 & S2 (rolling remit).
- Responsibility as Year Head for enrolment of new pupils; behaviour management of pupils; liaison with Guidance and Support for Learning.
- Developing the Young Work force initiative in line with Highland policy.
- Developing, maintaining and progressing business partnerships across the school.
- Researching and accessing funding streams to support business partnerships.
- Developing Career Management Skills across the curriculum.
- Whole-school responsibility for school promotion and publicity.
- Whole-school responsibility for Staff CPD and Professional Update.
- Whole-school responsibility for Pupil Voice.
- Delegated responsibility for Health & Safety and Evacuation Procedures.
- Organisation of Parents’ Evenings.
- Organisation of S6 Graduation.
Faculty Duties
- Management responsibility for: Business Studies & IT, Languages, and Music.
- Direct line management for allocated staff and the provision of professional advice and guidance to colleagues.
- Promotion of and responsibility for the continuing Professional Development of allocated staff, ensuring that allocated staff have an annual review of their development needs.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reviewing of progress in teams – including discussion of attainment, engaging with individual and departmental self-evaluation and taking part in classroom observation.
- Regular attendance at Team Meetings in order to communicate significant issues between teams and the SMT.
DONALD MACLEAN - DEPUTE HEAD
Specific Duties
Faculty Duties
- Year Head of S4 (rolling remit).
- Responsibility as Year Head for enrolment of new pupils; behaviour management of pupils; liaison with Guidance and Support for Learning.
- Management of staff absence and cover arrangements.
- Management of SQA arrangements and organisation of prelim examinations and S3 examinations.
- Whole-school responsibility for curriculum design, liaison with UHI, liaison with YASS and e-learning courses.
- Whole-school responsibility for SQA data analysis and SNSA analysis.
- Whole-school responsibility for self-evaluation strategies across all departments and faculties.
- School Regent responsible for student teachers and probationer teachers.
- Whole school responsibility for school trips through Highland “Evolve”.
- Whole school responsibility for the main fundraising initiative “The Hike”.
Faculty Duties
- Management responsibility for: Geography, History/Modern Studies and PE.
- Direct line management for allocated staff and the provision of professional advice and guidance to colleagues.
- Promotion of and responsibility for the continuing Professional Development of allocated staff, ensuring that allocated staff have an annual review of their development needs.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reviewing of progress in teams – including discussion of attainment, engaging with individual and departmental self-evaluation and taking part in classroom observation.
- Regular attendance at Team Meetings in order to communicate significant issues between teams and the SMT.
Guidance / Pastoral Support
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Mrs MacLeod Glencoe |
Mr Beagent Lochiel |
Mr Ross & Mrs MacAllister Melantee |
Mr Al-Khairulla Nevis |
Miss Boa PSB |
Mr Macnab Rannoch |
Mrs McCreath SHIEL |
Staff List
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Art, Design & Technology
Mr W MacKenzie (PT) Miss V Barclay (Art & Design) Miss S Roebuck (Art & Design) Mrs F Harrower (Home Economics) Mr W Cameron (Technical) Ms M Goudie (Technical) Mr J Shepherd (Technical) Biology
Mr K McIntyre (PT) Miss I Beagent Miss M Kirkaldy Miss R MacCallum Business Studies
Mrs M Meldrum (PT) Mrs L Kelly Chemistry
Dr J Hill (PT) Mr H Al-Khairulla (PT Guidance) Miss S Hall English/Drama/RME
Mrs A MacDonald (PT/English) Mr S Carruthers (English) Mr J Currie (English) Mrs J Hume (Drama/English) Mrs V MacKinnon (English) Miss S McGonigal (English) Mr I Welch (English) Ms N Westwood (English) Miss G Baxter (RME) Geography
Mr N Adams (PT) Miss L MacQueen Mr D Morrow History and Modern Studies
Mr D Roberts (PT/History) Mr C Jenkins (History) Mr D MacLean (DHT/History) Miss C MacMaster (Modern Studies) Languages
Mrs C Groat (Acting PT/Gaelic) Ms A Virgel (French) Mr C Masterton (Gaelic) Mathematics/Computing Science
Miss J Calderwood (PT/Maths) Miss M Cottam (Maths) Mrs S Doherty (Computing/Maths) Mrs L Stewart (Maths) Mrs C Mackie (Maths) Mrs C-A McCreath (PT Guidance/Maths) Mrs L Ferguson-Reid (Maths) Mr S Stewart (Computing/PT Digital Technologies) Music
Mr G Young (PT) Mrs M Anderson Physical Education
Mrs Y Clark (PT) Mr L Beagent (PT Guidance) Mr G Macnab (PT Guidance) Mrs A McFarlane Mr C Vardy Physics
Ms R Barr (PT) Mr W MacKenzie (PT AD&T) Miss E Platt Pupil Support/Guidance
Mrs J Macleod (PT Additional Support Needs) Mrs K Silvester (PT Support for Learning) Mr L Beagent (PT Guidance – Lochiel) Mr H Al-Khairulla (PT Guidance – Nevis) Mrs C-A McCreath (PT Guidance – Shiel) Mr G Macnab (PT Guidance – Rannoch) Miss K Boa (Additional Support Needs) Mrs E Campbell (Additional Support Needs) Mrs F Dent (Additional Support Needs) Mrs C Drain (Additional Support Needs) Mrs K Glen (Additional Support Needs) Mrs L MacAllister (Additional Support Needs) Mrs C Reynolds (Additional Support Needs) Mr A Ross (Additional Support Needs) Instrumental Instructors
Miss K Thomson (SI - Woodwind) Miss M MacMaster (Piping) Miss S Hollingdale (Strings) Ms R McLean (Strings) Mr M Reynolds (Brass) |
LIBRARY
Mrs A-M Masson (Librarian) TECHNICIANS
Miss A Gow (Science) OFFICE
Mrs M Macdonald (Admin Assistant) Mrs K Donaldson Mrs G Johnston Mrs R McGuire Mrs K Shearer JANITORS
Mr S King (Head Janitor) Mrs F Dillon GENERAL AUXILIARIES
Mrs C Cameron Miss J Menzies Mrs C Rigg PUPIL SUPPORT ASSISTANTS
Ms N Alvarez-Landesa Mrs A Chambers Mrs M Currie Ms J Forbes Miss E Gunn Mrs G Howden Ms A Johnson Mrs L Laing Mrs L MacDonald Mrs C MacIntyre Ms J MacLean Ms F MacLellan Ms L MacLeod Mrs P MacMillan Mrs C MacPherson Ms H MacRae Mrs I McHale Miss A McWalter Mrs C Menzies Ms L Poll Miss F Rogan CHILDREN’S SERVICES WORKER
Ms P Kuhl SCHOOL NURSES
Mrs J Anderson Mrs H MacEachan ACTIVE SCHOOLS COORDINATOR
Ms B Thomas CAREERS ADVISERS
Mrs C Leckie Mrs L Oliver |