It is my honour and privilege to welcome you to Crieff High School, Strathearn Community Campus. I am incredibly proud to be the Headteacher of Crieff High School and I am proud of our collective achievements since joining our school in October 2018. I look forward to celebrating many more successes with you over the coming years as we realise our collective vision for our school community. In school year 2022/2023, we engaged in a comprehensive review of the CHS vision, values and aims, with staff, young people and parents and a new vision statement for Crieff High School was co-created:

Our vision: A rights respecting school that nurtures, encourages and inspires young people to be the best they can be. 

Our values:              Determination         Confidence        Community            Teamwork           Encouragement           Trust

Our rights respecting and nurturing school

In August 2024, Crieff High School was awarded Gold by UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting School programme.

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults and young people to respect the rights of others in school. Gold is the highest accolade given by UNICEF UK and shows a deep and thorough commitment to children’s rights at all levels of school life. We have been working with UNICEF UK since April 2019 receiving our Silver certificate in May 2021.

Crieff High School is the 27th secondary school in Scotland and the 1st secondary school in Perth & Kinross Council to receive the Gold award. In March 2025, our nurturing schools journey has been acknowledged by Perth & Kinross Council as they have awarded Crieff HS with Nurturing relationships Level 2 accreditation.

Sports Scotland Gold award for Crieff High School

As recently as August 2025, Crieff High School has been awarded SportsScotland Gold status in recognition of our school’s achievements in putting sport at the heart of our planning, practice and ethos. This award at Gold level is great recognition for the work of our school over recent years which includes:

• • Increasing time for physical activity in PE to 3 periods a week
  • Increasing leadership opportunities for pupil sports leaders and adult volunteers
  • Increasing our extra-curricular activities based on pupil views
  • Increasing access to physical activity to all pupils in a wider range of sports

Digital Skills Award Scotland

In March 2023, Crieff High School was awarded Digital Schools Scotland status. A fantastic recognition of the school’s journey in recent years.

Included in our evaluation report:

“It is clear that digital learning is well embedded in classroom practice. The use of digital tools for learning and teaching is fully integrated in a whole school approach. The school is clearly committed to investing in digital technologies, in order to motivate and inspire its learners. The school is clearly committed to embedding digital technologies and ensuring continuous improvement.”

Our Curriculum recognised

In November 2021, Crieff High School was awarded a Bronze Award by the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) for recognising the importance of wider achievement, developing our Senior Phase learning pathways in line with the Developing the Young Workforce strategy and giving equality between vocational and academic qualifications. We were delighted to become only the 12^th secondary school in Scotland and the 1^st in Perth & Kinross to receive an award from SCQF.

Find out more about our curriculum at Crieff High School as we look to progress towards our Silver Award:

Course Subject Areas – Crieff High School

Our school priorities

Our collaborative approaches to self-evaluation have identified areas of strengths and areas where opportunities for improvement exist. We have strategically planned to improve outcomes for young people by identifying 3 areas of school improvement. These are:

• Embedding our vision, values and aims
• Learning, teaching and assessment
• Raising attainment and achievement

We recognise that excellent learning and teaching supports young people to improve their attainment and achievement outcomes. This will support them here at Crieff High School, and also when they decide to leave us to enter a positive, sustainable destination such as University, College, Employment, Volunteering or Training.

Within outcomes for young people we have identified a further 4 areas of priority, namely:

• Learners leading learning
• Differentiated learning to meet the needs of all young people
• Questioning and Feedback
• Embedding digital technology approaches

Young people throughout the course of the school year will be asked for their views on the above areas, across all subject areas, to support our self-evaluation on how we can further enhance the learning and teaching experience to improve outcomes for young people.

Please be in touch at CrieffHigh@pkc.gov.uk particularly if you have a success story to share.

Everyone is welcome at Strathearn Community Campus.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

John Donnelly

Headteacher / Campus Leader