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.

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

Our environment, Our learning, Our successes #WeareCHS

Our values:              Confidence            Determination         Community            Teamwork           Encouragement           Trust

Our Rights Respecting School

In May 2021, Crieff High School was accredited as Silver for the Rights Respecting School Award. This means we are a Rights Aware School which ensures that children’s rights are at the centre of everything we do.

Find out more about our journey towards Gold:

Rights – Crieff High School

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 learning, teaching and assessment 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.

Everyone is welcome at Strathearn Community Campus. Please be in touch particularly if you have a success story to share.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

John Donnelly

Headteacher / Campus Leader