A huge well done to all of our students and staff for a successful re-start under new and challenging circumstances. Coming back to school was always going to be different but we work on this together.
#penicuiktogether
Drama at PHS yesterday when one of our baby Oyster Catchers decided to fall into one of the Assembly Hall downpipes! A rescue mission by one of our near neighbours (the husband of a staff member), however, brought a happy ending. Mr Havill was very relieved!
Well done to all students on their fantastic exam results! The 2022 diet has seen our best overall results in the last 6 years. We look forward to welcoming you all back next week and building on continuing to improve
#pride
Well done to
@daisy_cycling08
for becoming the Mountain Bike Cross Country juvenile female Scottish Champion at the weekend 🏅 . Another amazing achievement
#pride
We are delighted to announce that one of our fantastic S4 students, Ellen Nimmo, has been selected to represent the Scotland Women’s U16 rugby squad. What an amazing achievement. Well done Ellen and good luck!
#PHSpride
From all of us to all of you! A message to our fantastic students and their families from the PHS staff. We’re looking forward to the eventual return of some sort of normality that lets us all be back in school together.
What a superb achievement by Scotland Womens Football team in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup. So proud that former PHS pupil Claire Emslie was part of this team.
#PRIDE
Thanks to Depute Provost and Equalities Champion, Councillor Connor McManus for gifting us a progress pride flag to commemorate LGBT History month and to launch our Charter journey.
#PRIDE
Good luck to the PHS staff in their 5k or 10k running event at Dalkeith country park on Sunday. They are looking forward to helping
@_MYPAS
raise awareness and promote the health and wellbeing of young people. Please donate using this link:
#PRIDE
Well done to our cycling superstar
@daisy_cycling08
who won the 2023 Scottish Mountain Bike Cross-Country Youth Girls Championships at the weekend
#PHSpride
Our team of 11 members of staff and 3 students gave their all yesterday in the Bluebell Trail Run in Dalkeith Country Park. We have raised £825 for
@_MYPAS
Many thanks to all who have donated and shared
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Our guidance team are now out delivering our 24 Christmas hampers. Thanks to the students and staff who raised almost £250 on Christmas jumper day and the music dept who donated an additional £200 from the Christmas concert ticket sales to the hamper appeal!
#PHSpride
Just getting ready to leave Malawi for the long journey home. It has been an amazing week working with our friends in Namadzi. Looking forward to sharing it with everyone.
The final performance of an amazing evening. Well done to our awesome students and a huge thank you to the Music Team for all their hard work in preparation and also their performances on the night 🎶
@PenicuikMusic
@MusicMidlothian
#PHSpride
What a fantastic day today with our new S1 students! It’s really exciting to welcome you all and to start to get to know you. It’s the start of your secondary journey and you’ve made a brilliant start. See you all at 8.45am tomorrow. 🤩⏰👏👏
#PHSTransition
#PHSPride
“Guess who’s back
back again
Bunny’s back
Tell a friend!”
A huge shout out to all of our staff and to our students who have been quite amazing since their return. It has been fantastic to have you back in school - also to the bunny! 🤣🐰
#easterbunnyrules
Penicuik High School - Summer Concert. It is great to have our summer concert back. Our Music dept and students have been so excited to show off their amazing talent again
#summerconcert2022
Well done
@PenicuikMusic
Another amazing bake off
@PenicuikHS
with a great turn out of staff / student teams. Well done to all those who participated and especially to Isobel Crease and Ms McEvoy who won
#housepoints
#PHSmentalhealthweek
The results of the
@PenicuikHS
Christmas door competition have been announced.
1st - Miss McEvoy
2nd - Advanced higher art door
3rd - Miss Tavakoli
Best department - Art
Thanks to Mr McLeod and the S6 Senior Leadership Team for organising and judging
#PHSpride
We are really looking forward to our day
@scotlandmalawi
youth congress. An exciting day of workshops ahead and a fantastic opportunity to talk to HRH Princess Anne about our partnership
#pride
We can now confirm that we raised a total of £365.85 for Wear A Hat Day for Brain Tumour Research to help fund the fight against the disease. Mr Biddick has agreed to make this up to £500. Well done everyone!
#WearAHatDay
@braintumourrsch
Huge thanks to the P7 parents and young people who joined us for our Initial Parents’ Information Evening tonight. It was lovely to welcome you to the school and we look forward to getting to know you as the session progresses.
Well done to all of our S1 students who have been amazing on the first day of their Transition Visit. We're really looking forward to starting again tomorrow. We'll see you in the Assembly Hall at 8.30am to meet your guides. 👍👍👍👍
In the spirit of
#PRIDE
, a group of our teachers are running the Penicuik 10k today to raise money for MYPAS and to promote awareness of mental health.
Today is Wear A Hat Day for Brain Tumour Research to help fund the fight against the disease. Friday 25th March.
@PenicuikHS
supported this cause today by asking students and staff to wear a hat to school
#WearAHatDay
@braintumourrsch
On Friday 25th March the school will be participating in Wear a Hat Day to raise money for Brain Tumour Research. There will be House Points awarded for the best hats! 👩🌾💂🏻♂️👷♂️👲
This morning the hampers were collected by the social work team for delivery and Mr Biddick presented the dressdown day cheque.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible at the end of such an incredibly difficult year.
#penicuikpride
#community
A selection of pencil holders manufactured in Design and Technology by our new first year pupils. We are delighted with the quality of the design and practical work that they have produced.
Wishing our Penicuik High School community a safe and happy new year and we really look forward to seeing you in 2021. We’ve come through an incredibly difficult year and we’ll keep moving forward together.
Please take care everyone.
#community
#pride
Congratulations to Ben McIntosh who represented Scotland in the Futsal World Championships in Spain recently. The team came 2nd in the U21 competition and 3rd in the U17 competition
#pride
Huge thanks to the students and their parents/carers who joined us tonight for our first ever Junior Prizegiving. It’s been a fantastic opportunity to recognise both the attainment and the achievement of our young people. Congratulations to you all! 1/2
What an amazing job our S3 students did leading a bake sale today to raise funds for Ukraine. Thanks also to the others in the school community who contributed
#PRIDE
#StandWithUkraine
️
Today we said goodbye to our S6. We wish them all the very best in the future and hope they all come back to visit and celebrate their successes
#PRIDE
#babyfaceaaron
What a night hosted by
@PenicuikMusic
The Christmas Concert was amazing! The final song of the evening - “I wish it could be Christmas every day” What a great performance to finish!
#pride
Another
@PenicuikHS
superstar. Well done to Ruairidh Wood who recently became the Lasswade Athletics Club Champion and was also first in the Paisley 3k for his age category 💪
#machine
#PHSpride
Assembly hall is all set for prelims starting next week. We have had some great sessions with
@Tree_Of
delivering workshops to inspire our Senior Students in preparation for the prelims. Work hard and go and smash these exams
#PHSpride
All Midlothian schools delegation to council meeting to discuss budget cuts. Alexander Moffat and Alisa Blott represented
@PenicuikHS
on behalf of the student leadership team
#pride
We are delighted to now have received our Bronze SCQF Award plaque that we are proudly displaying in our school foyer. Please see school website link for further details
We are very pleased to announce that
@PenicuikPE
have achieved the Silver Level Award for the
@sportscotland
National School Sports Award. The online assessment of the school was completed by our Young Ambassadors Millie Beattie and Freya Bryan
#PHSpride
Well term ended and the rain started! 😂
All at PHS would like to thank our fantastic staff, students and families for an amazing group effort over what’s been an incredibly different and challenging term. Please be safe - we’ll see you all soon. 👍
Well done to the S6 Prom Committee who organised the Halloween fancy dress competition today. There was a real buzz in the assembly hall at break as the winners were decided. Well done to all students and staff who participated
#PHSPride
Congratulations to former Penicuik HIgh School pupil Claire Emslie who played for Scotland Women in their FIFA World Cup qualifier win against Switzerland.
#PRIDE
What a great event it was for our S1 students who got to experience their very own Dragons Den. Thank you to Miss Tavakoli for organising, our amazing Dragons and our awesome S1 students
#pride
Information has gone out today to all parents/ carers/ students and staff regarding the phased return to school next week. We are really looking forward to safely welcoming you back to school and supporting your re-connection with in school learning. Stay safe/ be informed.
@PenicuikPE
Congratulations to
@BMuirBanshees
and
@PenicuikHS
student Ellen Nimmo who has just been selected for the U16 Scotland Girls Rugby Squad. She said “this was a huge boost to my confidence as I did not get picked for the East Squad first time. I am loving the whole experience”
We would like to say a huge thank you to all involved in tonight's concert: our amazing music instructors, our brilliant sound crew and, last but not least, Mr and Mrs Murphy, Mrs McIntosh and Ms Hamilton. Thank you for your hours of hard work!
#PHSPride
What a fantastic day! Huge well done to our staff, students and outside contributors for making our first “Big Day” in such a long time a fantastic experience. 1/2
Well done to the
@PenicuikHS
students who attended the
@midgov
S1-S6 Learners Conference today. They were a credit to themselves and the school
#PHSpride
Congratulations to Mr Keith Murphy on completing his M.Ed. focusing on Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts and on his contribution to the Scottish Learning Festival last week.
#PRIDE
Well done to our Senior Leadership Team who led year group assemblies all week to honor the brave men and women who sacrificed for our freedom. At 11.00 today we will observe a minutes silence as another mark of respect
@PHSpride
#RemembranceDay
#LestWeForget
🌺🕊️
Good luck to the Senior Boys football team ahead of their first Lothian Cup match against Royal High School. What a day for a game of football
#PHSpride
What a great afternoon. We are so lucky to have such talented students. Well done to all who participated. Well done Team PE for creating these opportunities
@PenicuikHS
#phspride
What a great afternoon yesterday for our athletics finals day 🏃♂️🏃♀️☀️ there was a fantastic atmosphere with everybody cheering eachother on! Some excellent determination on show. Two school records broken too 🥇🏆Well done to all involved 👏 🔥
What a great morning at the S3 Future Pathways Event. Thank you to all our guests who came in to talk to our students about potential career paths. Thanks to Mrs Brandie, Mrs Gungui and
@PenicuikDYW
for organising such an amazing event
#careerpathways
#pride
Congratulations to our NPA L4 Construction students have have successfully completed the
@edinburghcoll
course. 90% of the group are now moving on to pre apprenticeships or full time construction courses. Well done to our 2 apprentices of the year as well 👏
#futurepathways
Before our Well-being walk today we took a moment to remember her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth ll by observing a minutes silence. Her reign has been one of great commitment and service and we send our condolences to the Royal Family
Miss Blake would like to say a huge thanks to all students and staff who took part in and do tater money for
#WearAHatDay
to raise money and awareness for Brain Tumour research. Everyone’s support has been amazing! 😁 🎩 🧢 👒
Closing the show, the musicians of Penicuik High School with "Freedom 90". What a fantastic concert - we are incredibly proud of you all! Our best wishes go to our amazing seniors. Good luck in the future!
#PHSPride