The pupil support structure at James Gillespie’s consists of four communities of learners with Pupil Support Leaders overseeing each one.
Mr Ian Porter
Depute Head Teacher
Head of Pupil Support & Child Protection Lead
Lauder Community
Roslin Community
Spylaw Community
Darach Community
Inclusion X Collaborative
This school, as a community, will provide a welcoming and secure learning environment in which individuals can fully realise their potential in a climate of mutual respect.
- To ensure that each pupil knows and is known personally and in some depth by a least one member of staff.
- To help the pupil be aware of his/her own development and to accept responsibility for it.
- To identify and respond quickly to the specific needs of the individual.
- To foster the development of good relations between teachers and pupils.
- To work well with the home in all aspects of pupil development.
- To liaise with support and welfare services.
- To systematise and make effective the recording and communication of information relevant to the welfare of individual pupils.
We have a responsibility to provide each pupil with personal, curricular and vocational pupil support, and look after their progress and welfare.
We believe that all staff have a major role to play in the support and personal development of pupils.