We visited the 4th/5th May Committe today and it was interesting to see how Holland are approaching liberation and rememberance. I won’t go into too much detail but one thing that stuck out was that they are aiming to educate the young people that the war just wasn’t between Holland and Germany but it was [...]

Evening,   well i have finally just arrived home and felt I need to ‘pen’ down some thoughts on the rest of my journey. Hope you can bare with me but I want to share with you this experience and realise I might not get the chance to do so at school.   On the [...]

So we arrived at Amsterdam yesterday along with the others and were taken to our hotel which is just off Dam sqaure. The hotel is on a quiet canal street and is ideally situated for walking around the city. I’m with a good group of people all from different walks of live. We enjoyed an [...]

So we are fully underway with the Higher at Knox. We successfully performed the investigatives Drama’s (Unit One) last week in the Drama studio to packed audiences of Staff, pupils and parents. The Groups chose the themes of ‘Teenage Life’ and ‘Cruelty’ and created engaging plays based on a variety of topics including self-harm, eating [...]

I was lucky to be chosen (through application) to join other teachers across Scotland in visiting Amsterdam with Learning Teaching Scotland. This visit is focusing on Holocaust Education and working with the Anne Frank foundation. The visit will take place over four days and will include a visit to the Anne Frank house, The Jewish [...]

I would like to welcome a new Drama Teacher to the region, Helen-Marie started at Ross High this week and it’s great to see East Lothian Council upping it’s staffing in Drama across the region. We now have Drama Departments in 4 of the 6 Secondary Schools in the region, which is brilliant. Helen-Marie was [...]