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Mrs Sharon Watson @mrssharonwatson.bsky.social · 5d

The first of the official pictures from Thursday's Awards Ceremony. Thanks to Craig Dunn for the photography! 💙

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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 8d

Applications for the 2026-27 Tianjin Scholarship are open! This immersive, life-changing experience can broaden young people's horizons, develop their intercultural competences and open their eyes to endless possibilities for their future. Find out more on the CISS website: https://loom.ly/zQIJYjw

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 7d

Photo of Dundee. Text reads Stand with new Dundonians. Refugees are welcome here. Gather at alloway place DD4 8UA 2pm Sunday 5th October. Logos of organisations and trade unions that support

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SCILT @scilt.bsky.social · 7d

A big thank you to Scots Makar, Peter Mackay, for helping launch this year's Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual poetry competition in Scotland! Find out more about the competition for all pupils P1-S6 on SCILT's website: https://loom.ly/SVsNS_U #poetry #languages #NPD

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 7d

Last week at gardening club we had some recently harvested apples to
take home. Look at the delights our gardeners made at home with them over the September weekend! Homemade apple pie 🥮😍

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EALCooper @kazcoopee.bsky.social · 6d

A new subject in our EAL Mornings' curriculum. "I love this subject!!" one pupil announced on leaving the class!

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Grow73 for letting us explore your amazing garden. Inspiration for our own school garden ideas!

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you Evie

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 11d

"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need patience in our school garden at the mo-weeding to be done, 🌱but our trustygardeners arrived with bundles of enthusiasm and new stories to tell. We were joined by Evie from Urban Roots sharing knowledge on seed saving.

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 10d

The campaign will be holding a launch event in Glasgow on Tuesday 7th October. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-agai...

Text reads: women against the far right Scotland campaign launch. Tues 7 oct 7pm central glasgow. Link in post

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 10d

Sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

Text reads: sign the letter. Share and add your name. With logos from supporting organisations: Scottish women’s aid, STUC women’s committee, abortion rights Scotland, the collective, Scottish greens women’s network, LGBT youth Scotland

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 10d

📣 OVER 200 prominent women and women’s organisations across Scotland have signed the Women against the Far Right Scotland open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about protecting women and girls.

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NASUWT Scotland @nasuwtscotland.bsky.social · 11d

Join the over 200 women MSPs, cultural figures, campaigners and organisations, including the STUC Women's Committee and NASUWT Scotland activists, in signing the open letter below to show that we will not let the far right speak in our name:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

Women against the Far Right Scotland

We reject the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. They are not defenders of women—they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division. Standing up for women’s rights ...

actionnetwork.org

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EALCooper @kazcoopee.bsky.social · 13d

Love Gardening Club ❤️ Huge thanks to Evvy from Urban Roots for some brilliant advice - and seeds 🌱. Great work by the team as always 👏

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 14d

We’re 2 days early but our celebrations started today and will continue all of next week too. Watch this Bluesky space 🦋🦋🤟🤟🌍🌎

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 14d

Happy European Day of Languages! S6 Leaders of Language and Culture have been delivering their very own Holyrood Language detective quiz with S1 classes celebrating the almost 70 languages spoken as mother tongue. « If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. » Johan Huizinga

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EALCooper @kazcoopee.bsky.social · 14d

Here is a great opportunity for Roma families in Govanhill to find out about high school 🏫 @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social #Roma #EAL

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 18d

FAR-RIGHT 'UNITY RALLY' IN GLASGOW WRECKED BY REAL ANTIFASCIST UNITY

A week after the largest far-right demonstration in British history, anti-racists have shown there is a new mood for resistance. 2,000+ anti-racists rallied at Buchanan St to oppose the far-right 'unity rally' in Glasgow.

Aerial shot of Buchanan street with anti-racist protesters outnumbering the other side

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Miss Kindness @fionakindness3.bsky.social · 20d

Chapter Chats PODCAST coming soon🎤
Thanks to Annabeth, Foxface, Yvonne, Richard Hannay, and Mr. McGrath (we chose favourite book characters as our aliases); so much fun starting our podcasting adventure today. Thank you to Mrs. Panaretou for technical help. 💖

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holyroodlangs.bsky.social @holyroodlangs.bsky.social · 20d

Fun afternoon planting lettuce with some new S1 gardeners, full of enthusiasm. Shared stories of planting olive trees in Syria, harvesting, washing and drying out the olives in the sun ready to cure, and about planting potatoes last spring in Glasgow and having them with dinner last weekend!

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Holyrood Secondary Parental Engagement @holyroodparent1.bsky.social · 21d

@holyroodsec.bsky.social Parents/Carers please sign up to attend our S1-S3 Family Games Night Wed 8/10/25 7pm-8.30pm in the Assembly Hall. We look forward to seeing you! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/GBKA5jHPbB

For more information click the link below
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Holyrood Secondary @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social · 20d

Just a small list of the superpowers our young people have!

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Mrs Sharon Watson @mrssharonwatson.bsky.social · 20d

An example of our young people teaching their Parents this evening!

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Holyrood Secondary Parental Engagement @holyroodparent1.bsky.social · 20d

@holyroodsecondary.bsky.social
Parents/Carers all of our school communications can be found on the school website #communication #newsletters

holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk/news/newslet...

Newsletter - Holyrood Secondary School

Please find our most recent Newsletters linked below, click to open. 2025 Games Night- sign up information Weekly Round UP- Issue 3: 12/9/25 Weekly Round Up- Issue 2: 1/9/25 Weekly Round Up- Issue 1: ...

holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 20d

Join the anti-racists this weekend:

📣 Sat 20th Sept, 12 noon Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow

📣 Sat 20th Sept, 1pm Alloway Place, Dundee

📣 Sun 21st Sept, 11 am Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk

Text reads: take the streets back. Aye welcome refugees. Women against the far right. Make fascists afraid again.

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