Why Choose BHS

Barrhead High School

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Telephone: 0141-577-2100

Fax: 0141-577-2140
E-mail: schoolmail@barrhead.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Why Choose Us?

Choosing the best school to suit your child is one of the most important choices you will make - at Barrhead High School we aim to ensure that your child's potential is maximised. We realise the necessity of developing every aspect of a child's character, stressing such qualities as co-operation, initiative, self-discipline, creativity,
as well as formal academic skills, so that your child reaches his/her
potential in whatever direction that potential lies. It is up to us to ensure that
each child feels valued and respected and the staff at Barrhead High School
are committed to ensuring that every individual child is treated as special.

The education of your child is the single most important aspect of his/her life and central to this achievement is the respective role played by parents, pupils and teachers. At Barrhead High School we firmly believe that when parents and the teachers operate in partnership, the pupil is bound to succeed.

At Barrhead High School it is our intention that, with the help of parents, and with the professionalism and dedication of the teaching staff all our young people will be equipped to take their place in society as responsible, well educated, caring people. We, as a school, care for the children as individuals, and feel confident that we will bring out the best in them whatever their particular strengths and abilities.

The key to future success is a strong and secure partnership of parents, pupils and teachers - not only for the direct benefit of each young person but also for the wider community of Barrhead.

In pursuing this aim, we will work together to overcome any barriers to the fulfilment of potential arising, for example, from domestic circumstance or socio economic status; from gender, from ethnicity or from the need for additional support to enable effective learning.

We aim to promote an ethos in which pupils, staff, parents and our partners can feel confident that a willingness to do our best, to care and have respect for others are characteristics which are highly prized.

We are happy to show prospective parents round the school any day during term time, when we will be pleased to discuss the child's future education.

In aiming to support each member of our school community towards being the best he or she can be, Barrhead High School works in the context of the Local Improvement Objectives of East Renfrewshire Council and of the National Priorities for Education and the Executive's Schools of Ambition initiative.