About Us

This website aims to provide you with the information which you need to get the best from our school which we hope will prove particularly helpful for parents/ carers of pupils new to the school.

The new aims of our school were established following wide consultation with all in our school community.

Our AIMS are to . . .

Provide a positive learning environment for all which enthuses, motivates and encourages pupils to embrace new ideas and to achieve the highest level of success in all curricular and extra-curricular areas.
Celebrate our successes- school, class, team, group or individual- past and present.
Support pupils- to provide a high quality delivery of pastoral care where at the heart of what we do is the focus on fostering positive relationships while developing confident individuals with self-respect, secure beliefs and values, improved life skills and a genuine sense of well-being
Promote respect for people of all backgrounds, cultures, religions and ethnic origins and encourage and develop acceptance, tolerance and personal responsibility
Foster effective leadership at all levels of school life to maximise the support and commitment from staff and pupils; empowering through distributive leadership at all levels and encouraging team-work in meeting the needs of all our school community in developing the work of our school.
Make a commitment to ongoing improvements in attainment and achievement over time and to ensure we endeavour to facilitate our school leavers to as high a proportion of positive sustained destinations as possible.
Promote and encourage exemplary behaviour, developing our young people as effective contributors who are increasingly resilient, enterprising, eco-aware and self-reliant.
Regularly and rigorously self-evaluate the work we do to measure positive impact and identify ways to further improve the service we provide to our local community.
Work in partnership with all in our wider school community for the good or our pupils and foster a positive and supportive ethos which allows pupils to develop their full potential, to promote their intellectual, emotional and health development and to see the value of learning as a skill for life.

We will continue to strive each day to make these aims a reality.

A key feature in the work of the school is encouraging each young student to take increasing responsibility for their own life and learning. We provide as many opportunities as possible for this. Biggar High School offers systematic progress from First Year towards the point when a pupil leaves school as a young adult, prepared to make their own decisions and able to live with the consequences of these decisions.

‘Responsibility’ includes responsibility for learning. The school is committed to helping every youngster to achieve their full potential in terms of examination success, but just as important in every other aspect of life.

We work to ensure that teaching is of the highest quality and employ a wide range of strategies to support our learners; we want our pupils to become successful, independent, lifelong learners.

School is only one of the influences on this process of development. We will only achieve the best for our pupils in partnership with you and with the community at large.

Equally important is the willingness of our staff always to listen to parents and to be open to their concerns and wishes.

If there is anything that you want to know, or if you have any worry, no matter how small, then please get in touch.

Biggar High School staff look forward to working with you and and throughout your child’s time at secondary school.

Robert Stewart