Selkirk High School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Selkirk High School in January 2025, finding strong, positive relationships between staff and young people that create a nurturing environment. The report evaluates learning, teaching and assessment as ‘good’ and raising attainment and achievement as ‘satisfactory’, noting the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Relationships between staff and young people are “strong and positive,” leading to a “nurturing and supportive environment.”
• Staff have undertaken “impactful professional learning” which is “improving young people’s digital skills effectively.”
• Collaboration with “carefully-considered partners” benefits young people across the curriculum, resulting in “almost all young people progress to a positive destination on leaving school.”

Areas to improve

• Teachers need to plan and deliver tasks “set at the right level of difficulty” across the school.
• Staff should increase confidence in making “reliable judgements about young people’s achievement of a level” and develop approaches to monitor progress more effectively.
• Staff should continue to “raise their aspirations and expectations of young people” to ensure they attain the highest level of qualifications in line with their abilities.

Safeguarding

The report does not explicitly detail safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that relationships are “strong and positive” and the environment is “nurturing and supportive.”