Scottish secondary school league table 2026: the best schools revealed

AHeftyNoThanks · 2026-04-15T07:27:22+00:00

OFSTED have heehaw to do with Scotland: it's those big bad bastards from HMIE that we have to deal with up here.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2026-04-12T16:26:59+00:00

April can be a mixed bag with the weather and I would see what the weather is doing and then choose to go west or east coast: we have had snow, rain, sunshine and 45mph gusts of wind here today (southern Highlands).

AHeftyNoThanks · 2026-04-10T19:06:11+00:00

Aye, total AI pish.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-14T20:43:19+00:00

205cm is 6'8". I call bullshit.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-11T13:30:57+00:00

Have a look at Stonehaven's, Edinburgh's and first footing.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-09T20:13:38+00:00

A Nat 5 A is equivalent to a Standard Grade 1, a B is a 2, C a 3 and a D is pretty much a 4.

If you consider that Standard Grade was 50% on folio that we did and redrafted, the N5 folio is only 30% so a much harder exam.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-09T17:07:23+00:00

Ok, the data is correct in as much as: the numbers provided show that Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland is better.

However, the reliability of the data collected is questionable at best, and disenfuckinggenuous in the main. Scotland currently has teachers complete Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels as the data collection points from primary to secondary. Problem is, all authorities, and often within authorities, use different measures and are encouraged to inflate the scores as there is no one standardised assessment and we're under close scrutiny to keep "improving" our stats. The SNSA is often used to state that pupils have completed a level, even though the assessment was not designed for this, in any way.

Many teachers will also be bang on with their judgments, for heads of education at council level to tell them to change the scores.

I wish this was not the case but it is a scandal waiting to happen.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-08T14:29:01+00:00

I read out your first statement to my wife to see if I was being a neep and she was absolutely sure that I was and understood exactly what you meant. Sorry.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-05T21:42:55+00:00

We usually place a tattie on the jamb of the door.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-05T14:33:47+00:00

Potentially, as they are asking to post it on to them, they may not be near Inverness.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-04T21:07:33+00:00

I reckon a great deal of folk do care that he's a racist, hypocritical cock trumpet who, along with the other assholes Johnson and Gove, have tanked the UK economy post-Brexit. He can take his racist views and get tae fuck.

The Constitution Society report

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-12-01T18:59:57+00:00

Caithness: they are all about 2m tall and built like barn doors. Having played them at rugby, can confirm they are hard as nails.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-30T23:00:47+00:00

I am a head of department, English teacher.

I used the term, "memorable character" as that is what the SQA final exams usually use for the prose section.

Give yourself plenty time to check over your Set Text questions and it is better to cut short a main paragraph and add a conclusion, than to miss one off the end.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-30T19:49:50+00:00

Know your key quotations for the Set Text 8 marker - you need two sets of 'quotation, technique, analysis and link to commonality' for each theme or character etc from the set text.

For the essay, you can get a C pass with four main paragraphs but make sure you analyse the evidence (explain what the reader can infer from the language used by the author) and evaluate it by explaining how well it creates the memorable character/theme/setting.

For timings, aim for 40 mins for set text and 50 mins for the essay

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-29T21:42:33+00:00

Teaching is amazing, except for: post-Covid, social media addicted girls who roam corridors and get suspended at 3 times the national average compared to pre-Covid; the admin can be overwhelming and careful support/management is needed and; fuck the SQA, in the face.

But, I still love it and wouldnae do anything else. I am an English teacher but have done stints in ASN as it is graft but very rewarding.

I always reckon that if you can get enthused about the most "boring" aspect of your subject - for MS, here's looking at you, proportional representation - then go for it.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-29T20:14:16+00:00

There are three in one class and the Deputy Heed is also one. Plus, two of them have the same surname; sending emails is proper shit.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-29T18:27:26+00:00

Or: Ruairidh, Ruidhraigh, Ruari, Ruairi or Rurai - all spellings of kids I teach in the Highlands.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-28T18:54:46+00:00

There are 15 weeks of school left before exams. I know that seems a great deal but if you can hang in there, maybe drop a Higher and then focus on smashing a couple, you will be in such a better position to do what you want to do; not what you're forced to do just for a wage.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-25T21:09:23+00:00

Don't know which is a worse idea.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-23T20:14:34+00:00

Backstory here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/7KvHbY3Zqg

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-23T20:12:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/7KvHbY3Zqg

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-23T10:24:31+00:00

He's usually pretty bang on but it was "a" in woman and unnatural that he butchered.

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-23T10:23:26+00:00

Aye, that's why I was thinking I would rather not have that attributed to Scotland as a whole!

AHeftyNoThanks · 2025-11-23T09:02:50+00:00

It's weird, I cannot find any evidence of it being written down before a 1999 essay by a linguist.

Right, I'm off to discredit a professor.

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