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Why it’s ‘Hillhead’ school

This is not hard to guess.
But let’s make Hillhead school real by following the route many of its pupils walk to the school at the head of the hill, in the rain we’ve all seen too much of lately.
We start at the bottom of Scalesburn Road, below – and walk up. ‘Scalesburn’ simply has to be telling us about what went on in the burn at the time when Wick’s then burgeoning fishing industry will have provided a naming convention as well as fuelling new housebuilding.

The we get to the middle of Scalesburn Road, below – still climbing.

At the top of Scalesburn, below, we turn to look back down to Wick Harbour far below.

Then we turn along Willowbank, below, the road the school is on at Hillhead.

And there it is, below. Home. But not for long.

These photographs capture the sense of the community in which the pupils at Hillhead instinctively look out for each other.

They can be proud of that and of what they have achieved in a school that has looked after them well.
Note: we have parental permission to use the photographs we have been given by Hillhead school campaigners.
ARSN submission to Rural Education Commission

The Argyll Rural Schools Network (ARSN) has made its submission to the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education, Continue reading
Spygate: Who was ‘John McKinnon’? Was Russell a victim of dirty tricks by a council false persona?
(Updated below) Just over a year ago, in very early January 2011, the incendiary schools closure issue Continue reading
Angus Council’s budget meeting minutes show irresponsibility of bypass school proposal
Angus Council decided on 9th February to take to Judicial Review Continue reading
Public out for Angus Council secret vote to take Education Secretary to Judicial Review
There is more than one pantomime in town at the moment so max the popcorn and settle down for the ride. Continue reading
Council now deploys online ‘Spy Accounts’ in covert surveillance of local critics
Today’s edition of The Herald reveals, in a headline article on Page 6 by Stephen Naysmith, that Argyll and Bute Council has an embedded Continue reading
Angus Council just voted 15-14 in favour of secret hearing of proposal to take Education Secretary to Judicial Review
(Result below. Updating as and when below) Hot from the meeting, which is in progress, Angus Council has just voted Continue reading
Angus Council loses the plot: public to be excluded from discussion on taking school closures to Judicial Review
It could be said that losing the plot is in this case at least a change from doing the plotting. Continue reading
Angus Council to meet to decide on legal action against Education Secretary
Angus Council is to meet on Thursday 9th February to decide Continue reading









