James Gillespie's High School

James Gillespie's High School is situated in the heart of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. We are a modern multicultural comprehensive High School, educating pupils aged 11 to 18 years of age. We recently celebrated our 200th. anniversary and our campus enjoys a wonderful mix of ancient and modern architecture. We hope that you enjoy our website. Click here for a slideshow of our school >

Summer Break School will end for the Summer Break at 12.00 noon on Thursday 1st July 2010. Staff will return on Monday 16 August 2010. Pupils return on Thursday 19th August 2010. Pupils are reminded that from August they should go directly to their Period 1* class at 8.40 - there is no morning registration period.*

Website Update We are presently making changes to this website, improving and updating the content and hopefully making it easier to navigate. Whilst this work is going on, it is possible that some links may not work or some pages may become unavailable. Please bear with us during this time, and if there is any information you are seeking that you cannot find, or links which you find are broken, please either come back in a day or two, or drop an email to the webmaster, clair.barrass@jamesgillespies.edin.sch.uk.

June Newsletter............! Download our latest JGHS Newsletter now, the June issue is packed with information for Parents and Pupils. News from departments and success stories,.........and much more. Click here to view >

School decant and new school building Information for parents which will be updated as progress is made and descisions are taken. Click here to view >

Kerpow! Comics sock it to 'em - the info, that is Finally, a research study involving children that actually tells them the findings Article from the TES Follow the links to Have A Say At your School Click here to view >

HMIe Inspection Report HMIe published their Inspection Report on JGHS on 30/03/10. You can read the report online or download a PDF copy by visiting the HMIe website.

GLOW James Gillespie's has started to use GLOW to share ideas, provide on-line learning resources and enable communication between pupils and between schools. All pupils will receive their GLOW log-ons soon. Click here to find out more about GLOW >

FACe FACe, the online newsletter from the Children and Families Department has now been published. It can be found at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/face