TIREE High School has reflected on “highly satisfactory” results at Higher and Advanced Higher level in 2024/25 in a report to councillors.
A 100 per cent Advanced Higher A-C pass rate was achieved, along with a Higher figure that also beat the local and national averages.
Senior management have now pledged to take a range of actions to ensure all pupils can reach their highest potential. The results of the 2025/26 exams will be sent out in August.
The details feature in a report which will go before Argyll and Bute Council’s Oban Lorn and the Isles area committee at its meeting on Wednesday, June 10.
The report said: “We follow a positive presentation policy deliberately ensuring that as many pupils as possible are presented for as many courses/levels as possible.
“Whilst affording our pupils this opportunity it can lead to the percentage pass rates to be, in some cases, adversely affected, impacted further by our small cohort of pupils in each of the year groups.
“We feel that pupils who are for example borderline in National 5 should be given the opportunity to sit the assessments in order to achieve to their fullest potential.
“We achieved excellent results at Higher and Advanced level last year, above both the Argyll and Bute and the national averages at both levels. In 15 out of 16 cases the estimation was an A-D.”
The document added: “The results in both third and fourth level were highly satisfactory. Various measures have been put into place to ensure pupils are receiving relevant and appropriate types of support.
“[Examples include] re-coursed, re-levelled in discussion with parents and pupils; flexible timetable and targeted teaching; 1:1 literacy intervention; tracking of progress [and] various subjects offered study support.
“Other actions being taken [include] lunch time support; after school support; eSgoil Easter support advertised and info sent home to all parents; eSgoil study support sessions; extra eSgoil bought in; ASN support including reader, scribe, coloured paper, prompts [and] discussions with parents and pupils.
“We will continue to enhance courses, alternative pathways for pupils, and focussed interventions to address the needs of the pupils, empowering all to achieve their highest potential.”
