Uniform Consultations
Moving through our last month of the session, we are continuing to listen to the views of our community. Uniform focus groups for staff, parents, students and alumni to gather feedback on a selection of fabrics and initial designs have been held. We are currently collating the survey and focus group feedback to share with our uniform supplier as we move into the next design stage.
On the subject of uniform, our amazing volunteers in our Thrift Shop who have been instrumental in supporting parents as we transition to the new uniform. The price of blazers has now been reduced by 50% and there is still a good stock of items. If you have uniform items from recent years that you would like to pass on, please read our Thrift Shop Appeal.
Review of our outdoor and indoor spacesÂ
In June, our Student Engagement team has walked the sites with Junior and Senior students. Senior School students who have expressed a wish to be involved in the review of the outdoor and indoor spaces have walked the Queensferry Road site to offer their thoughts on how we can enhance the look and feel of our outdoor social spaces and our shared indoor spaces. The Junior School students have focussed on the outdoor play areas at Ravelston this term with an opportunity to be involved in the design of the new year group corridors next year. This is an important step in ensuring that the spaces shared by our students at Erskine Stewart Melville are inspiring, functional and shaped by those who use them.
Guidance structure in the Senior SchoolÂ
Pastoral care in the new Senior School will be restructured so that Heads and Assistant Heads of Year will remain with their cohort from S1 to S5, creating strong relationships with the students and parents. When the students transition into Sixth Form, they will have their own unique guidance and support team to ensure a smooth transition to the next life stage. To ease the transition into the new School and keep social continuity, we also intend to maintain existing Senior School registration groups in the first year of ESM, meaning only S1 and S6 students will register in co-educational form groups in 2026.
