Guidance

The Guidance Department at Largs Academy is very keen to encourage close contact between home and school. Parents are seen as important partners in their child's education and, as part of this aim, it might be useful to let them know.

What Guidance Teachers do?
In general terms, the Guidance Teacher follows the progress of each student in his or her charge from S1 until he or she leaves the school.

We are concerned with each student's personal, curricular and vocational welfare and we hope that by keeping in close touch with both students and parents that we will be able to offer support and guidance at various stages of your child's school career.

As you will appreciate, there is not enough space in a single leaflet to go into great detail, but we would be happy to give you any further details you require. We hope that the following list will go some way to outlining the range of activities and services offered by the Guidance department.

What services do we offer to pupils?

• Individual support and guidance

• Liaison with parents

• Monitoring student progress and attainment

• Monitoring attendance-to help us do this it is important that a note is sent in with the child on return to school

• Curricular guidance/subject choice

• Careers advice and information

• Guidance for potential university/college applicants

• Advice to school leavers

• Careers education programme

• Assistance with interviews/recruitment skills

• Personal references for employers, FE and UCAS

• Health Education programmes

• Personal and Social Education programmes

• Liaison with outside agencies

• Action planning

• Progress files

How can we be of assistance to parents?
We are a "user-friendly" department and like to think that this applies just as much to parents as to students. We are keen to encourage contacts between home and school and to involve parents in the school career of their child. If you would like to contact your son or daughter's guidance teacher please do not hesitate to do so.

How to get in touch
The simplest way to get in touch with your child's guidance teacher is to telephone the school on 01475 675421 and make an appointment.

Guidance staff also have teaching commitments and therefore, unfortunately, are not available at all times. However, if the Guidance teacher is not available then a message will be left for him/her to call you back later and, if appropriate, a time to meet together can be arranged.