Links

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Site title	Description
A study on Hillhead area	Case study: Data City: Integration and visualisation of spatial and socio-economic data in an urban context The model The area: Hillhead, Glasgow

Achievers UK website	See Former Pupils from Hillhead High and other schools, who have achieved in their different ways.

Apprenticeships website	Looking for the perfect opportunity? Let us help you find the Modern Apprenticeship that is right for you. Just let us know the kind of career you're interested in and where in Scotland you would like to work.

BBC's anti-bullying pages	Bullying is a problem that faces thousands of people every day, but it can be prevented. The links and resources on this page explain how you can stop bullying.

BBC's page for Parents.	This is a good place to start if you are looking for all sorts of info on Scottish Education, Schools, and advice to parents.

BBC's Scottish schools' pages	Look up what the BBC has to offer Scottish pupils of all ages.

Beat Bullying	www.bbclic.com is a fully inter-active website to BEAT bullying.... There's a surgery where you can get advice from members of your community. In BB Real Lives, you can read about the lives of the characters in the BB Clic - most of these are based on real young people. The BB Shop is open for business - check out the tees and tags and beanies. The Cyber Cafe has a weblog, a message board and plenty of resources to help you.

British Heart Foundation	This is one of the Charities which the school aim to 'champion' every year. - For more than 40 years, the British Heart Foundation has been at the forefront of the fight against heart disease, funding research, education, care and much more - read about what we do.

Cancer Research UK	One of the charities which the school has supported recently.

Careers Scotland	For information and help in planning your career, building a CV and linking to training / employers.

Catalogue of Continuous Professional Development Courses	For Teachers. Gives subject specific courses which allow teachers to continue their professional development.

Channel 4 Learning site	Glossy site with educational resources.

Children in Need	The BBC site with all the info on Children in Need & Pudsey's there too !

Comic Relief Website	Fun stuff to do from the Comic Relief crew

Determined to Succeed (DtS)	DtS goes to the heart of the vision for a smart, successful Scotland. It is a long term drive to build an enterprise culture in Scotland. To give young people a better chance of realising their full potential. To give the economy of Scotland the skills, new ventures and entrepreneurs it needs for growth.

General Teaching Council - Scotland	The General Teaching Council for Scotland is the Professional body which regulates Scottish teachers.

Glasgow City Council	Glasgow City Council's own informative web site.

Go to the official site of Fairtrade	fairtrade is a campaign...

Guardian paper's Education site	Guardian paper's Education site, full of Higher Education information and articles.

HMIe	This is a helpful source of information from Her Majesty's Inspectors of Education (HMIe). You can access government papers, school reports over the years and the How Good is Our School performance indicators amongst other items of interest.

League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers	A teacher ? Fancy a foreign exchange ? try here!

Learn.co.uk (from The Guardian)	A good place to start if you want to find out about all sorts of things.

Learning + Teaching Scotland	Information, resources, and news on many aspects of education.

Link to the RED NOSE website	Sit back, relax and write a note for the milkman because there's so much Red Nose Day news, Big Hair Do information and exclusive celebrity stuff on this site, that you may be here for quite a while!

Macmillan Cancer Relief	One of the charities which the school has supported recently.

ParentZone website	The Scottish Executive have set up this site to give information about school education, including exam results, recent publications, up-to-date news, and more!

Plan IT Plus	Find information about jobs and what subjects are useful to have for certain career paths.

Scottish Parent Teacher Council	SPTC are a national body to support Parents and Teachers.

Scottish Qualifications Authority	The SQA handle the setting and marking of Scotlands National Qualifications. Their website is packed with useful information on subjects and exams.

The "we give to" site	http://www.wegiveto.com/ provides consumers with a way of purchasing goods on-line and generating funds for local schools at the same time. Hillhead High have registered an interest. Please check it out!

The British Library	This new learning website contains some wonderful multimedia resources for teachers and students to explore online. Listen to the sound archives on the holocaust, try the interactive game based on voyages by the East India Company or test yourself in the area given over to disinformation. This website has interactive movies, discussion points and worksheets useful in many subject areas, from history and English to the sciences.

The Scottish Executive	The Scottish Executive is the devolved government for Scotland. It is responsible for most of the issues of day-to-day concern to the people of Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport (full list), and manages an annual budget of around 20 billion.

West End Festival	The West End Festival, - an annual event in the local community.

World Vision	World Vision set up a sponsored 24 hour famine, where pupils and staff volunteer to 'fast' for 1 day to raise money for people in Sierra Leone.

www.wearitpink.co.uk	Breast Cancer Campaign to raise money for breast cancer research.