Mrs. Caroline Wight – Deputy Head Teacher

You will recall that Mr. Brian Smith, Deputy Head Teacher, retired at Easter time after twenty-nine years of service to Kings Meadow Primary School, and Haddington Primary School thereafter.

I am pleased to inform you that Mrs. Caroline Wight, appointed Deputy Head Teacher to succeed Brian Smith, has now joined the ‘leadership team’ at Haddington Primary School.

Mrs. Wight adds a wide and varied set of experiences and skills to the team and the wider work of the school.

Mrs. Wight has been a qualified teacher for nineteen years, starting her teaching career at Langfaulds Primary School, Glasgow City Council, as a probationer and contributing to their Literacy programme. Mrs. Wight went on to work in four primary schools in Glasgow, her last position being a nurture teacher at Whiteinch Primary School. Owing to family circumstances, Mrs. Wight relocated to Plymouth where she worked at Austin Farm Academy, Plymouth City Council, undertaking classroom duties and ‘maths leader’.  Mrs. Wight also held the post of SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator). Mrs. Wight returned to Scotland in 2018, appointed Principal Teacher for Inclusion and Equality at Dunbar Primary School (John Muir Campus).

Mrs. Wight is now three weeks into her post and she has settled in very quickly, becoming familiar with the school community and using her initiative to undertake many tasks.

I am sure you will join me in wishing Mrs. Wight the very best of wishes for a happy, positive and successful time at Haddington Primary School. I know I can rely on everyone in our excellent school community to provide Mrs. Wight with a very friendly and inclusive welcome.

This is an appropriate time to provide some details of our leadership teams. Every member of our school community should be encouraged to be a leader; staff, pupils and parents. However, we do have dedicated leadership teams as follows:

Leadership Team 1

·         Willie French – Head Teacher – based in Infant and Upper Campuses

·         Kirsty Murray – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Infant Campus

·         Sally Murray – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Infant Campus

·         Caroline Wight – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Upper Campus

Despite having a base in a campus, all four members of this team have whole school responsibilities – we work across both campuses. We have year stage responsibilities and additional responsibilities as follows:

·         Willie French – responsibility for P.6 and P.7 and overall/general responsibility for the whole community – Nursery to P.7.

·         Kirsty Murray – responsibility for P.2 and P.4 and whole school responsibility for Literacy.

·         Sally Murray – responsibility for Nursery and P.1 and whole school responsibility for Numeracy.

·         Caroline Wight – responsibility for P.3 and P.5 – Mrs. Wight has not yet been allocated specific responsibilities providing her with the opportunity to familiarise with the school’s practices and routines.

Leadership Team 2

·          Willie French – Head Teacher – based in Infant and Upper Campuses

·         Kirsty Murray – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Infant Campus

·         Sally Murray – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Infant Campus

·         Caroline Wight – Deputy Head Teacher – based in Upper Campus

·         Lynn Paton – Principal Teacher – Support for Learning – based in Upper Campus

·         Emma Bull – Principal Teacher – Support for Learning – based in Upper Campus

Mrs. Paton and Mrs. Bull oversee all work related to ASN (Additional Support Needs). Despite both Mrs. Paton and Mrs. Bull being based in the Upper Campus, they undertake whole school responsibilities from Nursery to P.7.

I hope this information is helpful.  Thank you for your continued help and support.