Improve communication with parents, Dunblane school told

Annette Rawstrone
Wednesday, April 4, 2001

Inspectors have told Dunblane Primary School and nursery class staff to improve communication with parents, while praising them for helping traumatised children recover from the massacre at the school in 1996. Five years ago Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children, aged five and six, and their teacher, and injured 11 children and three staff members before killing himself. HM Inspectors, in their report published last week, said that in the years following the tragedy the education authority and school staff have had to manage a wide range of particularly sensitive and demanding issues concerning children, parents and the wider community.