This year the GO4SET competition is based on designing a new school classroom. The students are expected to design a new classroom that takes in to account all the recycling, energy use and use of waste, as well as the architectural design of the space. The CDT department are working with 2C and hope to come up with some ideas that can be put in place within Castlebrae this year.
On Thursday 23rd September, five of our senior students were invited by Scotland’s Justice Minister, Mr Kenny MacAskill, to attend the Filmhouse Festival ‘Take One Action’. Take One Action is the UK’s first film festival dedicated to active global citizenship offering young people a variety of opportunities to explore Responsible Citizenship, a whole school component of Curriculum of Excellence.
The five students, Ashleigh Shephard, Stephanie MacDonald, Jamie Clunie, Jordan Bradford and Natasha Meechan were met at the Filmhouse by Mr MacAskill before the screening of ‘Bread and Roses’, a film which told the story of immigrant janitors in Los Angeles struggling to improve their working conditions by forming a union. The students were introduced to the films famous screenwriter, Paul Laverty, who is a personal friend of Mr MacAskill. The evening concluded with a question and answer session with Paul and Elaine Carswell, a union activist.
The students were excellent ambassadors for the school and, although the timing of the question and answer session was too late in the evening for them to ask any questions, they were all impressed by the film and the talk Paul and Elaine gave at the end of the screening.
“The film has made us think about immigration and poverty. It gave us a view of what it was really like for immigrants in the USA and made us consider what it is like for immigrants here”, Stephanie said.
Jamie added, “It also made us realize that it should be the right of everyone to have good working conditions”.
Mr MacAskill received a photograph of the evening from the students to thank him for giving this opportunity to the school and has mentioned that he will keep in touch regarding any future events that might be of interest to our students’ education citizenship.
This October saw ten pupils graduate in their Sports Leader Award. The Sports Leader Award is intended to encourage people to volunteer to become coaches and organisers of sport in their communities. The scheme is designed to help people of all ages to develop their sporting interests so that they are better qualified to offer their services as coaches and organisers. At the same time it makes it possible for participants to develop their own self confidence and leadership qualities, both of which can make all the difference to young people when it comes to finding a job. Castlebrae also trained Sports Leaders from Holyrood, Trinity and Drummond. The students who graduated are as follows Josh Lawrie, Kevin Finlay, Gerry Gellantes, Jamie Clunie, Kelly Lockhart, Ben Stobbart, Callum Kerr, Mark Petretti, Hassan Waheel and Ryan Mae pictured with Alan Reid and Glyn Jones. Our sports leaders will have the opportunity to take part in the ‘Dreams and Teams’ South African school link.
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