Month: December 2021

Wednesday 22^nd Dec was the last day of term in 2021. The secondary pupils celebrated the end of term with a range of activities. The main even was the church service, but with Covid restrictions there were no family members or primary pupils present. There were several musical performances from pupils, carol singing and a short message from Dr Bartholomew reminding us of the meaning of Christmas.

After the service the pupils returned to the school and spent the rest of the day enjoying a range of activities including board games and crafts.

It was a challenging term with rising infection levels and restrictions continuing but we pulled through it together.

The pupils and staff are looking forward to a new year where hopefully things will improve. The senior pupils are already preparing for prelims and looking towards their final exams. Perhaps this will be the year where things return to normal.

 

 

“On 1st December S3 went to Castle Douglas High School to “Do the Right Thing” – a PSE workshop filled the day to make sure we were all caught up, and we got to meet new people. The workshops consisted of two plays, “A Night to Remember” and “It’s in his Kiss”.

All through the day there were different workshops to do with PSE including alcohol awareness, sexual health, hate speech, drugs, domestic abuse and mental health. These workshops were full of new and interesting things for the S3s and the day was kept fun and entertaining.

I think that the whole experience was worthwhile because it meant that the S3s had a day out to learn and meet new people and engage in different ways of learning, especially since most of the lessons’ teachers were NHS workers and police who knew what they were doing. The children really enjoyed it, thank you so much for organising this day out for us!”

Reahanne Johnstone