SUMMER FAYRE 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
SATURDAY 10 JUNE
The school is hosting a summer fayre on Saturday June 10th. On the day there will be a variety of activities including music, dance, food, face painting, craft stalls, a bouncy castle, nail bar, table tennis and football workshops from Rangers coaches. We would love to see you and your family on the day so spread the word and keep the date free. All proceeds raised will go directly back to benefiting the pupils in the school.
Mr Higgins
Welcome to the events page at Boclair Academy . Here you can find lots of information about what’s been going on in school this year with a brief write-up from some of our talented pupils.
If you have an event coming up and you would like it to be included, please speak to Mrs Black or Miss O’Sullivan
YOUTH PHILANTHROPY FINAL – 13TH MARCH 2017
Report by Calum M and Max 2D
Today, three groups of fifth year students at Boclair Academy competed against each other for the grand prize of £3,000 for their given charities. Each group stood in front of their peers and the judges and presented a PowerPoint which shows the benefits of choosing their charity. The charities were
‘Touched By Suicide’:This charity deals with people who’ve had problems with suicide in the past and with people who are having problems. This charity helps these people come to terms with what they are going through and hopefully get them through it. the £3,000 to this charity would offer better facilities and an extra room.
‘ Yogability ‘ this charity offers yoga classes to children with any mental or physical disability. it is based in Glasgow and east Dunbartonshire. there are areas where parents are offered tea and a chat with other parents so they don’t have to worry about there kids as they are in the same building. £3,000 would get more classes and a new facility that would cut down the long waiting list.
‘Funny lumps’ this is a charity that deals with children with Neurofibromatosis (NF). NF1 causes pale coffee patches and tumors under the skin, NF1 also causes multiple learning disabilities in fact 66% of them do some examples are autism, ADHD and speech problems. £3000 would help the charity continue to support families and children.
During the break the S3 musicians performed two songs, Can’t Help Falling in Love and Skyfall. This group have been performing at a monthly event in a local church for dementia sufferers.
The four Judges then took a break to decide the winner of the £3,000 after a brief period the judges returned and told us that ‘Touched By Suicide’ had been granted the winnings.
From Calum and Max 2D
Creative Arts Performance Group – Holocaust 2017
January 2017 National Holocaust Memorial Event
Report written by Callum M 2D
7.2.17
The Holocaust National Memorial event took place on the 26th of January this year in Bishopbriggs Academy. Here at Boclair Academy, we held a local event for the schools in the Bearsden and Milngavie area on the 24th of January. It was about remembering all past genocides and holocausts in the past where situations have been bad and lives have been lost. The Boclair Academy event was being held for the benefit of three schools, Boclair, Bearsden, and Bishopbriggs Academy. The event was in the lead up to the national event at Bishopbriggs, which there will be more about later on. You can listen to an interview with one of the lead actors elsewhere afer this report.
The event started with an amazing performance from a school cellist, Nick Dow, which was accompanied by an audio track, with singers, dancers, and three amazing poets. The poem was read by Megan Woods, Rosa Ferguson, and Olivia Maguire, it was called ‘Then They Came For the Jews’.
During the EDC event, the group listened to a woman called Saskia Tepe tell us a haunting story about how her mother had been captured in Nazi Germany, and she had been sent to Auschwitz, but managed to jump out of an open top train into snow to save herself. She spoke about the troubles her mother faced trying to recover after the war and about how she, herself, was born in a camp for Jewish survivors.
The groups also listened to Umutesi Stewart speak, who was a survivor of the Rwanda genocide. She was forced at the age of thirteen to leave the country and carry her siblings to the Congo jungle losing one of malnutrition and assault along the way. She also had to witness her own mother being burnt to death in their home.
The event in Bishopbiggs Academy was the national event where the same people spoke and an orchestra played alongside a singer to entertain those attending the event. There was also a different East-Dunbartonshire school performing a Jewish psalm.
The Holocaust Memorial Day National Event Local Event East-Dunbartonshire was a very poignant, moving ceremony and many EDC pupils have been educated alongside these events about the horrors of genocide.
Calum M, also from 2D conducted interviews with pupils from S2 regarding the Holocauast events.
Here is his BBC School Report Interview podcast, speaking to Megan and Beth about the event.
