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Brand new senior camp @ Barrhead High for S1 & S2 students!

The hugely successful Education Department Holiday Camp which runs at Barrhead High is now even bigger and better. As well as catering for primary children, we now have a brand new camp for S1 & S2 students. With a bunch of arty and sporty activities, plenty of fresh air fun and a healthy lunch, you’ll be guaranteed to have a ball this Spring. And of course, you’ll take part in our Friday show.
Places are limited – call Customer First on 577 3008 to book. £66 for week 1 and £52.80 for week 2 – or ABSOLUTELY FREE if your child qualifies for a free school meal or has an ALL ACCESS concession card.

Scottish Children’s Book Awards

Barrhead High School Book Group members were delighted to be invited to the awards ceremony of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards held recently in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

They have been reading and reviewing the shortlisted books over the last few months and voting for their favourites. There was an opportunity to meet the authors and the ceremony itself involved a quiz testing the pupils on their book knowledge. Barrhead pupils came sixth out of 23 schools from all over Scotland. Well done!

Friday Lunchtime Drop in Health Clinic

From 7th March, our school nurse, Ellen McEwing will be available every Friday lunchtime for a drop in health clinic.
Ellen will be based in the Counsellor’s Room which is round the corner in the Dealston part of our school.
Pupils do not need to make an appointment. Ellen will be available to give advice. She is experienced in running a school lunchtime clinic.
Pupils can either go along during lunchtime to the drop in service or else they can contact their Pupil Support teacher to arrange an appointment.

Anyone wanting to know more information about this service should contact Mrs Gordon (Depute for Pupil Support) at the school.

RNIB Visit


A speaker from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) visited the school recently to talk to S4 English pupils who have been tuding Edwin Morgan’s poem, ‘In the Snack-bar’.

Pupils listened attentively as Ken Reid described his every day life and answered questions that pupils had prepared.

Here is some feedback from pupils:

“I found the fact that Ken could still negotiate around and cook for himself interesting.”

“I found the visit from Ken interesting because it helped me understand the diffiiculties that blind people have to cope with every day.”

After the S4 class, Ken went on to talk to the first years at their assembly. An enlightening experience for all.