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Senior Boys Basketball win

Barrhead High’s senior boys basketball team managed their second win of the week by defeating Gleniffer High school 72 – 24.  The game was played in a good spirit with Gleniffer competing in their first ever basketball league game.

Barrhead’s quality shone through with an excellent first quarter from Craig Campbell and Scott McCuish.  Well done to all the boys who participated.

S6 Prom – Payment due


Tickets for this year’s prom will be approximately £45. The next installment will be £15 which must be paid by Monday 3rd Dec. Collections will be made at assemblies or you can give your money to a Rebecca Jones who will provide you with a receipt of payment.

Staff collections will be made at a later date.

Free online access control software for parents

Argos has partnered with Symantec to provide Norton’s Family Software to parents for free.

The software allows parents to block access to certain types of sites and monitors use.  It works on PCs and laptops and more to the point, on smartphones and tablets.  One of the most popular questions from the October national campaign was from parents worried about how they can control their children’s use of mobile devices and how they would know what type of sites their kids were going to; this software fits that bill.

If you want to know more, click the link above.

Barrhead Rotary Youth Speaks competition

Well done to Daniel Cunningham, Richard Barr and Richard Halligan (S6 pupils) who took part in the Barrhead Rotary Youth Speaks competition against other East Renfrewshire schools. The pupils gave speeches on the influence of social media in society. The standard of presentation was very high and the boys received very positive feedback from all of the judges and assembled teaching staff and parents, not to mention our own MP Jim Murphy, on their outstanding performance. They were praised for working extremely well as a team and being very confident speakers. In truth, at least we thought so, they stole the show!

The Rotary Youth Speaks is just one of many inter school and inter authority debates that have taken place and are scheduled to take place involving Barrhead pupils this year. The boys who took part last night have also competed recently in the English Speaking Union debating competition, winning their section and progressing to the second round while two of our S6 pupils will also be taking part in the Donald Dewar Memorial Debate in the near future where they will be discussing the rights and wrongs of inheritance tax! We also have a group of confident third year pupils who have taken part in inter school debates with Mearns Castle High School recently to great acclaim.

If parents wish to find out more about debating at Barrhead High School they should get in touch with the school by email and direct their enquiry to A Laitano or A Beaton in the English Department. If you are out and about in Paisley on Saturday the 20th you may also wish to pop in to the sheriff court where twelve of our S5 and S6 pupils will be lawyers for a day, prosecuting and defending in a real court of law together with real QCs and real judges!

Senior Boys Basketball Win

Barrhead High School’s senior boys’ basketball team got the new season off to a flyer last night with a win against Renfrew High School.

The boys started the game well, taking a 15-19 lead in the first quarter.  In the second quarter Barrhead consolidated their lead with some excellent 3-pointers from Fraser Black and Stewart Booth.  Jon Faulds also contributed with four consecutive lay-ups without reply.

In to the third quarter and Barrhead came into their own, extending their lead to 15 points (43 – 58).  Stewart Booth produced some of the best basketball of the game scoring 14 of Barrhead’s 21 points this quarter alone. 

As the game entered the final quarter Renfrew High rallied; they found their purpose and drove at the tiring Barrhead defence bringing their score to within four points of Barrhead.  However, man-of-the-match S Booth, pounced on a defensive error and scored a lay-up; winning a foul throw in the process.  Barrhead High went on to win the game by 58 – 67.

Other star performers included Scott MacCuish and Max Curran for some excellent rebounding at both ends of the court.  Thomas McGaughey was forever making darting runs through the middle of the court stretching the opposition. 

Well done to all the boys involved.  Onward and upward!