Note There are some activities for up to  age12 and a few in Williamwood HS and Mearns Castle HS) for up to age 16.
East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure’s  holiday activities are now available for booking.

We are proud at ERCL to have an array of fantastic, supportive and enthusiastic coaches who strive daily towards building an active, healthier and positive future for you and your family!

Rest assured, you and your child(ren) can learn and develop in a fun, safe and friendly environment, where you can hone skills to use for the rest of your lives.

To view our activities, please click on the following link for Holiday Activities and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Additionally, please find attached a link for our current gym & fitness promotional offer, a free one day gym pass simply follow the link, fill in your details and we will do the rest. We would love to see you at any one of our four centre’s across East Renfrewshire – Barrhead Foundry, Eastwood Park Leisure, Eastwood High Sports Centre & Neilston Leisure – come on down and Find Your Fitness!

Regards

Sports Development

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Limited

A number of S1 and S2 students have been memorising Pi in preparation of today – PI DAY 2018.

Well done to Blair who set a new Barrhead High School record of 104 decimal places!!

Aiysha did very well, coming second only to Blair, by reciting Pi to 33 decimal places, and winning the girls prize!

This week is British Science Week 2018 – celebrating everything STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths).

In school, all students will be given a presentation highlighting some amazing science facts, and given the opportunity to get involved in a science treasure hunt (prizes for the winners!).

For parents, discussing STEM skills and careers is a great way to inspire your child. We hope this STEM Careers Activity Pack will help with this.

#BSW18

All S3 DOFE students  should have attended an important meeting at lunch time today (Wed, 7th March).

At the meeting students were given:

1. A letter detailing an upcoming Parents’ Information Evening.
2. A DOFE Consent Form that should be returned to Mr Boag as soon as possible.

If a student has missed either of these letters, can they collect a copy from Mr Boag.

Due to the heavy snow, our planned trips to Arnold Clark and the Glasgow Clyde College Apprenticeship Event had to be cancelled.

However, there are a number of exciting modern apprenticeship programmes currently open.

Arnold Clark (Closing Date: 8^th March)

https://www.arnoldclark.com/careers/apprenticeships/

Morgan Stanley (Closing Date: 9^th March)

https://morganstanley.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/candidate/postings/3400

Scottish Power (Closing Date: 25^th March)

https://www.scottishpower.com/pages/apprentices.aspx

Please speak to your pupil support teacher if you are looking for help in completing an online application.

Remember to look at apprenticeship.scot for details of other vacancies too!

The S2 parents information meeting about option pathways going into S3 was postponed last Tuesday due to the weather. It will now take place tomorrow Tuesday (6th March) at 7pm in the Big Steps area.

Pupils were given 2 booklets today. One gives a description of the courses potentially available (depending on uptake) and the other gives information about the choices, how they will be made and what supports we will have in place.

Please check in schoolbags!

Mr S

‪Pupils in Miss Ness’ s4 French class had Talking exams scheduled for mon 5th. With not being in school for most of last week these will be postponed and rearranged.

Mr S‬

The physics study weekend due to go out to Lochgilphead tomorrow has now been cancelled

If you liked yesterday’s musical announcement, here is another.

This man seems to have more snow closure videos than we have snow closures (at least I hope so!)

Hopefully this will be our last for this year

Mr S

The Amber Warning for Snow has been extended.  Additionally, it has not been possible to secure sufficient snow ploughing for school car parks and drop off areas, given the high demand on such services. Snow clearance is required before gritting can take place.   Pavements are also unlikely to be treated around main entrances by tomorrow morning.  The weather conditions remain not conducive to safe travel.

All schools and early years establishments in East Renfrewshire will therefore remain closed tomorrow (Friday). Staff and pupils should not attend.

As the closure continues, remember to make use of the school website, Yammer, GLOW and SQA website for past papers to keep up with your preparations for exams – particularly for S4, 5 & 6.

At present we are still expecting the Ski Trip to leave as planned on Saturday morning – at the school by 9.40 am. Bring additional snacks for journey in case of any delays. Keep checking Twitter 2016barrheadski

Again a one-day message – assume OK for Monday unless posted otherwise.

Mr S