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Christmas Service and End of Term Arrangements

Christmas 1Tomorrow afternoon, we will have our annual Christmas Service. As usual the school community will walk to the St Andrew’s Church at the far end of the Main Street between 2.00 and 2.30 pm, supervised by teachers and police.

Our own young people will participate in various musical items alongside an input from the chaplains. As usual, the staff nativity will be a highlight.

The service always rounds off a busy term in an appropriate manner and sets the whole community up well for the Christmas season and activities.

Pupils will be dismissed from the church at 3.15 pm and are free to make their way home from there. There will be staff walking back to the school who will accompany any pupils requiring that.

School will close for the Christmas holidays at 2.30 pm on Wednesday (21st Dec) and will reopen at the usual time on Thursday 5th January 2017.

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a good year ahead.

Mr Sinclair

Right’s Respecting Campaign Group

dsc03850Barrhead High School’s Rights Respecting Campaign Group would like to say a huge thank to staff and pupils for the foodbank donations received this morning. We have had a terrific response to our appeal. We are very proud of the contribution our school is making to support those in our community who find themselves facing difficult circumstances this Christmas.

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Young people have the right to food, clothing, a safe place to live and to have their basic needs met.

EAT BETTER FEEL BETTER

The ARC in partnership with Young Enterprise Scotland are recruiting families to be part of this programme.  If you want to make health changes on how to shop, cook and eat as a family please contact Maxine McFarlane, YES Academy, Rouen Glen Park, Thornlibank, G46 7UG or email your details to maxine.mcfarlane@yes.org.uk

To apply you must:

• Be a local resident in G78
• Commit to a 10 week programme of activities beginning in January 2017

• Include all family members in making healthy changes

The benefits of the programme include:

• Accessing weekly online and face to face support sessions
• A range of incentives and practical resources including healthy recipes and meal ideas

• An opportunity for the family to cook with a community chef for six weeks
• Your family inspiring others to change their diets
• Learn all about growing your own fruit & Veg & reducing food waste

LAST CHRISTMAS AT BARRHEAD HIGH SCHOOL

With the new building well on its way, this is possibly our last Christmas in this building.  Pupils and staff therefore have started decorating classrooms, games hall and today pupils started decorating the dining hall.  Christmas parties have been organised for S1, S2 and the seniors over the coming 2 weeks and all junior pupils have been learning traditional Scottish ceilidh dances.  Pupils have enjoyed the dancing so much that they even had a quick practice in the Dining Hall at lunchtime today.  Details of the parties will be on the website next week.

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Diana Awards Recognise our Pupils

badgeTwo of our young people have had their initiative and involvement recognised at a high level when they received Diana Awards on Monday.

 

Our Head Boy, Adam Innes, was recognised for the work he has put in supporting other pupils in various sporting activities.  Adam has used his own skills – you may remember him as the pupil who somersaulted over my head at the PE Showcase event – to great effect. He is probably the opupilsnly pupil I would ever have trusted to make that manoeuvre!

His fellow sixth year pupil, Alana Bowden, was recognised for the work she has done in school supporting some of our younger pupils in the Support Base. Alana most recently has been very persuasive in encouraging me to part with money to help fund a lifeskills trip she has organised for some of the young people.

At an awards ceremony on Monday, co-hosted by broadcaster Bryan Burnett and our very own Tom Mackay, as part of the INSPIRE series, the two young people received their awards to recognise and reward the actions they have taken to make a difference.

Well done to both of them and a big well done to Tom who was a real hit with his relaxed style of compering.

Mr Sinclair

The link below will take you to the article in the Herald which features our pupils.

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ALADDIN PANTO – TICKETS ON SALE

Tickets on sale in the Business Studies Department from 1245 hours every day.

Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 December 2016 7pm start in theatre

Adults £5                                            aladdin-2

Concession/Pupils £3

Family (2 adults and 2 children) £12