To book your child’s place you need to phone: 0300 123 0770
Event: Glasgow Bellahouston Park – Pretty Muddy 5K (17th September)
Time Slot: 2.30pm
Group Name: Barrhead High School
Group Leader: Suzanne Wallace – Unique Reference Number: 8790678
Group ID: LK6059
Please contact Mrs Wallace at the school if you have any questions!
The PE Dept. are hosting the Barrhead Celebrating Success evening on Wednesday 8th June, to showcase the amazing talents of our young people.
It was a great success last year with some outstanding performances.
This year we are having primary pupils performing as well as pupils from St. Lukes High School.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
Tickets are £2 and available from the PE department.
Hopefully most pupils have enjoyed their holiday weekend – unfortunately for a few there have still been SQA exams! Our exams finish on Friday with PE.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is an Inservice Day so only pupils with exams should be in school. On Wednesday 1st June, we start the new timetable and the existing S1, S2 and S3 move up to S2, S3 and S4 respectively. School starts at the usual time of 8.45 am.
Seniors (new S5 and S6) return on Monday 6th June at the usual time of 8.45 am. Some pupils will need to see Mrs Crawford about changes to options if we have not been able to run all the courses.
On Saturday, 100 pupils, staff, parents and friends headed once again to Conic Hill. As well as a day out for the school community, it was an opportunity to raise funds through sponsorship for the “Send My Friend to School” charity which draws attention to and supports the millions of children who do not have access to education.
The pupils from our Rights Respecting School have coordinated our activities – thanks to them.
The weather was highly unpredictable but ended up in our favour with a dry walk and even some sunshine. Thanks to all who joined us on the day.
New S5 and S6 pupils can come into school on the morning of Thursday 26th May to meet with Pupil Support to make any timetable changes before the start of the new timetable on Monday 6th June.
3 of our S1 pupils – Sophie, Jamie and Kyle – accompanied Mr Sinclair to the official “turf-cutting” event for the new school last week. They were joined by ERC councillors and officials celebrating the start of the process.
It was exciting to see the difficulty they had in finding a bit of turf to cut. Work has already started and things are moving quickly. The noisy pile-driving stage has been completed ahead of schedule with no disruption to the SQA exams. You can now see the shape the building will take from the piles that have been sunk into the ground to support the foundations and the whole area has now been dug up ready.
Sophie wielded a mean spade and the boys could only doff their hats in respect! Well done to all 3.
Mr Sinclair
We are now half-way through Day 2 of the exam programme and things are progressing well.
Over the past few days we have been monitoring noise levels from the work on the new build. While it is great to see things progressing quickly, we have been conscious that we are in the noisiest period of the building work – the piledriving of the foundation supports into the bedrock.
While the noise-levels are not too high, the constant thumping could be disturbing to pupils’ concentration. Consequently, we took the decision yesterday, based on that monitoring, to re-room our exams to the opposite side of the school. When pupils sign in they may be told a different room to go to from what is on their exam timetable but otherwise things will be as before.
We will continue to operate this for the duration of the noisier work to ensure that all pupils have the best conditions possible to produce their best work.
Mr Sinclair
The final Parent Equalities Forum of this session will take place on Thursday 12 May in Mearns Primary School at 7pm.
This will take the form of a ‘showcase’ event with some schools presenting on the work they have been doing around equalities.
We look forward to meeting you on the evening.
These are our final SCHOLAR online sessions for this academic year focusing on exam preparation.
National 5 Maths Monday 9th May 6.00pm
Higher Modern Languages Monday 9th May 7.30 pm
Higher Math Tuesday 10th May 6.00pm
Advanced Higher Modern Languages Tuesday 10th May 7.30 pm
Higher Computing Science Wednesday 18th May 7.00pm
Full details can be found on the SCHOLAR website: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Live_Online_Sessions/
The Tutors will also be online to answer student questions on the discussion boards, details can be found: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Ask_a_Tutor.html
