The Parent Council will be hosting a quiz at Shanks Bowling club on Friday 22nd March from 7.30pm to help raise funds for the school. If you would like to join us, tickets can be purchased from the school office for £5.
Free Distance Learning Courses
Reid Kerr College are offering a variety of free distant learning courses, more information can be found here.
With the exception of ECDL all courses are of nine weeks duration. No previous knowledge or experience of computers or the Internet is required. However, it would be advantageous if you had some basic IT skills.
Easter Revision Courses
Cardonald College are offering revision classes in a range of subjects. Bookings can be made online and discounts available depending on the number of subjects you sign up for.
Click here for more information.
S1/S2 Italian Club
Do you fancy learning to speak Italian?
The Italian language club meets every Thursday lunchtime in the English Dept (Room 35)
If you are interested in Italian and want to learn a new language you are more than welcome to join us.
We will be learning Italian through a number of fun activities as well as talking about Italian culture and football,
watching some italian films and e ven trying some authentic italian food!
Hope to see you there
Miss Laitano and Mrs Jones!
S3 Study Skills Event & Parent’s Information Evening
On the Thursday, 7th March all of our S3 students will be involved in a Preparing for Examinations Workshop. The workshop will be presented by a company called Learning Performance and is aimed at increasing student confidence and preparedness for tests/assessments and examinations. The workshop will be attended by all S3 students and will assist them in techniques such as mind-mapping, condensing and retaining information and various types of note-taking.
In addition we have arranged a Parental Information Evening on Tuesday, 26th March at 7pm in Ralston. The evening will look to support parents with useful ideas and advice on how you can help your child prepare for assessments and examinations. If you would like to attend the Parental Evening, then please download the attached letter and complete the tear-off slip. This should then be returned to the the school office as soon as possible.
We hope all S3 students benefit from the workshop on the 7th March and look forward to meeting as many parents as possible on Tuesday, 26th March.
Spring Holiday Activities
East Renfrewshire Council’s, Sports Services Spring Holiday activity programmes are now available for booking. To view all of our activities, please click here.
Ailish Douglas – 2 mile swim!
Congratulations to Ailish Douglas, who completed her sponsored swim for Alzheimer Scotland – 100 lengths in 65 minutes – and then went on to do an extra 30 for “fun” so she could complete 2 miles!
Both Barrhead News and PULSE FM will feature her efforts.
Ailish is 90% of the way towards her £600 target – if you wish to add support, please speak to Ailish or visit her justgiving webpage.
S6 YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHS
All S6 pupils will get t
heir individual, year and friendship groups photographs taken on Monday 25 February for the Yearbook. The photographer will be taking the photographs periods 1, 2 and 3. Please ensure full school uniform. Photographs will be available to buy at a later date. A deposit of £10 for your year book is required by the end of February.
My World of Work
Subject choice help from My World of Work
Some great new content has just been launched on My World of Work to help school pupils and parents/carers get to grips with subject choice decisions.
Pupils can use the online Strengths tool to find out more about what they’re good at and what that might mean for a career. The content also includes some great tips from pupils, parents and careers advisers on subject choices such as:
- Help! What subjects should I choose? Some advice on what to think about
- Jobs of the future. While subject choices are important the world of work is changing. Find out what jobs you might end up doing that haven’t even been invented yet!
- Dougie Vipond gets to grips with My Strengths. The television presenter explores the tool to find out how it could help his teenage son Fin with his choices
- 5 easy steps to helping your child. Includes a video of school pupils suggesting how they would like their parents to support them
For more information, click here.
My World of Work is a Skills Development Scotland service that provides a unique mix of resources, features and job information to help people discover more about themselves and the future world of work.
S2 Parents Information & Parents’ Evening
Over the coming fortnight Barrhead High will be holding both an S2 Information Evening and an S2 Parents’ Meeting.
Tuesday, 19th February at 7pm – S2 Parents’ Information Evening.
Tuesday, 26th February at 4pm-6.30pm – S2 Parents’ Meeting.
For more information, click here.
