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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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Barrhead Pupils on TV for Waterworks Award

Grow Wild won the Best Environmental Project award at the recent Big Lottery Awards. Some of our pupils were present on the day when the award was announced at the Waterworks in Barrhead and then featured in the video clip played at the awards ceremony with 2 of the girls speaking (unfortunately although the other 2 also spoke well, they suffered at the hands of the editors!).

The extract below is from the Awards ceremony on BBC on Sunday 11th September.

Big Lottery Awards – Grow Wild Waterworks Project

Celebrating outstanding success

On Tuesday evening, we held our SQA Awards Ceremony to recognise a number of individuals who had outstanding success in their SQA exams.

imageAs usual we recognised the pupils from S4 who had attained a National 5 award in 8 or 9 subjects. This year we had 21 of them including 2 who achieved 9 A passes – Ben Cross and Briony Giblin.

We also acknowledged the 27 pupils in S5 who achieved 4 or 5 Highers. 4 of these young people achieved all 5 awards at an A grade.

imageFor the first time this year we also identified and recognised the individual with the highest mark in each subject in the SQA exams.

 

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Another new award this year has been to celebrate the Dux and Runner-Up – the S5 pupils who scored the highest levels across all their 5 subjects. This year Iain MacCuish was our Dux and Amie MacKenzie was Runner-Up.

 

Well done to all pupils whose achievements were recognised on the night. Well done to all the other pupils whose own achievements were also significant for them.

BLOOMING MARVELLOUS – Barrhead Waterworks

Barrhead Waterworks won a public vote in November 2013 and became Grow Wild’s flagship site in the UK. The original project was led by East Renfrewshire Council and Barrhead High pupils and staff played a key role in the setting up the project and in winning the competition at the time. Each new S1 yeargroup has returned to the site since then and helped maintain it alongside other community groups, making it a special place for the town.

DSC01634Some S4 pupils, who were the first pupils involved when they were in S1,  returned to visit the site to hear some great news. Grow Wild has today been named UK’s Best Environment project in this year’s National Lottery Awards, and it had been decided that the Barrhead Waterworks site was the most appropriate place to make the presentation.

TV presenter on BBC One’s Countryfile and star of Strictly Come Dancing, Anita Rani, was present to hand over the award and took time to talk to our pupils (Ailidh Hamilton, Cara Stevenson, Holly Campbell and Erin Brown) about the part they had played.

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SQA RESULTS

SQABy now all our S4, S5 &S6 should have received their SQA results and hopefully most will be happy with their achievements. We have seen some very good results.

However we know there will be some pupils who have not achieved what they hoped for. If you wish to discuss your results further, and particularly if you need to renegotiate your option choices for this session, Mrs Crawford (new S5) and Mr Beaton (new S6) will be available this Friday (12th Aug) to meet with you between 8.45 am and 10.20am or from 12.30pm to 1.30 pm.

Celebrating Achievement Showcase

If you missed the event on the night, or even if you were there and want to relive the excitement of the moments – check out the clips below.

The evening opened with our 3 missing gymnasts running around the school, chased without success, by the intrepid Mr Maybury:

Once he got them to the Games Hall, then things really took off – right over Mr Sinclair’s head … and the night just got better and better! What a showcase!

 

Football News

Hard lines to the U13 football team who narrowly missed out on qualifying for the West Regional 7s Finals recently, finishing second in their qualifying group. 

Again on the park the boys were a credit to the school.

Pupils involved:

Lewis, Christopher, Ross, Andrew, Lewis, Aiden, Jamie, Jac, Ross

MOTM: Jamie

 

Under 14s football

footballteamcoloursLast week the boys travelled to Lenzie Academy to play their 2nd round cup tie, on what was a cold and wet night the boys ran out 1-0 winners.

Goalscorer: Scott slotted the ball home from inside the penalty box after he was set up by Owen who ripped open the oppositions defence with a mazy run which started just inside the oppositions half.

MoM: Scott who accompanied his goal with a solid and industrious shift on the right side of midfield.

All of the boys worked their socks off and were superbly behaved, though special mention must go to Hassan who stepped in last minute to play in goals, and despite not being a goalkeeper, managed to keep a clean sheet.

 

Well done boys, the third round awaits.

 

Under-14s Football Team

footballteamcoloursThe scores are in: U14 Football team.

 

Barrhead HS 1–1 Eastwood HS.

Goal scorer: J Catlow who superbly rounded the keeper when put through one on one.

MoM: E Lithgow

 

Williamwood HS 2-1 Barrhead HS.

Goal scorer O Wilson from the penalty spot.

MoM: O Wilson.

 

St Ninian’s HS 9-0 Barrhead HS.

MoM: L McGarry who gave nothing less than 100% the entire game.

 

Although the results aren’t quite going the way the boys would like; their behaviour, effort and attitude has been brilliant, a real credit thus far.

Thanks

Mr Herd