Tag Archives: – Achievement

Girls Netball Success

WELL DONE GIRLS!!

A huge well done to all girls below who were part of Barrhead High School Netball Team. The girls represented the school in the ER Netball Tournament held at St Ninian’s last week. The girls were excellent ambassadors for the school and played to a very high standard.
Amy Stewart, Jessica Christie, Iona Coogan Horne, Lauren Kelly, Chloe Brown, Emily Thompson, Ashley MacIntyre, Allana Bowden, Briony Giblin, Daniella Mundemba, Ailidh Hamilton.

Thank you to Miss Walker who also came along and umpired throughout the afternoon.
Well done!
Mrs Ross

Scottish Children’s Book Awards

Barrhead High School Book Group members were delighted to be invited to the awards ceremony of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards held recently in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

They have been reading and reviewing the shortlisted books over the last few months and voting for their favourites. There was an opportunity to meet the authors and the ceremony itself involved a quiz testing the pupils on their book knowledge. Barrhead pupils came sixth out of 23 schools from all over Scotland. Well done!

Swimming Success!

Scottish National Swimming Championships – Dec 2013

Kirsty McGinley (S3) recently took part in the above swimming championships and had a fabulous weekend smashing PB’s in every event she entered.

Kisrty’s new times are as follows:

800m freestyle – 9:39:87
400m freestyle – 4:45:29
100m Individual Medley – 1:12:74
400m Individual Medley – 5:16.41

In the 400M Individual Medley, Kirsty came 17th out of 72 entries – a fabulous achievement considering Kirsty was swimming against the best young swimmers in Scotland and England.

Kirsty’s next big event will be later this month when she returns to the Commonwealth Pool for the East Districts Championship.

Mini Trials

 

 

On Saturday the 30th of November Barrhead High senior pupils took part in The East Renfrewshire Mini Trials held in the Paisley Sheriff court.
The pupils had prepared two cases thoroughly and were excited about the prospect of ‘competing’ against other East Renfrewshire schools in open court.
The day was split into two halves: the morning was spent in court dramatically reproducing an assault case, while the afternoon was spent re-enacting a civil case involving a snail and a ginger beer company! Needless to say, Barrhead High School’s top lawyers and witnesses achieved a positive result in both of the cases, persuading the jurors of the strength of their cases.

At the end of the day the pupils were awarded certificates of participation from The Dean of The Faculty of Advocates who expressed his delight at the quality of the arguments prepared by the teams involved. Barrhead’s own coach, lawyer Gordon Ritchie had this to say: “Please pass on my congratulations to your pupils who excelled at this years event. The lawyers were confident and assured and asked relevant and pertinent questions, and I was particularly impressed by the two speeches. The witnesses also gave great performances and all the pupils were a credit to their school.”
It is great to see the pupils at Barrhead High school excelling in public speaking, particularly when so many teachers promote this as a key skill in their classrooms as part of the curriculum for excellence.

Well done all of those who took part.

The Rotary Club – Public Speaking Competition

The Rotary Club Public Speaking Competition is one of the most sought after titles in the competitive calendar for East Renfrewshire schools. This year’s team from Barrhead High School (Ciara Morton, Alice McNair and Olivia Ross) were fierce contenders as they took to the stage at St Luke’s High School to discuss “The Plight of Women”. This impassioned speech was delivered by Alice McNair who was confident in her delivery and held her audience’s attention with ease. Alice spoke eloquently and wowed her listeners with her original view on feminism: describing how it does more to contribute to rather than eradicate inequality. Alice was supported by her chairperson, Ciara Morton, who explained the reasoning behind Alice’s point of view and by Olivia Ross who delivered the Vote of Thanks.

The team worked well together and produced a high quality piece of work and delivered it with style and flair, much to the enjoyment of the audience. The girls were able to answer a question from Jim Murphy MP and held their own; remaining sure and steadfast to their principles.

The girls represented the school well and are thankful for the support they received; they especially wanted to thank Mrs Richardson (Principal Teacher of English) for her unwavering support and for the members of staff who gave up their lunchtime to support the girls and hear them rehearse. The support they received has allowed the girls to build their confidence and they believe they have benefitted from their experience.

Despite the fact that the girls did not win the competition, they are heartened by the feedback they received from both pupils and staff of other schools. The girls delivered an enthralling speech which was widely considered by most of the audience to be one of the front runners for the title. Well Done!

We’ve Won the Kew Garden Project!!!!

     

Kew Garden Grow Wild Project – We Won!

This will bring £100,000 to see the old waterworks transformed into a wild flower garden area, which will be a tremendous boost to the local community and the town of Barrhead.

Thank you to everyone who voted for Barrhead Water Works Project. This is a fabulous achievement not only for the school but for our local community.

We hope work on creating the wild flower garden on the site will start soon and pupils from the school will be involved.  We will keep you posted on progress.