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A reminder to all senior students and their parents, that our Higher Education Information Evening will take place on Thursday, 21st August.
If you have questions about entry requirements, course outlines or finance then come along to the Ralston house area where representatives from universities & colleges will be able to answer your questions.
We look forward to welcoming you from 6.30pm onwards.
Almost every pupil turned up for the first day back in full uniform and it made for an impressive sight. Once again the local community were noticing and praising them and Barrhead High is rightly being recognised as an excellent school with excellent young folk.
A big thank you to all pupils and parents for supporting this.
The new PE polo shirts looked great. The uptake has been so good that Mans World have run out of stock … but more are on order.
If anyone has not yet managed to get the appropriate uniform or is having any difficulty doing so, please speak to your Pupil Support teacher or Year Head.
Barrhead High School has attained its best ever SQA results in three out of the four key measures.
Over 50% of the S4 yeargroup gained 5 or more Int 2 passes, up from last year’s best to date of 43% – a tremendous rise and improvement!
34% of S5 pupils achieved 3 or more Higher passes, beating last year’s best ever of 31%.
14% of the S5 pupils passed 5 Highers – a rise of 2% from last year but not quite matching our best ever 15% in 2012. Again 5 pupils achieved 5 A passes in their Highers.
25% of our S6 yeargroup passed at least one Advanced Higher beating last year’s best ever of 18%.
These are fantastic results rewarding the hard work of both pupils and staff with the support of our parents. Well done to all of you. We are very proud of our young people and I am sure you all are too.
Kirsty McGinley (S4) recently attended a swim meet and won 2 gold medals.
The first medal came in the 400m Individual Medley, with Kirsty recording a time of 5:12:74 mins; a 4 Sec improvement on her personal best.
A second gold medal was won in the 1500m Freestyle event. Kirsty beat her Personal Best by an incredible 27 Secs, recording a time of 18:53:79 mins.
Well done and keep up the hard work.
Please be aware that the above Gents Only evening to be held on Friday, 20th June has been cancelled.
All parents who purchased a ticket will be contacted by text message.
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Only 2 weeks after winning the Voluntary Group of the Year category of the official East Renfrewshire Volunteer Awards 2014 organised by local MP Jim Murphy and MSP Ken MacIntosh, the Young Team were back in action cleaning up graffiti.
Over the session they have been involved in a number of projects which have helped give something back to the community of Barrhead and the East Renfrewshire area.
A big well done and thank you to all the young folk who have participated and a special thank you to our Campus Cop, Alan Walker, for leading this project.
Click here to see the Young Team in action.
he following Barrhead High students achieved either a Bronze, Silver or Gold medal at the recent ER Sports Day.
Well done to all of the pupils that were involved!
S1 Girls – Shot Put: 1st – Iona McDermott, 3rd – Iona Ross.
S3 Girls – 1500M – 2nd -Kirsty McGinley.
S3 Boys – High Jump – 2nd – Adam Innes.
S3 Boys – Relay – 3rd – Stephen Pringle; Connor Davidson; Conrod Proctor; Lucas O’Neil.
Two hustings meetings have been arranged for senior pupils who will be eligible to vote in September’s Independence Referendum.
The meetings will be held on:
1. Wednesday, 11th June in Williamwood High School
and
2. Monday, 16th June in Barrhead High School.
Both meetings will start at 7pm and include speakers from the Yes and Better Together campaigns. Pupils will then be given an opportunity to ask questions.
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A big thank you to all the pupils who took part in the Barrhead Cyclo-cross event held in the Cowan Park on Monday, 12th of June. Six high schools from around East Renfrewshire were involved, with Woodfarm High School the eventual winners. A great day was had by all.
A special thanks to: Mr. Boag, Miss. Booth, Mr. Russell, Miss. Van Looy, Mr. Maclean, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Nugent, Miss. Chirnside & Mr. Brown.
See you all at the same time next year.
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
