Many thanks to everyone who contributed to a very successful Charities Week. Money is still being counted at the moment but it looks as though we have raised around £6,000 as result of last week’s activities.
Well Done to everyone !!
Category Archives: congratulations
Giffnock North Schools’ Cross Country
Congratulations to all the athletes who took part in the cross country races on 21st October at a very muddy Rouken Glen Park. All runners ran very well but special mention must go to the following:
S1/S2 Girls’ Race – 3rd Nicky Miller
S3/S4 Boys’ Race – 1st Ross Gray, 3rd Amit Kumar
S3/S4 Girls’ Race – 1st Holly Still, 2nd Rebecca Saxby
The girls team, with Morna Weir, also won 1st Team
S5/S6 Girls’ Race – 1st Kirsty Miller
Once again, well done to all athletes, some of whom were running for the school for the first time.
Raising Money For Cancer Research
Two of our pupils Fraser and Victoria McKinlay helped their mum Alison to officially hand over a cheque for the wonderful sum of £7770 to Dr Reed at the Beatson, West of Scotland Cancer Centre on Tuesday 2nd October.
The money was raised from a charity night which was held at the Renfrew Ferry on Friday 8th June. Fraser and Victoria helped with the planning and organisation of the event and on one of their holidays from school, sold £1430 worth of tickets for the gig and raffle tickets.
The money will be used to help purchase a new piece of scanning equiptment which will be used in the planning of radiotherapy treatment.
Well done Fraser and Victoria
Congratulations
Well done to Ross Taylor, S6, Zak Vinter, S3, Kate Taylor, S4 and Keri Anderson, S6 for winning the qualifying event at the Scottish Schools Dry Slope Series on Saturday. They will compete in the finals on November 12th.
Additionally, on the Sunday, the team won the Dry Slope Championships at Hillend. Mearns Castle took 1st and 2nd in the male category with Ross and Zak, respectively. Kate finished 2nd in the girls and Keri finished 5th. With over 180 skiers at the championships, this is an exceptional effort from our pupils.
Senior Award Ceremony
Mearns Castle’s Senior Award ceremony took place last night. We shared in the many successes of our pupils in academic, sporting, enterprise, community and creative fields.
Click here to see more pictures from the night.
Eco-Schools Scotland 1,500 Green Flag Award
Today Mearns Castle was awarded the 1,500th Scottish Eco-Schools Green Flag.
The flag was raised today by Scottish Government Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages, Dr Alasdair Allan MSP.
Mr Smith said at the ceremony ‘We are very proud to receive our green flag and in particular to be the recipient of 1,500th in Scotland. Our school and the schools who have received flags before us have shown commitment and determination in being more environmentally friendly in our actions.
‘The Green Flag and Eco-Schools initiative and the great deal of work carried out in schools are helping to change attitudes towards the environment and you can see new generations coming through who care more and do more for their local and global environment. I’m very proud of Mearns Castle’s achievements and of the pupils and staff who have worked so hard to gain our school the 1,500th Green Flag’.
Click here to see more pictures from the event.
Andrew Through To His Third Paralympic Final
Andrew Mullen swam yet another personal best of 39.71 seconds in the 50m butterfly to win a place in final tonight.
Andrew swims about 8pm tonight. GO Andrew!!!!
Andrew Swims Superbly in Paralympic Final
Andrew Mullan broke his personal best twice today in London and finished fourth in the men’s 50 butterfly S5.
First he finished second in his heat in a time of 39.69 and then he finished fourth in the final with an even better time of 39.54.
As you can see above Andrew narrowly missed out on the bronze medal.
Andrew has another chance of getting a medal in the 50 butterfly which takes place tomorrow.
GO Andrew!!!!!
