During the recent Ice Bucket Challenge craze, Mr McKenna, S6 Year Head, was challenged by his pupils to take part. Mr McKenna set a goal to raise £500 for MND Scotland, and within a week, over £550 was kindly donated. As Mr McKenna completed the challenge, in his suit and tie, in front of his year group, he nominated the Pupil Leadership Team and the Head Teacher, Mr Smith, to join in during charities week. They all took part and the pupils witnessed the hilarious soaking of Mr Smith.
On Monday 15/12/14, Ian McWhitter, Head of fundraising at MND Scotland, visited Mearns Castle to thank the pupils for their kind donation and picked up a cheque for £800! This money would fund the care of a patient living with Motor Neurone Disease for almost a year. A huge thanks goes to the pupils and staff at Mearns Castle who participated in the ice bucket challenge and donated to MND Scotland. A special mention should go to Hannah Dodds and Martin Lyttle S6 for organising the event.
Congratulations to Haider Suleman who achieved the joint top score in the higher chemistry final examination in May. Haider achieved 100% in his final exam and this outstanding result was recognised at the Science and Parliament event in ‘Dynamic Earth’, Edinburgh. Haider was accompanied by his family to see him get his award. S6 Depute head Jim McKenna and PT Chemistry/Physics Michael McGarry were delighted to attend and join in the celebration. He was presented with the award by Dr Alasdair Allan MSP (Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages), Professor Lesley Yellowlees CBE FRSC FInstP FRSE (former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry), Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, PRSE FRAS (President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh).
Congratulations to Haider Suleman S6Ivy Ng S6 Morna Weir S5 Stuart Milloy S5 who gained 3rd place in the Regional Finals of the Senior Maths Team Challenge held at Paisley University on November 13th.
Twenty one teams took part so this is a splendid achievement. Well done!
S2, S3 and S4 have been busily producing Commonwealth Flags in Citizenship classes. These Flags will be used to create bunting to line the Route the Queen’s Baton will take through East Renfrewshire on the 16th July.
Of course, there has to be a bit of competition with the best flags being awarded with House points. The winners were Emma Smith and Javairia Sami, Helen Hewitt and Mahnoor Rahman.
After a very tough appointment process we are pleased to announce the following pupils have been successful in being appointed to the following pupil leadership roles.
Head Girl: Claire Hammond Head Boy: Gregor Dron
Depute Head Boy: Ross MacKenzie Depute Head Girl: Laura Miller
Mr McKenna was very impressed with all pupils who put themselves forward and looks forward to a great year working the successful candidates.
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