Congratulations to the Young Enterprise Team – On the Go, for their success at the Trade Fair event on Tuesday night. The team worked very hard to create an excellent Trade Stand to market their company and their products. They were all very professional on the night impressing customers and the Judges.
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As a result of their hard work the Team won the runner up award for Best Trade Stand and Poppy won the Banter Award for charming potential customers.
In Summer 2016 Mearns House will open across from our school on Waterfoot Road. It is a state of the art care home for the elderly. The new development will include a café, which will also be open to the general public.
Pupils at Mearns Castle have been invited to take part in a competition to name the café. The winning entry will receive an Ipad mini and will also have their idea used as the café name.
To access an entry form for the competition click here or collect one from your Year Head. All entries should be passed to Miss McLachlan by Friday 6th May. Good luck!
Our gymnasts had an amazing day at the East Renfrewshire Gymnastics Competition. The level 1 team – Molly Fitzpatrick, Emma Barclay, Katie Little and Eilidh Steven won the Team Gold award and the other level 1 team achieved the Team Bronze award. The level 2 teams won the Silver and Bronze Team awards narrowly missing out by 0.1 for the Gold. A special congratulations goes to Emma Barclay – level 1 and Lori Cook – level 2 who both won the individual competitions on the day. The level 1 and level 2 teams who gained 1st and 2nd place have qualified to represent East Renfrewshire at the Scottish Schools Competition later this year. Well done to all the gymnasts who took part.
The To Absent Friends Essence of a Memory competition ran as part of the Luminate Festival of Creative Ageing. It challenged people take a photo and write up to 50 words which together evoke a story or memory of a dead loved one. The Higher photography class sent in individual entries and three of our students won the under 18 category. Congratulations to Maida Asif, Emma Smith and Amyrt Narwan. The winning images are going to be displayed throughout Scotland for the next year in a travelling exhibition.
East Renfrewshire Council won the Inter Authority Athletics Championships on Tuesday 16 June.
17 pupils from Mearns Castle HS represented the Local Authority and competed to a very high standard against pupils from across the West of Scotland.
This is a fantastic achievement so congratulations to the following pupils who were selected based on their performances in the ERC Athletics Championships held on Tuesday 2 June.
A massive congratulations to Hassan Sheikh who won the Young Football Journalist of the Year after submitting a very impressive report based on the Burnley v Leicester City game.
All 9 finalists offered a very high standard of writing in their final reports and did extremely well to get to the final.
You loved the MCHS scarves created by Red Thistle, now love the company and promote Mearns Castle across Scotland.
The People’s Choice Award as part of the national Young Enterprise Awards competition has been opened for public votes. This is an opportunity for you to support your Red Thistle YES team who are representing the school at this prestigious national event. It is so easy to take part.
Use the link below or Google search for ‘Daily Record People’s Choice Awards’then simply click on the Red Thistle button at the bottom of the page. PLEASE VOTE for Red Thistle NOW & Tomorrow & the next day & every day until votes close next Wednesday.
Then send a link or voting request to all your face book and twitter friends asking them to support your team and school. We are in it, but we need your help to win it, Vote now!
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