Tag Archives: Pupils

Congratulations

Congratulations to Gabriel Ross, Sheetal Ravury and Matthew Barclay for their efforts towards making a superb presentation at the ‘Learning About Scotland’ launch event in the Royal Concert Hall last Wednesday.

Mearns Castle was the only Secondary school in Scotland to be invited to speak at the event about our learning experiences in a Scottish Context.

Our presentation showcased the S1 S FACTOR and Art & Design Shirt-creating Project.

Honourable mentions were also made of our S1-6 Music progression route, S3 Business Enterprise ‘Made in Scotland’ topic and work carried out by the English department in relation to Scots dialect and poetry.

Success at Aye Write Festival

On Friday, 9th March, Mrs MacMahon’s S2 class took the competition by storm, winning three out of four categories and coming second in the fourth.

After two workshops with a Glasgow poet, the class had written individual poems and a class poem to perform at the Slam where performance is assessed as well as the quality of the poems.  With a highly vocal support and the best banners in town, Mearns Castle took to the stage: James Daly came second in one of the individual categories and Eilidh Dawson- Bowman was first in the other; winners of the group category, our team comprised of Ross Gray, Finna Parkinson, Amy Bateman, Perle Picard and Charlotte Smith.  The final success was being named the overall winners and being presented with the trophy!

Athletics

Congratulations to the following athletes who took part in the Scottish Schools Cross Country Championships on Saturday:

S2 Holly Still

S2 Rebecca Gray

S3 Rebecca Saxby

S2 Ross Gray

S6 David Clarke

All athletes ran superbly well but special mention must go to Holly Still and Rebecca Saxby who came 5th and 8th respectively in the Girls’ Group C race.  This also means that the girls have been selected to run for Scotland in the forthcoming Home International at Strathallan at the end of March.  This is an outstanding achievement!  Well Done!

S4/S5/S6 – Business Management and Administration Pupils

Working lunch will still be running for pupils taking Business Management and Administration. 

Please come to Miss Lal’s room (B14) and bring your lunch to class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The working lunch will allow you to build upon your ICT skills and knowledge and evaluate your literacy skills by having a choice of varied tasks, activities and resources to work from.