Well done to Owain T (S5), Kieran C (S4) and Jamie Mc (S3) for winning the SAGT GeoQuiz final yesterday.  In the final rounds they saw off competition from Holyrood High School, Stewart’s Melville College and Robert Gordon’s College.

Jonas B, Kelsey M and Emily  applied to attend the J7 summit in Berlin and UNICEF has selected our pupils to represent the UK.

The event will take place from 6 to 14 May 2015 in Berlin and will be attended by teams of six young people from all of the G7 states.

Together with their peers and also with experts, they will examine the key issues of the summit of the G7 heads of state. They will present the results of their work during J7 to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel.

On Friday 23^rd of March, 6 S3 pupils visited Jackton Police Training and Recruitment Centre in order to find out more about careers in the police. Students were given the chance to see riot equipment, police vehicles, inside a jail cell and courtroom, and even had a chance to hold a police baton!

Congratulations to Anna and Dianne in 2.3 for their excellent RME homework of producing 3D educational models.

On Friday 6th March the FairTrade Committee held a whole school event for FairTrade Fortnight. FairTrade Fortnight is an event to raise awareness of FairTrade and who it benefits, helping to raise our Global Awareness. The committee arranged a stall selling FairTrade chocolate dipped strawberries, a ‘Guess the Number of FairTrade Sweets in the Jar’, ‘Guess where the banana is on the grid’ and a ‘Pin the Banana on the Monkey’. The stall also sold a range of other FairTrade goods, including the favourite Divine Bars .

Woodfarm staff and pupils are delighted to announce that we have achieved the level 2 Rights Respecting School Award. We are the first non- denominational secondary school in Scotland to receive this award.

We are delighted to announce that Euan W is one of the representatives for the Eastwood constituency. Euan is committed to ensuring young people are heard by the decision makers of Scotland and he is determined to campaign on the issues which matter most to Scotland’s youth.

Over 90 S2 pupils received their Saltire Award for volunteering in their local community as part of an elective in Social Subjects.

Well done to Owain T, Kieran C and Jamie Mwho won both the local heat and the local final of the SAGT quiz. The team are now through to the National Finals to be held later this month.

Ross O, Emily C and Cameron W should also be congratulated for getting through the local heat to the local finals but were denied a place in the National Finals by Holyrood.

The Scottish Youth Parliament is the democratically elected voice of Scotland’s young people. Young people will be able to cast their vote to elect their local MSYP between Monday 2^nd March 2015 and Friday 13^th March 2015.

We are delighted to announce that Euan W will be standing as the candidate for the Eastwood election. Euan is committed to ensuring young people are heard by the decision makers of Scotland and he is determined to campaign on the issues which matter most to Scotland’s youth.

Please vote for Euan by going online to elections.youngscot.org

You will need your Young Scot card. Remember to select Eastwood as your constituency.