Congratulations to Abbie L in S1 for winning the S1 Fairtrade poster competition, promoting Fairtrade to our school community.  Our Fairtrade committee works to sell and promote Fairtrade products to ensure that farmers in developing countries are given fair pay for the work that they do.

During the month of November, S6 pupils entered the Micro-Tyco enterprise challenge and raised over £600. The competition helped students to practice and learn fundamental business principles. The teams had one month to turn £1 seed capital into as much money as possible. All money created is invested by WildHearts in micro-loans for poor entrepreneurs in the developing world. For further information please visit http://wildheartsinaction.org/microtyco/

As part of the S2 Changing Face of Scotland topic in Modern Studies pupils have been learning about elections. Pupils organised themselves into political parties, selected candidates and produced a manifesto after conducting research. Parties had a range of impressive ideas about how to improve the school and local community. On polling day the winning candidate from each class delivered a speech at a special assembly followed by a vote which was open to the whole school.

The winning candidate was from the Right Life party closely followed in second place by the candidate from Aequalis.

Well done to all pupils who participated and campaigned on behalf of their own parties.

S2 Pupils in RME enjoyed learning about the Jewish Passover Meal this week by trying some of the foods to learn about their symbolism and significance for Jewish people.

Well done to Liam G and Kevin G for promoting Mary’s Meals at the recent S1 parents evening. Many children receiving Mary’s Meals don’t have basic learning tools such as pencils and notepads therefore we are collecting items to send by December.

As a Level 2 Rights Respecting School, Woodfarm High is committed to ensuring that all our young people and the school community have a thorough understanding of child rights.

Our committee plans to review our school charter to include the new S1 pupils and ensure that rights-respecting attitudes and language continue to be embedded across the school.

The committee also plans to develop global citizenship opportunities by developing links with a school in France to

promote the UNCRC. The committee will support our cluster primaries with their journey to achieve the award by presenting at assemblies and organising lesson activities.

Since August, pupils in S2 have been learning about the formation of Scottish landscapes and how they are a valuable resource to our tourism industry.  The work they have been doing in class culminated in group presentations, where the pupils took on the role of an advertising agency, tasked with ‘selling’ the Scottish landscape to international tourists.  The winning group from each S2 class went on to compete with each other, ‘Dragon’s Den’ style to find an overall winner.

Thank-you to Miss Vannini, Miss Campbell and Miss Wallace for giving up their lunchtime to judge the competition.  Well done to Aisha S, Laiba S, Shereen H and Aamna A for being voted overall winners!

S3 pupils in RME have been learning about the dangers of sectarianism.  As a response to this, students created posters discouraging sectarian attitudes.  Congratulations to Anna and Lauren in S3 for winning the S3 RME Anti-Sectarianism poster competition.

S3 Modern Studies pupils had an opportunity to participate in a workshop to develop their knowledge of the role of the police. Pupils were given a scenario where they had to investigate a possible terrorist incident and provide answers to questions based on the information given. The workshop encouraged debate surrounding the issue of terrorism and helped pupils understand how the police investigate real terrorist incidents.

Great effort from S1 in their Social Subjects Japan

homework! Ali N in 1.1 produced this fantastic schematic

of a Japanese home – well done!