Woodfarm High continues to promote a rights- respecting ethos by supporting Mary’s Meals and participating in the Backpack Project. The project aims to fill backpacks with basic educational materials to send to children receiving Mary’s Meals. Most of the children who benefit have suffered war, poverty, famine, or natural disaster. You can support the charity by forwarding  items  to the Social Studies faculty.

The faculty will be organising the running club again this year. This is an excellent opportunity to meet new people and get fit. If you would like to sign up please collect a permission form from Mr Taylor or Mrs Johnston.

Supported Study will begin on Thursday 24th September for all subjects. S1 will also have an opportunity to access support to prepare for assessments and complete homework on the last Thursday of every month. Please ensure the sessions are well attended.

It was another successful year for pupils sitting exams in Social Subjects and RMPS. The faculty had a 100% pass rate in all National 5 subjects with 79% of pupils achieving an A grade. The faculty also had a 100% pass rate in Higher History, RMPS and Geography and 98% in Modern Studies. Well done to all our pupils.

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.