S6 Parents’ Evening TOMORROW Thursday 31st January

Please come along with your parent(s) to your last parent evening meeting . You should be ready to discuss your progress and targets for all  your subjects and your contribution to the wider life of the school. Please collect your PSHE Wider Achievement  booklet from your Pastoral teacher in PSHE tomorrow and complete the report reflection section. You should take your booklet to your parent meeting .

National Holocaust Memorial Day

See the link below for media coverage of the Holocaust Memorial Day

School pupils take part in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day.

"We hear the stories but today it feels so real."Hundreds of school pupils have taken part in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day.

Posted by STV News on Monday, January 28, 2019

A group of 20 sixth year pupils attended a National Holocaust Memorial Day event yesterday at Eastwood theatre and the Head boy John Lynch and Head Girl Francesca Crilley attended a similar evening event.

The event included A “Gathering the Voices” exhibition  https://www.gatheringthevoices.com/ and keynote speeches from ;

Cabinet Secretary Aileen Campbell; Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government,

Martin Stern – a Holocaust survivor,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/27/holocaust-memorial-day-martin-stern)

‘Children of Survivors’ a Rwandan poem

Farida Abbas Khalaf – Farida is a Yazidi survivor of ISIS enslavement and genocide in Northern Iraq,

https://j4c2018.org/en/speaker/farida-abbas-khalaf/

The event included music provided by East Renfrewshire’s School’s String Octet and a performance by Paisley Grammar Celtic Ensemble

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