The Modern Languages Department would like to say “Auf Wiedersehen” to the German Exchange Teacher Marie, who returns to Germany at the end of this week. Marie has worked with S3-S6 pupils, and has assisted them in their study of the German language and culture. Marie’s support and hard work have been much appreciated. Marie intends to return to Scotland in the future, as she still has much of the country to see, and she assures us that she will visit the department again on her travels. Gute Reise und Viel Gluck!
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LANARKSHIRE CUP QUARTER FINAL
The school’s senior team began their Lanarkshire Cup crusade in the best possible fashion by beating St Maurice’s by four goals to zero in the competitions quarter-final. A brace each from strike partners, Alistair Small and Barry Frew, sealed the team’s place in the semi-final. The team started the match playing a 3-5-2 formation, which proved capable of working to great effect. Alistair Small set the ball rolling with his finish two minutes into the match. A cross from Liam Scott on the right-hand-side found the striker unmarked at the back post who had the easy task of putting the hosts in front.
Braidhurst doubled their advantage on the 16th minute when Barry Frew latched onto a ball over the top of the St Maurice’s defence and rounded the keeper to score. Barry Frew doubled his tally and put the game to bed shortly before the interval. Braidhurst would have been 4-0 up on the 47th minute if it wasn’t for a goalmouth stramash which saw Marley Redfern’s shot blocked unbelievably from close range. The resultant shot from Aiden McLaughlin was arrowed high over the bar.
The fourth goal eventually came four minutes from time. Barry Frew chased down a diagonal ball player over the top of the opposition defence and surged into the box. He got his head up and cut the ball back for his partner in crime, Alistair Small, to slot the ball home.
Report by: Jay Blakeway
VEX ROBOTICS – NATIONAL FINAL
Congratulations to the school’s robotic teams “KOALA-T” and “Anonymous” for reaching the quarter finals in the UK National Vex robotics competition in Telford.
The Vex Robotics Challenge is the world’s largest and fastest-growing robotics competition for high schools, colleges and universities. More than 10,000 teams from 32 countries took part in over 750 tournaments to compete to become the best in the world.
Nearly 60 teams had qualified for the UK finals, which took place at the Telford International Conference Centre. At the competition the North Lanarkshire teams took on the best of the UK with the Braidhurst teams making it through to the quarter finals.
In the VEX Competitions, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams from around the world in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more.
The Braidhurst robotics club has been very well supported by North Lanarkshire and includes pupils ranging from S1 to S4 including three S5 female students who act as STEM ambassadors and have committed to supporting the younger less experienced members. They are true role models and are equipping the developing young minds to meet the autonomous revolution that all countries are facing.
YAY YA+ BOOK FESTIVAL
A group of 15 pupils from S1 attended the Yay YA+ Book Festival at Cumbernauld Theatre on Tuesday 12th March. Each pupil was selected due to their positive commitment to personal reading and their regular attendance and support of the school library.
After a warm welcome from the festival’s organiser, Kirkland Ciccone, pupils were given the opportunity to participate in short workshops delivered by a range of authors about their writing and inspiration. Authors in attendance included L.J McWhirter, Ross Murdoch, Philip Caveney, Moira McPartlin, and Ross Sayers.
Pupils were very excited to visit the bookshop and purchase a copy of their favourite book from the event which they later got signed by the author. After lunch they keynote presentations from Kirkland and Alex Nye took place in the theatre’s main auditorium and proved an excellent way to end a great event. The pupils returned to school inspired to continue their passion for reading for pleasure and were commended on their impeccable behaviour throughout the day.
PI DAY
Last week the Maths department celebrated Pi Day with pupils in S1-S3 learning about irrational numbers, having pi recitals and competing in Pi Dingbat competitions. It was also the North Lanarkshire Sumdog competition, our top performing class were 1.1 and our school winners were Brianna McLeod, Lucie Macis, Cooper McHolm, Alexander Mathieson and Jay Sneddon.
Head Teachers Update
At Braidhurst we are proud of the achievements of our pupils and our school and all work extremely hard to ensure our young people experience positive wellbeing, attainment and employability outcomes to enable them to successfully fulfill their role in society by moving onto a positive destination.
While academic attainment is important, school league tables are only a very narrow snapshot of a school’s performance. To find out more about what happens at Braidhurst please visit our website or follow our numerous twitter pages.
Mrs Rooney
Headteacher
Easter School 2019
Easter School will run in Braidhurst High School on the 1st and 2nd of April. This presents an excellent opportunity for pupils to hone their skills and gain invaluable exam advice and practice.
Pupils who want to participate should return their forms to Miss Kerr by Friday the 15th of March at the latest.
