The school hosted its annual end-of-year prize-giving on Tuesday 12th June in the assembly hall. The event acknowledged and rewarded the pupils from all year groups who have shown a distinction in academic subject areas; displayed commendable endeavour in their school work; or displayed a passion for personal reading; an excellence in sport; a dedication to volunteering or being a member of the school/house captaincy team. A platform party of distinguished guests were on hand to assist the prize-giving committee with the presentation of awards: the Rev Derek Pope opened the event with his introductory remarks, whilst staff retirees Mr Paterson and Mrs Keatings, Mr McGhee (Continuous Improvement Officer for North Lanarkshire Council), and Ms. McMurrich ( North Lanarkshire Council’s Head of Education – South). John Beaton (FIFA and SPFL Referee) gave his remarks as principal guest and offered the audience an honest and funny account of his time as a pupil at Braidhurst and his career path as a highly successful referee. The evening was also supported with a terrific programme of musical numbers including the concert band, saxophone ensemble and our Scottish pipers and drummers.
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Visit to Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Braidhurst High School robotics club have, by special invitation visited a global leader in technology, namely ,Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), situated in Erskine. The vast 100,000 sq.ft complex is a hub for the company’s refurbishment of IT technology, for example laptops, printers and large servers. Housed within this complex are a number of HPE companies that the club were engaged with.
The visit started with a tour to the 0% waste, IT equipment section run by DXC, then it was on to the high tech world of “app” development by Micro Focus International who are a HPE global enterprise software company.
The host for the day was Mr.Scott McNee who took the club members initially on a tour of the DXC Green engineering, renewal and refurbishment site and then the members were given a workshop by the “app” development team.
After Lunch it was the clubs turn to showcase their award winning robotics team to the directors of the various HPE subsidiaries. After the visit Scott contacted the school to say thank you for bringing such an inspiring group of young people along to HPE.
He commented that in his conversations with the club members, that the visit has had a positive influence on them and broadened their career horizons. Scott’s final remarks in his correspondence were, that Braidhurst High School should be very proud of these young STEM ambassadors. In his opinion it demonstrates what can be achieved when such an enthusiastic team of teachers / influencers give these opportunities to pupils. Scott commented that “They were an absolute credit to both yourselves and the school and it was a pleasure to host you all today”.
S3 BGE graduation video
SUMMER SHOWCASE
The school’s ‘Summer Showcase’, an extravaganza of live music, drama and dance, took place on Thursday 7th June, in-front of a packed audience, who were thoroughly entertained by the fantastic acts. The show opened with a rousing performance from our highland pipers and drummers before moving into a blistering performance of songs from the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ soundtrack by the wind band. Other highlights from the event included the primary choir, the drama sketches and our fantastic dancers. The event was led by Faculty Head of Performing Arts, Ms. Donnelly, ably assisted by Music teachers, Mr Walker and Mr Crawford, and Drama teacher, Mrs Reilly. Once again Braidhurst pupils delivered an amazing show. Well done to all who were involved.
READING CHAMPIONSHIP
Pupil Equity Funding has given us an even greater opportunity to set our own agenda and the means to pursue it. We were very clear, at the start of the session, that raising literacy rates across the Broad General Education phase of the school was one of our key priorities and promoting reading for pleasure has been central to our strategy for achieving this goal. In an age of smartphones, games consoles, social media and television on demand, the humble book is all too easily overlooked. With this in mind, the commitment our pupils have shown to their personal reading is laudable and we were keen to recognise that. The Reading Championship, led by our Librarian, Mrs. Scott, has allowed us to do this. Our aim, moving forward into session 2018-19, is to increase the number of young people who achieve this award.
Prom 2018
Celebrations were in full swing at last week’s annual senior prom with pupils and staff joining together for a night to remember. The prom is always a very stylish and glamourous affair as pupils were dressed in their finest whilst enjoying a delicious meal and lots of dancing at the disco held at Dalziel Park Hotel. The evening proved a fitting send off for those pupils either leaving Braidhurst or returning for S6. The school would like to wish pupils the very best of luck in the future and to thank the pupil prom committee and staff who helped organise another fantastic senior prom.
S5/6 INDUCTION DAY
Our new S5 and S6 pupils recently participated in a senior school induction day. Alongside an inspiring talk from Kieran Aitken, the founder of Orbit and recipient of Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, pupils took part in a range of team-building and problem solving activities.
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