135 pupils and 9 staff had a fantastic day out at Alton Towers theme park last Friday. The pupils were invited to attend the trip as a reward for excellent behaviour, attendance and timekeeping from last session. The trip was a fantastic success and the pupils were a credit to the school and their families. After a long day, staff and pupils were exhausted, but all in attendance agreed, that the day was well worth it. The next rewards trip will be before Christmas with pupils who meet the criteria invited to attend.
Category Archives: Whole School News
SPORTS AMBASSADORS
Braidhurst pupils, Hannah Gordon and Tony Sharkey, travelled to Hampden Park last week to attend the Youth Ambassadors Conference hosted by Sportscotland, the national agency for sport. The lottery funded programme aims to help develop young people as leaders in sport. Hannah and Tony participated in a series of workshops where they learned how to go about setting up a sports council and also how to help encourage greater pupil attendance at sports clubs within school. After the workshops, Hannah and Tony met several Team GB Olympic medallists from Rio 2016, including, swimmer Robbie Renwick and hurdler Eilidh Doyle. Speaking about the event, Hannah commented, “I felt very inspired after meeting the athletes and hopefully Tony and I can represent the school as sports ambassadors to the best of our abilities.”
Parental Engagement Survey
NLC are currently looking at ways to increase and improve parental involvement in schools. They have created a short survey for parents/guardians to complete to enable them to gather your views. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey which you can access using the link below:
S1 ELECTIVE CLASSES
The school’s elective classes for S1 are now up and running. Pupils are able to choose from an array of subjects including Pottery, Musical Theatre, Spanish and Robotics. Mrs Scott, the school librarian, and Mrs Magowan, Principal Teacher of Modern Languages, are leading the school newsletter elective, where pupils meet in the library to improve their literacy skills by writing content and designing the layout of the school’s termly newsletter which is posted on the school website and paper copies issued out to parents and members of the local community.
S1 PARENTS’ EVENING
On Thursday, 8th September S1 Parents’ Evening took place, this was a great success with a high number of pupils and parents attending to learn more about the school’s extra-curricular programme. S2 pupils Olivia Biggart and Cameron May and S5/6 pupils Tegan Quinton, Ben and Kieran McDougall each took to the floor to promote some of the many clubs on offer, in particular those available within the school’s Physical Education and Performing Arts Departments. Pupils then had the chance to sign up for their favourite lunch or after school club there and then.
SCHOOL CAPTAINS
This year’s quartet of school captains have been selected after being interviewed by Depute Head Teacher for S5/6 Miss Anderson. For school session 2016-17 our school captains are Adam Sinnet and Lauren McKinstry whilst our vice captains are Barry Williams and Erin Wright. The pupils are expected to represent Braidhurst both at school and around the local community.
LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORY SHOW
On Saturday 3rd September, Braidhurst High School were honoured to participate in Scotland’s largest family history event at the Motherwell Civic Centre. The exhibition celebrated 25 years of researching Lanarkshire’s ancestors and the Braidhurst stall displayed a rich archive of newspaper clippings and photographs depicting the school’s local history dating from the eighties. On the day visitors were delighted to be able to view and handle a selection of news stories from the school archives. A Special thanks must go to Mrs Scott, Mrs Dalzell and Sarah Cooper (S6) for their time and effort in preparing the materials for display.
