Many pupils across S1-3 took part in the recent North Lanarkshire Cross Country Championships last week. All pupils did very well to complete the challenging course. Miss Young was delighted with the effort and conduct from all pupils who participated.
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SPRING FAYRE
Our Parent Group held a Spring Fayre on Saturday the 12th of March. There was various stalls, bouncy castle and tea room. We also had a very successful car wash in operation. We are delighted to announce the total raised was £1500 and are very grateful for everyone who gave their time, donated items, in particular local business who gave us many items for the raffle, and helped or attended on the day. All the money goes to supporting our pupils. Hopefully, now they have recovered, our Parent Group will consider making this an annual event.
SCOTLAND U16 SELECTION
Congratulations to fourth year pupil Scott Bell who has been selected to represent Scotland U16 Rugby Team at the Conwy International Rugby Festival in Wales.
Woodville Meeting
A meeting will be held in Braidhurst High School on Tue 8th Mar 2016 from 6pm to 8pm.
The meeting is open to all who live or own properties in Woodville Rise, Forgewood.
FIRE REACH
A group of S3 girls attended Coatbridge community Fire station to take part in the fire reach programme. The week course consisted of team building exercises, constructing a home fire plan, practical activities including scenes where the girls had to rescue casualties from home fires and road traffic accidents and a comprehensive health and safety programme.
The girls developed communication and transferable skills through taking part in practical rescue exercises and group work. They finished the week with a presentation in front of parents, fire personnel and teachers.
This included a practical demonstration of a rescue from a road traffic accident which involved the girls arriving in the fire appliance, removing the roof of the vehicle. Rescuing the casualty from the vehicle using the appropriate apparatus. Administering CPR at the scene and working together to ensure all participants were safe.
The girls enjoyed their experience and worked hard to achieve a recognised National 4 award.
SPRING FAYRE
On Saturday 12th of March Braidhurst’s Parents’ Group are hosting a Spring Fayre at the school. The event will run from 10.30am till 1.30pm. On the day there will also be a bouncy castle with slide to entertain the little ones, a car wash, tombola, raffle, face painting and a variety of stalls selling everything from jewellery to DVDs.
We are grateful to those who have already donated including Gordon Strachan who took time out his busy schedule to autograph a football.
Plus if you are feeling peckish there will be hotdogs, tea, coffee and home baking on sale. Entry is free.
Stalls are also available to hire by local traders so if you are interested in doing so please contact Ms R Anderson on 01698 274999.
Robotics Competition
Congratulations to team Monty from Braidhurst High School and team Phillip for winning the Vex Robotics Regional competition. The Vex challenge is the World’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Robotics Competition for High Schools and Collages. More than 10,000 teams from 32 countries playing in over 750 tournaments compete to become the best globally. Team Monty are now refining their skills in Programming to go to the National competition.
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. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April.
