The hall at Braidhurst was packed on Monday 16^th December for the Christmas Dance. Well over 200 pupils danced to the music provided by the Cairnhill Ceilidh Band. The pupils from all year groups took part with great enthusiasm and no small measure of skill. The PE Department teaching of traditional Scottish dances shone through the entire evening which was compered expertly by Dr Gardner and Mr Hamilton. Staff well organised by Mrs Libby Doris, catered for the pupils and the vast number of staff in attendance. The highlight of the evening was the senior pupil ‘dance off’ judged by Mr Hannan and Mrs Clarke and won by Falakanaz Khan and Jazzmin Fernandez.

The annual line dancing competition took place during Friday 13 December when over 600 pupils and staff packed the assembly hall and strutted their stuff. This is the most popular inter house event of the year and hundreds of pupils practice every lunchtime for weeks leading up to the day of the competition. After a very difficult task the judges decided that Rannoch House were the 2013 champions.

On Thursday 12 December, a group of 35 drama pupils from S3-S6 land 4 staff took a trip to the Tron Theatre to see their pantomime.

The show was excellent in every way, fabulous singing, great acting and packed full of laughs. One of our S6 pupils, Dayle Archibald was invited on stage to assist the cast in ‘Reviving’ Stinkerbell by performing a short song with them.

All in all it was a very entertaining morning and provided a great deal of inspiration to our drama pupils in terms of scripting, acting and theatre arts.

On the 2^nd December Braidhurst High School Under 13’s football team advanced into the 4^th round of the Scottish Cup with a flattering 9-3 score line against a hard working Balfron High School. After being 4-1 down Balfron worked hard to get back two goals and left the Braidhurst boys feeling nervous for twenty minutes or so until Kieran McGrath scored two great strikes to settle any nerves. With scorers Kieran McGrath (4), Nathan McConnell (2), Dylan Tait (2) and Paul Gordon, Braidhurst are now feeling confident about the next match after the winter break.

This years Christmas Card artists have been chosen. Art & Design pupils from Braidhurst have had their work included in this year’s school Christmas card. They all worked hard to complete their themed drawings which were then included into the design of the card for 2013.

Aimee Kenmuir S2 and Sarah Cooper S3 have both had their work shown on the outside of the card and Fatima Khan S3 and Louise Coletta S4 successfully produced work which illustrates the inside of the card.

Congratulations to two senior pupils in being selected for the final Scottish under 18 football trial. Scott Burns who plays with Motherwell FC and Jai Quitongo who plays with Hamilton FC have been selected following a series of regional and national trials.

Rehearsals for the Braidhurst traditional ceilidh dance are taking place during physical education classes and going extremely well. Tickets costing £2 are now available from Ms Elaine Logan with the dance taking place on Monday 16 December starting at 7.30 pm.