School Sports

SCOTTISH CUP – BRAIDHURST –V- ST NINIAN’S

The school’s senior football team crashed out of this season’s Scottish Cup at the hands of familiar foes, St Ninian’s High School. The goal scored by second half substitute, Mark Montgomery, ended up being only a consolation as the team succumbed to a demoralising defeat. Whilst the game arguably ended unfairly with the away side losing by four goals – a sentiment shared by the coaching staff of both teams – St Ninian’s were fiercely clinical with the chances they created.

Braidhurst: Purves, McDonald (Montgomery 40), Sinclair, Peacock, Biggart, Frew (Morrow 55), Hamilton, Johnston, McLaughlin, Redfern, Small.

School Events

S3 MENTAL HEALTH DAY

On Tuesday 19 February all S3 pupils participated in a day to promote positive mental health. During the morning the pupils attended four out of six workshops focused on improving their mental health, including Yoga, Mindfulness and Nutrition. These 30 minute sessions gave pupils tasters of ways they  can and manage their mental health, places they can contact for additional support and stories about what can happen when you neglect your mental health. All of the experts who presented the workshops complimented the school on how enthusiastic and welcoming the S3 pupils were.

In the afternoon Braidhurst High School had the pleasure of hosting Manchester-based rock hand ‘The Hara’ who played some of their songs for the pupils, before delivering a talk about their own personal experiences with mental health, bullying and cyber problems, such as ‘catfishing’. Afterwards the band signed autographs and took photos with pupils. All the S3 pupils spoken to say they really enjoyed the day and The Hara are likely to have a few new fans from Braidhurst High School.

Sciences

SCHOLAR GRADUATION

A group of S3 pupils recently graduated from the Scholar programme, an online organisation which offers over thirty courses for Scottish schools which are aligned to the SQA curriculum at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher level. The ceremony was held on Thursday 21st February at Edinburgh University. Hopefully this is the first of many graduations for this group of talented Braidhurst scientists. Well done to them all!

School Sports

U15 LANARKSHIRE CUP

Braidhurst’s U15 football team played their latest match in the Lanarkshire Cup in a quarter-final game against Coltness High School. Braidhurst won the match easily with a 4-1 score at full time. Congratulations to the team and good luck for the semi-final.

DYW

CAREERS EVENT 2019

On Monday 18th February the school hosted its annual Careers Event in the assembly hall as part of the our improvement priority of ‘Developing the Young Workforce’. A large number of employers and further education staff, including FOCUS West, Reach Scotland, Motherwell Football Club, Nando’s, Police Scotland and Skills Development Scotland, manned stalls and were on hand to speak with pupils and parents/carers eager for advice and information. The event proved to be very successful with a high number of pupils attending.

Sciences, STEM, Technologies

ROBOTICS SUCCESS

Congratulations to team “KOALA-T”, “Neptunes Angels” and “Anonymous” from Braidhurst High School for winning the regional championships and the Judges Award in the VEX Turning point Challenge. This year’s competition was held at New College Lanarkshire (Motherwell Campus) with Teams from North Lanarkshire Schools competing against each other for an “alliance place” in the UK regional finals in Tedford.

The Vex Robotics Challenge is the World’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Robotics Competition for High Schools, Colleges and Universities. 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 at regional, and national levels; local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April. The club has been very well supported by North Lanarkshire and includes pupils ranging from S1 to S4. Currently the school’s STEM club has 21 members including three S5 female students, STEM ambassadors who have taken on the commitment to support the younger less experienced members.

SFA, Whole School News

FOOTBALL APPLICATIONS

The school are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Girls’ and Boys’ School of Football programme.

The application can be accessed online: Click here

Applications close by the end of the school day on Friday 8th March 2019

Good luck to all applicants.

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