Heart of Midlothian player and former SFA Performance School of Football graduate, Harry Cochrane, recently visited Braidhurst to participate in a training and HELD AN advice session with our current S3 Performance school pupils.
SCHOOL PRIZEGIVING 2018
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.
MARTIN STEWART VISIT
On the morning of Friday, 15th June, we enjoyed a visit from author, Martin Stewart. As part of our drive to raise literacy levels in the Broad General Education phase of the school, we invited Martin to deliver sessions to our S3 pupils, which focussed on strategies to make their creative writing more powerful, as begin working towards achieving their National 5 qualification. S2 pupils were treated to a presentation from the author, where he inspired and enthused as he described his own personal journey of lifelong learning and developing skills for work. Our pupils were delighted to receive their very own copy of his book, “Riverkeep”, even waiting through interval to have them signed; a truly ringing endorsement of what a fantastic event this was!
S3 Heart Start
A group of third year science pupils from Braidhurst High School received certificates this week to mark their successful completion of the British Heart Foundation’s Heart Start programme. The course was completed as part of their National 3 Science Course. Pupils are now proficient in CPR, recovery position, dealing with suspected heart attacks, chocking and bleeding.
The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the course and appreciate how useful it may be in their lives.
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
Celebrating Success: S2 Reward Trip
A number of our S2 pupils were rewarded for all their hard work, effort and attendance throughout the year by having a day out at M&D’s theme park. The reward trip was courtesy of North Lanarkshire and is part of the “Celebrating Success” initiative. Pupils and staff had a fantastic day out and were fortunate enough to have a full day of glorious sunshine into the bargain.
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