Ninety nine primary seven pupils from four different primary schools enjoyed a fun morning filled with different scientific experiments at Braidhurst High School. The event involved twenty two sixth year pupils demonstrating, explaining and leading the younger children through the various activities. The primary pupils had a great day with one stating, “I had a brilliant day, it was interesting and the sixth year helpers were great. I would like to do it all again”. This was down to the senior pupils’ excellent communication and organisational skills. Many of the primary pupils commented on the kindness and words of encouragement offered by the S6 pupils.
PTFA PSYCHIC NIGHT
Help the school raise funds by coming along to a psychic night:
Thursday 24th November
Motherwell Football Club Cetenary Suite
7pm for a 7.30pm start
Tickets cost £5 These are available from the front office in the school.
BOYS FOOTBALL
Braidhurst High School’s under 15’s football team started their Scottish Cup campaign with a hard fought victory over a strong McLaren High School side. The visitors started brightly, striking the post and missing a glaring opportunity to go in front. However, they were made to pay for their missed opportunities as a long free kick from Reece McAlear evaded everyone and crept into the near post to open the scoring. Braidhurst doubled their lead soon after, thanks to a great strike from Alastair Small into the top corner. The second half was a scrappy affair, and after McLaren scored to half the deficit, Braidhurst battled hard to secure victory and ensure progress into the next round. Mr O’Toole and Mr Clarke were happy with the result and the boys now look forward to an away tie against either St Ambrose or Grangemouth High School.
GIRLS FOOTBALL
The girls had their first outing of the year on Wednesday with the first round of fixtures in the North Lanarkshire 7-a-side leagues taking place at St Andrews High School in Coatbridge. Both the junior and senior teams competed in fixtures against other North Lanarkshire schools in their respective leagues. The junior team came away with three victories from five with the seniors wining one and drawing one from their four fixtures. It was a very good start to the season with all the girls giving a good account of themselves. Well done! The girls are now looking forward to an away trip to Galashiels at the start of November in the first round of the u18 shield.
S4 PARENTS’ EVENING
On Tuesday 1st November there will be a parent’s evening for the parents of pupils in fourth year. Appointments with teaching staff begin at 4 pm in the school hall and will run through until 6.30 pm. Parents and carers of our fourth year pupils are strongly encouraged to attend so that crucial information on pupil progress with the National 4/5 qualifications can be shared.
HALLOWE’EN ART GROUP
Braidhurst High School Art & Design pupils have been excitedly preparing decorative panels for the Hallowe’en Disco. Pupils have worked alongside Art Teachers, Miss Galloway and Mr Clifford to paint Hallowe’en scenes, which were used to add a spooky feel to the disco on Wednesday 26th October.
Road Safety Competition
First and Second Year pupils from Braidhurst High Art and Design department are entering this year’s North Lanarkshire Road Safety Calendar competition.
They have come up with some slogans on a positive road safety theme and have developed many creative visual ideas to illustrate their work. The pupils have thoroughly enjoyed laying out their poster ideas and are looking forward in the hope that they will be successful when the time for judging the competition comes around.
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