Expressive Arts

Theatre Trip

36 pupils recently visited the Playhouse in Edinburgh to watch a performance of the International smash hit musical comedy… Hairspray

Hairspray takes place during the swinging sixties in Baltimore, Maryland. Tracy Turnblad is a big girl with big hair and an even bigger dream: to dance her way onto national TV, and into the heart of teen idol Link Larkin. Tracy’s audition makes her a local star and soon she is using her new-found fame to fight for integration. But can she win equality and Link’s heart without denting her ‘do?

All the pupils had a fabulous evening out watching this professional musical production, many of whom are preparing for their roles in this years school show – Sunshine on Leith.

Tickets for our school production will soon be on sale so keep your eyes posted on the website for more details.

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Exhibition Success!

Art and Design pupils were very successful in the recent N. Lanarkshire Youth Arts festival.Braidhurst was voted ‘Best School in Exhibition’ by the event organisers, the Visual Arts Unit.Braidhurst High School Art & Design pupils recently entered their art work for the North Lanarkshire Youth Arts Festival.Their work was displayed in the festival exhibition, which took place in the Tudor Hotel, Airdrie.The exhibition itself was co-ordinated by The Visual Arts Unit, a Glasgow based arts collaborative. Everyone was very pleased to hearthat the Braidhurst High display was voted as ‘Best School in Show’ and the school recieved a trophyand a cheque for £100, to mark their success.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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