The leadership roles of pupils in the school is an important aspect of who we are. Our Senior Sports Leaders work with associated primary pupils and lead them in a range of sporting activities. This partnership alongside Active Schools has produced notable success within our local cluster. Stephen Hughes our Active Schools Coordinator writes:

“The following schools in the cluster have achieved the national gold school sport award from Sport Scotland;

Tollbrae PS, Victoria PS, Golfhill PS and Rochsolloch PS the last 3 receiving it for the first time this year.

The award covers 8 different strands of sports and physical activity across the school. A big contributing part of the schools applications has been the sports leaders from Airdrie Academy delivering regular extracurricular activity in the schools, support at the primary sports days and the volunteering aspect as well as acting as role models to the primary pupils”

Massive well done to all of our Senior Sports Leaders and all of our associated primary schools who have achieved the gold award.

Well Done!

As a school we set and review our improvement targets on an annual basis. In our plans this year – all – of our targets are well underway; thanks to the support and hard work of pupils, parents  staff and partners.

We continue to develop our strategies and collaborative work on a range of initiatives. Updates will appear here throughout the school year on our progress and successes.

Teamwork!

The Halloween Disco will take place Tuesday, 30th October, from 7pm – 9.30pm in the school for all S1 to S3 pupils.

This promises to be an evening of great fun and I am sure that the staff coming along to support this event will get into the spirit of the evening and enjoy dressing up  – There is a prize for the staff member with the best costume !

Be great to see as many pupils and staff there as possible.

We have our second group of pupils over in the Isle of Arran this week taking part in a leadership week with “Tree of Knowledge”. 20 S3 pupils are working with the Arran outdoor staff, Tree of Knowledge presenters and 2 of our teachers Mrs Anderson and Mr Leckie.

I hope that they all have a fantastic experience and learn lots of new skills that will support them in the future.

October Reward Event 2018

Top Merit Pupils for October 2018 –

Well done to everyone who made the standard to attend the merit events today.

Numbers attending;

• 194 S1 pupils (207 in year)
• 159 S2 pupils (181 in year)
• 134 S3 pupils (175 in year)

Congratulations to our top merit winners listed below who earned extra recognition.

On behalf of the parent council

A date for your diary FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9th, the parent council are looking for support to fund raise for the school.

Parents / carers, staff and friends of the school can come along and enjoy this social occasion to play bingo have fun and support the school.

Full details will be issued by the parent council soon.

We really appreciate your support!

Tomorrow in the school we have our merit reward events for pupils in first to third year. We very much believe in recognising all the hard work that our pupils do. Teachers issue pupils with merits for a range of positive choices.

Well done to all of the pupils who made the criteria and will enjoy their reward activity throughout the morning. Keep working hard and aim to be at the Xmas merit event.

Thanks to all of the staff involved in setting up the events tomorrow.

What a great job the parent council did last night with the S1 disco. Good turn out and every single pupil had a great time and behaved impeccably. Thanks to all of the parent council members who came along and gave of their time last night. Thanks to all of the staff and all of  the senior pupils for supporting at the event.

John the DJ was fab! Had the pupils dancing all night.

Well Done!

Today our amazingly talented Drama pupils delivered their  very own production which focussed on Mental Health issues. The production covered a range of 5 sensitive themes. S1 -3 Pupils and staff fully engaged in the short workshop discussions that accompanied each excerpt. Colleagues from NHS Stigma Free Lanarkshire were in attendance at each performance. This interactive and innovative work really was first class – congratulations to everyone involved. Special thanks to Miss McDade for all of her input in the script and throughout today.

Important messages and experiences shared in a very innovative and supportive way. Well Done!