The S4 Prelims will take place on: 7th, 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th & 19th February 2018.
S5/6 Prelim Diet
The S5/6 Prelims will take place on: 7th, 8th, 9th, 15th & 16th February 2018.
Senior pupils have been given their Prelim Timetables and letters home. Click on the link below for the prelim timetable.
Book Week Scotland is a national celebration of books and reading. Initiated by the Scottish Government and supported with funding from Creative Scotland, Book Week Scotland is delivered by Scottish Book Trust. The theme for Book Week Scotland 2017 was ‘nourish’.
We successfully bid from funding which enabled us to organise a visit by the poet, Jenny Lindsay. Jenny visited our S3 and S4 pupils during Book Week Scotland and explained how reading fiction and poetry can help your mental health. She also spoke about how creating your own work can be massively beneficial. The pupils had an opportunity to try writing their own poetry and we were very impressed by the results! The school was also able to buy some books to add to the ‘Shelf Help’ section of the library, which contains books on health and well-being, including mental health issues such as exam stress and anxiety.
Mr Purdie’s S3 Modern Studies class have been learning about poverty in the UK and the need for food parcels to be donated to help people in need. They have decided to organise a food bank collection for the local Trussell Trust Food Bank, which is based in Airdrie. With help from the Food Bank Committee, the class has organised assemblies, created posters and raised awareness of this issue.
Donations will be collected in school on a house basis with house points being awarded to the house raising the most items. Pupils can make their donations by placing items in the appropriate house box situated to the rear of the social area.
Pupils have asked if the local community could also help with the appeal. S3 pupil, Aiden said: “It would be great if you could help by donating non-perishable food items such as tinned and dried foods like pasta, cereals, rice, tins of soup and powdered milk.” Items can be handed into the school office.
The campaign will run until Friday 15th December.
At its meeting on 7 November 2017, North Lanarkshire Council’s Education Committee agreed to consult to increase the qualification for entitlement to free school transport for secondary school pupils from more than 2 miles from their residence to their catchment school to more than 3 miles from their residence to their catchment school.
Please see the attached letter and the North Lanarkshire Council website for more information about this proposal and how you can get involved with the consultation process.
Literacy is about learning to read and write accurately, being able to listen carefully and talk clearly about ideas. At Calderhead High School, we are committed to improving literacy across the school. We would also like to involve you, as parents and carers, and would be grateul if you would please complete this survey:
Interested in going to College? Here are the dates applications open for the following Colleges for January 2018 starts:
If you would like more advice about post school options, your School Careers Adviser is Sylvia Phee
Sylvia is based in the school Library every Tuesday, Thursday and alternate Friday and pupils can request to meet with her through pupil support or by asking her for an appointment.
A careers interview is a confidential one to one discussion which helps pupils develop career management skills and make well informed decisions about their career pathways in the future.
Drop in Career Clinic
This is held every Thursday during lunch break and offers all pupils the chance to have career-related questions answered.
For more information, please see our post school options page.
S1 parent night will take place tonight (12th October) and pupil photos will be taken tomorrow.
The school will be on holiday next week and we look forward to seeing everyone again on 23rd October 2017 at 8.55am.
Don’t forget that you can keep abreast of important dates by keeping an eye on our parental calendar or the school year page.
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here will be another chance to buy blazers and PE shirts from Academy Uniform at the school on Monday, 11th September from 3.45pm until 5pm.
There will be a renge of stock to buy on the night or you can order from the company and have it delivered withih the week.
For more information about the Calderhead High School uniform, see https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/calderhead/uniform/.
This is a unique creative writing competition open to all pupils in first and second year. Twelve young writers will be selected to join Pushkin Prize-winners’ Week in April 2017 at the Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre with tuition from professional writers. They’re looking for stories, poems, plays, articles, memoirs – anything you like on a subject of your choice. Closing date 19th December 2017.
The Scottish Book Trust is seeking seven young people aged between 14 and 17 years old, with enthusiasm for developing as writers or illustrators. This can include prose, poetry, storytelling, illustration, graphic novel writing, song-writing, writing for TV and film, journalism, blogging and writing for video games and more.
The seven chosen teenagers will act as ambassadors for What’s Your Story? while they develop their skills and knowledge in their chosen creative form. For 2017, the programme includes a residency in the National Library of Scotland, professional mentoring, a creative retreat, programming the teens creative writing conference StoryCon, and a feature showcase event.
What’s Your Story? is free to apply for and take part in, and interested 14 to 17 year olds from all over Scotland are encouraged to apply.
School will start again on Thursday 17th August at 8.55am.
We look forward to welcoming everyone back, especially our new first year pupils. Starting High School can be daunting – the Parenting Across Scotland website gives some great tips on how you can help your child make a successful transition from primary school.
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