International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March every year. It is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
International Women’s Day was marked at Calderhead High School with displays in the library and a powerpoint featuring inspirational women.
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” (Gloria Steinem)
Senior pupils Ceinwyn, Samantha and Jason participated in the VEX Robotics challenge at New College Lanarkshire on Friday 23 February 2017 . There was fierce competition and the Calderhead High team narrowly missed winning the challenge.
The VEX Competitions are presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation and teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams 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.
Well done to Ceinwyn, Jason and Samantha.
The February edition of Education Scotland’s Parents and Carers e-bulletin has been published.
This has some of the latest news, events and information on educational developments that may affect you or your child.
The Parents and Cares e-bulletin also has details of new resources and activities to help you support your child’s learning.
Read the e-bulletin here.
Calderhead High School’s Robotics club (Dylan, Dale , Josh, Ethan, and Jamie) attended the Tomorrow’s Engineers regional heat at West Lothian College on Monday, 20th February.
They competed in a teamwork bridge building challenge where they designed and built a bridge from scrap wood to successfully carry a car.
Members of the team were interrogated on their Lego Mindstorms robot design which they then programmed to carry out a number of space mission challenges.
The team were delighted to return with a trophy for their presentation on how robots can be used to help humans explore space. Well done!
Calderhead High School’s Digital Leaders (S5 pupils Kaitlin Smith, Michaela Hughes, Alana Mcleod, Ceinwyn Barr and Yoana Vankova) organised Safe Internet Day Assemblies and workshops for S1-S3 pupils on Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st January.
The groups undertook a number of activities including a Mind Map station and informational video clips. The Leaders were able to see how much knowledge the younger year groups had of the dangers of the internet and how to be safe online by undertaking a quiz as a year group. This was a great way to get everyone interacting as the quiz was not just a “yes or no” answer – the participants also got involved in a great discussion about internet safety.
In 2015, Malawi was ranked the third poorest country in the world with an average income of only £520 per year. Calderhead High School developed links with Thuchila Secondary School, which is situated in a rural area of Malawi, and we agreed to raise funds for the school. In particular, we aim to raise £500 to help sponsor a home school partnership worker in Thuchila who will help pupils, especially girls, to continue their education. S2 pupil, Amy Wilson, has been fundraising for Malawi by selling delicious homemade tablet in school. The tablet was made by Amy and her family. Well done, Amy!
We had a great time celebrating Harry Potter Book Night in the library at lunchtime on Thursday, 2nd February.
Pupils were sorted into their houses, Gryffndor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin, before taking part in a Harry Potter quiz which showed their extensive knowledge of all things Potter.
The celebration ended with some spirited wizard duelling, judged by our very own “Professor” Galloway. Special thanks also to “Professor” Biggerstaff who presided over the sorting ceremony.
S4 Achieve pupils Caitlin, Natalia & Jemma were invited by Stane Primary School to teach Primary 4, 5 and 6 pupils special effect makeup techniques, as part of the school’s art fortnight. The pupils enjoyed learning all about SFX makeup and no doubt a few of their parents will be getting a fright when they see the makeup applied!
Well done to Heather, Brianna, Stephanie and Demi in S3 who are part of Mrs Crosbie’s Knitting Club. They managed to knit 172 small hats for the Innocent Big Knit, helping raise funds for Age UK.
Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. The Chinese New Year celebrations started on 28th January and will continue until 15 February. The new year, also known as the Spring Festival, is marked by the lunisolar Chinese calendar, so the date changes from year to year.
Calderhead Book Group and French Club came together at lunchtime on Friday to celebrate the new year. Catherine Lumsden, one of this year’s Tianjin Scholars, spoke to the pupils about her experiences in Tianjin and taught them some Mandarin. The pupils also got an opportunity to try using chopsticks and discovered that it is not as easy as it looks! Thanks to Catherine for coming in to speak to us.
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