Calderhead High School recently raised over £2400 for Great Ormond Street Hospital with a number of fun events including a staff and student talent show, a cake and candy stall and a raffle.
Well done to everyone who participated and a special thanks to Ewan in S6 and all the other S6 pupils who ran all the events!
Congratulations to Shana, who has been selected for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland summer school. Shana will have an opportunity to learn from guest artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Sir James McMillan, Jessica Cottis, Lisa Milne, Patricia McMahon, Tommy Smith and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Calderhead High School will be raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital on Friday, 17th June 2016.
S6 pupil, Ewan Ferguson, has organised a number of fun events including a number of activities for the day, including a staff and student talent show, a cake and candy stall and a raffle. It will also be a non-uniform day and staff and pupils will be encouraged to wear something purple.
Today is a busy day for school trips. Pupils and staff headed off for Alton Towers early this morning and are looking forward to a fun day at the theme park.
Our second trip is to Edinburgh where staff and pupils will enjoy a spooky day at Edinburgh Dungeons and Mary King’s Close.
Well done to all our pupils who participated in the second part of the North Lanarkshire Athletics Championships, including Caitlyn, who won a gold medal in the discus!
S1 pupils recently had a great day out at the Glasgow Science Centre.
Pupils from Calderhead High School participated in the Scottish Schools Orienteering Festival on Friday, 3rd June at Dalkeith Country Park.
Congratulations to the S1 boys team who finished 4th at the Scottish Schools orienteering festival, and special mention to Jordan Muir who was 4th in the S1 boys race.
Well done to all our pupils who took part!
Rachel Blues, Amber Martin, Caitlyn Paxton, Adam Pugh and Declan Whitefield represented Calderhead High School at the Scottish final of the Tomorrow’s Engineers Robotics Challenge held at the Glasgow Science centre. They were set a number of tasks including presenting to engineers, designing and building a robot and a lego building challenge.
The highlight of the day was completing the robot challenge missions in front of an audience at the Big Bang Fair. Unfortunately, they did not win but put up a strong challenge in all the categories.
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Congratulations to S5 pupil, Caleb Hariri, who has gained a Nuffield Research Placement at the University of Glasgow this summer. He will be part of a team investigating how stem cells convert to fat cells. This is a leading edge research project on the control of Diabetes.
Prior to this he will taking part for a week in the REACH Medical programme for aspiring medical doctors, also at University of Glasgow.
