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Modern Apprenticeship Week 2016

 

This week is Modern Apprenticeship week and Calderhead High School pupils will be attending a number of events including:

  • Tuesday 1st March – GTG Arnold Clark Open Day
  • Wednesday 2nd March – Future Starts taster Day in Childcare and Scottish Gas Apprenticeship Event
  • Thursday 3rd March – North Lanarkshire Modern Apprenticeship Fayre

For more information about Modern Apprenticeships, please check out the Modern Apprenticeships website.

Apprenticeship Week Logo

Jamie Shaw – Generation 2016

Generation 2016 logo

Congratulations to Calderhead High School pupil, Jamie Shaw, S5, who has been selected to become part of BBC Scotland’s Generation 2016.

With the Scottish elections looming, the BBC want to represent the breadth of young people’s perspectives in all communities and Jamie will be involved in BBC TV, radio and online content. Well done, Jamie!

Course Choice Information Evening – Thursday, 18th February

S2, S3, S4 and S5 pupils will soon be making important decisions about their course choices for the next academic year.

Pupils, parents and carers are invited to come along to the Calderhead High School Course Choice Information Evening on Thursday, 18th February 2016.  All pupils and parents from S2, S3, S4 and S5 are most welcome. It’s an opportunity to speak with the Senior Management Team regarding course structure and the options process. Pupil Support staff will be on hand to answer and advise both pupils and parents. Tea and Coffee will be supplied and the event starts at 6 pm.

S4 and S5 will have a meeting with Mr Graham (6 pm) and then afterwards the opportunity to speak with Pupil Support staff.

S2 and S3 will have a meeting with Ms Darragh (6 pm) and thereafter the opportunity to speak with Pupil Support staff.

The course choice process is a very important time in the school calendar and as such we would encourage parents to help us to support our young people by attending the event with them.

Please see the attached Course Choice Options Information Booklets (will open in a new page):

CHS PDF Link
S2/S3
CHS PDF Link
S4/S5

 

 

Vex Competition 2016

Pupils from Calderhead HS team took part in the Vex Competition in Coatbridge. They got through to the semi-finals. Well done, boys! 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 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.