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A fitting end to term with our Christmas Assembly in the Hall this morning. All the staff and pupils joined together to hear Reverend Murdoch and Mr Robertson talk about the true meaning of Christmas and enjoyed performances from our talented pupils.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Our annual Talent Show took place in the school last night (16th December) with some fabulous acts.
We were really impressed by all the pupils who participated, including Douglas Pinkerton (S4) and Ryley Allan (S2) on the bagpipes, MacKenzie Forrest (S5) who played the drums, Jennifer Wood (S6) and Logyne McAllister (S2) who sang beautifully, Caitlyn Paxton (S5) who sang and played her guitar, and Heather Duncanson (S6) who sang and played piano. However, the joint winners of the Talent Show were Carly Ogilvie (S6) who sang a moving rendition of “When We Were Young” , and the talented gymnastic team of Hannah Duncanson and Zuzanna Mostek (S3).
Special mention must go to the senior pupils who organised, facilitated and judged the talent show.
Calderhead High School’s Captains and Prefects organized a coffee morning for staff and senior pupils on 29th November to raise funds for St Andrew’s Hospice. This raised £162.08, and their stall at the Christmas Fayre raised £160.81. Well done everyone.
Calderhead’s Annual Christmas Fayre took place on 23rd November and had some awesome stalls selling Christmas decorations, doggy bandanas, candle gift sets, beautiful Christmas wreaths and much more. Visitors also had the chance to meet Santa in his grotto. Funds were raised for the school’s trip to Malawi next year and for St Andrew’s Hospice.
Calderhead High School celebrated Book Week Scotland in style this year. This is an annual celebration of reading and this year the theme was “Blether”. Twenty S1 and S2 pupils were awarded tickets to the Blether Bistro in the Library on 21st November to reward their hard work and progress in class. They were treated to a cup of hot chocolate and biscuits while they enjoyed reading their books in the library.
Pupils also participated in a creative writing competition and there were many excellent entries – it was very difficult choosing the eventual winners. Congratulations to Ryan in S1 and Bailey in S2. Well done to our runners up, Macy and Chloe in S1 and Neve and Carla in S2.
There was also a Book Blether in the Library on 20th November at lunchtime, where everyone was asked to talk about their favourite book, and, inspired by the Scottish Book Trust’s twitter challenge, the book group created a book domino run in the library at lunchtime on Friday.
When you are coming into the school, you may notice our World War One memorial plaque mounted on the wall near the entrance. This had been on display in our previous building for many years and is now on view in our entrance foyer.
Don’t forget to bring in your donations for this year’s Foodbank appeal!
The foodbank collections began on 6th December and will finish on 17th December.
Mr Purdie’s S3 Modern Studies class have been learning about all inequality in the U.K. , including how severe the poverty issue is. They would like to give the people in need some food parcels. The class have decided they will have a food bank collection for their local foodbank, the Trussel Trust Foodbank in Airdrie. This class has organised a meeting with the head teacher to explain why they are donating, creating posters and describing why it’s a problem which has to be fixed immediately and they are trying to raise awareness of this in their local area.
Their donations are being collected in the school, with points being awarded to the house to which each pupil who donates belongs. This will help involve a lot more of the pupils as the house with the most points at the end of the year receive prizes.
Pupils can put their donations in boxes which are situated at the school office. Pupils are trying to involve the local community as well as just the pupils in the school. The class are taking donations such as cereal, rice, and tinned food including tomatoes, fruit, soup, pasta, veg, meat, beans etc. Also toiletries would be helpful such as feminine products, toilet paper, shampoo and shower gel. If every pupils in the school donated one item there would be 500 meals to people who are starving throughout the day and night, but if everybody donated 2 items there would be 1000 items donated, this would feed a lot of people who are suffering from starvation.
Thank you to the pupils, community members and the staff who very kindly donated to the Blythswood Trust shoe box appeal. We packed 35 boxes with donated goods and raised £32.20.
Senior pupils and staff participated in the 6km Santa Dash around Strathclyde Country Park on Sunday, 17th November, to help raise funds for St Andrew’s Hospice. All the pupils were happy to don their Santa suits and h
ad a great time.
