S1 and S2 pupils were excited to receive a surprise early Christmas present this week – each pupil got their own book to keep.
At Calderhead High School, we are committed to promoting reading for pleasure and as well as celebrating reading throughout the year, we take part in initiatives such as the First Minister’s Reading Challenge.
We were delighted to be able to gift the books to the pupils and hope they enjoy reading them over the Christmas break.
You will have an opportunity to see some of our talented pupils at the “Calderhead’s Got Talent” show on Monday, 17th December 2018 at 7pm in the Assembly Hall.
Tickets cost £2 with funds going to the Beatson Cancer Charity. Please come along and support our very talented pupils.
Book Week Scotland took place from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 November 2018. We are dedicated to promoting reading for pleasure and we enjoyed the excuse to drop everything and read!
Here are just some of the great events that took place over Book Week Scotland:
Our annual Christmas Fayre took place in the school on Saturday, 1 December 2018. The event was organised by our S4 Achieve class who planned, organised and facilitated our fantastic Christmas Fayre (and helped set up and clear away).
Visitors were treated to excellent performances throughout the Fayre by our bagpipers and drummers and school choir accompanied by Mrs Prucnal on piano. There were many different stalls, including some fantastic decorations created by the Technology Department. Refreshments including hotdogs, cakes. teas and coffee were available (not forgetting Logyne’s delicious reindeer chocolate lollies).
No Christmas Fayre would be complete without Santa, who was happy to meet everyone in his grotto.
There was also a tombola and raffle with some fabulous prizes and the S4 achieve class would like to congratulate all the raffle winners. Winners can collect their prizes from the school office – don’t forget your ticket! Congratulations to all our lucky winners (click here for list of winners).
Staff and pupils at Calderhead High School were treated to an impressive array of talent at the school’s charity talent show on Friday, 16 November 2018.
The event was held to raise funds for Children In Need, a non-profitable charity which aims to support all children who are less well off whether it be through illness or poverty.
Our School Captains, Erin and David, were marvellous MCs and guided us through the myriad acts who participated in the talent show. We were all very impressed by the wonderful performers, who made us laugh and cry (and wince when we watched the leg waxing video). Special mention must go to S6 pupil, Fraser, whose sponsored headshave took place live on stage!
We have many fabulous singers at Calderhead and we really enjoyed hearing Madison, Morgan, Logyne, Yasmin, and a Turkish song from Stephen! Sophie and Carly sang a duet and birthday girl Heather accompanied herself on the piano. Ellyn also played the piano for us.
We were very impressed with Kevin and Andrew’s magic show and Riley, Nathan and Douglas’ “duelling” bagpipes and drums – we did try to clap along but couldn’t keep up!
Zuzanna and Heather treated us to a very limber gymnastic display and made us laugh with their choice of Muppets music.
The show closed with a spirited interpretation of “Baby Shark” by our staff dance troup.
Well done to everyone who took part and congratulation to all our wonderful performers.
You will also have an opportunity to see some of our talented pupils at “Calderhead’s Got Talent” on Monday 17th December at 7pm in the Assembly Hall. Tickets cost £2 with funds going to the Beatson Cancer Charity. Please come along and support our very talented pupils.
We will be holding two Christmas Ceilidhs in the school this month:
Our ceilidhs are always great fun and a wonderful opportunity to practice your social dancing! There will be both traditional and modern music, as well as games with prizes.
There will also be snacks and drinks available. You can change into your own clothes for the ceilidh but we do ask that no high heels or football colours are worn.
Tickets for the whole school ceilidh cost £1 and will be available in the social area at interval and lunch from Monday.
Our annual Christmas Fayre, will take place on Saturday, 1st December 2018 from 1pm. Come and visit Santa in his grotto and check out our stalls including raffle, tombola and refreshments – there will also be hotdogs, cakes, tea and coffee.
Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas!
Shotts St Patrick’s Amateur Opera Group’s Spring show will be a production of Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins’ (Junior) featuring children from Allanton, Alexander Peden (Harthill), Dykehead, St Patrick’s and Stane Primary schools and S1 and S5 pupils at Calderhead and St Aidan’s High Schools.
The group are looking to recruit children from P5 to S5 inclusive to audition for the cast for in this show at St Patrick’s Parish Centre at 5pm on Sunday, 2nd December 2018. They will be asked to sing a short version of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
Please see the attached letter for more information.
S3 Modern Studies pupils will begin their annual foodbank collection on Monday, 26th November 2018. The collection will continue until Friday, 14th December.
All items collected will be donated to the Trussell Trust’s Airdrie Foodbank.
Pupils are hoping to build on the great success of previous collections by encouraging all those within the Calderhead High School community to donate at least one item over the next three weeks. Items which can be donated include non-perishable food items, such as tinned soup, beans and vegetables; dried foods such as rice, noodles, and pasta; as well as cooking sauces, salt, pepper, tea bags, coffee, diluting juice, and longlife milk and juices. Non food items such as nappies, wipes, toilet and kitchen rolls, toothpaste and other toiletries would also be greatly appreciated.
Donations can be handed into Calderhead High School and placed in the House boxes. There will also be a collection point during the school’s Christmas Fayre to be held on Saturday, 1st December.
Please make this a merry Christmas for those most in need within our community.
Next week Book Week Scotland is taking place from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 November 2018 and Calderhead High School are hosting many exciting activities to celebrate.
The English department are running a sponsored Readathon for all S1-S2 pupils. Let’s see how many books they can read over the course of the week! Please click here for more information.
On Tuesday, 20th November 30 pupils will receive an award to attend the ‘Book Bistro’ where they will have the opportunity to read as they sip on hot chocolate with marshmallows. This is for S1 and S2 pupils who we think have made significant progress in reading, are avid readers or have shown signs of sustained effort in Literacy. Congratulations to all who are selected. We’ll also be announcing the winners of our ‘Rebel’ creative writing contest.
On Wednesday, 21st November we have our weekly Comic Book Club running, and will be talking about some of our excellent Scottish comic book and graphic novelists.
On Thursday, 22nd November we are hosting a ‘Drop Everything and Read’ event. This is open to all classes across all subjects – ask your teacher if you are taking part in their subject. Pupils can read books, comics, revision notes, class textbooks … the aim is to get as many pupils reading in as many subjects as we can whilst learning at the same time. More information is available at http://www.dropeverythingandread.com/ for more information.
There will also be a reading lunch for S3-S6 in the library that will be ticketed for quiet reading time, all senior pupils are welcome to come along and read.
On Friday, 23rd November there will be a special Scottish book group meeting at lunchtime, all welcome.
If you would like to read more about Book Week Scotland, please click here: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland
Happy reading everyone !
The English department and Irene Lumsden (Librarian)
Calderhead High School
