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:
- The English department ran a sponsored Readathon for all S1-S2 pupils.
- S1 and S2 pupils who we made significant progress in reading, are avid readers or have shown signs of sustained effort in Literacy attended the ‘Book Bistro’ where they read as they sipped hot chocolate with marshmallows.
- the winners of our ‘Rebel’ creative writing contest were announced with Sarah in S1 and Hannah in S2 declared the winners. Robert and Mason (S1) and the Chelsea and Chelsea (S2) were runners up.
- Comic Book Club talked about some of our excellent Scottish comic book and graphic novelists.
- We hosted a ‘Drop Everything and Read’ event across the school where pupils were encouraged to read books, comics, revision notes, class textbooks … the aim was to get as many pupils reading in as many subjects as possible whilst learning at the same time.
- There was also be a reading lunch for S3-S6 in the library at lunchtime.
- Staff were treated to copies of the free “Rebel” short story collection produced by the Scottish Book Trust.
- The week ended with a special Scottish book group meeting at lunchtime.
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).
We will be holding two Christmas Ceilidhs in the school this month:
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.
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.
S3 Modern Studies pupils will begin their annual foodbank collection on Monday, 26th November 2018. The collection will continue until Friday, 14th December.
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.
Dyslexia Awareness Week took place from 5 – 10 November 2018 and the theme this year was ‘My Wider World’. As many as 1 in 10 children and adults in Scotland have dyslexia, which can impact their lives in many ways, including difficulties with reading, writing or spelling. Pupils and staff at Calderhead High School marked Dyslexia Awareness Week in the school by wearing blue ribbons.
