There will be an opportunity to buy uniform including blazers and PE shirts from Academy Uniform at the school on Monday, 18th June from 6.30pm to 8pm and on Tuesday, 19th June from 3.30pm until 5pm.
There will be a range of stock to buy on the night or you can order from the company and have it delivered withih the week.
For more information about the Calderhead High School uniform, see https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/calderhead/uniform/.
To mark Deaf Awareness Week from 14 to 18th May 2018, we showed deaf awareness videos and had other information available in the library. S3 pupils Matthew and Amber were also delighted to receive a well-deserved Endeavour Award nomination from the West Scotland Deaf Children’s Society for their work in creating and presenting a whole school assembly last year. Well done!
Congratulations to North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band Novice B who were crowned British Champions on Saturday 19 May
The British Pipe Band Championships are one of the most prestigious events in the world piping calendar.
Over 150 bands travelled from around the world to the St James’ Playing Fields, Paisley, to compete for a whole series of titles.
The North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band Novice B were in a field of 12 other bands and they also took top spot in the Grade Novice B Drumming section.
Pipe Major Ross Cowan said: “Pipe Bands compete for five major championship throughout the season, the British, European, UK, Scottish and worlds.
“To win anyone of these is a huge achievement and we are so proud of our pupils for all their commitment and focus.
“This continues a successful season adding the British ti
tle to the bands’ Scottish Schools Championship and Glasgow West of Scotland Indoor Championship wins.”
The North Lanarkshire Schools Pipe Band Novice B comprises pupils from St Ambrose High School, Cumbernauld Academy, Calderhead High School, Chryston High School, Caldervale High School, Bellshill Academy, St Aidan’s High School, Airdrie Academy, Braidhurst High School and Clyde Valley High School.
Mackenzie Forrest in S3 is very proud to be part of such a successful band.
They were led by Pipe Major Darren Sommerville.
Mr Leitch and four senior pupils (Morgan Lynch, Heather McCallum, Kate Sutherland and Elizabeth Gentleman) are due to undertake a visit to Malawi on 5 June 2018. They have a couple of extra suitcases booked on the flight so they can take some additional first aid supplies.
Mr Leitch plans to take basic first aid items such as plasters, bandages, antiseptic wipes and sprays, anti bacterial hand gel and so on for first aid kits which can then be distributed to the Girls Go For Health coordinator.
We’re looking for donations of items for the kits and would ask pupils to donate as much as possible by 1st June at the latest.
If you would like to read more about the work being carried out in Malawi, please click here.
It is with great sadness that today we mark the loss of Mr Roy Burgess who passed away last night surrounded by his well loved family and friends.
Mr Burgess worked at Calderhead High School for almost 40 years first as Principal Teacher of Chemistry, then as Assistant Head Teacher before taking up the post of Depute Head Teacher of Senior school.
For those of us lucky enough to have known and worked with him he will be remembered as being a great Chemist, an outstanding Teacher, a loyal friend and mentor. A raconteur, a fisherman and above all else a true gentleman.
For the many pupils fortunate enough to have been guided under his tutelage he will be remembered with great fondness for his compassion, his sense of humour, his loyalty and his unfaltering commitment to every pupil at Calderhead High School.
On behalf of all pupils and collegues past and present of Calderhead High School we would like to express our sincere sympathy to Janette, Scott, Linzi and Ivy.
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S3 pupils participated in an Easter cake competition earlier on 19th April and produced some beautiful cakes. The competition was judged by Stephanie Roth, Head of Department at Bells Food Group and our headteacher, Mr Robertson. The standard of cakes was extremely high and it was very difficult to select the prize winners.
1st Place: Scott 2nd Place: Jenny 3rd Place Bekki
Calderhead High School hosted the Wishaw and Shotts Youth Forum’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference on 20 March. The Pupil Council from Calderhead and the other three cluster High School Pupil Councils heard inspirational speeches from Kira Melville from Clyde Valley High School, and adventurer and author, Paula McGuire, as well as attending workshops with Chris’s House, Landed, NL Active Schools and the Scottish Youth Parliament. The Wishaw and Shotts Youth Forum is one of six local youth forums who represent young people, organise events and fight for issues that affect them.
Pupils in S1 and S2 were encouraged to participate in the BBC’s “500 Word” competition recently. This competition was devised by Chris Evans to get children excited about reading and writing, no matter what their ability. Entrants must submit a story of 500 words or less and this is now one of the most successful story-writing competitions in the world. Three quarters of a million children have taken part over the years. Pupils met with Mr Reilly in the library at lunchtime and created some wonderful stories on all sorts of different themes: sentient computers, crime stories, mysteries, and superheroes, to name but a few.
We also decided to award prizes for the best stories and held an event in the school on 22 March which was attended by some of the authors and their parents and carers. It was a very difficult choice but we eventually awarded Jonathan Hayburn first prize for his thrilling crime story. Lee McCormick was awarded second place for his moving story about evacuees and Andrew Prentice came third with his story about what happened one Thursday…A big thank you to pupils, parents and staff who attended and celebrated the exceptional contribution of all our pupils.
Sadly, the heavy snow prevented us celebrating World Book Day on 1 March and we had to reschedule some of the events planned. 
However, we did manage to rearrange the ‘Book and Biccie’ lunchtime session in the school library and it was a lovely way to celebrate the joy of reading (and biscuits!) at the end of term.
Pupils were also invited to take part in a “Share a Story” competition by submitting a review of their favourite book and why they recommended that everyone should read it. There were many fabulous reviews and Mrs Lumsden and Ms Faulds struggled to decide the winner. However, they agreed that Kevin’s review of the Skulduggery Pleasant series should win first prize and Lauren and Jack were worthy runners up with their excellent reviews. Thank you to Mrs Galloway for presenting the prizes.
