Calderhead High School is hosting a Careers Event at school on 25th January . This event will include workshops and talks by former pupils and friends of the school and there will also be over twenty different stalls in the Assembly Hall with information about a wide range of careers.
At Calderhead, we are keen to encourage pupils to plan for their future and explore all opportunities and career paths, including higher education, further education, employment, apprenticeships, training or volunteering. We offer work experience placements, employer visits, visits to training providers, University and College campus visits, application form support, and community projects – including charity work. For more information, please see our post-school options pages.
We’re expecting some cold weather over the next few days. Check out North Lanarkshire Council’s website for more information about coping with bad weather.
North Lanarkshire Council is trying to set a World Guiness Book of record attempt on Sunday 22nd January 2017 at 11am in the Ravenscraig sports facility.
In order to break the record they need 600 people sloshing.
The money raised will support the Westfield Health British Transport games being held in North Lanarkshire 27th July-30th July 2017.
To register and make a donation to take part in the Sloshathon on Sunday 22nd January at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility https://www.q-buster.co.uk/sloshathon.
Calderhead High School enjoyed having our visitors from St Patrick’s Primary School. Before the younger children returned to St Patrick’s, pupils from the S3 Personal Development classes had a great time helping out the younger pupils at the Primary School Christmas lunch.
We’re ending this year with a birl and getting a chance to practice our social dancing! P7 and S1s had a great time at their Ceilidh on Wednesday afternoon followed by the whole school ceilidh on Thursday.
Every year the school hold its prestigious Christmas Door competition with departments vying to create the best door.
Congratulations to the Support for Learning base who won this year’s competition with their Santa themed door. Special mention must also go to the Art Department for their impressive Polar Express corridor.
Check out some of the entrants in our Image Gallery.
Congratulations to Burns House who came first in the second Interhouse Quiz this week. It was a close won battle with some fiendish questions so well done to Burns for answering the most correct questions.
A big thank you to pupils, families and staff for their contributions to the shoe box appeal. We packed 35 boxes and contributed £35 to postage. Well done all who were involved, especially Burns House, who donated the most items.
Pupils from Calderhead High attended the The Institute of Engineering and Technology’s Christmas Lecture on 12th December 2016 in Glasgow.
The theme of the lecture was ” What Goes Up Might Come Down” and pupils enjoyed hearing Professor Andrew Rae, Professor of Experimental and Applied Aerodynamics, University of the Highlands and Islands, talk about aviation.
We now take air travel pretty much for granted but the comfort and safety we expect are achieved in a very harsh environment. At cruising altitude the air outside the aircraft cabin can be more than 50 degrees below zero and the air so thin that oxygen is essential. A few feet away from the cabin is a jet engine operating at a temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius when the materials it is made from melt at 1300 degrees Celsius.
The lecture used a series of practical demonstrations to illustrate some of the physics exploited in the design and operation of a modern airliner and other transport vehicles, including aerodynamics, materials and propulsion.
Winter is coming…
Every year the school hold its prestigious Christmas Door competition with departments vying to create the best door.
A big thank you to pupils, families and staff for their contributions to the shoe box appeal. We packed 35 boxes and contributed £35 to postage. Well done all who were involved, especially Burns House, who donated the most items.