Congratulations to Shana, Â who has been selected for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland summer school. Shana will have an opportunity to learn from guest artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Sir James McMillan, Jessica Cottis, Lisa Milne, Patricia McMahon, Tommy Smith and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Calderhead High School will be raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital on Friday, 17th June 2016.
S6 pupil, Ewan Ferguson, has organised a number of fun events including a number of activities for the day, including a staff and student talent show, a cake and candy stall and a raffle. It will also be a non-uniform day and staff and pupils will be encouraged to wear something purple.
Holiday Lunch Club is an exciting new school holiday programme from North Lanarkshire Council  for parents/carers and children (aged 5-16) to enjoy.
Families will get the chance to learn more about healthy eating and cooking tasty meals on a budget as well as spending time doing fun activities together.
It will be available at a number of locations, including  Getting Better Together Shotts HLC on Mondays and Tuesdays from 25th July or Wednesdays – Fridays from 27th July 10.00am – 12:30pm.
Today is a busy day for school trips. Pupils and staff headed off for Alton Towers early this morning and are looking forward to a fun day at the theme park.
Edinburgh Dungeons Trip
Our second trip is to Edinburgh where staff and pupils will enjoy a spooky day at Edinburgh Dungeons and Mary King’s Close.
Well done to all our pupils who participated in the second part of the North Lanarkshire Athletics Championships, including Caitlyn, who won a gold medal in the discus!
Pupils from Calderhead High School participated in the Scottish Schools Orienteering Festival on Friday, 3rd June at Dalkeith Country Park.
Congratulations to the S1 boys team who finished 4th at the Scottish Schools orienteering festival, and special mention to Jordan Muir who was 4th in the S1 boys race.
Rachel Blues, Amber Martin, Caitlyn Paxton, Adam Pugh and Declan Whitefield represented Calderhead High School at the Scottish final of the Tomorrow’s Engineers Robotics Challenge held at the Glasgow Science centre. They were set a number of tasks including presenting to engineers, designing and building a robot and a lego building challenge.
The highlight of the day was completing the robot challenge missions in front of an audience at the Big Bang Fair. Unfortunately, they did not win but put up a strong challenge in all the categories.
Dr Hughes, Miss O’Neill and Mr Jack enjoyed taking part in  Dykehead Primary school’s recent Fortnight of Science event where they taught pupils from P3-P7 how to make rockets, measure the effects of exercise on the body and make ice cream.Â
Congratulations to S5 pupil, Caleb Hariri, who has gained a Nuffield Research Placement at the University of Glasgow this summer. He will be part of a team investigating how stem cells convert to fat cells. This is a leading edge research project on the control of Diabetes.
Prior to this he will taking part for a week in the REACH Medical programme for aspiring medical doctors, also at University of Glasgow.
Congratulations to Shana, Â who has been selected for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland summer school. Shana will have an opportunity to learn from guest artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Sir James McMillan, Jessica Cottis, Lisa Milne, Patricia McMahon, Tommy Smith and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Well done to all our pupils who participated in the second part of the North Lanarkshire Athletics Championships, including Caitlyn, who won a gold medal in the discus!
