Congratulations to our Seniors at Calderhead High who were awarded  Saltire Challenge Awards for participation, including
Well done!
Pupils from Calderhead HS team took part in the Vex Competition in Coatbridge. They got through to the semi-finals. Well done, boys! In the VEX Competitions, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test on the playing field as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more.
S3 Calderhead pupils learned how to create bruises during a recent SFX makeup workshop. Look out Hollywood!
Pupils in Calderhead High School’s S5 Higher English class celebrated Burns Day with some shortbread and Irn Bru.
Calderhead High School S5 pupils organised a Christmas jumper day for Friday 18th December to raise money for the charity “Text Santa”. They encouraged staff and pupils from the school to wear a Christmas jumper on the condition that they texted a donation to Santa.
Declan, Dylan, Cameron and Connor were encouraged by Mrs Crawford to promote the event and commented “It’s igniting the Christmas spirit around the school and raises money for charity.”
The money raised will be donated to MacMillan Cancer Support, Make a Wish and Save the Children.
Staff and pupils at Calderhead High School participated in their very own Strictly Come Dancing competition on 16 December. The standard of dance was extremely high so congratulations to our winners, Mrs Buchanan and Mr Russell.
A special thanks to Santa who took time from his busy schedule to come along.
Well done to everyone who participated in Calderhead High’s Christmas Door competition – they all looked fantastic! The winner was Mrs Ward who transformed her door into the Polar Express.
VOLUNTEER group Hands Across Shotts started earlier this year and hold weekly meetings at Calderhead High School to discuss how they can improve standards for special needs kids in the community. The committee, which is made up of parents and those who have family members with disabilities, want to ensure the children get a fair shot in life.
The Group recently helped get a disabled swing installed at the play park and their next aim is to enable  children to participate in Shotts Highland Games next year.
Co-chairperson Allison Hanley said: “We really want everyone to be able to get the full experience of the highland games, regardless of physical activity.”
For more information about the group, please see their Facebook page.
Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band Championships were held in the school on 7 November 2015. The organisers and participants were delighted with how well the school staff and pupils facilitated the event. Jim Park, the Head of Music Instruction, commented: “I was delighted with the event on Saturday – it went extremely well. I would like to thank you, your staff and pupils for all of the efforts made to ensure the competition went without hitch. The pupils who acted as stewards were amazing and a real credit to the school. Special thanks go to Andrew Lynch who did a fantastic job with all of the sound, lighting and IT side of things. There were a number of parents who spoke to me on the day to say how much they had enjoyed the event and they were very complimentary about the school and the pupils. Your janitorial staff couldn’t have been more helpful and the ladies in the kitchen were fantastic. ”
Alison Gilmour, Organiser of the  Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, also sent a message of thanks, stating: “…a huge thanks to all of the pupil helpers. They were absolutely fantastic. All of the stewards commented on how helpful the pupils were and I think everybody worked well in their teams. ”
Well done!
James Erskine, the Earl of Mar and Kellie and Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, visited Calderhead High School  to speak to senior Modern Studies students on Friday, 20th November, 2015.
All National and Higher Modern Studies pupils study the role of the House of Lords as part of their Democracy in Scotland and the UK unit. This visit was organised as part of the Peers in Schools project run by the House of Lords.
