Calderhead Library was transformed into Hogwarts’ Calderhead Campus at lunchtime on 2nd February, in celebration of Harry Potter Book Night.
All those wizards and witches who received their Hogwarts Letters were first sorted into their respective Houses and then treated to an excellent Potions class with Professor Crosbie, who took sinister delight in helping pupils create Goblin Slobber, Laughter Potion and Dragon Flare.
Thank you to Mrs Crosbie and the Science Department for creating the potions class and to Mrs Phee who helped sort all our young wizards and witches.
Monday 5 March: Calderhead High School is OPEN today.
The Street Soccer programme is for 9-16 year olds and encourages young people to improve their health and wellbeing in their communities through football.
Calderhead pupils showed off their talent at the Talent Show in December, and we were extremely impressed by the breadth and variety of talent demonstrated by our pupils. This included the prefect choir (who sang a moving rendition of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”), the brave seniors who braved their own “Bush Tucker Challenge” and many more fantastic acts. The eventual winner was the talented pianist, Heather Duncanson, S4, who performed to great acclaim.
2018 has been designated the Year of Young People and February is LGBT History Month. A local MSYP (and Year of Young People Ambassador) has organised on LGBT Diversiday celebration, which will take place on Saturday, 24th February, at the Jim Foley Community Centre. This fun day will include music and arts and crafts and promises to be a fun day out.
S1 pupils were involved in an interactive ‘teacher pathways’ quiz where they worked in small groups to identify a teacher based on clues about their journey through school to starting their teaching career. The pupils were interested to find out that some teachers did not achieve as well at high school as they might have expected. The pupils also realised that the journey into education doesn’t always happen immediately after school and university and that many members of staff started their teaching careers after a number of other jobs.
In the afternoon a traditional Careers Fayre took place with 24 providers setting up stalls with a vast array of information, prospectuses and freebies. Pupils were able to spend time speaking to staff from a variety of local and national firms, training providers and Further and Higher Educational establishments to gain knowledge about the entry requirements and recruitment process.
