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.
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.
The first day of the North Lanarkshire Athletics Championships took place on Thursday 2nd June and the Calderhead High pupils who participated all did very well and conducted themselves fantastically. They competed against pupils from every school in the authority and we are delighted to have won the following medals:
Friday 17th June: Fundraising Day in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital . As well as being a non-uniform day, there will be a cake and candy stall and talent show .
Monday 20th June: School Uniform Sale 3:15 – 5pm,
Tuesday 21st June: School Uniform Sale 6:00-7:30pm
Wednesday 22nd June: Awards Ceremony
Thursday 24th June: School Sports
Wednesday 29th June: Last day of term
Tuesday, 9th August – SQA results published – good luck, everyone!
Wednesday, 17 August – Pupils return to school – 8.55 am. Remember new school times start today.
Everyone within our school community is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of one of our pupils, Kiera Beagle.
At this time all our thoughts and sympathy go out to her family and friends. Kiera will be remembered very fondly by pupils and staff. She made a highly positive contribution to the school and was doing well in all her subjects.
Kiera especially liked writing and illustrating books. She was a popular and valued member of our school community, especially among her group of close friends. We will provide our young people at Calderhead with our full support to help them this most difficult time.
NL Leisure kids summer camp bookings are now open. Choose from a list of exciting activities including multi-sports, football, tennis, dance, musical theatre, swimming, athletics and golf, available for various age groups from 3 to 16 years old.
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You may be aware that Calderhead High School has been looking to develop a partnership with a secondary school in Malawi. In 2015 Malawi was ranked the 3rd poorest country in the world with the average income of only £520 per year. In recent months, Councillor Robertson, has identified and visited a school in Malawi that we have been asked to partner with. The school is Thuchila Secondary and is situated in a rural area of Malawi.
In order to begin developing this partnership we have been asked to collect items for first aid kits to be sent out to the school. We have been given a backpack to fill with items. The next North Lanarkshire visit to this area is the beginning of June 2016 so we would need to fill the backpack by 31 May at the latest. Mr Leitch has delivered assemblies to all year groups on this to seek their support. We are looking for basic first aid items such as plasters, bandages, antiseptic wipes and sprays, anti-bacterial hand gel etc.
We have also signed an agreement to fund raise £500 per year to sponsor a home school partnership worker in Thuchila. This home school worker will deliver a “Girls go for health” program in the area. The basic items that we provide in the rucksack will enable her to help pupils, especially girls, to continue with their education.
We also plan to identify 2 students, who along with other students from North Lanarkshire schools, would visit Thuchila and other schools in the area for two weeks in June 2017. They would deliver workshops such First Aid, Dance, Heart Start, Self Defence as well as visiting projects supported by ourselves and other schools.
If you can donate any of the basic first aid items mentioned above then please bring forward them to Mr Leitch and he will put it in the rucksack. If you have any questions or would like any other info about this please get in touch.
Update: on 1 June we dropped 4 bags full of first aid supplies off with the team visiting Malawi . This was more than enough to overfill the rucksack we were provided with and was comparable with the amount donated by schools much larger than ourselves. There was a very positive response about the appeal from staff and students alike, so thank you all for your support with this. We plan to hold assemblies for all year groups in the coming weeks to provide more information about the partnership, explain how students can get involved and explore what we hope to achieve as a community with Thuchila Secondary School.
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Everyone within our school community is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of one of our pupils, Kiera Beagle.
