Congratulations to Hannah and Zuzia who won the recent S4 Orienteering challenge.Orienteering Winners
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Congratulations to Hannah and Zuzia who won the recent S4 Orienteering challenge.Children in Need 2020
UPDATE: Well done to Calderhead High School’s Captains and Prefects team who raised £671.01 for Children in Need!
They organised a dress down day and Rounders Festival for BBC Children in Need on Friday, 13th November. Staff and pupils braved the inclement Shotts weather to play spirited games of rounders in their year groups and a great time was had by all. Well done to everyone who organised and participated in the fundraising activities.
Parents and carers can help the fundraising effort by donating at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/calderheadhsprefectteam
Street Soccer
Street soccer will be starting again on Wednesday 16th September Cove Street, Shotts, from 7 – 9pm for 9 – 16 year olds.
Football trip to Etihad Stadium
Six members of staff and over forty pupils travelled to the Etihad Stadium on 31st August to watch Manchester City play Brighton. The pupils had a great time playing in the fan zone in the stadium before they watched the game. A special thank you to all the staff who accompanied the pupil, especially Mr Mackie who organised the trip.
Netball Festival
The Wishaw/Shotts Netball Qualifiers took place at Calderhead High on 18 April. Well done to all schools for taking part and congratulations to Kirk O’Shotts Primary and St Brigid’s Primary who will now go through to the North Lanarkshire Active Schools Finals.
Sports Tournament – RU THAT GUY
Netball and football teams made up of S5 and S6 pupils recently participated in a sports tournament at Ravenscraig Sports Facility in support of the suicide prevention campaign, ‘RU THAT GUY’.
The ‘RU THAT GUY‘ campaign has been launched by Suicide Prevention North Lanarkshire and encourages young people to check on their friends and family at times when they may be feeling low, as a measure to tackle suicide.
Judo Champion
Over 700 keen judoka competed in the British Schools Judo Championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Around 400 schools were represented over the course of the two day competition and we are delighted to report that S2 pupil, Emma Pringle, was awarded a gold medal in the Girls (Years 8/9) Under 52kg category. Congratulations, Emma.
NL Leisure Easter Camps
After all the snow, it’s hard to believe that it will soon be Easter break. NL Leisure have released details of their sporting holiday programmes, which will be available across a variety of venues throughout the Easter school holidays.
There are sessions in Multi-sports, Football, Dance, Athletics, Musical Theatre, Tennis, Swimming, BMX and Golf.
Dates: Monday to Friday from 2nd April – 13th April. Click here for more details.
Street Soccer
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.
A new block of ten weeks is starting in Shotts on Tuesday, 27th February 2018 at Cove Crescent, Shotts, ML7 4JE
For more information email sportsdevelopment@nlleisure.com
Sports Clubs @ Calderhead
Senior pupils helped our NLActive Schools Co-ordinator, Jordann Cunningham, host a Sports Fayre Assembly and pupils had the opportunity to sign up for some of the many sports clubs at the school. Details of these and the other great clubs and other extracurricular activities currently available at the school are detailed here.
