On Tuesday 1st October and Wednesday 2nd October we had a visit from 11 pupils and 3 adults from Kunohe Village in Japan, north of Tokyo. The pupils took part in some lessons and met some of our pupils. They were in Scotland for a week, during which they also saw Edinburgh Castle, Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery and the Transport Museum in Glasgow, but they said their favourite thing was the visit to Cumbernauld Academy, because of the warm welcome and friendly people. Well done to everyone who was involved!

The Higher German class went for lunch to the Bavarian Brauhaus in Glasgow for a taste of authentic German food. They had to order their lunch in German, and tried (among other things) Sauerkraut, Bratwurst and Schweinehaxe. This was a farewell to Eva, our German assistant this year, whose last day is next Wednesday, as well as being a reward for a year of hard work. Well done!

On Tuesday 5th March, S5 pupils took part in the annual maths/modern languages competition ‘Mathématiques sans Frontières’, run this year by the University of the West of Scotland. They spent an hour and a half solving mathematical puzzles, one of which had to be answered in a foreign language. There was, of course, a variety of international food on hand to help the brains work!

The questions can be found here, for anyone who would like to see how tricky they were: MSF_2019_UK

Members of class 2F2 researched an aspect of Paris each, and produced a poster of it.  The groups then judged which were best, and here are the winners!  Well done all of you.