We recently interviewed Gregg Fairbairn and Kerr Martin about the Scottish Swimming Championships. We talked to them both at the same time and so we asked a couple of questions.

Firstly we asked “How often do you train?” They both replied, “About eight sessions a week.” We also asked, “How often do you compete?” They replied, “About three times a month in the summer time.” “Do you have a specific diet?” Gregg replied, “Yes I eat Chicken and Rice as it is very good for swimmers.” Finally, we asked, “Is your training hard?” Kerr answered, “Definitely, we get up at 5:00am every day and we train twice on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Reporters: Ross, Lewis and Fraser.

On Wednesday 18^th January Chryston High School’s own band Voltage competed in Battle of the Bands.  We are proud to say that they played outstandingly well and took first place. We interviewed Ryan Bradley and Liam Lau who are part of the band.

We firstly asked Ryan a couple of questions.

“Ryan how long have you and the band been competing in battle of the bands?”

Ryan answered “We have been competing in battle of the bands for four years now and we were very happy when we won.”

We also asked “Were you nervous?” He replied “Well, since we have been doing it for four years now so we weren’t too nervous”

We asked Ryan if in their opinion, any other band was strong competition.  He said, “Yes, we thought every band did well but Cardinal Newman who came second, were very good and it was very close between us.  When we came off stage, I thought we had played very well and was really pleased with our performance.  I thought we had a good chance but I didn’t think we had won.  We played our own song, Defy and a cover of Knights of Cydonia by Muse.”

We also asked Liam a couple of questions. “When did you start to learn the songs you played on the night?” “Well, we made our own song up called Defy and we also played Nights of Cydonia by Muse.” We were curious about who played what and Liam replied “Ryan plays Drums, Liam plays Keyboard, Lauren plays Guitar and Fraser plays Bass Guitar” We also asked if they he had known the other band member for long.  He told us that he hadn’t known Lauren for long but now she was like a best friend to him.

Congratulations to Voltage.  We are all very proud of you.

Reporters Ross Davidson, Fraser Maxwell and Lewis Gowan

Our first big interview was with Mr Jopling and we asked him questions about being head of house.

1)  How long have you been the head of house?

“I have been the head of Kelvin for 8 years now.”

2)  How do you make sure everything is okay in your house?

“In every house there are 2 pupil support teachers.  In my house we have Mrs Harvey & Mrs Carragher.  If something happens, the pupil support teachers have to decide if how to deal with it. The pupil support teacher talks to the head of house to let him know what has happened and what they have done.  The head of house sometimes gives them advice.”

3)  What do you enjoy about being the head of Kelvin?

“ I like working with first years, working with the captains & winning the house cup. “

4)  How long have you been at Chryston High?

 “I have been in Chryston High for 21 years and Head Of Kelvin for 8 Years”. 

5)  If you weren’t head of house what would you be?

“ If I wasn’t head of house I would be an art teacher.  I have loved art all of my life.”

By Leah Gaughan & Alishba Irfan