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Annual Burns Supper 2019

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The Burns Celebration was hosted by our wonderful school Captains, Josh McColl and Morgan Clarke.
The Poetry Competition winners were:
First Place: Abby Docherty (S2) ‘Red Red Rose’
Second Place: Abigail Gill (S1) Own composition ‘Magic on the Stars’
Third Place: Aidan Braidwood and Jamie McLelland (S1) ‘Graffiti’

We also heard a witty, pitch-perfect ‘Toast to the Lassies’ from Kyle McHutcheson (S6) and an excellent, sophisticated ‘Reply’ from Hannah McKenzie.

Miss MacCallum’s S1 Drama Club treated us to a fantastic performance of ‘Tam O’Shanter’. Miss Duncan’s S1 Dance Team wowed the audience with their modern Scottish dance. Mia Beckett sang a beautiful ‘Ye Banks and Braes’ and our senior singers led the audience in a rousing ‘Auld Lang Syne’. We were also delighted to be joined by our P7 cluster primaries who gave us an insight into the life of Burns and performed ‘Wee Reid Ridin Hood’, the Scots version of Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Rhyme’.

A big thank you to everyone who helped with the event and to the families and friends who came along to support our talented youngsters!

A huge thank you, as always, to our colleagues in Home Economics, PE, Drama and Music for their assistance on the night and rehearsals in the run up to the night. Thank you to all our colleagues for supporting the night!

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, great Chieftan o’ the puddin’ race!

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Please come along to our wonderful annual Burns Celebration on Wednesday 6th February from 7pm until 9pm. Tickets are on sale from the school office for £1.50. Lots of entertainment including dancing from our S4 pupils, a poetry competition and a performance from our Primary 7 partner primaries.

Primary 6 Public Speaking Competition

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On Wednesday 14th November, Primary 6 pupils from our associated primary schools participated in our annual Public Speaking competition. This began with some fun warm up exercises courtesy of our wonderful ex-pupil Fraser Burns which then led into our main competition where pupils spoke about their dream job. Every pupil was well prepared, spoke with clarity and confidence and delivered excellent speeches that impressed the judges immensly. The standard was incredibly high, however the overall winners were:

First Place: Bargeddie Primary School winning their first ever first place! Our judges were blown away with their speech about their dream job of being an Olympic Runner and how well-researched it was as well as the passionate delivery!

Second Place: Carnbroe Primary School
Third Place: Old Monklands Primary School.

Well done to all who took part!