Awards Ceremonies
Greenfaulds High School recently held their Awards Ceremony and our Celebrating Success Awards Ceremony event to celebrate our pupils’ achievements. The awards included Outstanding Attainment in Subjects, Youth Achievement Awards and Significant Contribution to the School Community through Leadership and Citizenship.
OUR YPI EXPERIENCE
Lia Barlow, Eilidh McIntyre and Abby Ward
The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative YPI is an active citizenship programme that raises awareness amongst young people about philanthropy and their local community. Each participating school each year is responsible for directing a £3000 YPI grant to a small local charity of their choice. This is done through a unique programme of teamwork, research and competition.
During May and June, we were working with Chris’s House for our YPI presentation. Chris’s House is a charity based in Wishaw, which aims to help anyone suffering with suicidal thoughts. They also aim to help the victims’ families, friends, and other loved ones. We chose Chris’s House because they are an effective local charity, and mental health is getting more and more common amongst the young people in our local area and we would like to make this more known. Being a small charity we were really pleased for them as the £3000 will be a great boost to their funds.
When we got into the finals we were really nervous and excited at the same time. When the winner was announced we were absolutely speechless. We never thought that we would win, considering how great the other presentations were.
In the future we plan to keep supporting Chris’s House and attend as many fundraisers as we can.
Dates for the Dairy
19th June – Dance Show
27th June – Activities Day
28th June – School Closes 1pm
