GIRLS S1-3 FOOTBALL

Girls S1-3 football will begin on Fridays from 1pm until 2:15pm. If anyone wishes to join please see Ms MacDonald in G086 next week.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

In June, several pupils from our school DofE group successfully completed their Duke of Edinburgh Awards.  Each participant completed an individual programme of activities and showed fantastic resilience despite lockdown and government restrictions to achieve their Awards.

Throughout the year, the group helped various people in their local community who were shielding from Covid and improved the local environment as part of their Volunteering section. They improved their cooking; DIY; navigation skills and researched their family tree as part of their Skills section and enhanced their fitness through gym work; football; basketball; archery; cycling and walking.  During Expeditions, they explored the local area, learning about local history including the Antonine Wall; Roman Forts; Forth and Clyde canal; Twechar’s Coachie bear and the beautiful scenery in the Kilsyth hills.

Congratulations to:

Bronze Award

Hannah Brodie, Megan Bryson, Robbie Campbell, Sophie Everson, Zach Pursley, Hayden Robertson and Lewie Wallace

Silver Award

Fraser Pyott

ART DEPARTMENT

The Art & Design Department are excited to be starting their Brodies Inspirational Art and Design Department Prize mosaic project this term. Pupils are going to help create inspirational artwork in class for the artist Alan Potter to use to design a mosaic, reflecting on pupils’ experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic and memorialising the heroics and sacrifices made by the NHS and different members of the community during 2020-21.

Alan Potter will work with a small number of pupils to make the mosaic during term 2, and it will be displayed on the exterior of the GHS school building. Thanks to the RSA and Brodies LLP for the project funding!