THE GIRLS FOOTBALL TEAM

The Girls Football Team will take part in their 2nd festival on Friday 19 of November at St Ambrose from 1:15 to 3pm.  Any girls who would like to attend can see Ms MacDonald in G086 and sign up for Future Fridays Football also.

FUTURE FRIDAYS

Future Friday activities continue Friday afternoon 1pm – 3pm

We now have Golf, Diamond painting and basketball up and running as well as all our previous clubs. For more information, please see our social media on Instagram and twitter @GHSFutureFriday

CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACTION WEEK

This past week has been ‘Climate Emergency Action Week‘ here at Greenfaulds! Departments from across the school have been offering various Climate Change lessons and activities, ranging from Climate Change timelines in History, to studying Michael Jackson’s Earth Song in Music, Eco Friendly App Design in Computing Studies to investigating the work of Protest and Pressure Groups like Extinction Rebellion in Modern Studies! The Eco Committee have also organised a huge range of activities for all pupils to get involved in from the Pledge Point campaign – where pupils sign up to small changes in their daily habits to reduce carbon footprint – to a ‘Walk/cycle to school’ Strava competition! There is also a Sustainable Fashion Fair using Vinted, Carpool Karaoke for staff to encourage car sharing, a Photography Competition with the theme ‘Our Changing Climate’, an English writing competition based on Climate Change, and a Disposable Mask challenge to limit disposable mask use. We also hosted a Meatless Monday day at the canteen where no meat was served for breakfast, break or lunch to help raise awareness of methane from cattle farming. And to help families switch to a more plant-based diet we compiled a meatless recipe book available for free download from the School Website! A packed schedule – all to help raise awareness of climate change to mark COP26!

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – CLIMATE WRITING COMPETITION

Here are the winning entries from the English Department’s Cop Competition. What talented pupils we have in GHS. Powerful reading ahead…

 S1/2 CATEGORY WINNER: ARA MCDERMOTT, 1WA2

Look in front of you and what do you see?
A wonderful city filled with joy and glee.

Look beside you and what do you see?
A beautiful forest packed with magic and trees.

Look behind you and what do you see?
A polluted world made of terror and flee.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: BROOKE MEIKLE, S2

A world demolished, abandoned.  A peaceful haven, what once was, destroyed, gone.

Never again to sing, never again to dance upon its green grass, never to breathe its fresh air, never to know what you could have known.

A world split in two, and us in between.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: SERAPHINA WALKER, 1WA2

Come little butterfly, we cannot stay.
Come little butterfly, the humans will betray.
Come little butterfly, this place is gonna blow.

Climate change is not a tool.
Climate change you cannot rule.

Pain and anguish will come.
The ground is crumbling.

 S1/2 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: HOLLIE ALEXANDER, 1TH

 The change in our beautiful world makes me rage in despair.  From the bright green grass to the warm polluted air.  I look out the window and let my imagination run free, all that I could imagine is what the world could be.  Then I remember our world is…

 S3/4 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH BRODIE, S4

 Eden
That’s what we once had.

Destruction
That’s what’s coming.

We lie in the in-between
Where governments give out drilling orders

To become richer
Knowing it is against agreements they once signed.
It’s only the kids that care if the world is on fire.

Destruction or Eden?
We decide, right?

 S3/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: NIAMH MITCHELL, S3

 Why?

In my last moments I’m overwhelmed by heat, tears rolling down my face. I’m not sad but glad, I brought this upon myself, saying tomorrow, tomorrow but in the end never. I lay down letting the heat absorb me as the world goes up in flames and I think why?

 S3/4 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: ABBIE ROSS, S3

From heaven to hell
Through bad and good
Broken

From the way it looks
To the way it feels
Broken

Our world is broken
From the brightest days to the darkest nights
Our world
Broken

 S5/6 CATEGORY WINNER: HANNAH RUSSELL, S6

We all watched from our homes while she cried out
She looked skeletal, dry, prehistoric
She was cracking quickly, changing always
River, rock, ruin

Her mossy surface now mulch in our hands
Her wheat hair turned to rope
Rope for us to climb until the eventual destruction of our
Earth

S5/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: KATIE MACDONALD, S5

Here I stand repentant,
Mortified.
Beside the life I created,

My child, our children, futures,
Doomed.
By our carelessness.

The life I gave her.
The life I promised, before we even met,
Is also the life I destroyed.

I do not choose to say I love you.
Instead,
Mummy’s sorry.

 S5/6 CATEGORY RUNNERS UP: EMILY SMITH S6

 PLASTIC PANDEMIC

A terrible mess we have made of our world
A future uncertain, still to be unfurled
The planet is dying and we are to blame
Unless we act now and stop “more of the same”
Our world needs to breathe and oceans must clear
The plastic pandemic must now
END!

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COMPETITION

Are you the next Hemingway? Or Dahl? Or Shakespeare? The English Department are launching a climate writing competition, in line with COP26. It is open to all pupils, and winners will be announced under the following categories: S1/2, S3/4, and S5/6.  The task? To create a written response to an image of our environment. This can take any form but there is one rule: it must be exactly 50 words!  Only one entry per person.  Email submissions to Mrs Burns (NLBurnsM3@northlan.org.uk) by the deadline of Tuesday 2^nd November at 11:59pm.  Don’t forget to add your name and year group.  Winner will be announced on Friday 5th November.  We’re excited to see what Greenfaulds can produce. Good luck!

S3 ACHIEVE

A HUGE well done to the S3 Achieve pupils for hosting and all the staff and pupils at Greenfaulds High School for taking part in our annual MacMillan Coffee Morning.  We managed to raise a whopping £460.78 for this worthy cause.  The pupils who organised the event were:

• Frazer Wallace
• Dylan McFarlane
• Mark Montgomery
• Ellis Pollock
• Molly Gordon
• Sarah Wright
• Blair Ferguson
• Alfie Gilgis

S1 and S2 ROYAL NAVY WORKSHOPS

• Next week the Royal Navy are delivering fun teambuilding workshops for S1 and S2 students.
• This is a great opportunity for the students to develop new skills and to challenge themselves.
• It’s also a chance to take part in activities that have been restricted because of Covid-19.
• This means S1 and S2 students will need their outdoor PE kit on the day they take part in the workshops. They will get changed in school.
• The timetable below shows when the students are taking part (there is one change from the letter issued to parents and guardians).

Periods	1 and 2	3 and 4	5 and 6
Mon 4th Oct	Navy setup	1LO1 1SK1	2LO1 2WA
Tue 5th Oct	1SK2 1LO2	2BR 2LE	2SK 2LO2
Wed 6th Oct	1WA1 1BR	1LE 1NE	2TH1
Thur 7th Oct	2NE 2TH2	1TH 1WA2	Captain’s Cabinet

FUTURE FRIDAYS

Future Fridays at GHS continue to grow and develop. We have lots of clubs that are accessible to all pupils. Our newest cubs are chess club which started last week and after the October break we have the following clubs available:

• Golf
• Creative balloon art
• Movie club.

These clubs can be provided but will only run based on pupil interest. If you would like any more information on any of our clubs or to sign up please get in touch with Ms Davidson in the PE department or email nldavidsonr@northlan.sch.uk

ADVANCED HIGHER GEOGRAPHY

S6 Geographers have participated in a wide range of fieldwork experiences over the last few weeks as part of their Advanced Higher course. They have investigated river, beach and soil environments and microclimates to develop their knowledge of Physical Geography fieldwork techniques. They have also completed rural and urban land use mapping; traffic surveys; pedestrian counts and environmental quality surveys to enhance their experience of using Human Geography fieldwork techniques. This knowledge will be further developed as part of their folio and used in exams.

For further updates on what’s happening in Geography, please see our departmental Twitter page @GeoGreenfaulds.

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.

FUTURE FRIDAYS

Future Fridays is now up and running on a Friday afternoon between 1-3. There is a good selection of activities from book club to make up artistry. Please see Ms Davidson in PE if you would be interested in attending any clubs. Alternatively follow us on ghsfuturefriday on both instagram and twitter for the most recent updates and what is being offered.

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!

 

ACHIEVE

Well done to our S4 Achieve group on achieving their John Muir Award. This was awarded for their conservation work and planning of events for local Primary Schools at Ravenswood Marsh. The following pupils were awarded the certificate;

Jamie Wright
David Pollock
Logan Seivwright
Fraser Pyott
Chloe Gill
Ashleigh Kelly
Rachel Wilson
Olivia Burt

S4 DofE Awards

S4 pupils were presented with their Bronze DofE certificates and badges this week.  Congratulations to the following:

• Sean Allison
• Leon Brass
• Nathan Campbell
• Aiden Davidson
• Derek Dunn
• Jamie Jones
• Leon McCallie
• Piaras Mitchelson
• Fraser Pyott
• Timothy Richford
• Emma Sharpe
• Kai Shirkie
• Calum Smith
• Jamie Stewart

Ollie Sheridon was also presented with a Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing 3 sections of his Bronze Award.

S4 pupils are currently working on their Silver Awards, having completed their Silver Expedition last term. Mrs Beattie, Mr Adler and Mrs Morrow were invited to their Expedition Presentation. Pupils shared their experiences, including what they had learned about the areas they walked through and themselves. Pupils presented this confidently and it was clear that they will take away lots of memories from this experience!

PARENTS & CARERS

We want to make sure that all children are able to make the most of the school day and that no child misses out on anything. Your answers to this survey will help us to check whether school costs are causing any concerns for our families and children and see whether there is anything that we can do to help out.

Your voice is really important and we want to hear from as many parents and carers as possible. We promise to listen to what’s been said and take action where it is needed.

Please use the link below to access the Form.

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ART DEPARTMENT

 We are delighted to announce three fantastic pieces of news after a long and hard lockdown. Our Art department and three of our extremely talented and humble pupils have been successful in one of the best School Art competitions in Scotland.

“The RSA Schools Art Award is open to all Secondary and Special Schools in Scotland. The competition has been running since 1986 and is considered by teachers to be one of the most prestigious awards made to pupils. Supported by Scottish law firm Brodies LLP, prizes are awarded for work which displays creativity and originality and skills of technique and observation.”

Award 1

This year’s Inspiration Art Department Award was won by Greenfaulds High School.

This outstanding award, secured for the Art department by Kirstin Armstrong, has won £1000 for the Art department for a specific project which was chosen as the winner ahead of almost every school across Scotland. This is a huge and wonderful achievement, as well as further contributing to the great reputation we have here at Greenfaulds High School and recognition for being an increasingly successful art department.

Award 2

Main prize winner – Abby Quinn chosen from the Senior Category

Abby Quinn in S6 secured one of the main prizes, chosen from out of over 300 entries from all other schools and we are absolutely over the moon with the news that she came FIRST (winning herself £250 in prize money)

 Award 3

Highly Commended Certificates – Cailin Lardner, S2 chosen from the Junior Category and Anna Leishman, S6 chosen from the Senior Category

 We also had two pupil’s art works chosen for a Highly Commended certificate. Only 12 pupils’ work from across Scotland receive these certificates, so again, what a huge achievement for both Anna Leishman in S6 and Cailin Lardner in S2 for placing within their categories.

Finally

To hear the wonderfully talented and humble GHS winner Abby Quinn’s name read out, work described and displayed, via the online ceremony  – click on this link and start video from 17 minutes in OR from the start if you like.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADfVtkRYp0

 Using that same link, click to 32 minutes to hear the announcement that Greenfaulds High School won the Inspirational Art Department Award.

To view Abby’s work and see other work submitted to competition, click on this link:

https://royalscottishacademy.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-rsa-schools-art-award/

To view the Highly Commended Art works for two other of our talented young artists, Cailin Lardner in S2 and Anna Leishman in S6, at this link:

https://royalscottishacademy.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/2-rsa-schools-art-award/

‘The RSA is committed to encouraging and supporting artists right from the start of their creative journey. The recent lockdown has been a difficult time for school pupils and so it is very encouraging to see the exceptional works produced by the talented young people during this time.’

Joyce W Cairns, RSA President

About the RSA

“The RSA runs a year-round programme of exhibitions, artist opportunities and related educational talks and events which support artists at all stages of their careers. The Academy’s distinguished history is reflected in its extensive collections and archives and has been awarded Recognised Collection status by Museums Galleries Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government for being a collection of National Significance to Scotland.

Led by eminent artists and architects, the RSA embodies a wealth of professional experience in Fine Art and Architecture with many of its Members taking a leading role in higher education and in many of Scotland’s leading cultural institutions.”

 

 

 

 

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

S4 DofE pupils will be embarking on their Bronze/Silver Practice Expedition next Wednesday – Friday. Letters and an equipment list have been issued to pupils. An online parents’ information meeting has been organised for Friday 2 October at 4:15pm. Email Ms Morrow for further details.

ACHIEVE & CORE SKILLS GROUP

The Achieve and Core Skills raised £277  recently. They managed to do this by selling raffle tickets, doing a guess the sweets and a guess the height of the pupil.

The following pupils were involved:

Matthew Crawford
Thomas Robertson
Liam Craig
Makayla morrison
Kyle Urquhart
Harry McMurtrie
Hayden Robertson
Alina Husan
Thomas Bell
Lewie Wallace
Justin Campbell

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

S4 DofE pupils will be embarking on their Bronze/Silver Practice Expedition next Wednesday – Friday. Letters and an equipment list have been issued to pupils. An online parents’ information meeting has been organised for Friday 2 October at 4:15pm. Email Ms Morrow for further details