S5

Elizabeth Watt: 1st Maths, 1st Physics & Bill Samson Memorial Award, 2nd English, 3rd History

Fraser O’Brien: 3rd Modern Studies, 3rd English, 3rd PE

Zoe Roy: 1st History, 1st Spanish, 3rd Maths

Fraser Simpson: 1st Modern Studies, 1st Chemistry, 2nd Physics,

Dane Sweeney: 1st Graphic Communication, 1st Biology, 2nd  Chemistry

Laura Campbell: 1st Geography & Bob Kay Memorial Award, 3rd  Biology

Leia Clark: 1st French, 2nd Spanish

Rebecca Cunningham: 1st Drama, 2nd French

Shannon Inglis: 2nd Drama, 3rd Philosophy

Sophie Mollan: 1st English, 2nd Biology

Erin Redmond: 3rd Travel and Tourism

Caitlyn Andrew: 2nd Music

Joshua Barker: 1st Music

Rae-Anne Barr: 2nd Chemistry

Liam Burns: Dynamic Youth Award

Sam Campbell: 2nd RMPS

Sophie Carus: 3rd Drama

Evie Clark: 3rd Spanish

Victoria Clark: 3rd Gaidhlig

Ellie Cooper: 3rd Geography

Jacob Cowan: 1st Metal work

Reagan Flannigan: Achievement Award

Charlotte Glennie: 3rd Computing Science

Nicole Halpin: 1st Computing Science

Austin Hunter: 2nd Art

Jade Keyes: 2nd Travel and Tourism

Craig McCarroll: 2nd Woodwork

Oliver McNally: Silver Duke of Edinburgh

Jordan McNaught: 1st Admin & IT

Amy McPhee: 3rd Music

Fraser Menzies: 2nd Geography

Leigh Mitchell: 3rd French

Yaheya Shafti: 2nd Maths

Ryan Thomson: 2nd Computing Science

Belle Ward: 1st Travel and Tourism

Ben Warnock: 2nd History

Ross Watson: Saltire Award

Michael Wright: 1st Design & Manufacture

Craig Yule: 2nd Gaidhlig

S6
AWARDS SESSION 2017-18
Ellie Henderson: 1st in RMPS, Advanced Higher English, Senior Dux, Captains Award

Sarah Wright: 1st in Politics, 1st PE Stuart McKie Award, Advanced Higher Maths, Saltire Award

Emily Robertson: 2nd Gaidhlig, Advanced Higher Biology, Adam Gillespie Award

Melissa Barr: 2nd Politics, Advanced Higher Modern Studies

Jordan Cardno:  2nd Admin & IT, Saltire Award

Mia Clark: 3rd Art, 3rd Photography

Josie Curtis: 1st Business Management, 3rd in Politics

Erin Duffy: 2nd Environmental Science, 2nd Modern Studies

Holly Hunter: Leadership Award, Saltire Award

Gillian Lee: 1st Philosophy,1st Art Zoe Tait Memorial Award

Ross McInnes: 2nd Graphic Comminication 2nd Photography

Joanna Reid: 3rd Graphic Communication, Nicola Caldwell Award

Ben Shaw: Advanced Higher Spanish, Saltire Award

Mehek Sheikh: 2nd Physics, Saltire Award

Paul Shellam: Leadership Award, Saltire Award

Sarah Adams: 2nd PE

Stuart Allan: 2nd Metal Work

Lauren Black: Advanced Higher Chemistry

Leah Boyle: Advanced Higher Geography

Olivia Chan: 3rd Psychology

Ewan Condie: 3rd Design & Manufacture

Jessica Cooper: 1St Adv. Higher Biology

Emma Currie: 1st Hospitality

Jack Davies: Saltire Award

Andrew Denniston: 1st Accounting

Matthew Duncan: 3rd Admin & IT

Natalie Ho: Saltire Award

Abby Jessamine: 3rd Environmental Science

Alan Justice: 1st Photography

LouisYung Kim: 2nd Philosophy

Phoebe MacLeod: Advanced Higher Gaidhlig

Harry McCracken: Senior Dux

Jack McDowell: 3rd Business Management

Mark McKinney: 1st Woodwork

Marc McQuade: 1st Psychology

Sean Mullan: 1st Environmental Science

Kieran O’Donnell: 2nd Design & Manufacture

Kai Parker: Advanced Higher Art

Christopher Payne: 2nd Business Management

Niamh Pritchard: 2nd Psychology

Jonathan Swan: Captains Award

Rhiana Turner: Saltire Award

Emma Weir: 3rd RMPS

MABEY FUN ENGINEERING AT GREENFAULDS

Over the last few months, we have been working with Mabey FUN Engineering on the Mabey STEM Education Initiative.  Our learners have worked through a series of challenges, learing loads about engineering through using Lego.  We’ve been building different types of pulleys and working out how their load is worked out, learning about and building different types of bridges and looking at alternative power sources.  We’ve had to use Maths skills we didn’t know we had!

Our thanks go Billy McCormick, Engneering Manager at Mabey for choosing us for this pilot scheme.

We are looking forward to building on our partnership next year.

SHAKESPEARE SCHOOL’S DRAMA FESTIVAL

Greenfaulds High School is taking a performance to the Platform Theatre, as part of the UK wide Shakespeare School’s Drama Festival.

This is a 30 minute version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which a cast from Greenfaulds will be performing at the Platform Theatre, former base of the National Theatre of Scotland, in November

We are currently casting the play, so if you want to audition, or are interested in helping out in this exciting project,  please contact Mr Gillespie at the Drama classroom on the stage.

 ACHIEVE GROUP

The Princes Trust Achieve group in Greenfaulds, have been working with Reeltime music to produce their own music video.  The theme of the video is alcohol and substance misuse and it will be used as an educational resource within the school.  Pupils involved were;

Belanna Anderson
Lucy Adams
Innes McLaren
Cole Hamilton
Tristan Irvine
Dione McAllister
Holly McAllister
Aaron McSheffrey
Aaron Gill
Antonia McNeil

S3 CORE SKILLS AND ACHIEVE

The S3 Core Skills and Achieve class got together and organised and completed a Sponsored Walk up Meikle Bin in April. The money they raised funded an end of year trip for them. On thursday 14th June, both classes attended Sumerlee museum, where they got a trip on a tram and went down the mine. Afterwards we worked on our team skills at the bowling alley, before enjoying a lunch at Pizza Hut. We ended the day by orienteering at Drumpeillier Park.

DATES FOR THE DAIRY

27th June – Activities Day
28th June – School Closes 1pm

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

19^th June – Dance Show

27^th June – Activities Day

28^th June – School Closes 1pm

BAFTA Young Games Designer Award

Congratulations to Jamie Buttenshaw who has just been announced as a finalist in the BAFTA Young Games Designer Award to be held in July. Jamie has worked extremely hard to enter this prestigious event and we are all extremely proud that he has reached the final. Go to:  http://ygd.bafta.org/competition/competition-news/2018/tim%E2%80%99s-adventure to download and play Jamie’s game.

South Africa Parents Evening for NEW S4-S6 Pupils

An information evening for parents of pupils who are interested in attending the South Africa trek and community project will take place in the school on Thursday 14th June at 7pm. Pupils are also welcome to attend. The meeting should last 1 hour. A representative from the Wilderness Foundation UK will give a talk and answer questions. For further information, pupils should contact Ms Morrow in the Geography Department or see the Geography Department Twitter page.

Sports News

Special congratulations to Amy Kennedy in S2 who won the Silver medal at the Scottish Schools Pentathlon. Amy will go on to represent Scotland at an International Event in November.

County Sports

A great two days at the NLC County Sports with Greenfaulds winning a total of 17 medals on day 1 and 12 medals on day 2. All athletes performed really well and were a credit to the school. Medal winners were:

Day One

Gold

Ethan Cunningham S1 Winner of Hurdles

Amy Kennedy S2 Winner of Hurdles and Shot Putt

Hannah Wallace S3 Winner of Hurdles and Long Jump

S3 Girls Relay Team – Alyesha Akhtar, Liusadh McCulloch, Hannah McNeill and Hannah Wallace

Silver

Euan Wallace S1 Second in Hurdles

Adam Atkinson S1 Second in Javelin

Carter Smith S2 Second in Discus

Leona Jaap S2 Second in 1500m

S1 Girls Relay – Emma Bonner, Erin Cooper, Paige McCartney and Lucy Roy

S2 Girls Relay – Alex Walker, Leona Jaap, Cara Dunn and Amy Kennedy

Bronze

Chloe Newlands S1 Third in Shot Putt

Cara Dunn S2 Third in Discus

Jamie Connelly S2 Third in 1500m

Robbie Carroll S3Third in 1500m

S1 Boys Relay -Declan O’Connor, Boyd McQuade, Euan Rhodes and Adam Atkinson

Day Two

Gold

Adam Atkinson S1 100m

Lucy Roy S1 100m

Alyesha Akhtar S3 100m

Arran Kennedy Senior Long Jump

Mehek Senior Shot Putt

Silver

Lucy Roy S1 Long Jump

Iona Davidson S1 800m

Liusadh McCulloch S3 200m

Bronze

Euan Wallace S1 Long Jump

Carter Smith S2 400m

Elise McCormick Senior 1500m

Abby Graham Senior 800m

Primary 7 Visit

Primary 7 pupils attended Greenfaulds recently for their two day visit.

Staff at Greenfaulds had prepared a range of interesting lessons for the P7s. The children reported that they thoroughly enjoyed their experiences in the various subject areas. The Primary 7 pupils were fantastic during the visit. We wish them well in their final weeks of primary school and look forward to seeing them when they return in August as pupils of Greenfaulds High School.

Dance Show

We will be showcasing our winning performances from NL Dance Championships and our National 5 Dance exam choreographies along with many other brilliant performances on Tuesday 19th June at 6.30pm, tickets are £2.

We have an extremely talented bunch of dancers in the school and former pupils who will also be making an appearance on stage.

Dates for the Dairy

13th June – Graduation Ceremony

14th June – School Prom

19^th June – Dance Show

Pi DAY 2018

To celebrate World Pi Day and all things circular students at Greenfaulds High were treated to a doughnut. In total 720 doughnuts were eaten and the total money raised was £220.

The school also had its annual S1 ‘Pi Memorising Competition’.  This year’s winner was Callum Smith who memorised Pi to a whopping 197 decimal places.  In second place was Euan Wallace and in third place was Emma Ward.  A huge well done to everyone who took part.

SCOTTISH SPACE SCHOOL

Fantastic news for Evie Clark who was recently successful in her application for the Scottish Space School this year. It is a great achievement and Evie was up against some exceptional competition from across Scotland in order to even progress to this stage. She will now spend time at Strathclyde University working alongside other successful candidates and professional engineers and Scientists and compete to win a place on the trip to NASA in Houston. All at Greenfaulds are extremely proud of Evie in her achievement and wish her the best of luck in the next stage. Well done Evie.

GEOGRAPHY

On Wednesday 14th March, various Geography pupils took part in workshops provided by GeoBus. For Higher pupils, this included looking at hydrographs whereas for S1 and S3 this focused on monitoring volcanoes. On behalf of the school we would like to thank GeoBus for engaging pupils in Geography and providing them with a fun experience. Thanks to all staff who volunteered to help as well. It was an enjoyable experience had by all!!

ART & DESIGN

Harry McCafferty S3 has been selected as one of 6 finalists in the Strathcarron Hospice Design a Pendant competition. There were 310 entrants so Harry has done really well to have had his pendant design chosen. His design was based on a snowflake. The winning design will be announced at a special lunch for the finalists at Strathcarron Hospice on the 19th March.

EASTER SCHOOL

Pupils will soon be issued with letters detailing all information regarding the upcoming Greenfaulds Easter School Event. Further information regarding this will also be available over the next few weeks. Easter School provides an excellent opportunity for pupils to receive additional supported study in the run up to the SQA exams.

SCHOOL CLUBS

Departments and staff within Greenfaulds High School offer a range of school clubs throughout the year to challenge and inspire our pupils. With many practical, recreational and educational clubs taking place there is sure to be something that will interest all of our pupils. Pupils should look out for details of new clubs posted around the school. PLEASE SEE THE WEEKLY ACTIVITIES TAB ON THE SIDEBAR OF THE SCHOOL WEBSITE @ http://www.greenfaulds.n-lanark.sch.uk/

SCOTTISH SPACE SCHOOL

Fantastic news for Evie Clark who was recently successful in her application for the Scottish Space School this year. It is a great achievement and Evie was up against some exceptional competition from across Scotland in order to even progress to this stage. She will now spend time at Strathclyde University working alongside other successful candidates and professional engineers and Scientists and compete to win a place on the trip to NASA in Houston. All at Greenfaulds are extremely proud of Evie in her achievement and wish her the best of luck in the next stage. Well done Evie.

GEOGRAPHY

On Wednesday 14th March a variety of Geography pupils took part in workshops provided by GeoBus. For Higher pupils, this included looking at hydrographs whereas for S1 and S3 this focused on monitoring volcanoes. On behalf of the school we would like to thank GeoBus for engaging pupils in Geography and providing them with a fun experience. Thanks to all staff who volunteered to help as well. It was an enjoyable experience had by all!!

ART & DESIGN

Harry McCafferty S3 has been selected as one of 6 finalists in the Strathcarron Hospice Design a Pendant competition. There were 310 entrants so Harry has done really well to have had his pendant design chosen. His design was based on a snowflake. The winning design will be announced at a special lunch for the finalists at Strathcarron Hospice on the 19th March.

S3 PARENT’S NIGHT

Please note that there is an S3 Parent’s Evening which will take place on Tuesday 20th March. This will start at 4:15pm and finish at 6:45pm.

EASTER SCHOOL

Pupils will soon be issued with letters detailing all information regarding the upcoming Greenfaulds Easter School Event. Further information regarding this will also be available over the next few weeks. Easter School provides an excellent opportunity for pupils to receive additional supported study in the run up to the SQA exams.

SCHOOL CLUBS

Departments and staff within Greenfaulds High School offer a range of school clubs throughout the year to challenge and inspire our pupils. With many practical, recreational and educational clubs taking place there is sure to be something that will interest all of our pupils. Pupils should look out for details of new clubs posted around the school. PLEASE SEE THE WEEKLY ACTIVITIES TAB ON THE SIDEBAR OF THE SCHOOL WEBSITE @ http://www.greenfaulds.n-lanark.sch.uk/