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

Read the article about the fantastic volunteer work that Fraser & Eilidh Simpson participate in for St John Scotland

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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

Opening of “The Courtyard” at Greenfaulds High School

Jack Guild handing the opening plaque to Head Teacher Linda Park

On Friday 1^st June there was an official opening ceremony of the courtyard at Greenfaulds High School. This was the culmination of a project in conjunction with Morrison Construction that started last May. The pupils of Bruce House and the Greenfaulds DofE group all worked together to produce tables and benches to enable the space to be utilised as an external classroom and social space.

The Greenfaulds Go Green project was won with design ideas supplied and costed by the Bruce House team of Jack Guild, Fraser Menzies, Aaron Urquhart and Charlie Redmond. Their vision was then passed over to have the plans drawn up by senior members of the DofE group and then everyone from Bruce House and the DofE Group who had time dived in to create tables, benches and planters from recycled old scaffolding boards.

Jack Guild attended the opening ceremony in two capacities. He was the project manager and he is also currently attending work experience with Morrison Construction and attended as their official representative.

Jack said “This project has taken a very long time to complete but I am very proud of the final results. I have been working closely with Jim Johnston and Caitlin Quinn who have helped out with advice and materials throughout the last 12 months. The effort put in by the DofE Group and Bruce House members to produce the goods has been fantastic!”

Another table and two benches were created and donated to Redburn School for their new memorial garden

Depute Head Teacher Martin Burns said “The donation of the table and benches are a wonderful addition to our newly formed memorial garden. This provides both pupils and staff of Redburn School with the opportunity to access a quiet, contemplative space. We are very grateful to the staff and pupils at Greenfaulds High School for their generosity.”

Darcie Burnett of 2KR received a GHS Success Nomination for her recent success in an online t-shirt design competition.

Darcie commented;

“I entered an online competition to redesign a well known logo The Forty Monster by the very popular Brand Forty Clothing. I used pointillism to create a finely dotted new design. I was chosen out of over 300 entries to have my design printed on the new summer t-shirt range to be sold in their store near the Merchant City in Glasgow”

Well done and congratulations on your fantastic design Darcie.

Blazer fittings by Academy Uniforms will be taking place on Wednesday the 6th and Thursday the 7th of June from 6.30pm until 8.00pm in the school.

 

Over the coming weeks all pupils in S3 will be taking part in Scottish National Standardised Assessment. Below is some information on the assessments and how they are used.

What are the Scottish National Standardised Assessments?

All Scottish school children in P1, P4, P7 and S3 will complete online standardised assessments in literacy and numeracy. The assessments help to identify children’s progress, providing diagnostic information to support teachers’ professional judgement.

Children and young people do not have to revise or prepare for these assessments. The assessments are as inclusive as possible to accommodate the needs of children and young people who require additional support. There is no pass or fail

Why have these assessments been introduced?

Assessment is a central part of everyday learning and teaching for every child and young person. The Scottish National Standardised Assessments have been introduced as part of the National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education to provide teachers with objective, comparable information about progress, which will help improve outcomes for all children and young people.

These assessments have been specifically designed to reflect the way we deliver education in Scotland and are aligned with Curriculum for Excellence. Ongoing and periodic assessments are, and will continue to be, the main basis of teachers’ professional judgement. Teachers continue to draw on all of the assessment information available to them when considering children’s progress and planning next steps in learning.

An overview of assessments

The web-based Scottish National Standardised Assessments tool enables teachers to administer online literacy and numeracy assessments to learners in P1, P4, P7 and S3. The assessments are marked and scored automatically giving teachers immediate feedback to help children progress.

Once assessments have been completed, a diagnostic report will be available for individuals and groups of learners. The information provided by the assessments is used by teachers when making professional judgements about children’s progress. The reports focus on establishing where learners are in their progress in literacy and numeracy, identifying strengths as well as areas that require further support.

Click here for additional parent/carer information

 

A number of Miss Armstrong’s  S1-3 Art & Design pupils took part in an Amazing Animals Brilliant Science competition run by ARC trust in Scotland last year.

Two of the pupils Amy O’Keefe and Kyle Diack  were finalists in the S1-S3 art category of the ARC Trust Amazing Animals Brilliant Science competition in October at Edinburgh Zoo. Amy was 1st place and Kyle 3rd. Their art work has just been featured on the cover of a new book created by zoologist Dr Pete Minting of ARC (foreword by ARC patron Chris Packham) along with artwork by another of our pupils Ava Duffy. The book is about DNA technology – aimed at a teenage audience – and how scientists are using new techniques to study Scottish wildlife, such as the badger and golden eagle. This was the result of the Amphibian and Reptile Trust’s Great Crested Newt Detectives project in Scotland and the book features artwork and creative writing by school children in Scotland.

Amy O’Keefe drew the golden eagle featured on the front cover, Ava Duffy drew and painted the badger, and on the reverse of the cover there is Kyle Diack’s common frog (mixed media piece)

If anyone is interested in DNA technology and wildlife then this book can be downloaded for free as a pdf from the ARC Trust website. Click on link below.

https://www.arc-trust.org/news/aabs-book-launch

Good luck to all our pupils sitting SQA exams. Remember to turn up at least 15 minutes before you are due to start in school uniform. The SQA timetable can be found on the link below or on the top bar of the GHS Homepage.

Good Luck!!!

Click Here: SQA Timetable

Outcome Report on proposal to re-zone part of Greenfaulds High School catchment area to form part of the Cumbernauld Academy catchment area.

Click here to download report