All parents of S5/6 pupils should have received a set of  staged letters via text/email taking you through the process of signing up, logging in and booking appointments on the online Parents’ Evening system.

Hopefully you have managed to work your way through the process and you are ready for tomorrow night’s online video appointments.

As a final step we have included 2 links below, one with frequently asked questions and one with some instructions for the evening itself.

Click Here: Parents Evenings FAQ

Click Here: Video Call Information for Parents

 

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!

Pupils in S1, S2, S5 and S6 plus family groups have had the opportunity to have their photographs taken on Thursday the 28th of October.

All pupils in the above groups were issued with a card as shown below:

Due to Covid restrictions we require all orders to be placed online.

You are required to register online following the steps on the card, each card has an  access code for individual pupils that will allow you to view the proofs online prior to ordering.  There is NO obligation to buy photographs. Family photographs, if taken, will be added to one of your child’s collection of photos.

Should your child have lost the card our school office has a copy of each pupil’s access code.

The company has advised us that it will be a minimum of 10 days before proofs are available online as they spend a considerable time editing to ensure the best quality photographs.

Monday 1^st November will be MEATLESS MONDAY in our school canteen! But don’t worry our catering manager has been working on a delicious menu so that there will be plenty of tasty alternatives for you to enjoy!

Eating a meat based diet isn’t great for the environment as animals – especially cows – create tonnes of methane each year

Methane is one of the dangerous greenhouse gases responsible for climate change

Eating meat amounts to 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Changing to a plant based diet – even just for one day a week – can really help reduce demand for meat & therefore reduce the number of animals we farm

Raising animals is also responsible for huge deforestation across the globe – so by giving up meat you can make such a difference to your carbon footprint since trees absorb CO2 – another dangerous greenhouse gas!

We have compiled a digital recipe book based on tried and tested recommended recipes submitted by pupils and staff from Greenfaulds High School in support of our Climate Emergency Action Week. It is available for free download here to help support families in switching to a plant based diet in an effort to reduce carbon footprint.

We hope that you enjoy these delicious recipes and manage to substitute at least one of your meals each week with a meat free meal. Who knows, you may even manage to make the full switch to a plant based diet – saving your wallet, health AND our fabulous Planet!

Everyone loves a food pic! So don’t forget to enter our Marvellous Meatless Meals food photography competition by Tweeting a photo of your Marvellous Meat Free Meal to @ghsecocommittee and we’ll retweet! Most likes = wins! Who knows who you’ll inspire – saving the Planet from even more methane gas!

Click Here: GHS Marvellous Meatless Meals Digital Recipe Book

For any S1-3 pupils who are interested in a career in healthcare

Medic Insight Glasgow are hosting an ‘Exploring Careers in Healthcare’ event on the 20th of October at 7pm on Zoom. This event is primarily aimed at S1-S3 students, but any interested students are welcome to attend. The purpose of this event is to give students an idea of the different career options available within healthcare.

The event will consist of short 10-minute talks from different healthcare professionals (Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist, Paramedic and Dentist) detailing what their job involves, why they decided to enter their chosen career path and how they got to where they are. There will also be a short Q&A panel with the speakers for pupils to ask any questions they may have.

The link below is to the Registration Form, also accessible through the poster QR code, which must be completed by each student to receive the event zoom link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/121WaGAUoXlfqFnFDKHck93e-55Y0qJNmnmF3zjmfn6I/

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.

Please click on the link below to access the presentation that was used in the S1 Settling In Evening.

Click Here: S1 Settling in Evening presentation Sept 21

If your child has expressed an interest in learning to play a musical instrument after watching some short videos/discussion with their music teacher please fill out the electronic form which can be accessed from the link below.

All instrumental lessons are now free. We require your permission to give a musical instrument trial and ask you to return permission electronically on the aforementioned form.

Pupils will have the opportunity to try out for musical instrument tuition over the coming weeks, and, if successful, your child will be offered a place on a tutor’s timetable. There is a limitation on places but If numbers are high, we shall add pupil names to a waiting list.

Some instruments may have to be hired such as brass or woodwind. However, we do have some of these instruments in school, these will be issued at the discretion of the Music Department. Some instruments can be purchased through the school without paying VAT. Please make any enquiries to the Principal Teacher.

Closing date to return the form is the 19th of September.

Click Here to Access the Microsoft Form

Below are some video links to the different instruments on offer for tuition. Click on the instrument to access the video.

Flute 

Clarinet 

Oboe      

Saxophone 

Bassoon   

 Trumpet     

Trombone

Bagpipes   

 Side drum  

Clarsach (Scottish harp)

 Drum-kit

 

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!

 

Please note all email addresses have been updated for school teaching staff.

The updated email address of your child’s Pupil Support teacher can be found on the Contact Us tab on the Homepage or click on the link below.

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