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The Our Lady’s Say Podcast

In the first podcast episode from the English, Literacy and Drama Faculty of Our Lady’s High School Cumbernauld, we look at our upcoming Employability Fortnight, discussing what DYW is and what pupils can expect in their English and Drama lessons. Hosted by Mrs Savage of the Drama Department, with thanks to our guest speakers Mrs Wilson from the English Department, DYW leads and Pupil Support teachers Miss Ruddy and Mr Maxwell and also Ms McHugh, PT of the English, Literacy and Drama Faculty.

Click on the image below to access the podcast on Spotify (Apple Music coming soon!)

Welcome

Welcome to our Community

Thank you for visiting our website and taking an interest in our Community

We are still living with mitigations in terms of covid-19 but it does not change the fact that the school is a happy, vibrant place.  We are very proud of our pupils and staff who have shown great resilience.

In September, our School Chaplain,  Canon Harry McKay offered Mass which was concelebrated by Fr. John Campbell, Fr. O’Brien and Fr. Rooney to celebrate Our Lady’s Feast day with a small number of S1 pupils and our S6 House Ambassadors.  This was a very special occasion and it was lovely to have our school chaplain and local priests with us on this day.

Face to face learning and teaching is what we all want and our classrooms are alive.  Staff have been reminding pupils about Microsoft Teams in the event that we need to resort to a blended learning programme in the future.

We thank Our Lady for keeping our community safe and pray that we are moving towards brighter times for everyone.

Mrs Cunningham, Head Teacher

Feast Day

#TheOurLadysWay

SQA Achievements 2021

SQA Achievements 2021

Once again pupils in Our Lady’s have achieved fantastic SQA results.

In S4, an outstanding 70% of pupils attained five or more National 5 Awards at Grade C or above. This is a fantastic achievement, and our students should be very proud of this.

Congratulations also go to 26 pupils in S4 who attained 7 As in their National 5 awards – a phenomenal achievement. They are Olivia Akindele, Judin Alex, Lisa Bryant, Harris Carberry, Chiara Coletto, Lily De Jong, Lee Donaldson, Hannah Dutton, Mia Eaglesham, Joseph Friel, Andrew Hamill, Ciaran Hegarty, Olivia Hughes, Hannah McCallum, Alasdair McCurrach, Ryan McEnaney, Matthew McGarry, Millar McGroarty, Aiden McGrory, Aiden McKeown, Kaylah McLaughlin, Neve McLay, Christina McMillan, Hannah McSheffrey, Niamh O’Rourke and Amy Walker.

Our S5 pupils also worked hard to ensure success this year. 23 pupils in S5 attained 5 As in their Highers, which was a fantastic achievement. Congratulations to Madison Adams, Imran Ali, Alix Anderson, Nicholas Colella, Patrick Connolly, Jessica Cox, Grace Croal, Gareth Finnieston, Lily-Anna Govan, Keira MacDonagh, Calum Mackenzie, Flynn Malcolm, Rebekah McDermott, Ciara McGrath, Mark McKay, Lucy Morrison, Sarah O’Donnell, Alexander Peters, Roksana Putowska, Liam Sharp, Katie Shearer, Heather Stirling and Jodie Sullivan.

Additionally, 24% of our pupils achieved 5 Highers, 58% achieved 3 or more Highers, and 73% achieved at least one Higher in S5.

Well done to all our pupils for their SQA achievements this year. Even though we cannot recognise this formally at our usual Awards Ceremony we are still extremely proud of their achievements.

7 N5 Group

5 Higher group 2021

House Ambassadors 2021-22

House Ambassadors 2021-22

This year we continue with the Our Lady’s Way Ambassador Programme which will provide many leadership opportunities for our senior pupils. The programme includes roles such as Subject Ambassadors, Pupil Voice Ambassadors and House Ambassadors.

This year we are delighted to announce our House Ambassadors for 20-21:

St. Columba House – Roksana Putowska, St. John Ogilvie House – Jessica Cox, St Margaret House – Flynn Malcolm, St. Mungo House – Daniel Shaw and St. Thenew House – Katie Cassidy.

Well done to our young people!

Hose Ambassadors

Future Fridays

Future Fridays

From the new term in August school will finish at 12.30pm on a Friday but young people have the opportunity to participate in a range of activities on the Friday afternoon as part of the #Future programme. Cast your eye over what’s on offer here…..

To access a printable version click here.

National Qualifications – What You Need To Know

National Qualifications – What You Need To Know

Please click here to access an information booklet from the SQA entitled National Qualifications – What you need to know.

The booklet outlines the Alternative Certification Model  created by the National Qualifications Group in order to deliver results for young people undertaking National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses in session 20-21.

This year teachers are asked to use the assessments that young people undertake as evidence to decide on provisional results.  This is referred to as using Demonstrated Attainment.

A strong set of checks will be done in school, across schools and nationally to support teachers’ decisions and this is called Quality Assurance.   Quality Assurance helps to make sure that results are decided consistently across the country.

There is also a video that explains the procedure and a section of the SQA website with more information which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTrPgWF6dfo

Further information can be found at https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/84154.html

Kind regards

Mrs Cunningham

Safer Internet Day 2021

Safer Internet Day 2021

Safer Internet Day will be on the 9th February 2021

Safer Internet Day 2021 will be celebrated in the UK with the theme:

An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world

This year in the UK, Safer Internet Day explores reliability online. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, but how do we separate fact from fiction?

Safer Internet Day will be celebrated globally with the slogan: Together for a better internet.

For more information and resources please click on the image below