Pensioners’ Christmas Lunch

On Tuesday 20 December the students of Our Lady’s hosted a party for 50 elderly parishioners from our local parishes as well as the Church of Scotland and St Mary’s Episcopalian Church. The VIP guests were treated to a Christmas dinner and a Nativity play.

Thanks go to S6 Personal Development classes for preparing the hall, Mrs Dunbar and the S1 pupils for their hard work in preparing the Nativity and to the Dining staff for the beautiful lunch. A wonderful time was had by all!

Nativity Performance

Well done to Mrs Dunbar and Miss McLean who organised our Christmas Nativity Performance which involved pupils from S1 – S6.

This fantastic activity was performed for our visitors at the Pensioners’ Christmas Lunch and on the last day.

S5/6 Christmas Ceilidh

S5/6 pupils danced the night away on Wednesday 21 December at their Christmas Ceilidh. On arrival they walked along a red carpet to the sound of bagpipes and then enjoyed a whole evening with a live ceilidh band.

Many thanks to Ms Sharkey and her Ceilidh Committee who organised the whole event and also thanks to Mrs Varty from the Home Economics department who provided a wonderful buffet.

As you can see from the photographs, the pupils had a fantastic time!

S1 Cake Decorating Club

After the recent success of this year’s Great British Bake Off, Our Lady’s High School budding bakers showed off their skills during a six week S1 lunch club.

This was a great success and helped pupils to develop their skills in practical cake craft, independent and collaborative learning. Through persevering and showing their resilience all pupils created festive cakes of excellent quality that were taken home as a centrepiece for the Christmas dinner table.

 Charity Football Game

Many thanks to the PE staff and Leadership pupils who organised our charity football game and a special thanks to the staff, pupils and ex-pupils who played. A fantastic £625 was raised at this event.

The senior pupils are willing to offer football coaching sessions to any member of staff following their 7 – 0 win over the teachers!

Carol Singing at Rannoch Lodge Care Home

On Monday 19 December a group of S1-3 singers visited Rannoch Lodge Care Home to entertain the residents with carol singing. It was a fantastic afternoon which was very much enjoyed by both pupils and residents. We even had dance moves added to some of the carols for the residents to join in Well done to all involved.

Numeracy Week

Last week was all about Numeracy Across Learning in Our Lady’s with a range of activities taking place across the school. As well as highlighting the Numeracy in lessons across subject areas, there were quizzes, competitions and year group events.

S3 ‘Numeracy for Work’ Event – S3 pupils had the opportunity to learn first hand about the work experiences and numeracy content of a wide range of occupations, courtesy of a host of guests – everything from musicians to surgeons! We are so grateful to everyone who came along for giving up their time – the S3 pupils had an amazing, busy, informative afternoon and our guests were blown away by the behaviour, enthusiasm and attitude of our pupils.

S1 ‘Spotlight on Numeracy’ Event – a fun and informative afternoon focussing on ‘Numeracy for Learning’. The S1 pupils participated wholeheartedly! Thanks to the S3 pupils who took charge of the smooth running of the event, and all the staff, teaching and non-teaching, who helped out. We even had Santa turn up (well Christmas isn’t that far away!).

We haven’t forgotten about S2! They will take part in our S2 ‘House Games Olympiad‘, a ‘Numeracy for Life’ event, later this year.

Senior Football Team

The Senior Football Team are undefeated in the local league and have progressed to the second round of the Lanarkshire Cup.

They played an outstanding game on Wednesday 7 December against Greenfaulds High School winning 7 – 1, with goals from Michael Quinn (3), Keir Thomson (2), Liam Johnson and Morgan Stanway.

The boys are: Jamie Conlon, Sean Garey, Aedan Houston, Liam Johnson, Sean McGeachie, Michael McGee, Ryan McTurk, Conor O’Brien, Paul O’Donnell, Michael Quinn, Luke Scullion, Morgan Stanway, Matthew Stevenson and Keir Thomson pictured with their coaches Mr Maxwell and Mr Hughes.

S1 Football Team

The S1 Football Team have had an outstanding start to the season playing 7 games, winning all 7, scoring 42 goals and only conceding 8. We are currently top of the league due to our performances and amazing goal scoring record. The boys have also made it to the last 16 of the Scottish Cup and will play a team from Kirkcaldy in the next round.The team have not only done themselves proud, but also the school and local community as we are now competing against schools from all over Scotland. Well done boys!

The S1 team are: Imran Ali, Callum Baird,  Harvey Boyd, Caden Connelly, Patrick Curran, Callum Flatman, Max Gallacher, Lewis Glancy, Robbie Hunstone, Nicky Kerr, Saul Lindsay, Conlan Maher, Louis McCallum, Luke McCarvel, Ceide McElhinney, Andrew McFarlane, Aiden McGlinchey, Kian McIsaac, Owen Murphy, Dylan Ross and Daniel Shaw pictured with their coach Mr Muir.

School Show ‘The Wiz’ June 2017

The school show has been announced and we are doing ‘The Wiz’ which is a jazzy version of the Wizard of Oz with lots of additional dances and parts compared to the Wizard of Oz.

Auditions will take place on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 December at lunch time in Mrs Shankland’s room. The school show is open to pupils from all year groups. Places in the chorus will be available in January.

The school show will take place in June 2017. Information to follow!