Paul Archibald has been playing for Albion Rovers FC Under 19’s side since the start of the season and has now signed his first professional contract for the club.

Paul has started to train twice a week with the first team and made his first appearance in Peterhead a few weeks ago.

This is a fantastic achievement for Paul and we wish him all the best in his football career.

HCPT

Every year, two or three pupils from S6 get the opportunity to go to Lourdes with the HCPT Pilgrimage Trust which offers pilgrimage holidays for disabled and disadvantaged people from around the UK.

This year Rachel Curran, Greg Ferguson and Jennifer Noble have been selected and they are looking forward to this opportunity.

Malawi

9 Pupils from OLHS will be visiting our partner school St. John Bosco in Malawi from the 9th-22nd June. This is a great opportunity to see how the water project has progressed and the impact it has had on both the school and the community in Katete.

Fundraising is well under way for this years trip, in particular we will be looking for donations of stationary and baby clothes (old or new) so that we can donate these to the primary schools and the maternity ward of the community hospital.

These can be handed in to any of the pupils going on the trip Grace Carey, Toni De Pellette, Erin Docherty, Lewis Duncanson, Rebekah Dunese, Ross Gordon, Ada Malinowska, Ryan McTurk, Kieran Millar or directly to Mrs Forrester.

The S5/6 Options Booklet can be found by clicking on the picture below.

To access the S5/6 Options Form click on the picture below:

The S2 into S3 options booklet can be found by clicking the picture below.

Please click the picture below to access the S5/6 options form:

The Credit Union in Our Lady’s High School, which is run as a branch of the Cumbernauld Central Credit Union, continues to gather members, both pupils and staff.

We are open for business every Thursday in the Mathematics Department. Membership gives pupils the opportunity to develop their financial awareness both as savers and helping to run the branch.

Congratulations to Lewis Brown (S6) who won a Gold Medal in the 400m (49.84s) and a Silver Medal in the 200m (22.56s) at the recent Scottish Schools’ Indoor Athletics Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow.

Lewis had an exceptional two days at the Championships and his time in the 400m puts him the fastest U20 400m Athlete in Scotland. Amazing!

This year’s wonderful celebrations started with a coffee morning where members of staff were treated to Chinese biscuits, snacks and tea as well as being entertained by over 20 Mandarin pupils with various types of performances. Members of staff who were born in the Year of the Monkey were given a surprise gift!

All S2 pupils took part in various Chinese workshops, learned Chinese New Year songs and wrote Chinese characters as part of the celebrations. Pupils were fascinated by the dancing, painting, Taiji fan and tea ceremony workshops.

We welcomed visitors from Buchanan High School and Glencryan School who were invited to experience some exciting Chinese culture at Our Lady’s High School.

The Modern Languages Department along with S1 pupils took advantage of the Glasgow Film Festival on the morning of Friday 12th February.

Pupils and staff enjoyed Justin and the Knights of Valour in Spanish with English subtitles.

Great fun was had by all!

To round off a recent interdisciplinary project on Oscar Romero with Religious Education and Modern Languages during Catholic Education week, S2 pupils celebrated a Spanish Mass with Father Martin Chambers.

Father Chambers spent time living in South America and was able to share his experiences as well as celebrating Mass in Spanish. Pupils and staff thoroughly enjoyed it and were very grateful to Father Chambers for giving his time to celebrate an uplifting Mass with us.