Christmas Parcels

During Advent RE classes across the school each filled a Christmas Hamper with food and nice Christmas goodies.

These parcels will be collected this week by the St. Vincent de Paul Conferences from our local Parishes who will distribute these to people in need in our wider community.

The pupils in our school community made a tremendous effort to come together to brighten up Christmas for those most in need, putting into practice Pope Francis’ request that we actively try to support those who need our help at this time of year.

Christmas Jumper Day

Pupils paid £1 on Friday 8 December on our Non-Uniform Day with a Christmas theme !

The money collected has been added to our Advent charities total to be distributed among our local parishes and the St. Nicholas Care Fund.

Christmas Concert

On the evening of Tuesday 5 December a total of 50 pupils from the Music and Drama departments were involved in our Christmas Concert. The evening was very well attended by staff, pupils and family members.

Our pupils put on an outstanding performance which demonstrated their creativity and talent and a fantastic sum of £375 was raised for charity. Thanks to all involved in the preparation and on the evening itself. Well done to all performers!

School Christmas Card

Congratulations to Robyn Aitken in S5 for designing the beautiful 2017 School Christmas Card.

Robyn is studying Higher Art & Design this year and was thrilled to be given the opportunity to design this years school Christmas Card. The design focused on Our Lady and depicts ‘Madonna and Child’.

Advent Charities – Well Done!

In addition to our Christmas parcels, pupils and staff of Our Lady’s High School raised a magnificent £1750 from our various Advent charities activities. This money will be distributed between local Parishes, SCIAF and St. Nicholas Care Fund.

S3 Numeracy for Work Event

S3 pupils took part in our Numeracy for Work Event. We were delighted to be joined by 30 representatives from industry who spoke to pupils about their jobs, the skills and qualities required and practical applications of Numeracy.

The representatives ranged from Cumbernauld Airport to retailers, surgeons and engineers. This was part of the Curriculum for Excellence Numeracy Across Learning in conjunction with the Scottish Government’s ‘Developing Young Workforce’ initiative. The pupils had a great afternoon and found it very informative. A big thank you to all our participants who made it such a great success!

S1 Numeracy Event

Numeracy Week concluded with an afternoon of team challenges, quizzes and singing(!) – all Numeracy based!

All of S1 participated enthusiastically, and were delighted with a surprise visit from ‘Numeracy Man’ and an early visit from Santa!

S1 STEM Challenge

A group of our S1 pupils took on the challenge to design and build an emergency shelter for a disaster zone.

They spent time in the Business department researching ideas and good shapes for their construction, before going to Maths to cost their resources and construct their model.

Well done to the winning team, but congratulations due to all who participated with such enthusiasm and imagination!

Talented Musicians

Two very talented sisters recently excelled in their graded music exams.

Magdalena Hubbard-Perez (S4) passed both her Grade 5 piano and Grade 6 oboe with distinction.

Laura Hubbard-Perez (S1) passed her Grade 3 bassoon exam also with distinction. What a fantastic achievement for both girls!

NLC Concert

A number of our pupils took part in the North Lanarkshire Bands Christmas Concert on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 December at the Civic Centre in Motherwell.

Pupils have been rehearsing since October and their hard work truly paid off. It was a wonderful evening full of amazing music and fantastic performances. Congratulations to all involved!