Butchery and Beyond Winners !

Congratulations to S4 Hospitality pupils on winning the Butchery and Beyond street food competition. The winning dish was a spicy pork pinwheel, which received excellent feed back from Masterchef The Professional winner, Gary Maclean.

Pupils attended the Royal Highland Show on Thursday 21 June to take part in the final stage of the competition against St. Ninian’s High School and Kirkintilloch High School and the winner was announced by Saskia from the Voice. Well done to everyone who took part in the competition.

International Conference

9 Higher Politics students participated in North Lanarkshire’s International Conference on Thursday the 21 June.

The Conference is set up like a United Nations Convention and pupils debated two resolutions. Each school is allocated a country and debate from the perspective of their allocated country. Our Lady’s High School were allocated ‘Zimbabwe’.  The pupils really enjoyed the experience and did a fantastic job of representing the school.

S1 Science Club visit to the Science Centre

A group of pupils visited The Glasgow Science Centre on Monday 25 June as a reward for their participation in the S1 Science Club.

The visit included the ‘Lego Mindstorms Driving Test’ workshop and a visit to the ‘Optical Illusions’ section.

The pupils used their problem solving skills to complete a series of challenges which they all did exceptionally well.  A great day was had by all!

Trip to the Falkirk Wheel and the Kelpies

The S3 Personal Development class recently enjoyed a very successful trip to the Falkirk Wheel and The Kelpies.

The pupils enjoyed the boat ride at the Falkirk Wheel which lifted the boat up 35m in the air from the Forth and Clyde Canal to join the Union Canal for a short time, before returning back down again. The journey was accompanied with a commentary telling you the history of the Falkirk Wheel and the surrounding area.

After this adventure, we made our way to the Kelpies, where we were given a guided tour which took us inside Duke, one of the Kelpies. We also learned how Arria “The Angel of the Nauld” was designed by the same Glaswegian sculptor Andy Scott. Then we had fun in the Adventure Park before heading back to school. Everyone had a great day on a unique and highly memorable trip.

School Show – School of Rock

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW – £5 concession, £7 adult and can be bought from Mrs Ferris-Bell at lunchtimes or by contacting the school office.

Show dates are: Tuesday 19th, Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June.

Come along to support our fantastic cast who have been working hard since January! It’s a brilliant show with lots of laughs and great tunes!

Caritas Awards

Congratulations to our S6 students on their successful completion of the Caritas Programme. We were delighted to join over 1200 young people from across Scotland at a fantastic event in the Clyde Auditorium on 7 June.

24 of our S6 students received their awards at the ceremony, having undertaken a range of activities to develop their faith in a practical and spiritual way over the last year. As Archbishop Tartaligia said, ‘Today is recognition that Catholic Schools are not just good for Catholics but indeed good for Scotland.’ Well done to everyone involved.

Chapter of Canons

Congratulations to our school chaplain Father McKay who has recently been installed to the Chapter of Canons of the Archdiocese of Glasgow in recognition of his commitment and service to the Church.

Congratulations also to our former chaplain Father White (now Canon White) and former parish priest of St Lucy’s Parish Father McAuley (now Canon McAuley) who were installed at the same time.

Iceland Trip

29 S5/6 pupils have recently returned from a very successful 3 night trip to Iceland. During the trip the pupils got the opportunity to see the land of fire and ice in all its glory.

The trip included visits to glaciers, geysirs, volcanoes, waterfalls and plate boundaries as well as time in the most Northern capital city in the World, Reykjavik. Iceland sits on the Mid – Atlantic ridge and this results in some of the most amazing and spectacular scenery found anywhere. Being only a 2 hour flight away means that all these wonderful experiences are easily accessible to our pupils. The 29 pupils who attended spoke very positively about the trip. The pupils were a credit to themselves, their families and to the school.

Loch Lomond Trip

All of our S3 Geography pupils recently enjoyed a very successful trip to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

The pupils took part in a variety of activities such as field sketching and a river study at Rest and Be Thankful. They also carried out environmental surveys and questionnaires at the Lomond Shores centre in Balloch. Everyone had a great day and we were very lucky to enjoy fabulous weather on the bonny banks of Loch Lomond!

North Lanarkshire Athletics Championships

Congratulations to the following pupils who gained medals at the recent NL Athletics Championships:

S1 Girls 200m Silver Medal Laura Hubbard-Perez; S3 Girls Relay Silver Medals Leah Dawes, Mia Docherty, Caitlin McFarlane and Elle O’Reilly; S3 Girls 800m Silver Medal Elle O’Reilly; Open Girls Javelin Silver Medal Ellie Rennie.

S3 Boys 800m Bronze Medal Logan McDuff; Open 1500m Gold Medal Jacob Brown; Open Boys 200m Silver Medal Jake Webster; Open Boys Relay Bronze Medals Rico McCreery, Thomas McGarahan, Lewis McGill and Jake Webster.

Well done to all our participants!