The senior pupils pictured above achieved an award to recognise their wider achievements in categories such as participation in Creative Residency for Art & Design, Creative Writing or Drama as well as success in football, handball or basketball. We also celebrated service to the school or local community, service to charity and our school Malawi Ambassadors. Well done to them all!
Our Lady’s High School S6 Caritas students attended an enrolment ceremony led by Bishop Toal at Motherwell Cathedral recently.
Afterwards the students enjoyed the opportunity to meet other Caritas students from across North and South Lanarkshire. A great time was had by all.
On the 8th of September, the community of Our Lady’s High School celebrated Our Lady’s birthday.
S6 Caritas Students led S2 to S5 pupils in prayer reflection services, whilst S1 and S6 pupils gathered for Mass in the Assembly Hall.
The beautiful Mass was celebrated by our school chaplain, Father McKay, joined by local Parish Priests Father John Campbell of Sacred Heart and St. Lucy’s Parishes and Father O’Brien of St. Joseph’s Parish, Cardowan.
Twenty five Sixth Year students have enrolled in this years Caritas Programme. The students will participate in four mini retreats in school and a total of forty hours loving service in school and their local parishes. Caritas allows our young people to practice their faith in a mature way in preparation for their future as responsible Catholic adults.
As part of our Transition programme P7 pupils and parents visited Our Lady’s High for an Open Evening on Monday 12 September. The programme for the evening included a welcome by the Head Teacher followed by a tour of the school to visit departments.
This provided an invaluable opportunity for our parents and new P7 pupils to experience first hand the work of many departments and meet the staff responsible for their child next year.
The National Advisory Group for Developing the Young Workforce visited the school to hold their strategic meeting in the school library on Wednesday 31 August. The group included Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education John Swinney, Minister for Employability and Training Jamie Hepburn MSP and Sir Ian Wood.
They were joined by Isabelle Boyd, Assistant Chief Executive, Education Skills and Youth Employment and Councillor Frank McNally, Education Convenor together with various other group members from the world of business.
Six of our young people delivered a superb presentation to the group highlighting the fantastic work that has been going on in the school to develop Scotland’s young workforce. Our visitors then had an opportunity to tour a series of stalls showcasing our work in this area. Our guests were very impressed with the commitment of our young people and staff. Well done to all involved.
We are extremely proud of the success of all our learners this year. Our S4 students had an outstanding performance in this year’s National Qualifications. At National 5 level 63.5% achieved at least 5 awards which is a fantastic performance. At National 4 level 98.1% achieved at least 5 awards and a superb 98.7% achieved at least 5 awards at National 3. Well done to 19 of our learners who achieved 7 National 5 awards all at grade A. They are: Ben Allison, Marisa Barrack, Angeliki Biza, Joe Diamond, Emma Duncan, Emma Hay, Alannah Irwin, Abby McDuff, Michael McGee, Katie McGowan, Rachel McMullen, Ryan McSherry, Andrew Noble, Sophie O’Hare, Mark Pencovitch, Liam Reilly, Julia Shaw, Aileen Stewart and Alannah Thomas.
Adding to this success, this year’s S5 results were fantastic. 21.4% of S5 learners achieved 5 Highers, 43.4% achieved at least 3 Highers and 61.0% achieved at least 1 Higher.
Well done to 6 learners from S5 who achieved 5 Highers all at Grade A. They are: Seamus Bonner, Connor Brown, Lewis Duncanson, Sean Kennedy, Sean McGeachie and Conor O’Brien.
This year’s performance at S6 was also superb with an outstanding 30.3% of our learners achieving at least 1 Advanced Higher. In addition, 90% of our S6 pupils finished their time in Our Lady’s High School with Higher level qualifications. These results will give our young people a very strong basis to progress on to college, university, work or training.
Our congratulations go to all our learners this year. The hard work, commitment and dedication that has been put in by pupils, their families and staff has been rewarded. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our learners at our Senior Awards Ceremony in September.
Well done everyone!
Some of our young people joined Councillor Frank McNally, Convenor of Education and Lorraine Fisher, Education Officer on results day to celebrate the outstanding SQA success both in Our Lady’s High School and across North Lanarkshire.
The video is now on Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyvTBCBR0m4
Congratulations to 65 of our senior pupils who have gained a place at University following their outstanding performance in the SQA exams. As a result more than half of our S6 pupils will go on to university. The majority of our learners have chosen to progress to Strathclyde, Glasgow or Stirling Universities, however we have a few learners who are going further afield to continue their education.
Congratulations to Jonathan Aitken who is going to Dundee University to study Dentistry, Seamus Bonner who has chosen St. Andrew’s University to study Computer Science and Jacqueline Shaw who will move to Aberdeen to study Medicine.
Congratulations also to Lewis Duncanson who has been successful in gaining a place to study Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.
We wish all our leavers every success in the future!
On Monday 5 September at 6.30pm we will host a Raising Attainment Evening for parents of pupils in S4. The evening will consist of a number of presentations that will provide information on how you can support your child as they progress through the year. In particular specific arrangements around course requirements will be highlighted at this event. We look forward to seeing you there.
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