Voting for SYP by-election will begin on Monday 13th June.

All pupils should bring their Young Scot cards to school every day during that week to cast their votes online.

Let’s get the vote out to support Taylor High candidate Niamh Provan!

The prom will be taking place at the Radstone Hotel, Larkhall, on Friday the 3^rd of June. All students attending the prom will travel on official buses leaving Taylor High School at 6pm sharp returning from the Radstone Hotel at 12midnight, arriving at Taylor High school around 12.30am. All students must arrive, and leave, on the organised transport in order for the evening to run as smooth as possible.

As the function will be a school event, the sale of alcohol to students at the venue will not be permitted.

We look forward to a great night celebrating their final year with our outgoing Sixth Year and also looking forward to next session with those students from Fifth Year who  attend.  A number of not-too-serious awards will be presented during the course of the evening which we are sure will be another memorable evening!

More information about the venue can be found at:

Radstone Hotel

 

Parents and carers are reminded that this weekend is a holiday weekend.

Friday 27th and Monday 30th May – school closed except for SQA exam candidates who are sitting SQA exams, details as follows:

Friday 27 May

Business Management National 5 exam:                   9.00 – 10.30am

Business Management Higher Grade exam:            9.00 – 11.15am

Computing Science National 5 exam:                           1.00 – 2.30pm

Computing Science Higher Grade exam:                    1.00 – 3.00pm

Monday 30th May

Modern Studies Higher Grade exam:                            9.00 – 11.15am

Modern Studies National 5 exam:                                   1.00 – 2.45pm

 

School re-opens as normal at 8.50am on Tuesday 31st May.

The local MSYP Ciara Fullerton has stepped down and, consequently, there will be a by-election for the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency of the Scottish Youth Parliament.

This will occur in June with voting taking place between Friday 10th June and Thursday 16th June 2016. The candidate elected will hold the post for a year until the next official Scottish Youth Parliament elections in 2017.

The election will use the first-past-the-post voting system rather than the usual proportional representation system because it is a by-election seeking to elect a single candidate.

Any pupil aged 14 or over who is interested in standing for election to represent Motherwell and Wishaw in the SYP should see Miss Stoutjesdyk, Principal Teacher of Social Subjects, as soon as possible.

For more information visit www.syp.org.uk

 

 

The Social Subjects Faculty has once again organised a trip to London in June.  The trip will depart from the school early on Monday 20th June 2016 and return late on Wednesday 22nd June. The full itinerary for the trip can be downloaded by clicking the link below:

SOCIAL SUBJECTS LONDON TRIP 2016 Info and Itinerary

There will be a meeting for all pupils involved in room 180 (Ms. Stoutjesdyk’s room) on Monday 13th June at lunchtime.

Our Sixth Year students had their final official day at Taylor recently before returning to sit their exams. School Chaplain Fr. Martin Delaney celebrated Mass with students and staff on Thursday 28th April, marking the end of their six years of study. We are sure our young people take with them fond memories of Taylor High School.  All Sixth Year students were presented with a number of mementos to commemorate their time at Taylor. This included ‘leavers hoodies’ which our Sixth Year House Captains organised for their fellow students. They also enjoyed a trip down memory lane with an excellent video presentation of their six years at Taylor which was put together by Mr. Robert Stewart, Senior Technician with his usual eye for creativity!  Our Sixth Year Cohort also enjoyed a day out at Soar, Braehead organised by our Home School Partnership Officer Ian MacFarlane, and accompanied by Stage Head Ms. Jan McCrone and Principal Teacher of Pupil Support Mr. Andy Williams. Our young people enjoyed a last day out as a group, braving the aerial assault course, battling it out at Laser Quest and bowling up a storm. Now the hard work and preparation continues for students throughout the exam diet that is underway for both Fifth and Sixth Year students.

Click this link to login and download the video and/or Year Group picture entitled Class of 2016:

https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/8519137/pupilarea/SitePages/Home.aspx

The Taylor High Easter School will run once again from Monday 4th April until Wednesday 6th April.  The programme begins each day at 9.15am and ends at 3.30pm.

All students in S4, S5 and S6 are welcome to attend and many have already signed up for this year’s event.

The event helps cement a very strong sense of purpose among all our students in S4 – S6 as they make preparations for the SQA exams which begin on Wednesday 4th May this year.

In order to maximise attendance at our Easter School, a bus will pick up students at two stops in Cleland each day during the Easter School. These are:

8.30am    Betsy’s Shop

8.35am   Cleland Club

SEE TIMETABLES BELOW

S4 Easter School Timetable 2016

S5.S6 Easter School Timetable 2016

Our First Year PSHE classes took part in a ‘Book Token Competition’ as part of the library’s annual celebrations for World Book Day 2016. The whole of our S1 cohort got the chance to design colourful and creative book tokens, many of which were inspired by a variety of books, such as ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’, ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Stormbreaker’ and ‘Skullduggery Pleasant’. Many others were inspired by reading these books the library itself! (What a huge compliment!) Thanks to our librarians for organising such a fun event and a huge well done to all our S1 pupils who took part. The finalists will now be entered into the national World Book Day Competition. Good luck everyone!

This year witnessed the return of “Taylor Tycoon” to Taylor’s S1 ICT course unit on Graphics and Marketing. Pupils are each given initial capital of £1 and are asked to apply their entrepreneurial spark to make as much money as they can from a business idea they develop either as sole traders or in partnership with other pupils. Business ideas range from confectionery, cake, sweets and stationery to nail painting, customised jewellery and a magician! After creating unique business logos, business plans and marketing materials the extremely enthusiastic young entrepreneurs will launch their enterprises upon an unsuspecting campus, setting up stalls in the theatre with the assistance and support of the Department’s staff. This daily Bazaar is expected to create a real buzz and will surely be deemed a resounding success due to the efforts and creativity of all pupils involved. This year’s winners were Lucy Toolan, Mia Agnew and Rebecca White who created Doughnuts & Co. and made a whopping £96.16! The total raised across First Year was over £1000. This once again proved to be a thoroughly rewarding experience for First Year’s pupils.