Category Archives: Achievements

Renfrewshire Cross Country Championships

Johnstone HS recently partcipated in the Renfrewshire XC Championships at the King George V parks in Renfrew. Every pupil who represented the school done there very best and the school are proud of how well both individuals and year group teams performed.

S1 boys– James Orr placed 3rd in the individual race and our boys team came fourth overall.

S2 boys– Lewis Philp cam 2nd in the individual race.

S2 girls– Mackenzie Spence came 4th in the individual race and the girls team came 4th overall.

S3 girls– Amy Sneddon came 2nd in the individual race and the girls team came 1st overall.

Senior Boys– came 2nd in the team race.

Again a big well done to all those who took part!!!

 

Renfrewshire S1/2 Badminton Championships

Well done to all pupils who took part in the recent championships. All participants were a credit to the school and we had some noticeable achievements from the event.

Marc Graham in S2 won the boys event with Josh Gray and Alexander Wright reaching the semi and quarter finals respectively.

Julie Keith reached the semi final where she was narrowly beaten by the eventual winner with Alexa Burton reaching the quarter finals.

All of these pupils have been selected for the end of year Secondary Games to represent the school in this multi sport competition. Well Done!

Renfrewshire Table Tennis Championships

Pupils from S1,S2 and S4 participated in the tournament which was held at Renfrew High School. Of the four pupils who competed, 3 made their respective finals- S1/2 final was between Logan MacDonald (S1) and Marc Graham (S2) and Ryan Brown (S4) challenged for the S3/4 title.

Both Finals were of an exceptionally high standard with Logan winning the Junior Final. Ryan came very close to securing the S3/4 title but lost out in the final few points.

Well done to the 4 boys who represented their school with distinction!

Challenge Nepal

Team Nepal have completed the first World Challenge expedition from Johnstone High School. The whole experience proved to be a wonderful success for all involved.  The team made an excellent impact in Nepal, making many friends along the way and contributing in a very positive manner, such as the wonderful work that was done in Nagajuna boarding school.

Read all about their adventures in the newsletter attached at the bottom of this post.  Please feel free to leave a comment about the expedition.

After the tremendous success of this inaugural expedition, it is with great excitement that World Challenge 2 – Team Borneo is launched to pupils currently in S4 and S5, ready for departure come the summer of 2015.

Team Nepal Review

S2 pupil links with world famous DJ

Congratulations go to Morgan Spence of S2 who has created a video for top music producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold.  Morgan was asked to create a video for the music supremo after his work with lego and animation received acclaim on Youtube.

You can see our talented pupil’s work here

He’s also been shortlisted for Young Scot Award in the Arts category, the ceremony is on the 19th April so fingers crossed!
 
 

A star in the making!

Congratulations to Morgan Spence of S2 who has been invited to produce a music video for legendary DJ Paul Oakenfold.  The DJ, who has supported Madonna on previous world tours, spotted Morgan’s numerous outstanding videos which are posted on YouTube.  As such Morgan’s talents will now be showcased to a much wider audience.  In addition look out over the Festive period for an article on Scotland Today about this talented pupil.