Sophie Nicholl and Emma Harris | On Thursday the 24th of August, a group of St Andrew’s and St Bride’s pupils had a wonderful day at the Edinburgh Book Festival, meeting authors Elizabeth Wein, Patrice Laurence and Gary Garret. Even more exciting for the students, they were all given the opportunity to get books signed.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited St Andrew’s and St Bride’s on Monday 21st August 2017. As part of her visit, to celebrate the launch of the First Minister’s Reading Challenge in the secondary sector, Sturgeon sat down with Nicola Gray and Jack Mitchell-Divers from The Oystercatcher for a grilling about books, reading and politics.
St Andrew’s and St Bride’s S1 choose David Walliams in 2017 survey Thursday 2nd March | Written by Lewis James McPartlin | Class 1F2 Every year, St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School conducts a survey to find the most admired children’s author in S1. In 2017 the favourites were: in 3rd place, ‘Harry Potter’ author JK Rowling; in 2nd place, creative genius Roald Dahl; and
Jamie Clayton | Later this year 2nd year pupils will be making their subject choices. There will be plenty of subjects to choose from such as: Art and Design, Design and Manufacture, Physical Education, Graphic Communication, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Drama and many more.
Jordan Donnelly | School photographer As we bid farewell to another summer, The Oystercatcher a few final summer rays.
Sandra Santhosh | Religion is not having a great time right now due to the pessimistic perception portrayed on it by the media about the sombre events which have happened lately. However, there are still people who look at religion and see the beauty of it such as the HCPT, a charity which offers disabled and disadvantaged people from the UK and abroad to go on
Holly Whalin | Word Wizard is a competition hosted by SCILT – Scotland’s National Centre for Languages. The organisation has put together this competition in partnership with The University of St. Andrews and UCML. The languages involved were French, Spanish, German, Gaelic and Mandarin. The competition is held so that the children selected can expand their vocabulary, enjoy learning and have fun, test their memory and
Katie Hunter | Some of you may have seen the BBC1 Panorama programme on 18th of January “Can you stop my Multiple Sclerosis”. This episode focused on a new stem cell treatment for MS know as Autologous Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (AHSCT or HSCT). This treatment involves collecting bone marrow stem cells from patients and then trying to destroy the faulty immune system using chemotherapy. The
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