TRIP TO EDINBUGH
The senior pupils studying English are taking a trip down to Edinburgh on the 5th of February. They are going to see ‘Blood Brothers’ at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as they have been studying this in their classes. We hope they have a great time!
OXFAM SAFE WATER CAMPAIGN
The pupils in our learning support base, aka room 5, are collecting loose change to raise money to give people in Africa safe drinking water. They have got collection boxes throughout the school, and for every £39 raised, Oxfam can give 12 people safe drinking water. This campaign is running up until the middle of March 2009, and we hope they raise a lot of money for a great cause!
ECO SCHOOLS
The Eco Schools committee have been meeting most weeks this term, and we are starting our first project. This will be to plant some hedges and trees in an area of the school grounds. The pupils are designing what they would like the area to look like, and along with our Rural Skills classes, are helping our farmer Eric Hanna to plant them next week.
FOREST SCHOOLS
A group of second year boys have started a program with the Forest School at Abriachan. On Friday mornings, they are taking part in lots of different activities, working on developing lots of skills in the outdoors, and gaining confidence and teamwork! They are also learning survival skills, such as cooking outside. The group has started really well, and is looking forward to the rest of the course!
CLIMBING
A group of first and second years are going to be going to the climbing wall at the Aquadome with Mr Kerr, one of our supply teachers, to learn lots of different climbing techniques and to keep fit!
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Monday 26 January 2009
The Burns Lunch
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns school lunch on Friday 23rd January was Haggis, Neeps & tatties but served with poetry and piping. Photos below.
Friday 23 January 2009
INVERNESS HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL PREFECTS
S2 LEADERSHIP GROUP
The second year leadership group ‘Action S2’ are putting together their own radio show, with items about music, films and school events. This is planned to be recorded very soon, and will be available to download as a podcast from the school website! Watch out for it!
REAL PROJECT
The new group of pupils involved in the REAL project are now getting into their training, with a trip to Tesco’s this week to look at how supermarkets sell their products, and a trip to the Victorian Market next week to look at ‘alternative shopping’.
BURNS SUPPER
We have two different events to celebrate Burns Night, and the year of Homecoming. The first is a Burns ‘Supper’ Lunch of haggis, neeps and tatties for the pupils on Friday 23rd January. The haggis will be piped into the dining hall by Kirsty Urquhart, and addressed. Some pupils and staff are getting themselves in the mood by wearing tartan along with their normal school clothes on the 23rd.
The second event will take place on Friday 30th January, and is a staff restaurant in celebration of the launch of Highland Homecoming. Allan Little from the Riverhouse restaurant will be leading the team. They will cook the menu created by S4 pupils Lauren Fraser and Andrew MacKenzie, when they took part in the Battle of the Chefs competition, and were the runners up. Well done to them! The four course lunch will include capapes, venision loin, and apple and fig crumble, with homemade tablet to finish. It all sounds delicious!
COCA COLA 7’S
Both our S1 boys and S1/2 girls foot ball teams took part in the Coca Cola 7’s tournament in Dingwall this week. Both teams did really well, with the boys coming third, winning one game, drawing two and loosing one. The girls came second in their group, winning one game, drawing one and loosing one. Well done to both teams!
LAUGH IN THE FACE OF EXAMS WORKSHOP
All of S4 participated in a workshop delivered by the educational training company, Tree of Knowledge this week where pupils learned how to cope with the pressures of examination stress, gained some useful insights into how best to prepare for the forthcoming SQA exams and learned how to feel more self-confident. The training is delivered in a pupil friendly and light hearted way but the message is deadly serious! These exams are important and can have a huge impact on what happens after school. The feedback was tremendous with many pupils saying they were now more self-confident and focused. They all got a free clock to help them get up on time as well!
S2 LEADERSHIP GROUP
The second year leadership group ‘Action S2’ are putting together their own radio show, with items about music, films and school events. This is planned to be recorded very soon, and will be available to download as a podcast from the school website! Watch out for it!
REAL PROJECT
The new group of pupils involved in the REAL project are now getting into their training, with a trip to Tesco’s this week to look at how supermarkets sell their products, and a trip to the Victorian Market next week to look at ‘alternative shopping’.
BURNS SUPPER
We have two different events to celebrate Burns Night, and the year of Homecoming. The first is a Burns ‘Supper’ Lunch of haggis, neeps and tatties for the pupils on Friday 23rd January. The haggis will be piped into the dining hall by Kirsty Urquhart, and addressed. Some pupils and staff are getting themselves in the mood by wearing tartan along with their normal school clothes on the 23rd.
The second event will take place on Friday 30th January, and is a staff restaurant in celebration of the launch of Highland Homecoming. Allan Little from the Riverhouse restaurant will be leading the team. They will cook the menu created by S4 pupils Lauren Fraser and Andrew MacKenzie, when they took part in the Battle of the Chefs competition, and were the runners up. Well done to them! The four course lunch will include capapes, venision loin, and apple and fig crumble, with homemade tablet to finish. It all sounds delicious!
COCA COLA 7’S
Both our S1 boys and S1/2 girls foot ball teams took part in the Coca Cola 7’s tournament in Dingwall this week. Both teams did really well, with the boys coming third, winning one game, drawing two and loosing one. The girls came second in their group, winning one game, drawing one and loosing one. Well done to both teams!
LAUGH IN THE FACE OF EXAMS WORKSHOP
All of S4 participated in a workshop delivered by the educational training company, Tree of Knowledge this week where pupils learned how to cope with the pressures of examination stress, gained some useful insights into how best to prepare for the forthcoming SQA exams and learned how to feel more self-confident. The training is delivered in a pupil friendly and light hearted way but the message is deadly serious! These exams are important and can have a huge impact on what happens after school. The feedback was tremendous with many pupils saying they were now more self-confident and focused. They all got a free clock to help them get up on time as well!
Wednesday 7 January 2009
Christmas Concert
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In the absence of our school hall pupils have continued to rehearse for our next musical - "Annie" and took to opportunity to put on a lunchtime concert in the Town House at Christmas. An excellent concert which shows the enthusiasm of pupils and staff. We look forward to the next musical event in our own hall. Well done to all who participated.
INVERNESS HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
INVERNESS HIGH SCHOOL NEWS 7/1/09
FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL PREFECTS
MUSICAL THEATRE
Our musical theatre group performed a variety of songs from the show ‘Annie’, in their costumes, in the Town House on the 18th of December. The songs were ‘I Think I’m Gonna Like it Here’ (performed by the cast), ‘Easy Street’ (Performed by Connor Fraser, Megan Wemyss and Kadee Fraser) and ‘The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow’ (performed by ‘Annie’ played by Sadie Stoddart). The choir also performed ‘La Bamba’, and ‘Here I am to Worship’. There were also some solo musical performances. The performers put on a great show, and did the High School proud!
S2 LEADERSHIP GROUP
The second year leadership group ‘Action S2’ sold Candy Canes at the end of terms. The idea was to buy one for your friends, tell the organisers who it’s for and what class they’re in, and they were then given out on the last day of term! The group raised over £40, which they want to put towards equipment for their radio show which they are planning at the moment.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
The Christmas dance for S4-S6 was held on the 17th December. It was a great night with over 70 young people turning up, with the girls all in gorgeous dresses, and we even had a few boys in kilts! We had a live band headed up by one of our music teachers, Mr Webster, which really made the night special. A big thank you to Tesco Extra who kindly donated us a 10 foot Christmas tree, and Marks and Spencers who also donated us £25 towards the party, which we used to help decorate the Games Hall. Thank you very much to them!
We are now looking forward to planning an S1-S3 party for when our Assembly Hall re-opens…watch this space!
REAL PROJECT
The young people involved with the REAL Project worked hard at the end of last term to pack hampers and Christmas orders.
Training has just started for the new group of young people wanting to become involved with the project. So far this is going really well, and we have a big group who are really keen to get into REAL!
FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL PREFECTS
MUSICAL THEATRE
Our musical theatre group performed a variety of songs from the show ‘Annie’, in their costumes, in the Town House on the 18th of December. The songs were ‘I Think I’m Gonna Like it Here’ (performed by the cast), ‘Easy Street’ (Performed by Connor Fraser, Megan Wemyss and Kadee Fraser) and ‘The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow’ (performed by ‘Annie’ played by Sadie Stoddart). The choir also performed ‘La Bamba’, and ‘Here I am to Worship’. There were also some solo musical performances. The performers put on a great show, and did the High School proud!
S2 LEADERSHIP GROUP
The second year leadership group ‘Action S2’ sold Candy Canes at the end of terms. The idea was to buy one for your friends, tell the organisers who it’s for and what class they’re in, and they were then given out on the last day of term! The group raised over £40, which they want to put towards equipment for their radio show which they are planning at the moment.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
The Christmas dance for S4-S6 was held on the 17th December. It was a great night with over 70 young people turning up, with the girls all in gorgeous dresses, and we even had a few boys in kilts! We had a live band headed up by one of our music teachers, Mr Webster, which really made the night special. A big thank you to Tesco Extra who kindly donated us a 10 foot Christmas tree, and Marks and Spencers who also donated us £25 towards the party, which we used to help decorate the Games Hall. Thank you very much to them!
We are now looking forward to planning an S1-S3 party for when our Assembly Hall re-opens…watch this space!
REAL PROJECT
The young people involved with the REAL Project worked hard at the end of last term to pack hampers and Christmas orders.
Training has just started for the new group of young people wanting to become involved with the project. So far this is going really well, and we have a big group who are really keen to get into REAL!
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