BLYTHSWOOD RECYCLING BIN
As part of our Eco Schools programme, we are hosting a recycling bin which has been provided by the Blythswood charity. It is located near the Dochfour Drive entrance, near the new bike shed, and takes a large variety of goods such as clothes, shoes, handbags, small toys, ink cartridges etc. Please put things in a plastic bag before putting them in the bin. The bin is available for deposits from 8.30 am- 5.30 pm. Blythswood use the items collected in a variety of ways, and any money raised goes towards their projects in Mozambique and Malawi. Let’s get recycling!
S2 LEADERSHIP GROUP
The last day of last term saw the S2 Leadership Group out washing staff cars to raise money for equipment for their radio show. This was a great success and good fun, and staff appreciated their clean cars! This raised around £80 for the group.
The S2 Leaders had a visit from the RAF at the beginning of term, who ran a session of activities aiming to develop teamwork and leadership skills. They really enjoyed the session, and it is hoped that the RAF will be back to do more of these later on in the term!
S2 LEADERSHIP PHONE RECYCLING
Our S2 Leadership group have been trying to raise money towards their project – a school radio show! They have teamed up with the company ‘Envriostudents’, and have started a mobile phone recycling campaign which we want you all to get involved with! It is very simple – you sell your old mobile phone on the website - http://www.invernesshigh.envirostudents.com/
and you receive the amount of money the phone is worth. Envirostudents then donates £3.00 per phone to the High School. Once you have registered (for FREE) on the website above, you will be sent a free post envelope so you can send your phone to Envirostudents for FREE. They will then give you your money, and the donation to the school, within 7 days! So if you have any old phones lying around now that you have a better one, why not see if you can make some money, for yourself and the school at the same time! And you’ll be being eco friendly too!
PUPIL COUNCIL
Having done the filming for their DVD which is aimed at informing P7 pupils about what to expect when coming to the High School, members of the pupil council are now working down at MP33 with Gus MacIver to edit it. We look forward to seeing the finished version!
Congratulations to Rhys Davies 2K who represented Scotland in the Tang Soo Do World Championships in March. Rhys won a Silver medal in his Bo Staf category. Well Done.
Also congratulations to Emily Ross and Garry MacKenzie who have recorded the first examination successes of the session by passing their Open University courses in Molecules, medicines and drugs and Design and the Web respectively.
CRAZY HAIR DAY
This Friday (May 1st) the High School will be having the first of what will hopefully be an annual event where pupils and staff try to get their hair into the craziest style they can! We look forward to seeing everyone’s attempts!
S4 STUDY LEAVE
Our S4 pupils will leave for their study leave on Friday 1st May before taking their Standard grade exams. We wish them all lots of luck, and are sure they will do really well. We hope to see lots of them back into S5 in June!
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
REAL FOOD ACTIVITY
REAL FOOD Opens a new outlet at
Lifescan in Inverness
Real food our Social Enterprise runs food shops in a range of locations locally, including SNH, Raigmore Hospital and local villages. Lifescan the city’s largest business recently invited us to open a weekly food stall in their premises, for their staff. We are looking forward to a strong relationship with Lifescan and some of their staff will be working on our school farm as part of their employee development programme.
Lifescan in Inverness
Real food our Social Enterprise runs food shops in a range of locations locally, including SNH, Raigmore Hospital and local villages. Lifescan the city’s largest business recently invited us to open a weekly food stall in their premises, for their staff. We are looking forward to a strong relationship with Lifescan and some of their staff will be working on our school farm as part of their employee development programme.
At a recent HISEZ conference in Aviemore for Social Enterprises, pupils explained the High School enterprises to delegates and took the opportunity to sell! some produce.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
S2 Leadership Group
In March the S2 leadership group undertook some car washing to raise money for equipment to do their planned radio show.
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Voice Coaching
Some High School singers recieved some additional voice coaching from a visiting voice coach (Ms L Gaster) in March. We look forward to the results in the next school show.
Monday, 16 March 2009
High School News
FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL PREFECTS
ECO SCHOOLS
9 pupils from our Eco Schools group joined with the Rural Skills classes on Friday to start planting trees in the school grounds. We hope this is the start of developing a whole new ‘Eco Area’ in the grounds!
BLYTHSWOOD RECYCLING BIN
As part of our Eco Schools programme, we are hosting a recycling bin which has been provided by the Blythswood charity. It is located near the Dochfour Drive entrance, near the new bike shed, and takes a large variety of goods such as clothes, shoes, handbags, small toys, ink cartridges etc. Please put things in a plastic bag before putting them in the bin. The bin is available for deposits from 8.30 am- 5.30 pm. Blythswood use the items collected in a variety of ways, and any money raised goes towards their projects in Mozambique and Malawi. Let’s get recycling!
COMIC RELIEF
We had a great day raising money for Comic Relief on Friday 13th. Lots of staff and pupils came to school in their pyjamas, or wore red along with their red noses! Pupils had been selling red noses in school all week, and paying 20p a vote for teachers to be gunged. The staff with the top 3 largest number of votes braved having some very smelly gunge poured over them by pupils, in front of the entire school on Friday afternoon. We also had a ‘guess the baby photo’ competition, coffee and red nose cakes for staff and face painting. The pupils from room 5, who have been collecting pennies for the Oxfam Safe Water Campaign gave the money they had collected last week to Comic Relief too. All of this meant that we raised £537.22, which is absolutely brilliant, and we had a lot of fun doing it!
S2 LEADERSHIP PHONE RECYCLING
Our S2 Leadership group have been trying to raise money towards their project – a school radio show! They have teamed up with the company ‘Envriostudents’, and have started a mobile phone recycling campaign which we want you all to get involved with! It is very simple – you sell your old mobile phone on the website - www.invernesshighschool.envirostudents.com
and you receive the value of the phone. Envirostudents then donates £3.00 per phone to the High School. Once you have registered (for FREE) on the website above, you will be sent a free post envelope so you can send your phone to Envirostudents for FREE. They will then give you your money, and the donation to the school, within 7 days! So if you have any old phones lying around now that you have a better one, why not see if you can make some money, for yourself and the school at the same time! And you’ll be being eco friendly too!
JUNIOR SPORTS LEADERS AWARD
For the past few months, 6 of our pupils have been taking part in the Junior Sports Leaders Award, which is a nationally recognised qualification designed to help young people develop their sports leadership. This has been funded through the Merkinch Partnership, and the young people have been working really hard, taking part in training sessions after school, and helping to lead sessions for the James Cameron Centre youth club and also in Merkinch Primary School. They also have to complete a log book for the award. They have their last training session this week, and have all done very well. These pupils are: Lauren Fraser, Shannon Leckie, Kirsty Urquart, Jordan Macdonald, Edan Gardner and Derry Macdonald.
ECO SCHOOLS
9 pupils from our Eco Schools group joined with the Rural Skills classes on Friday to start planting trees in the school grounds. We hope this is the start of developing a whole new ‘Eco Area’ in the grounds!
BLYTHSWOOD RECYCLING BIN
As part of our Eco Schools programme, we are hosting a recycling bin which has been provided by the Blythswood charity. It is located near the Dochfour Drive entrance, near the new bike shed, and takes a large variety of goods such as clothes, shoes, handbags, small toys, ink cartridges etc. Please put things in a plastic bag before putting them in the bin. The bin is available for deposits from 8.30 am- 5.30 pm. Blythswood use the items collected in a variety of ways, and any money raised goes towards their projects in Mozambique and Malawi. Let’s get recycling!
COMIC RELIEF
We had a great day raising money for Comic Relief on Friday 13th. Lots of staff and pupils came to school in their pyjamas, or wore red along with their red noses! Pupils had been selling red noses in school all week, and paying 20p a vote for teachers to be gunged. The staff with the top 3 largest number of votes braved having some very smelly gunge poured over them by pupils, in front of the entire school on Friday afternoon. We also had a ‘guess the baby photo’ competition, coffee and red nose cakes for staff and face painting. The pupils from room 5, who have been collecting pennies for the Oxfam Safe Water Campaign gave the money they had collected last week to Comic Relief too. All of this meant that we raised £537.22, which is absolutely brilliant, and we had a lot of fun doing it!
S2 LEADERSHIP PHONE RECYCLING
Our S2 Leadership group have been trying to raise money towards their project – a school radio show! They have teamed up with the company ‘Envriostudents’, and have started a mobile phone recycling campaign which we want you all to get involved with! It is very simple – you sell your old mobile phone on the website - www.invernesshighschool.envirostudents.com
and you receive the value of the phone. Envirostudents then donates £3.00 per phone to the High School. Once you have registered (for FREE) on the website above, you will be sent a free post envelope so you can send your phone to Envirostudents for FREE. They will then give you your money, and the donation to the school, within 7 days! So if you have any old phones lying around now that you have a better one, why not see if you can make some money, for yourself and the school at the same time! And you’ll be being eco friendly too!
JUNIOR SPORTS LEADERS AWARD
For the past few months, 6 of our pupils have been taking part in the Junior Sports Leaders Award, which is a nationally recognised qualification designed to help young people develop their sports leadership. This has been funded through the Merkinch Partnership, and the young people have been working really hard, taking part in training sessions after school, and helping to lead sessions for the James Cameron Centre youth club and also in Merkinch Primary School. They also have to complete a log book for the award. They have their last training session this week, and have all done very well. These pupils are: Lauren Fraser, Shannon Leckie, Kirsty Urquart, Jordan Macdonald, Edan Gardner and Derry Macdonald.
Saturday, 14 March 2009
Recycling for charity
The High School is hosting a recycling container for the Blythswood charity. It will take a range of goods which can be recycled including - clothes; shoes; books; handbags; small toys; mobile phones; ink cartridges etc. Please put any donated items in a plastic bag before depositing. The container is located near our Dochfour Drive entrance - near the new bike shed. The container is available for deposits during the day 8.30am - 5.30pm.
Red Nose Dress Code
Staff and Pupils paid to dress up/down for Red Nose Day. Many wearing red or their pyjamas and braving a cold wind. Some outfits were very inventive. The entire day had a great atmosphere with good spirit and lots of fun. The winner of guess the staff baby picture competition be announced shortly.
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