Our pupils have been enjoying cross country activities over the last few weeks. Two teams from Calderhead High School participated in the Scottish Schools Athletic Association Cross Country Championships at Dechmont Law on 5th March and contended with mud, biting wind, freezing rain and undulating ground to finish the course in good time. Teams from S1 –S3 also participated in the North Lanarkshire Schools Cross Country on 16th March. Well done to all the participants, particularly for coping with such challenging conditions.  

 Pupils at Calderhead High School marked World Book Day this year by participating in a book quiz. Congratulations to Mrs Johnston’s S3 Maths class who answered all the questions correctly in the shortest time. Pupils were also issued with World Book day tokens to swap for one of the special World Book Day books or use to get £1 off any book.

The library assistants also created a beautiful book tree, designed by Heather in S3. Pupils and staff noted their favourite books and authors on paper ‘leaves’ and added them to the tree.

 Senior pupils  Ceinwyn, Samantha and Jason recently participated in the VEX Robotics challenge at New College Lanarkshire. The VEX Competitions are presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation and teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. There was fierce competition and the Calderhead High team narrowly missed winning the challenge.

Calderhead High School’s S3 Robotics club (Dylan, Dale, Josh, Ethan, and Jamie) also attended the Tomorrow’s Engineers regional heat at West Lothian College. They competed in a teamwork bridge building challenge where they designed and built a bridge from scrap wood to successfully carry a car. The team were delighted to return with a trophy for their presentation on how robots can be used to help humans explore space. Well done to all our roboticists!

Calderhead High School held a Careers event at school in January. The ‘Friends of Calderhead’ (former pupils, parents and relatives) gave a short 20 minute presentation detailing their own personal experience of school and the journey they had taken leading them to their current role.  S3 pupils then had the opportunity to hear insightful, inspiring, and honest representations of working in an industry that they had expressed interest in. S1 and S2 pupils took part in a teacher pathway quiz.

A traditional careers fayre was also held in the assembly hall, with twenty one providers giving information to pupils, parents and carers, and members of the community.

Holocaust Memorial Day is celebrated every year on 27 January and we remember the six million Jewish people systematically persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust and those who have faced persecution and death since then. The theme this year was How Can Life Go On? 

Calderhead High School marked Holocaust Memorial Day with assemblies for all pupils led by S6 pupils, Jamie and Chloe, who visited Auschwitz in September 2016.