Page last updated on Friday 20th November 2009

Malawi Expedition

Friday 20th November 2009
On behalf of all the pupils who took part in the bag pack at ASDA on Sunday, we would like to thank all pupils, parents and staff who popped along to do their shopping. It was great to see you all.

We managed to raise the grand total of £1006 which will be going to fund our expedition as well as to charity.

Children In Need

Friday 20th November 2009
Mr McGowne and a number of Mearns Castle pupils were invited to BBC headquarters at Pacific Quay today to take part in the Radio Scotland's Brian Taylor Big Debate live on the radio.

Below is a pictures from the debate.

Click here to go to the BBC website and listen to the debate.

Higher Media Studies

Monday 16th November 2009
Mr Mitchell has developed two new blogs to support Higher Media Studies and a new blog and website to support Intermediate 2 Media Studies.

Click here to go to the Media home page.

S1 Open Evening

Monday 16th November 2009
Two of our S2 pupils, Laura Young and Kelsey Cairns, made a video about the S1 Open Evening. Have a look at the all the action from the night.

 

Look Back in Laughter

Sunday 15th November 2009
Look Back in Laughter will take place on the evenings of Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th November. There are still some tickets available. If interested please contact the school office.

State School Of The Year

Saturday 14th November 2009
Mearns Castle High School has been named the Scottish State Secondary School of the Year by the Sunday Times newspaper.

This prestigious award is based on a range of criteria that illustrate our sustained commitment to the highest quality of educational provision over a number of years.

Click here to read the letter sent home by the headteacher

Click here to read the entire article on the Sunday Times website

Congratulations

Thursday 12th November 2009
Well done to the senior boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams last week who won their Scottish Cup Games. The girls defeated Williamwood 25-16, 25-14 fairly comfortably with all 12 girls making valuable contributions to the game. The boys were too strong for Stonelaw who beat us last year at the semi finals, also winning 2 sets to 0.

Congratulations to the Senior Boys’ Basketball Team who have made a winning start to the season. They beat Oban High School 86-29 in the first round of the Scottish Cup on Monday and are now due to play Graeme High School from Falkirk in the next round.

Charities Week

Thursday 12th November 2009
The current total raised stands at over £5200.

We will keep you posted about the total until things come to a close after Look Back in Laughter

Look Back in Laughter will take place on the evenings of Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th November (i.e. next week) The list of performers is on display on the notice board beside the Main theatre.

Parliamo Italiano?

Thursday 12th November 2009
Think you can speak Italian? There are other words apart from spaghetti, pizza and ciao! As of this Friday the Modern Languages department will be running an Italian lunch club. This is your chance to learn some Italian phrases through lots of fun activities. If you are interested please come along with your lunch to D5 on Friday 13 November. Any questions please see Miss McIlvride (D5) in Modern Languages.

Best in Scotland

Tuesday 10th November 2009
Mearns Castle's Senior Concert Band took part in the Scottish Regional National Concert Band Festival held at the RSAMD on Saturday and came away with the Platinum Award!

The Concert Band, which comprises of 47 pupils playing woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, not forgetting our double bass player, played superbly to pick up the top award for the 5th year running.

The Senior Concert Band have now been invited to take part in the British Final - to be held in Birmingham in the spring of next year. We have won Gold at the British final for the past two years. Lets hope we can make it three in a row.

Well done to all band members and conductor Grace Hamilton for their outstanding achievement!