Welcome to our BBC School Report page. The following articles relate to school news and current affairs from the perspective of pupils at Carluke High School. This project is in collaboration with the BBC and with other schools across the United Kingdom. This is the third year pupils have taken part in the project.     Ali Crawford - What is it like to be a professional footballer? We posed this question to Ali Crawford, an ex pupil of Carluke High School who now plays for Hamilton Accies. He told us that he couldn’t think of anything better than getting paid to play football as he has kicked a ball since he was able to stand up! Read more...     High School Pupils Design Murals for New Health Centre The NHS has just opened a new health centre in Carluke costing a massive £14million to build. Carluke High School was asked if they wanted to get a group of pupils together to create two murals, to adorn the white walls upstairs and downstairs. The school said yes and a lady called Ms Lamb came in for two days of hard print making with a handful of S2 pupils. Read more ...     Carluke High Meet the Gazette Carluke high School pupils were lucky to have the opportunity to have met real life reporters. The pupils met reporters from Carluke Gazette. It was a great opportunity to meet a reporter, photographer and editor! Read more ...     Old Firm Bust-up On Wednesday the 2nd of March the Old Firm met in which turned out to be one of the most heated derby’s in the last 5 years. This dreadful display made us question the effect this might have on young people. Are these people really role models? If so, should they be penalised? Read more ...     Reading Club On Friday lunchtimes a group of about ten second year pupils come to the school Library to participate in the reading club. The Reading Club is held by our Librarian Mrs Martin, who is ably assisted by Mrs Smith, a teacher in the English Department. Read more ... Ramsay Challenge  At Carluke High School every year, all second year pupils are involved in a class competition from January onwards to create and make a sausage to extend Ramsay’s of Carluke’s current product range. This allows pupils to be involved in looking at new product development. The pupils all worked in pairs and came up with both strange and tasty ideas.  Read more ....

BBC's School Report Project 2011 Thursday 24th March.   Click for more information Breaking news Today's breaking news was recorded live and will be show in the school as a news bulletin in "The Street".  It will also be available on our school intranet.    Dragons' Den Higher Business Managment recently took part in a Dragons' Den competition... read more....    Lanarkshire Cancer patients rely on charity handouts to keep warm. Read more ... Christ Church Earthquake This tragedy occurred on the 26th of February 2011. It has claimed over 148 people and there are still 200 missing but the rescuers have decided that it is time to give up after five long tragic days, but there’s always hope that these poor people could still survive and somehow they could get free from the rubble.  Read more ... Reporting Bug! Now that we’ve got the reporting bug, we decided we needed to get some information from the experts. Read more... Fairtrade From the 28th of February 2011 to the 13th of March 2011 it was "Show off your Label" Fairtrade Fortnight. The Fairtrade group in Carluke High School and other places all over the world helped to promote this event. Read more ...   Blood Brothers As we embarked on our trip to the Edinburgh Playhouse, I wondered why all the fuss about this long running musical now on its Silver Anniversary. I wondered how Willy Russell’s gripping play could transfer to the stage and why so many people rave about it, many seeing it several times over and never tiring of it. Read more ...   Start Earlier? With the new 33 period week taking effect in all High Schools in South Lanarkshire from August, we wondered how it might directly affect the pupils in this school. Read more ...