Dragon's Den


First

Callum Dent and Greg Pollock with their Washing Line Cover Dry

Second

Nicole Hamilton with her Slipeze shoes
 (so that you don’t need to take off your wellies of gardening shoes 
when you forget to bring something from the house)


Third

Gillian Crozier and Ellyn Russell – heated ski wear


Greg and Callum will be presented with the Champions of Industry Trophy at Prize Giving on Tuesday evening.

 

S2 Being My Best

Eleven second year pupils signed up to take part in this extra-curricular activity which is aimed at preparing them for study at university or college. Each pupil attended four sessions in the library taken by Mrs Magnus, Miss Breslin and Mrs Martin. The pupils were introduced to learning styles, planning and research skills, strategies on how to effectively use the internet and completed a self perception questionnaire.

All the pupils were expected to research and complete an investigation into a topic of their choice. Some of the titles chosen were, “Can Scotland be well served by Renewable energy?”, “Internet, friend or foe?”, “Behavioural difficulties, nature or nurture?” and “Should Scotland be building more eco-friendly housing?”.

The top three winners will receive prizes at the School’s prize giving ceremony and entries of a geographical nature will also be entered in the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Competition.

This years winners are:
1st Gillian Anderson 2M  
2nd Lewis Wagstaff 2L
3rd Gregor Duncan 2D

 

 

 

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Room 4 Improvement
Inspired Writing

Scott A , Scott C, Arron, Jordan, Laura and Kyle are members of a group called Room 4 Improvement which is aimed at helping young people who are having some difficulties at school.  
They work on achieving school targets and home targets. 

They wrote to an assortment of people asking two questions:

Was there a time in your life when you managed to improve or change something for the better?

What happened and who helped you?

The letters they received were compiled and they have created a colourful, and really interesting booklet. 
The contributers include Gordon Brown, Alex Salmond, Sir Jackie Stewart, Lorraine Kelly, Sir Tom Farmer,
Fiona Hyslop, Ricky Ross, Blythe Duff, Lorraine McIntosh and some local people including our own Miss Chapman.

 

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 Superschools 2009

Carluke High School team won this competition held in Gravelines in France in April 2009.
They won a total of 58 medals, 15 Gold, 30 Silver and 13 Bronze.

 

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Fairtrade Competition Winners
As you are aware the Fairtrade Group organised lots of events for Fairtrade fortnight. One of which was a fairtrade poster competition. Pupils were asked to design a poster that promoted Fairtrade that was also bright and educational.

We are happy to announce the winners....
S1
1st Hannah Thomson 1B
2nd Lewis McDougall 1B
3rd Linzi Walker 1H1
S2
1st Sofia Shajahan 2K1
2nd Eiren Stewart 2L
3rd Ross Muir 2H
S3
1st Megan Arnott + Lauren Macauley 3H
2nd Rebecca Martin 3K
3rd Hannah Bingham 3L2

1st prize winners will receive cinema tickets and a certificate. All other winners will receive some Fairtrade goodies!
Well done to everyone who took part and especially to our winners.

 

 

Hockey Success 

Congratulations to the S2&3 hockey team who won the local S2&3 tournament
organised by Coltness High on 12th March 2009.

The team won all their games to bring home the trophy for the first time in the 13 year history of the tournament.

Alastair Lees -Captain 3D1
Colin Jackson - Vice Captain 3K
Kelsie Allan 3D1
Graham Kidd 3D1
Ross Hunt 3D1
Ian Fell 3H
Nicola Forbes 3B
Craig Haverstock 3H
Jason Marshall 2B
Stuart Murphy 3M
Hannah Robertson 2K1
Romanii Walters 3D1

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Congratulations

to Megan Walker 3B who has been selected for the Under 15 Scottish Schools Football team.

 

 

 

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Pzazz

raised £21,600 for Charity in January 2009.

 

 

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Renshaw Challenge

All S1 classes are given a design brief to develop a new cake decorating idea,
to highlight Renshaw's range of fondant icing.  
Their idea should reflect a particular celebration like Christmas.

All cakes were produced to a very high standard, but the overall winners came from class 1H2,
Sarah Beattie, Bethany Cowe, Nina Gibson and Katy Scott.
See their winning design below.

 

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Fiona McFetridge and Gavin Thomson
were chosen to represent Carluke High School at a recent visit to Auschwitz.

During the October week Fiona, Mr Falconer and I were offered the opportunity to go to Auschwitz with the Lessons From Auschwitz group. We left at 7AM for Krakow airport and then went to the concentration camps Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 2, (Birkenau). Auschwitz 1 resembles a small town with the red brick barracks arranged around the camp and the guard towers and barbed-wire fencing surrounding the camp. This calm atmosphere hides the inner menace that can only be seen by entering the many barracks which now holds ex prisoners’ possessions and explains the harsh lives lived by the victims. A few miles up the train tracks lies Auschwitz 2, Birkenau. The most striking aspect of the camp is the extent of the complex with many rows of huts stretched along the perimeter. Under the Nazi regime concentration camp inmates were systematically dehumanized, on entering, individuals lost all sense of identity; clothes, hair, possessions, and worst of all their family. At the end of our visit to Auschwitz, before we left the camp, we were each given a candle; and as we travelled back to the bus we placed our lit candles down on the railway as a mark of respect and remembrance for those who had died.
Gavin

See the rest of their photos in the image gallery. 

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The Carluke High School Young Enterprise Group attended an Entrepreneurship Business Game at The University of the West of Scotland on Wednesday morning.
The task they were given was to design a new product for sale and prepare a sales pitch to deliver to a panel of judges.They designed a games pad to help dyslexic children with handwriting and spelling.
There were approx 20 schools attending the game from North and South Lanarkshire. Carluke High got 1st prize and each member of the group received a mini Oscar as well as a huge round of applause!

The pupils below were involved

Gail MacKie 5B2
Catrina Dyas 5H2
Douglas Quinton 5K
Rachel Barr 5B2
Harriet Wardle 5B2
Aimie Carmichael 5B2
Nicola Grey 5H1

 

 

Royal Scottish Geographical Society
John Bartholomew Essay Competition

Congratulations to Stewart Murphy, now 3M1, on winning a prize in the 
Royal Scottish Geographical Society John Bartholomew Essay Competition.
Stewart's investigation into "How easy is it to change your carbon footprint? "
won the S2 Being my Best prize within school and it was also entered  for the above Competition.
Stewart will now attend the prize-giving ceremony in the Boyd Orr Building 
at Glasgow University in November to receive his prize.

 

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Congratulations to Laura Smith 6L 
who gained her first Scotland cap during the holidays by representing her country in the Ladies' U-17 Football team.
She played in three home international games, winning two, and by all accounts playing very well.
She was presented with her cap at senior assembly  on Friday 22nd August 2008 by Mr. Yuille.