Wednesday 4th March

FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT Fairtrade Fortnight runs from 23 rd February until 3 rd March. The Fairtrade Committee are running a number of events to promote Fairtrade including an S1 Assembly, raffles, coffee mornings etc. We are also going to put a wee quiz question in everyday over the next 2 weeks to see how much you know about Fairtrade? Take the Fairtrade Quiz answers on the next page…

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All Year Groups HUMANITIES NEWS S3 Modern Studies pupils are working on the Street Law project run by the Law Society. Each week, Law students from Glasgow and Strathclyde University work with S3 pupils learning about crime, the law and the legal process. The project was covered by BBC Reporting Scotland a couple of weeks ago. Well done to all involved. Positive Wellbeing Group A wee reminder… The Positive Wellbeing group will meet every Thursday in Maths Room lunchtime.

Clubs Badminton Miss Dickman All year groups 3pm – 4pm GSOS Hall (You MUST bring a change of trainers!) Vocal Group Mr Fraser All staff and pupils pm Music Room 2 Rugby Mr Sim All Pupils 3pm – 4pm Outside Fitness/Table Tennis Mr McCloy All Pupils 3pm – 4pm Fitness Suite

S5/6 Supported Study 3.00 – 4.00S4/5BiologyG Kennedy 3.00 – 4.00S4/5/6ChemistryY Ahmed 3.00 – 4.00S4/5/6GeographyM Scouller 3.00 – 4.00S5/6ESOLC Stewart 3.00 – 4.00S5/6MathsF McGuinness 3.00 – 4.00S5/6TechnicalW McCunnie Career Advice and Reaching Employability (CARE team) WE HAVE MOVED ROOMS! From now on, rather than coming to the library, you will find us in the new CARE room (beside the staffroom on the 2 nd floor, opposite Mr Smiths Maths classroom). We will still be offering careers interviews, college, university and employment information and the drop in service all from our new room rather than the library. Mock applications/interviews will take place in this room also. Higher History Would all Higher History pupils please ensure that they have returned permission forms and paid any outstanding money by the end of school today. If there are any issues you must see Miss Kennedy today.

S5/6 TOP UP PROGRAMME ALL DAY CAMPUS VISIT - GLASGOW UNIVERSITY FRIDAY 6 TH MARCH A reminder to all staff and UCAS candidates that this Friday is the Campus visit to Glasgow University. UCAS candidates should register first in their tutor groups and then report to Miss Logan outside the Assembly Hall. Allander Coaches will take those participating in the visit from school at 9.00am prompt and, after the visit, depart from the University Campus at 2.20pm. UCAS candidates who do not attend, without a valid reason, cannot receive a full Top-Up Student Profile and cannot, therefore, have their performance on Top-Up taken into account when applying to Higher Education institutions.

S – 4.00S4ArtP Bain 3.00 – 4.00S4Mod StudiesP Devlin 3.00 – 4.00S4MusicG Skingley 3.00 – 4.00S4PhysicsS Dadgostar 3.00 – 4.00S4/5BiologyG Kennedy 3.00 – 4.00S4/5/6ChemistryY Ahmed 3.00 – 4.00S4/5/6GeographyM Scouller Supported Study Career Advice and Reaching Employability (CARE team) WE HAVE MOVED ROOMS! From now on, rather than coming to the library, you will find us in the new CARE room (beside the staffroom on the 2 nd floor, opposite Mr Smiths Maths classroom). We will still be offering careers interviews, college, university and employment information and the drop in service all from our new room rather than the library. Mock applications/interviews will take place in this room also.

S3 GSOS Sport Ed Class Could Kevin’s S3 Sport Ed. class take note: You will be joining Katrina’s class in the ICT suite on Thursday period 4. You MUST bring your project on a memory stick or have access to it on your school as you will be working on this during the period. DO NOT FORGET YOUR PROJECT!

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