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Film Festival Schools’ Competition
Congratulations to two of our S5/6 Media Studies production groups whose film trailers, Jack and Jill and Intoxicated, have been selected for screening at the Edinburgh International Festival Schools’ Competition on 24th June. We wish them the best of luck in their efforts to win more Film Festival trophies for Boroughmuir!
I T Barbour
Scottish Youth Bouldering Championships
Congratulations to David Miedzybrodski, 1H2, on having been placed 4th in Great Britain and 2nd in Scotland at the recent Scottish Youth Bouldering Championships. We also wish him well in the Youth Colours Climbing Competition in Imst, Austria, where he will be competing next week against the very best young climbers from around the world.
C Brandie
Sketch Book Competition
Congratulations to Hansikka Sivaraj 1V1, Abinaya Rajendran 1M1, Rachel McLachlan 2W2, Thomas Shepard 3V and Mingsho Limbue 5V who have been awarded a house points certificate of excellence and a prize, well done.
V Leckie
Scottish National Age Group Swim Championships
Sincere apologies to any Boroughmuir High School swimmers who swam in the Scottish National Age Group Swim Championships event at the Commonwealth pool in April, and were not mentioned in last months article. Well done to all those pupils from the school who competed in this very prestigious swimming event!
Winning Scottish titles is habit forming
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The winners
Boroughmuir High School S5 pupil Rosa Thuemmler, a member of the victorius Boroughmuir senior girls football team, was a key player In the recent win for Murrayfield Wanderers U18 rugby team in the Scottish girls cup final. Played in the main Murrayfield stadium, they say off the Community School of Auchterarder 28–18 after a hard battle towards the end to capture the title.
National success for S2 writers
Alisa Matyunina and Jutta Katay-Fodor, both S2, have won two out of the ten national prizes for creative writing promoted by the prestigious Pushkin Prizes. The girls each entered a three-piece Folio of writing and attended a sparkling award ceremony at Archers’ Hall on Monday 6th May where Alisa was declared overall winner in Scotland. As part of their prize, both girls joined the other national winners and the two Russian winners [the competition runs in St. Petersburg, too] for a week-long writing course at Moniak Mhor near Inverness lead by the writers Diana Hendry and Gerry Cambridge. [See the girls’ writing.]
Many congratulations to both girls—a great success building on Luke James’ winning entry last year. What’s next for 2013–14: three winners?
Ms Stratton and all in the English Department
S3 Coca Cola Trip
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Brainstorming
On the 30th of April twenty-eight Business Management students visited the Coca Cola Enterprises [CCE] bottling and distribution plant in East Kilbride with Mr Beattie and Miss Boag. A lovely day for the bus journey through to East Kilbride with no holds, so we arrived perfectly on time, and were greeted by Joanne Gabbay the Education Centre Manager.
On arrival everyone was issued with a High Visibility safety jackets before sitting down for a short video and presentation. We were told about the process of making Coca Cola from the arrival of raw materials, making and filling the bottles, packaging, storage and transportation. We were shown some examples of what can go wrong when making the bottles. Then they were given some information and a chance to ask questions about the many different products brands made by CCE — its not just Coca Cola!
Everyone can also now tell what day, time and where in the UK a bottle from CCE was made.
We then made our way to the walkway over one of the four production lines; unfortunately the line was not working. This is due to the fact that the production lines only run when they have orders because this week there was very little demand for 500ml bottles the line was off and instead they had scheduled in some essential maintenance work.
After this we had a short break and enjoyed a Capri-sun or water before completing our visit with a Brand mapping exercise which was completed very well by all with some examples as you can see.
This was an enjoyable trip which provided a valuable learning experience outside the classroom, unfortunate that we could not see the production line in action but this itself demonstrated a key point to the students about the external impacts on businesses in the current economic climate.
Miss Boag
Kilgraston Inter-District Championships 2013
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East versus West
Congratulations to Matthew Grieve S3 and Finlay Glidden S4. The boys were recently members of the U15/U17 East of Scotland County Team which took part in the Scottish Inter-District Tennis Championships at Kilgraston School, Perthshire. The team had huge success over the weekend, they topped their group table, which took them through to the finals. They were eventual runners-up to a very strong West of Scotland side.
Well done!
A Larter
Edinburgh Guarantee
All school leavers received information about the Edinburgh Guarantee at special assemblies last week. The booklet Sixteen plus learning choices has a wealth of information to help young people secure a positive destination. All senior pupils were issued with a copy and have registered with My World of Work, the Skills Development Scotland website.
Interested in a modern apprenticeship?
We have some details about an event being held in St. Andrews Gardens.
Letters to parents
Two letters for parents of S3 pupils and details of the S5/S6 induction days have been placed in the letters to parents section of the site.
Quick on the Draw Winners
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Ms Draper
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Mr Dempster
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Mr Brandie
This year’s Quick on the draw winners were:
- Cameron Bonella 1H2 Mr Brandie — 100 points to Hartington
- Duncan Reid Mackie 2W2 Ms Draper — 100 points to Westhall
- Phoebe Mackie 3V Mr Dempster — 100 points to Viewforth
Bruce’s Blog
Has been updated with the latest news about our new school.
S2 Junior chef Cookery competition
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The Chefs
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Fish & chips
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Raspberry blush cake
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Smoked Aubergine—the winner
This competition is an annual event which has been running in Boroughmuir High school for 15+ years. All two-hundred S2 pupils are involved.
Pupils are given the task of developing their own recipe to create an original dish which could be sold in the school dining hall. It may be sweet or savoury and form any part of a meal. The dish must be made within the allocated time slot of one hour.
Potential recipes are indentified by pupils, time plans are completed . Each and every pupil completes a dish of their own choice, two winners from each of the ten classes go forward to the final. The final is judged by the headteacher and a professional chef from a local restaurant.
In previous years a main course has been a winner , but this year it was a side dish.
2013 winning dishes were:
- Smoked Aubergine Maaram Ehsau
- Raspberry Blush Cake Sheena Milligan
- Fish & Chips Lewis McLellan
All finalist are given certificates and goody bags with the three finalists winning prizes of cookery books.
Visit from Celebrity Chef Nick Nairn
Health and Food Technology Department were delighted to welcome celebrity chef Nick Nairn and Jennifer Robertson from Quality Meat Scotland to work with S5 & 6 hospitality pupils. The demonstration was filmed by the BBC as part of Landward programme which will be aired on 17th May at 7.00pm on BBC 2.
Nick was working with Quality Meat Scotland who donate £100 voucher for fresh meat to schools.
He demonstrated the making of Scotch Broth using Shin of Lamb. Some pupils were able to use their food preparation skills to help Nick prepare the vegetables for the soup and everyone was able to help with the tasting afterwards. It was a superb opportunity for our pupils to work with such a well respected chef who is so passionate about raising the profile of cooking skills for Healthy Eating for All.
Big Band An Invitation to Former and Current Players…
Did you know it’s the centenary of Boroughmuir’s current Viewforth building this year? As part of our celebrations, we are opening the school doors during the weekend of 28th and 29th September 2013. It will be an opportunity for pupils, parents, staff and former pupils to dip into the past, see the present and reach to the future of Boroughmuir High School. Music will, as ever, play an important part—I am hoping you will too!
I would like to put together an former pupils and Friends Big Band with the aim of fun and socialising over two or three rehearsals, then performing some slots over the open weekend. We will be playing our old favourites—Mission Impossible, Rock Around the Clock, Tequila, TWA… Big Band Members past and present start here.
Readathon
The English Department will be holding Readathon between the 29th April and the 27th of May. Readathon is an excellent way to encourage pupils to read for pleasure whilst helping seriously ill children throughout the UK through the charities of Readwell, CLIC Sargent and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. Alongside Readathon, there will also be a Candid Camera competition in which students can submit snaps of them taking part in Readathon [reading]. There will be a prize-giving assembly on the 3rd June for both.
Prizes will be:
- £20 to the student who raises the most money.
- £20 to the student who reads the most books.
- 100 house points to the class that raise the most money.
- 100 house points to the class that read the most books.
- £10 to the winning Candid Camera photo.
Each participating pupil will receive a certificate.
J. Bellamy
The S3 Profile
The S3 profile is a summary of a young person’s best achievements in their first three years of secondary school. It is produced by the young person with support from their Support for Pupils teacher. Profiles are primarily aimed at young people and their parents, and draw together a range of information about a young person’s learning. It is one of the ways in which a learner’s achievements can be recognised.
In Boroughmuir S3 pupils are already working on their draft profiles during class time. The final profile can be hand written, however some pupils may wish to download a new copy of their profile and type in the information they have collected. These profiles will be completed and sent home in May 2013.
An editable PDF is available here.
