Team tops in medals
Pupils’ successes at sports
The Our Lady’s High County Sports team served the school proud last week.
Many medals were won by youngsters and the winners are as follows:
Shannon Waldron - S3 Shot Putt - Gold and S3 80m hurdles - Silver.
Adam Boyle - Open Javelin - Gold.
Adam Fallon - Open Discus - Gold.
Adam Lynch - S3 100m - Bronze.
Keir McGarry - S1 High Jump - Silver.
Ciara Scullion - S2 High Jump - Bronze.
Liam Thomson - S1 Long Jump - Bronze.
Megan Grew - S3 1500m - Silver.
Rachel Donnelly - S2 1500m - Silver.
Miriam Szwiec - S3 Javelin - Bronze.
Lucy McQuaid - S3 800m - Bronze.
Caitlin Thomson - S2 200m - Silver.
Congratulations to Adam Boyle who has just won Gold in the Javelin at the Scottish Schools Championships.
He has also broken the Scottish School Champion Record and has been selected to represent OLHS and Scotland next month in Kent.
Scottish Youth Parliament: Pupils are getting ready to vote in the upcoming Scottish Youth Parliament by-election for Motherwell and Wishaw.
Christopher Wilson from the school is standing as a candidate and we are extremely proud of his hard work.
Young people will have the opportunity to vote in Our Lady’s High next week.
Maths Enterprise: On Friday, June 3, S1 pupils were out of their usual classes to take part in an Enterprise day run by the Maths department.
Groups of pupils completed activities in the morning including Match 10 (a fun online maths game), Orienteering in the school grounds, Tower Building and a variety of other tasks requiring a mix of teamwork and problem solving skills.
The winning team Nial Burke, Keela - Chae McCreadie, Paul Welsh, Paul Murphy and Lucy Thompson are pictured receiving their gift vouchers from Mrs Sinclair and Mrs Woodside.
Art and Design News: Three S6 girls from Advanced Higher and Higher Art are attending a fashion taster course at Glasgow Clyde College this week.
The girls are seeing the fashion department and learning how to develop their fashion ideas in a free three hour workshop.
One of our S6 girls has also attended a fashion taster day at Glasgow Caledonian University and has applied to the Fashion Brand and Retailing college link course starting in August.
The department has produced a summer newsletter which is being posted this week to help parental involvement, give some advice about homework and what activities senior phase pupils can work on over the holidays who are studying art and photography.
Young Christian Workers Training Event : On Wednesday, June 15, S5 pupils Rahel Agiwaah, Piroska Horvath and Heather Nugent will attend a Young Christian Workers Training Event at the Conforti Centre.
YCW groups are new to Scotland but are part of a strong global community of young people campaigning on social justice issues from the perspective of Catholic social teaching.
The day will focus on ‘ Impact’ which is a programme developed by the YCW for younger members.
It places strong emphasis on action led by young people themselves and helps them to explore the link between faith and life in a way which is fun, innovative and empowers them to action.
It is hoped that the pupils attending will becoming young leaders and make a positive impact on the school through the training they receive.