Our Lady’s visit Liberty Steel plant
Education Sunday
Motherwell Diocese celebrated Catholic Education Week this weekend with many pupils from Our Lady’s High School, from S1- S6, participating in masses by giving the readings and bidding prayers, completing the offertory, handing out leaflets, singing in the choir and even sharing their personal experiences of school life.
The main message for these masses was: Developing as Communities of Faith and Learning. PTA Quiz Night
Thanks to parents, carers and friends of the school who attended the quiz night on Friday.
It was a very good night and everyone who came along enjoyed it. The PTA raised £ 577 for our school, all of which will benefit pupils directly. Giant Heptathlon
The North Lanarkshire’s Schools Giant Heptathlon was a great success OLHS 1st and 2nd year teams.
It was held at Ravenscraig Sports Centre and the competition was a team event that included multiple events.
The teams were as follows, 1st Year: Aidan Hastie, Amanda Quin, Kamil Balinski, Diana Feenan, Justin Kizube, Keir Harrison, Sarah McDonald, Amy Elkin, Megan Kelvin, Maria McGhee, Divine Ofosuhene, Jude McCarthy, Liam McQuaid, Cavan Ryan, Laura Findlay and Anton Scott.
2nd Year: Josh Barr, Niall Burke, Heather McMahon, Eva Winton, Ania Gorkowska, Joey Leach, Keir McGarry, Mark Fitzpatrick, Lucy Thompson, Alicja Balanda, Joe Chambers, Henry Kyanda, Ethan Law and Casey Paterson. Science: Fiction: Make: Believe
Recently the school entered a Scotland- wide creative writing competition for S2 pupils, organised by St Andrew’s University.
Pupils were to write a 750 word creative piece about any Scottish scientist alive or dead, or the impact of their discoveries or inventions.
A Certificate of Commendation was awarded by the judges to Morgan Mackie and Andrew Ross and they were both invited to attend an award ceremony on March 4, in St. Andrew’s University School of Physics and Astronomy. Fire Reach
S3 girls Emma Kirkwood, Megan Kelly, Maja Fereniec, Regan McNee, Ebony Bollard and Neve Connelly recently enjoyed a great week at Fire Reach.
The girls worked with the Fire and Rescue crew all week and were given a real insight into the many things a firefighter’s job involves, learning about First Aid, team work as well as the varied rescues crews are expected to perform.
Each of the girls was presented with a photo and portfolio at the end of the week. Our Lady’s visit to Liberty Steel
Special Report by Ciaran Hendry S2
Two Our Lady’s High school Go4SET teams visited, “Liberty Steel”, a steel processing plant in Motherwell.
We walked from school to the site where we were greeted by our mentor Chris Gourley.
We listened to an interesting talk about the health and safety aspects of the workplace and then had a fun quiz.
One of the best parts was when we played games that taught us the importance of organisation, efficiency and, specification in the workplace.
After all our briefings we enjoyed an excellent lunch provided by our hosts.
We then got ready to go on the highly anticipated tour of the plant.
Wearing high visibility vests, hard hats and earplugs, we witnessed steel being heated to 1000°C.
Our guide showed us the famous water tower and of course inside the steelworks.
He showed us the interesting process from when the steel is delivered by train to when it’s heated in gas pits, then flattened out between huge rollers before finally having water thrown over the steel plates, giving off a magnificent amount of water vapour.
After a question and answer session it was time to return to school. We were all given memory cards encased in steel as a keepsake of our visit.
Overall the experience was informative and very enjoyable and, will aid our learning in so many ways.
Thanks go to Chris and all the staff at Liberty Steel for their help and advice.