Students slay ‘the dragon’
Dragon’s Lair
The Dragon’s Lair final was held on Tuesday November 13 in the Antrium Centre in Coatbridge, with two of the six finalists from Braidhurst High School.
Entrepreneurs for ‘Educate Me’ were Finlay Anderson, Iona Eldhose and Rebecca Nevans, who designed an app to educate children in all aspects of their learning by providing additional support and skills to improve their knowledge and understanding of a subject. The app would also include video tutorials, timetable, planners, games and prompters. ‘Supernova – Solar Mower’ entrepreneurs were Ellie Anderson, Ryan Murray and Robbie Tollan who designed a new and improved lawn mower powered by solar energy to combat global warming by depending on reusable energy instead of using fossil fuel.
The pupils attended an Information Day where they were advised on the completion of their business plan.
This was submitted two weeks later and marked by one of Business Gateway’s business advisors.
Out of 19 submissions, Braidhurst was overwhelmed to have two teams in the final. After selection, the pupils attended a briefing day regarding their presentation to the Dragon’s and had one week to prepare their pitch.
On the day, the pupils excelled in their presentation skills and dared to enter the dragon’s den for five minutes of questions.
Although both teams were unsuccessful in winning the title, they were complimented on the exceptionally high standard of their business plans and presentation skills. S3 Drama – Tron Theatre
The S3 Drama class were recently working with the Tron Theatre for a two week period where they participated in a range of workshop activities.
These activities explored set design and costume as well as lighting. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found them educational and fun. Jamie Smith football visit
Braidhurst recently welcomed back Scottish FA and Performance School graduate Jamie Smith for a Q&A and practice session with the school’s S1-S2 performance school pupils.
Jamie was also happy to pass on excellent advice to our S2 goalkeepers after he recently made his debut for Hamilton Academicals reserve team. Children in Need
The annual Children in Need event Pancakes for Pudsey took place in the Hub last Thursday.
Former Braidhurst teacher, Mrs Neilson, made and sold more than 250 pancakes during lunchtime, while Hub staff and pupils provided various temptations such as ice-cream cones, popcorn and cakes.
There were also competitions and a raffle. In total, £415 was raised for Children in Need.