Dear Parent

With demolition work in preparation for the construction of new school

building due to start on the old PE/Drama block during the summer holidays I

felt that many of you would like to see the latest impressions of what the

new school will actually look like. As you can see it is most impressive and the

facilities planned will make Eastwood one of the best educational campuses in

the United Kingdom. It is all very exciting.

With a view to next session when construction is underway , can I remind

parents that they should not be entering the rear of the school when picking

up/dropping off their children. The entrance is very narrow and there was a

minor accident between two vehicles earlier this month.

Finally in our drive to improve the standard of school uniform I have

attached the school uniform leaflet to help parents when purchasing uniform

for next session. There will also be a uniform evening in the school hall on

Monday 20th June between 6pm and 7.30pm when the school uniform

suppliers will be selling uniform at considerable discount. S Maxwell

EASTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Parents Newsletter

Special points of interest:

2nd June - Sports Award Dinner

2nd & 3rd June - P7 Induction Days

6th June - New timetable begins

7th June - S6 Graduation

9th June - Prizegiving

15th & 16th June—School Show

20th June—School Uniform Night

24th June—School Closes for Sum-mer holiday at 1pm

15th & 16th August - Inservice days

17th August - Pupils return @ 8.45

20th September - School photo-graphs

23rd & 26th Sept. - Holidays

14th October– Inservice day

17th - 23rd October - Holiday

24th October - Pupils return @ 8.45

PARENTS NEWSLETTER PAGE 1

May 2011

Tel : 0141 577 2200 Fax :0141 577 2220 Website : www.scottishschools.info/eastwoodhigh

E.Mail : schoolmail@eastwood.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Chamber of Com-merce Cup winners

1

France trip 2

Eastwood’s Got Talent

3

Logo Winners 3

School Quiz Team 4

Sports News 4

Parent Council 4

Inside this issue:

Parent Information

Line 0845 84100 10

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renfrew.sch.uk/

Chamber of Commerce Cup Winners Congratulations to Max Yuill and Daanyal Afzal of S2 who have won the East-

wood Chamber of Commerce Cup for Citizenship. The Cup is awarded annually to

young people of secondary school age who display

courage and or maturity in dealing with a difficult

situation. Max and Daanyal were awarded the cup

for their part in the rescue of a young pupil from

Crookfur Primary School who had gotten her leg

stuck in the school railings after slipping on ice in

December. Provost Mackie came to the school to

make the presentation.

Capelrig House Capelrig House

In Harmony

Miss Manzor attended the re-

cent East Renfrewshire Choral

Concert to watch a number of

her Eastwood pupils perform

with distinction. Bhavna Mehta

(S1) sang with the Intermedi-

ate choir whilst Ian Campbell

(S4), Hannah Beattie (S5), Neil

Campbell (S6) and Gail Malcolm

(S6) all sang with the senior

choir. Ian in particular per-

formed really well , most suc-

cessfully completing a difficult

solo. Well done also to Christo-

pher Keenan (S1) who has been

accepted for the RSAMD Sat-

urday school for piano.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Trip to France On 13th May 40 S2 pupils and 5 teachers set off on the long journey to De Segries in the south of France.

On the first day the pupils were taught canoeing skills before beginning their 30Km descent of the world

famous Ardeche Gorge. During the three day descent the pupils had the opportunity to “shoot” the many

rapids, engage in a little rock climbing and enjoy some swimming in the river. Some of the swimming was

intentional, some not after the numerous capsizes!. After the three day gorge descent the pupils and staff

moved on to Mimosa a beach re-

sort on the Mediterranean. There

they enjoyed three days of water

sports activities. Thank you to

organizer Miss Douglas and the

other staff for supporting her on

this very successful trip. Our

French hosts all commented that

the pupils were a credit to the

school.

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Author Visits Miss De’Ath our school librarian has

been busy during May hosting visits

by two childrens’ authors. On the 3rd

May author Carmen Reid talked to

pupils about her books based on a

mythical boarding school, St Judes,

explaining how she planned her books.

On the 16th May Liverpool author &

screen writer Andy Briggs talked

about his screenwriting career and

his work on the Spiderman movie

scripts.

Andy with

English

teacher Mrs

McLaughlin

Maths Marvel S4 pupil Ross Porter will be pre-

sented with a silver medal at

Glasgow University for his per-

formance in the Scottish

Mathematical Challenge run by

the Scottish Mathematical

Council. During the year Ross

participated in a series of

mathematical challenges against

pupils throughout Scotland and

his hard work and strong per-

formance have been rewarded.

His medal will be presented by

Professor Peter Kropholler in-

ventor of the Rubik’s Cube.

Ross’ Maths teacher Mr Carr is

delighted.

Blood Brothers Production The S2/3 Drama Club and Miss Campbell presented a production of “Blood Brothers” the play version of the

popular musical on 25th of May to an appreciative audience of over 70 family, friends &

teachers. The pupils had been rehearsing since the start of February and their hard

work paid off with an excellent and amusing performance.

Murray Morrant, David Harris, Lauren Purdie and Niamh

MacKay starred in the

lead roles of Mickey

Johnstone, Eddie Ly-

ons, Mrs Johnstone &

Jennifer Lyons.

Eastwood’s Got Talent Eastwood’s Got Talent rocked the school on Monday 9th May. Six

acts were selected from qualifying heats to perform before the

panel of judges that included “Britain’s Got Talent’s” Ed Read as a

celebrity judge. The six acts were the band “Pretender”

(Andrew Simkins, Murray Knox & Christopher Keenan), Kyle Dick-

son (Dance), Neil Wood (Clarsach), Aimee Farish (Dance), Bhavna

Mehta & Rebecca Tait (singing duet) and Lisa Clark (solo singer).

In a close run audience vote Kyle just pipped Lisa for 1st place.

The show also received coverage in The Extra.

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Sports Awards Dinner The annual Sports persons Awards Dinner will be held

on Thursday 2nd June starting at 7pm in the Assem-

bly Hall. Anyone planning to attend but has not yet

paid should see Miss Boyle as soon as possible.

Logo Competition Winners To raise the profile Literacy, Numeracy and Health &

Well Being with pupils the school ran a competition

open to S1 and P7 to design logos to represent these

cross curricular areas when being taught as part of

subject lessons. The winner was Erin Catterson (S1)

with the runners up being Louise Andrews (S1), Beth

Paterson (S1) and Rebekah Johnstone (P7 @ NPS).

Erin’s logos will

now feature in the

new Homework

diairies, in class-

rooms throughout

the school and on

the Eastwood HS

page on GLOW.

Read to Succeed Assembly An assembly was held on 6th May to celebrate the

achievement of all the S1 pupils and their suc-

cesses in the S1 reading programme “Read to Suc-

ceed” launched this year. Bronze awards were

given for reading 8+ books, silver for 16+ and gold

for 30+. Below is a photograph of all the gold win-

ners and Kirsten Watson received a special award

from Mrs Foster, PT English, for reading 52 books

Bob Appetite! On 17th May the Advanced Higher French class ac-

companied by Mrs Bremner, Mrs Rutherford and our

French Assistant Romain

Dunet visited La Vallee

Blanche restaurant in

Glasgow to practice their

French and enjoy a deli-

cious meal.

Premier Spellers The Eastwood Spelling team (Emma McKenzie,

Robyn Mack, Beth Paterson and Rebecca Tait)

took part in “The Times Spelling Bee” competition

on 28th of April at Parkhead. Competing against 9

other schools in the West of Scotland heat the

girls came 2nd despite winning the last round out-

right. Team

coaches Mr

McIntosh &

Miss De’Ath

were delighted

with the team’s

excellent

performance.

Parent Council News At the last meeting of the Parent Council on 17th

May chairperson, Mr Sanat Mehta, welcomed Diane

Leask and Donald Gillies from East Renfrewshire

Council who gave an update on the latest develop-

ments regarding the new school building. The next

meeting of the Parent Council will be at 8pm on

Wednesday 8th of September.

The next PCTA meeting is scheduled for 7pm on the

same night. Discussions will centre around the or-

ganization of the fundraising programme for next

session. The PCTA make an invaluable contribution

fundraising for the school and are always looking for

new members to help them in their activities If you

feel that you would be able to assist in anyway please

contact PCTA Chairperson Susan Clark via the school

office or come along on 8th September at 7pm.

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SPORTS NEWS Summer Sports are well under way at Eastwood with our cricketers again perform-

ing very well in all competitions. Pictured are the team on their way to beating Hill-

head HS in the first round of the Scottish Schools Cup at Shawholm (EHS 185 for

2 ; HHS 32 all out).In the QF of the West of Scotland

Cup the Eastwood team beat private school Kelvinside

Academy convincingly ( EHS 112-7, KAc 40 all out) to

progress to a semi final against High School of Glasgow.

Eastwood also beat local rivals St Ninians HS (EHS 136-4,

SNHS 60-9) in the Glasgow Schools League

In softball our team was in action against Clydebank HS in a

recent match. The team of Omar Khokhar, Lashella Ruther-

ford-Felix, Cameron MacGowan, Kamran Habib, Christina

Egan, Mhairi Cormack and Reece Leonard won the ASAP

Shield 22-9.

On the 1st of May the Eastwood Equestrian team of Cathrine McNab, Rebecca McNab, Fiona Robertson,

Jenna Taylor and Katie Braithwaite competed in the Scottish Schools Equestrian Extravaganza at Ingliston.

Against over 200 competitors the girls did very well winning rosettes for three 4th places, two 3rd places

and two 1st places overall.

A fantastic effort and

thank you to Mrs

Braithwaite for acting as

Chef d’Equip for the day.

AFYD Angling Trip The AFYD Angling club finished its

work for the season with a trip to

the Drumclog Fishery. Mr Murray &

PC Laidlaw accompanied Colin Mackie,

David Boyd, Jason Noon & Douglas

Morgan on a great day out despite

Mr Murray catching the biggest fish.

School Quiz Team On Thursday 19th of May four representatives from

Eastwood High took part in the annual East Ren-

frewshire General Knowledge Quiz. Lauren Burns,

Alastair Stables, Rehaan Saeed and Emma Wilson did

very well coming third by 1 point behind Williamwood

HS and Mearns Castle HS. They had to answer ques-

tions on a number of subjects

ranging from Science to popu-

lar music. Pictured below are

the team with school mascot

“Clint Eastwood”.

A big thank you goes to Miss

MacKaskill, Miss Hegan, Miss

Kunz, Miss Riggans and Mr

Gilliespie who helped prepare

the team.

Renewable Energy Competition Dr Lowe in Science and Mr Murray in Technical have

been working with their second year classes on sub-

mitting entries for the National Engineering and Sci-

ence Showcase Competition. The competition for

school pupils is designed to promote interest and

awareness in renewable energy and its impact on all

our lives.