NEWSLETTER Spring 2016 - Dunoon Grammar School
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NEWSLETTER Spring 2016 - Dunoon Grammar School
NEWSLETTER Spring 2016 Dunoon School Hostel FITNESS CLASS Dates for Diary SPRING HOLIDAY The Hostel will close for the spring holiday on Monday 4th April 2016 and re-open on Monday 18th April 2016 EXAM LEAVE S4/S5/S6 exam leave starts on Friday 29th April 2016. MAY WEEKEND The Hostel will close on Monday 2nd May 2016 and re-open on Wednesday 4th May 2016. Above: Pupils and staff working hard on their fitness. As part of the Health and Wellbeing in the Hostel, we held a Circuit Training Class with kettle bells and weights led by Mrs Lorraine Robinson, fitness trainer and aerobics instructor. The room was filled with enthusiastic young people and each and every one of them along with Mary Peek houseparent were put through their paces! Everyone worked so hard and moved around the circuit with incredible ease! Press ups, lunges and pull ups were part of this challenge and the young people did them all. The class was a great success and everyone’s keen to do this again. HOSTEL MAKEOVERS Our young people have been involved in deciding the interior designs of their games room and movie/music room. This has involved a shopping trip across the water to choose pictures and soft furnishings. As you can see on the next page, a very productive shopping evening was had. NEW TIMETABLES S2-S4 will start their new timetables on Monday 9th May 2016. NEW S5/6 RETURN DATE S5/S6 should return to school at 1:30pm on Friday 3rd June 2016. PRIMARY SCHOOL VISITS Hostel staff will be visiting Tighnabruaich Primary School on Tuesday 19th April and Lochgoilhead Primary School on Tuesday 26th April to meet and chat to pupils and their parents who will be moving in to the Hostel when they start S1 in August (dates to be confirmed). The P7 pupils will get the chance to visit the Hostel and stay for tea and there will be a Hostel open night in early June (dates to be confirmed). Dunoon School Hostel, 68 Hunter Street, Dunoon, PA23 8JR Tel@ 01369 703744 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Staff News Recently we said farewell and best wishes to our catering manager Helen McLeod as she leaves us for new adventures in her new location. After 18 years’ service with the hostel she is thought of with much affection and will be missed by all. Helen sends her best wishes to all and her thanks to everyone who contributed to her present. Does my head look big in this! Burns Supper Held on Thursday 25th January 2016. Piping in the Haggis is Rory Macrae with Brandon Wilson preparing an address to the haggis. Dunoon School Hostel, 68 Hunter Street, Dunoon, PA23 8JR Tel@ 01369 703744 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] COOKS IN THE KITCHEN Over the last few Tuesdays this term we have been in the kitchen cooking up a storm. Food from around the world. We have had pasta dishes, stir fries, a really good chili con carne (sort of) and the best curry with rice. All washed down with a “bath” full of different soups. Everyone has had a shot in the kitchen it’s been good fun for all, especially eating at the end for supper. Best of all we don’t think we had any waste. Next term we are going to plan a menu, cook the menu planned and of course eat it at the end! Great British Bake Off for Lots of activity and creativity in the kitchen as our young people baked an impressive array of delicious and colourful cakes in a competion which saw Cara Smith and Aaron Moses as winners of taste and Ellise Blair and Laura McMath winning the best for decoration. Messy but fun! Will advise the amount raised when known. Dunoon School Hostel, 68 Hunter Street, Dunoon, PA23 8JR Tel@ 01369 703744 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] ARTS & CRAFTS We have been very fortunate in having Alison an Arts and Crafts coordinator visit the hostel. Alison has generously volunteered her spare time to providing arts and crafts activities for our young people. Here the group are making lava lamps which looked great standing on LED light bases. HOSTEL GARDEN PROJECT A group of staff and young people recently met to discuss plans and ideas for the garden. A decision has been reached and plans approved for work to begin on an area at the back of the grounds. A committee has been set up consisting of young people and volunteer staff and we will be looking for support for the project from other young people, parents, staff and outside parties. More information to follow. THANK YOU Staff were delighted to receive this batch of truly delicious Easter meringues baked by Rory Macrae’s mum Lorna. Literally gone as soon as seen!!! Have a lovely holiday and good luck to all the senior pupils who will be sitting exams soon. Dunoon School Hostel, 68 Hunter Street, Dunoon, PA23 8JR Tel@ 01369 703744 Email: [email protected] or [email protected]