February 2015 - Castlehead High School

Scotland’s Number 1
Candidate
Dr Janet Brown, SQA chief executive and Graham Houston, SQA Chairman, present the 2014
SQA Pride o' Worth Award to Cameron Swanson of Castlehead High School.
What an outstanding achievement for Cameron Swanson - highly recommended for academic excellence, to win the Candidate of the Year and to be the overall winner of the SQA’s highest accolade - The Pride o’ Worth Award.
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SQA Star Awards
Careers of the Future
Achievement
Diana Awards
Achievement in Literacy
The Coca Cola Challenge
The loch Lomond Challenge
Achievement in Sport
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The Rotary Master chef Challenge
Walking Tour of Paisley
Remembrance Day
Enhancing the Curriculum
Events
Practice makes Permanent
SQA Star Awards
A Paisley teenager has achieved double success at a prestigious awards ceremony.
Former Castlehead High pupil Cameron Swanson was named the Pride o’ Worth winner for individuals after scooping the award for School Candidate of the Year and being highly commended
in the Academic Excellence category at the SQA Star Awards.
This was in recognition of his efforts to gain five Advanced Highers at A Grade during his last
year at school.
Cameron said: “I was stunned to hear my name read out twice on the night”. It was a bit of a
shock. “To win the Pride o’ Worth Awards was a huge surprise. I feel very honoured to have
won this. I feel the school is just as deserving of recognition, due to the vast range of opportunities available.”
Dr Janet Brown, SQA chief executive, added: “The SQA Star Awards give us an opportunity to
recognise our learners’ outstanding achievements but, equally, acknowledge the people at the
schools, colleges, training providers and employers who support those learners every day for
their commitment, dedication, innovation and enthusiasm.
Careers of the Future
The 40 careers of the future – rewarding jobs offering opportunities for progression, personal
development and good pay – have been identified in a new report.
The paper from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) looks in-depth in
a bid to give young people an idea of what they might expect from such careers. It also includes a fuller list of key statistics for 100 “top jobs” and offers advice to young people for
further research about their career options.
The publication has been compiled using recent occupational research and analysis of the UK
jobs market to try and discern which professions and careers will be “crucial over the next
decade”.
The 10 sectors covered by the top 40 jobs are:
Agriculture (jobs include farming).
Business and finance (jobs include project managers, financial analysts, chartered accountants).
Construction (jobs include architects, carpenters, heating engineers).
Education (jobs include teaching, school leadership).
Health and care (jobs include doctors, dentists, nursing).
Information technology (jobs include programmers, software developers, web designers).
Protective services (jobs include police officers).
Science, engineering and technology (jobs include mechanical engineers)
Manufacturing, installation and maintenance (jobs include electricians, metal workers).
Transport and logistics (jobs include aircraft pilots, ship officers, train drivers).
Included in the list of education roles are careers as a secondary school teacher, teaching assistant, primary school teacher, nursery educator and school leader.
For each of the in-depth focuses, the report looks at how many people are in the profession,
how many job openings there will be in the coming years, starting and average salaries and
average working hours.
In his foreword to the report, Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of UKCES and also the John
Lewis Partnership, said the careers listed in the report would provide “exciting job opportunities in the years ahead”.
He adds: “This guide is intended to assist those helping young people make these important
career decisions. For parents, teachers and career advisors, we hope this publication will help
highlight a number of jobs that offer fantastic opportunities to young people making these decisions.”
For more on the UKCES, visit www.gov.uk/UKCES and you can download the report at
http://bit.ly/1GuCcbZ
Achievement - Diana Award
A record breaking 44 pupils were crowned with a royal honour for showing they care. The Diana
Award recognises the outstanding contribution of young people who come together in groups to
improve the lives of others. This prestigious award has been presented to the highest ever number
of pupils at Castlehead.
Thanks to their lunchtime commitment to their At Your Side anti -bullying club , school life and
academic achievement has been improved for pupils.
Staff in the school report a reduction in incidences of bullying and a raising of self esteem and
confidence amongst pupils. Valuable bonds have been built up between the senior pupils and the
younger ones. Congratulations to all 44 for the fantastic work that they do.
Achievement in Literacy
Seven pupils were successful in a competition organised by Young Writers and as a
result were published in a new book ‘ The
Poetry Games ‘. Our pupils using poetry as
their tool were able to express their
thoughts and feelings through verse. I hope
you enjoy.
Nightmares
Most dreams are what you think,
Why am I thinking this?
Ever had the feeling that you were
You want to run, you want to hide,
falling?
You want to sleep or simply cry,
Like you’re falling from a height but
But then you feel a creeping shiver
you can’t tell,
on your leg crawling,
Because it’s too dark to see,
Leaving your leg cold and clammy,
Your eyes adjust to the night, lookIt’s crawling further up your pyjaing in the dark,
mas,
Small round circles that stare, like
Twitching every time it flicks its
demons’ eyes,
many legs on subtle movement,
You hide under your blankets, sleepIt’s coming closer,
ing,
It leaps, all you can do is let out a
You then jerk yourself awake,
scream in the cold, dark air,
breathing heavily
You snap open your eyes, and realise
And looked around your room,
it’s just a big dream…
You can hear its whispers, you can’t
run away,
Gurjeen Kaur (13)
Your legs won’t move,
Castlehead High school, Paisley
Suddenly you can’t get out,
Emotions escape me, I feel alone,
Yu-Gi-Oh Generations
If you’re thinking about a very popular Anime show
Then I’ll explain about the different generations of Yu-Gi-Oh.
Thinking of a show that just goes on and on.
Let’s go right back to very start of Season 1.
It all started with a boy, Yugi Muto was his name.
Always challenging his friends to a Children’s card game.
He always does his best to save the world you see.
Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Then Yu-Gi-Oh GX appeared in the year 2004.
Jaden Yuki is the one that his friends all adore.
There are a lot of tests that he cannot pass.
But when it came to duelling, he was at the top of his class.
Yu-Gi –Oh 5DS is my most favourite show
Where Yusei Fudo gets helped out by his friends Jack and Crow.
From saving his city home from eternal dark
He found his true spirit inside his serious darkened heart.
Now Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal is almost the worst one of them all.
Well that’s their opinion, to me it is really on a ball.
No matter how much people want it to go away some day,
It won’t change the fact that Yu-Gi-Oh is here to stay.
Natalie Laframboise (13)
Castlehead High School, Paisley
The Coca Cola Challenge
By Katie Hughes, Hannah White,
Brooke McCreight,
Freya Mc Ewan & Kirsty Arbuckle
Recently we have taken part in the
Coca Cola Real Business Challenge.
Our challenge was to produce a
drinks brand based on a country taking part in the 2015 Special Olympics.
Our brand name was MaWOWi!,
which is based on the country Malawi. We decided to do a tropical
drink with flavours of mango & pineapple along with carbonated water.
We decided to call our company ‘The
Generators’ because a generator is
something which produces energy,
and so we want to create a positive
energy in the world.
Part of our brief was to incorporate a
charitable approach within our product, so we decided to give 50% of all
profits made by MaWOWi! to the
Special Olympics, and from there we
came up with our catchy slogan
‘Making Futures Brighter’.
Once we had submitted our competition entry we presented it to some
members of staff including the head
teacher. We got some very positive
feedback and we also received a certificate from Coca Cola for all our
hard work.
Although we didn’t make it through to
the final of the competition we are
proud of what we have achieved after
lots of hard work. We have gained
experience of forming a company and
working together as a team to produce an innovative brand.
MaWOWi!
Making Futures Brighter
By Hannah White, Katie Hughes, Freya McEwan,
Brooke McCreight and Kirsty Arbuckle.
The Loch Lomond Challenge
As former winners of
the Loch Lomond Challenge it was great to see
Castlehead enter a team
for this year’s challenge.
The boys put a great
effort in and finished a
very reputable sixth
place.
Jake
Sam
Craig
Alexander
Don’t look till after page 14
A Paisley Town Hall
B Drill Hall
C John Neilson Institute
D Paisley Museum
E Coats Observatory
F Oakshaw Trinity Church
Achievement in Sport
Teenage athlete Ross Paterson was feeling ‘three n easy’ after taking part in a
prestigious meeting in England.
The 16 year old was under starters orders
at Cerebral Palsy Prix Athletics Championships in Grantham. And he returned
home with not one but THREE gold
medals after winning runs in the T38
100, 200 and 400 metres events.
He was also in stunning form as he
racked up personal best times in both the
100m and 200m.
It was Ross’ last athletics meeting of the
season, as he will now be concentrating
on his winter training with the Scotland
Cerebral Palsy football squad.
The talented teenager was capped three
times during a home international football tournament in the Republic of Ireland last year, which was quite an honour. before moving to the Red Star club
in Glasgow.
It was while playing football that he was
noticed by an athletics coach, and he became affiliated to Kilbarchan Athletic
Club,
Ross a fifth year pupil at Castlehead High
School, has made it into CP Scotland’s
squad of 40 for next year’s Home International Championships, which will take
place in Nottingham.
He has come so far in his career – and
still has far to go.
Achievement in Sport
Jake, David and Leona compete at the West District Cross Country Championships. A great effort by them
on a wet, windy day
Jake Hind wins dancing competition in
Disneyland, Paris.
Reece Canavan - Table Tennis
Champion
Shazad Ahmed -the most improved U13 player at
Ferguslie Cricket Club
Michael McPhee Scottish Boccia Championships Silver
Medal