Rankin

Rankin has gone for a space theme for the house display. This is in keeping with the 1st moon landing which ties in with our studies on the '6o's'. Can you recognise anyone?

Choir

Over this term we have been working with an expanded choir. Children from P4-S5 have elected to join the choir. This term we have been looking at 'The 60's' in social subjects and so have prepared three songs connected with this topic. Today we have a performance day where we video the choir performing all three songs. I have posted one of them here. Listen for some three part harmony and beginnings of some work on dynamics. Let Cedars School Choir take you back to your youth ;)

Mr J :)

School Election Anouncement

Next Tuesday, we will hold our School Elections.

During House Assemblies, pupils will elect a Senior Boy and Senior Girl House Captain from S2, S3, S4 or S5. They will also elect one Junior House Captain from P5, 6 or 7.

During the morning, pupils will elect the new Head Boy and Head Girl, from pupils in S3-S5. Any pupils in S3, 4 and 5 who wish to enter the election must write to Mrs Speirs explaining why they would be an excellent choice! This letter must be in by FRIDAY this week at the latest.

We will announce the results at Assembly on Wednesday!

Netball night coming soon...

S2-5 girls have been working exceptionlly hard in PE on Friday's to get ready for the netball tournament coming up next week. They have been working on skills they identified as being their weakest areas, and have improved dramatically... the pictures tell their own tale!

Royal Scottish National Orchestra visit...

On Tuesday, S3,4, and 5 visited the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow to listen to the RSNO's annual school's concert. We heard music from composers including Holst, Debussey, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky... quite a cultured hour for the upper secondary school, who enjoyed their morning away from lessons!

Enterprise!

Scott in S2 was exercising his enterprising abilities today - he managed to earn himself a free lunch by helping serve behind the counter during secondary lunch. I even heard him inventing and then offering Mrs Offord a special meal deal where she could get a panini and a drink for a bargain price... this was the same as buying them separately, but everyone was happy as the juice was sold and Mrs Offord thought she was getting a good deal!!

House display

As the house championship is now digitally displayed, each house has a display area in the GP room. Lyle have completed a 60's themed display based around the cover of the Beatles LP "St Peppars Lonley Hearts Club Band".

If you look carefully you will see some famous individuals who have since left Lyle and moved on to be successful in their working lives...

Thanks especially to Nico, Nichol, Nathan and Daria in S1 who made the letters, painted the plants and helped put up the display.

School Email

As of this year every child in Cedars School has an email address and these will be used increasingly as children progress through the school to send information and homework. Obviously children in the younger years of the primary school will be a while before they are introduced to email but from the middle years of primary upwards checking email will increasingly be part of school life.
We have included instructions here for any pupil who would like to check their email.

1. Go to the school website and scroll down to the bottom of the main page where you will see a section on school email.

2. Enter your username and password which you have glued in the back of your homework jotter.

3. You are now directed to your inbox. Check your inbox to find any new email. Click 'repy' to reply or, if you want to make a new email of your own, click 'compose mail. Easy!

Happy emailing!

Teen Challenge

We were very pleased to welcome Laurence Deary into the school this morning to speak to the senior assembly. He told us of his experiences growing up in Port Glasgow, how he turned to drug addiction and eventually how he found freedom from this way of life through the Teen Challenge drug rehabilitation program. 

Teen Challenge is a Christian drug rehabilitation organisation which has found much success in helping drug users world wide. This is the charity we will be supporting at school this year.

House badges

Lyle is pleased to announce that all our members now have a house badge! Well done Lyle!