End of term!

Today we held a whole school assembly down at the Church on West Stewart Street. We announced pupils of the term for each class and the heads of each house for primary and secondary. We also announced the new head boy and head girl for 2009 - 2010.

In the lower secondary the pupil of the term was Lauren Buntrock in S2 and for the senior secondary it was Deborah Mole in S4. Both have had a super term and have made great progress in all areas.

All pupils in each house voted to decide on the heads their houses - 2 from secondary and 1 from primary. These are as follows:

Ardgowan = Chloe Neilson, Reece Watson and Matthew Wallace
Lyle = Lauren Buntrock, Scott Hallam and Finlay brown

Rankin = Beth Miller, Iain Parker and Olivia Cameron

After a closely fought contest the head girl for 2009-2010 is Rebecca Collins and the head boy is Daniel Henderson. Congratulations to both!

Fishing Day

So today we came to the final day of a very succesful block of fishing lessons as part of the S1/2 Broader Curriculum afternoons. The children and some parents gathered at Ardgowan Fisheries for a whole day of fishing. The weather stayed pleasant and some whopping fish were caught!
It was the end of another fishing block which was greatly enjoyed by all who took part. Many thanks to all at Ardgowan Fishery from all of us!

Ardgowan!

Here is Ardgowan's house display - a very colourful reminder of the 60s!!

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!

Air Cadets!

this Thursday (3rd September) at 7.00pm, the Air Cadets are holding an evening for anyone 13 and over who might be interested in joining them. The Cadets meet in the hut on Ardgowan Street- anyone wanting more information, contact Miss Rukin!

Secondary Uniform Days

S4/5 - Monday - Wednesday: Formal Uniform

S4/5 - Thursday - Trip uniform if doing P.E.

S4/5 - Friday: Trip uniform 

S3 - Monday - Wednesday: Formal Uniform

S3 - Thursday - Friday: Trip uniform 

S1 & S2 - Monday - Tuesday: Formal uniform

S1 & S2 - Wednesday: Trip uniform

S1 & S2 - Thursday: Formal uniform

S1 & S2 - Friday: Trip uniform

Secondary Guidance

Today was the first morning of secondary guidance classes. Today we looked at homework diaries and how to use them. We also went over the new timetable which begins on Monday 31st August.

Welcome Back!

Cedars School resumes for the year 2009/2010. We welcome new pupils to many of our classes and look forward to an exciting year. This year we are running our successful house system again although the recording of the scores will be electronic and available to view on our website. We are also running 'House assembly' on a Tuesday morning which will become a great forum for mentoring and buddy schemes throughout the school. We started these today and awarded points for children who arrived for the new year with all their uniform labelled. Even the teachers are taking this years points very seriously!

Wimbledon!

Ailie, Euan, Christopher, James, Chloe and Iain from P7 - S2 enjoyed a fantastic 2 day trip to Wimbledon. We joined a group from Inverclyde Tennis and flew down to watch the action on the Saturday and Sunday of the final weekend. We had beautiful weather and saw the junior girls final on court 1 and then the mens doubles final and the ladies doubles final on centre court. 

It was an excellent experience and all the children were a credit to the school.

House Championship!

Congratulations to Ardgowan who are the 2008 - 2009 house championship winners!

P1 - 4 winners enjoyed a trip to 'The Big Adventure' and P5 - S5 went bowling and sledging at Xscape.

Prize giving

Congratulations to everyone from P1 - S5 on a successful year!