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Thursday 28 February 2013

Go4SET Success!


School teams from Edinburgh and the Lothians attended Heriot-Watt University on Thursday 28th February to compete in the Go4SET Celebration and Assessment Day (CAD) awards. At the event, the judges selected Currie Community High School Team 1as the winner of the Best Overall Project Award for their outstanding research on how the school could reduce their energy usage and save money. They were presented with a trophy and a cheque for £250 by Martin Grey, Scottish Communications Manager at Viridor who sponsored the CAD event. The team will now go forward to compete in the Go4SET Scottish Final which will be held in Glasgow City Chambers in May.

The Go4SET Energy in your School project began at the launch event in November 2012 and the Currie had two teams of six second year pupils involved.
Team 1 comprised David Kong, Lucy McGuire, Lewys Richards, Kirsty Smith, James Cochrane and Kai Horsburgh and was mentored by Mr Haddow, Miss Peaston and Angus Reid of Heineken.
Team 2 comprised Iona McDonald, Peter Stewart, Morven McIntyre, Fiona Hercus, Ross Connelly and Ross Castle and was mentored by Miss Smith, Mr Davidson and Jeremy Grant of Arup.
Both teams gained silver CREST awards which is an outstanding achievement for 2nd year pupils.

At the event the students demonstrated their individual projects and models to a group of assessors and discussed their projects with guests attending the event. Currie High School Team 1 were supported by Heineken and their mentor Angus Reid commented. “The team showed tremendous organisation and creativity in successful completion of the project. Heineken is proud to support the Go4SET programme".

The other award winners at the event were Balerno High School supported by BP who won the Best Team Work Award and a cheque for £150 and Boroughmuir High School supported by Wood Mackenzie who won the Students Choice Award and a cheque for £100. Currie pupil David Kong also won a prize for his depiction of an engineer.

Friday 1 February 2013

SSPCA Christmas Appeal for Pet food and Bedding

SSPCA donations from CurrieCHS
Towards the end of the Christmas term many staff and pupils at CCHS donated pet food and bedding to support our local SSPCA in Balerno. Day by day, tins, boxes, pouches and bags of all sorts of any pet food along with dog and cat beds, newspapers, blankets and towels were handed in to Ms McMaster in the music dept who delivered all donations to the SSPCA on the last day of term. They were extremely grateful. The SSPCA deal with many unwanted, injured, abused, abandoned and neglected animals each year and as they receive no government funding rely on public support to make their fantastic work possible. A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated!