Edinburgh Football

Congratulations to the following Senior Boys on their successful progression to the second round of trials for the Edinburgh Senior Boys’ football squad: Gregor Lockhart, Callum Helm, Daniel Brigain and Paul MacBeth.

Edinburgh’s Children & Families Achievement Awards

Woodlands and Currie Community High Schools have been nominated in the C&F Achievement Awards for 2012 and as such pupils and staff from both schools will be in attendance at the event. This is to be held at the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday the 21st of November and organisations from all over Edinburgh will find out if their initiative is the one to win this year. Congratulations to all pupils and staff from both schools on this prestigious nomination, based on all the excellent work carried out to improve relationships between the two schools, which is continuing via the S6 Pupils at CCHS and both Pupil Council this session.

Choctober Golden Tickets

There were 15 Golden Tickets dotted around the school in secret locations. If any pupil found one of these special tickets, they also discovered a chocolate-related quiz question on the back. You then had to go to the LRC with the ticket, find Mrs Marriott and answer the question correctly by to win a prize. This is all to promote our CHOCTOBER Big Writing event across many departments at CCHS

New CurriEco Grant Scheme Launched!

The school has been fortunate enough to receive several thousand pounds for environmental projects – and the Eco Committee wants pupils and staff to decide how it is spent! Ideas for a project – whether it be a community litter pick or a system to harvest rainwater – as long as they work and aim to improve the environment of the school, are being generated at present! The deadline is Friday 12th of October.

Earthship Energy Fair

On Saturday 6 October Currie hosted the Earthship Energy Fair, held to celebrate workshops provided by Sustainable Communities Initiatives for P6 classes in our associated primary schools.

The Fair was opened by Alistair Darling MP and included stalls showcasing the work of pupils at Currie High School.

Alistair Darling and Joanne Carrie

Stalls from the Earthship Energy Fair

Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI)

The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) is an international programme that aims to develop the community leaders of the future. Participants are given a hands-on experience of philanthropy that provides them with the skills and awareness to make a positive difference to their communities.
Pupils work in small groups to research the needs of their local community and identify the grassroots social service charity they believe is best placed to make a positive contribution. They then learn how to analyse the charity’s management, budget, strategy and staffing arrangements. Pupils visit and build relations with representatives from their chosen charity and, following skills training in advocacy and public speaking, present on the reasons their proposed charity is most deserving of support. The group judged to have made the best presentation in each school is granted £3,000 to award to their charity. During this process, pupils develop teamwork, communication and presentation skills as well as the technical skills needed for effective giving.The CCHS finals will take place on Thursday 11th October at 7pm in the LRC.

P7 Open Evening

Last night Currie High held it's annual P7 Open Evening where pupils and parents from our local primary schools and beyond were invited to see around the school.

It was a fabulous evening with pupils and staff making a tremendous effort to show the school at it's best. Thanks to all the visitors who made such kind and favourable comments about the evening.

Modern Studies

Making tonight's dinner...

Mmmm...

Nicole and Louise working in the Police canteen!

Should have gone to specsaver!

Another day in the prison workshops...

Currie High School sponsors four pupils who attend Chogoria Girls High School in Kenya. As part of the ongoing partnership work, Chogoria GHS and Currie CHS both have a 'link noticeboard'. The group below will be helping to manage this board and yhey are very excited about sharing information in this way.

Chogoria Link Group

Prince’s Trust S4 xl Group

This term the S4 xl group are working on a project about our community – ‘Spotlight on Our Place’. They are focussing on Currie and seeing what things may be changed or improved. With our School Link Officer, PC Jimmy Dee, they walked around the Currie shops and surveyed the public on what they thought of the community, what other facilities they would like to have, what they would like to see done with the old primary school, any other improvements they would like, along with some other questions. They are now going to collate all the information and make a presentation of what they have found out.

PC Dee has also worked with the group on self defence and self awareness. He has helped them to know what to do if they ever find ourselves in a confrontational situation. The group also went on a walkabout around Currie with PC Dee. He has shown them how to be more aware of their surroundings and what is going on, and what he may look for as a policeman.

PC Dee shows self defense

Once again, The xl group are going to have a stall at the school’s Christmas Fair. We’ll let you know how they get on, in the next newsletter.

First Place in Photography Competition

Congratulations to Kate Snowdon who won first place and gold medal in the Edinburgh Photographic Society's Photography competition for her image 'Red Jeans'.
She was presented with her prize by photographer and current Royal Photographic Society President Roy Robertson.