May 11, 2009
The total raised from this year’s Lenten Charities events is a whopping
£4,078
Massive congratulations to everyone for all their hard work.
Funds will be distributed as follows:
April 22, 2009
Report by Toni Paterson and Nicola Hamilton, 1C
On thursday 2nd of March Nicola & Toni planned an easter egg hunt for pupils and teachers. We hid eggs in the music, drama & pe departments, it was a huge success as we raised £12.50. Everyone was happy with what they won, & gave us positive comments also they wanted another one next year.
We are proud of our work and hopefully there will be another next year!!!!!
September 21, 2008
Our Lady’s annual Awards Ceremony took place on 19th September 2008, at which we honoured over 300 young people for their achievements over the past year, and the SQA exams.
The full list of recipients is available on the school website.
Pupils also presented cheques to four worthy causes from our Lenten Charities events:
The SCIAF cheque will be distributed to our partners at the Kamwokya Christian Caring Community in Uganda, to help establish a broadband link, to help with travel costs for peer educators coming from Kamwokya, and a donation towards our commitment to build an eating area for Kamwokya pupils.
Our two current visitors from Kamwokya, Robert Mulerwa and Teddy Katusime, came directly from Glasgow Airport to see the Awards and will join us again after the October break for a week in Our Lady’s.
The school choir sang a haunting version of “Hushabye Mountain” which raised the hairs on the back of everyone’s neck (absolutely gorgeous), while the saxophone quartet from the school band played “5′2″, Eyes of Blue” and “Has anybody seen my girl?“
Presenting the awards was our special guest, Paul Cooney, who delighted the audience of pupils, parents and staff with stories of his own school awards (for services to the tuck shop) and his achievements since, adding,
“If you’re looking for success, it’s not a destination, it’s a journey”,
and encouraged everyone to be ready to take opportunities as they arise.
Invited guests included Bishop Devine, Fr Stephen Miller (School Chaplain), Suzanne Graham (Parent Council), Maureen Dunn (PTA), Provost Tom Curley, Paul Cooney, Robert Dazell (Quality Improvement Officer, North Lanarkshire Council), Councillor Michael Ross and the headteachers of our four associated primary schools.
May 17, 2008
The money has all been counted and it can be revealed that the grand total raised by the staff, pupils and supporters of Our Lady’s over Lent is:
£2527.92!!!!!
That is absolutely brilliant!
Huge, stupendous congratulations to everyone involved, whether you helped to organise the various events, donated prizes, took part or came to watch.
The recipients will be announced in the near future (once they’ve been decided!)
April 2, 2008
1st and 3rd year RE classes were remarkably quiet as they took part in sponsored silences to raise funds for Lenten Charities.
Many congratulations to Nicholas Divers, 3A2, who single handedly raised £60!!!!
Andrew House had aimed at raising £200 but has far exceeded that figure.
March 28, 2008
Huge congratulations to Columba House for raising £684 so far with all of their fundraising for Lenten Charities, which included:
1C: Easter Egg treasure hunt
2C1: raffles (giant egg and bunny rabbit), car wash
2C2: raffle, guess the monkey’s name (Cameron)
3C: sponsored basketball and football matches, face painting, soak the teacher
4C: bonus ball
5C: money in the box
6C with 6A: movie and music quizzes.
Money is still coming in from sponsored events – total soon!
March 20, 2008
Report by 3C
We organised the face painting for Thursday 20th March. Beforehand we contacted the Performing Arts department and arranged to use the theatre for the event. We advertised the face painting by putting posters around the school and putting announcements out at assembly.
On the day we received a fantastic turnout! We raised around £41 for SCIAF.
The face painting was arranged by Elizabeth Low, Dominique Larkin, Amanda Miller and Victoria Cook with the help of Nicola McLindon, Kimberley Toner and Hannah Lester, along with a few 6th years.
March 20, 2008
(A completely unbiased report from Mr Andrew Smith.)
Click on the thumbnails to see larger pictures.
Result was 1-0, a magnificent solo effort from John Tempany, who received a pin-point John McGuinness pass just inside his own half, slalomed past 3 defenders, cut inside and unleashed a rocket from fully 25 yards past the helpless Kevin McGuire!!!
Special mention goes to John McKinnon (S6) for an excellent refereeing performance (he blew the final whistle immediately after we scored!)
Teams:
Mr Duff, Mr Law, Mr Martin, Ms McArthur, Mr McGuinness, Mr J McNaught, Mr A Smith, Mr R Smith with 4th year pupils Conor Smith, Connor MacGowan, John Tempany, Calum Walker.
Michael Devlin, John Robertson, Daniel MacKinnon, Christopher Murray, Craig Queen, Barry Eley, Mark Sinclair, Daniel Canning, Peter Galbraith, Daniel Burns, Kevin McGuire, Matthew MacDermid.
Thanks, Mr Smith. Mind you, it’s not really surprising the staff won: they appear to have aliens on the team (see photo). Isn’t there a rule about bipedal Earthlings only playing football?
March 19, 2008
Actually, twists in the bowl. 6M are fund-raising by the traditional “How many pieces of tricolour pasta can we get in the bowl without filling it completely?”
50p per guess, with the chance of winning an Easter egg.
Cunning souls have put their Maths skills to work, using the radius of the bowl to figure out the volume of the bowl.
Unfortunately, the same cunning souls forgot to measure the bowl when it was actually in their company.
March 19, 2008
3C organised a sponsored basketball game for their Lenten Charity event. Pupils paid 50p to watch the staff kill the pupils (apparently).
Over to our special correspondent, Mrs Fitzpatrick.
It just goes to show that P. E. doggers (Mrs Kerr) don’t die! They just dig out their old gutties! Thanks to Mrs Kerr finding the skill and commitment she certainly didn’t possess when she was on the other side of the desk, the Staff team managed to defeat the S3 girls in the goal/hoop/basket filled extravaganza which was the Lenten Charities Basketball Game. Final score: 10-4 (or if Stephanie and Elizabeth are counting – 10-6)
There is no truth in the rumour that the Staff needed to lie down in a darkened room after the game!
Thanks to everyone who supported this event and helped raise £41 for SCIAF.
Teams: Mrs Anderson, Mrs Fitzpatrick, Mrs Kerr, Ms O’Donnell, Ms Murray, Ms Newman, Mrs McKay.
Stephanie Ferrie, Kimberley Toner, Caitlin Mullan, Sarah Clark, Erin McNally, Elizabeth Low and Amanda Miller.
