New Documents are available in Pastoral Guidance
Instrumental Parents Evening
the Instrumental Parents Evening is taking place 430pm – 630pm Monday 13th March in the Music Dept.
Letters are being given out this week to all Instrumental pupils
Visit to Scottish Parliament
On Tuesday 28th February 2017 four senior pupils from Boroughmuir along with pupils from Trinity and Holyrood High Schools were invited to the Scottish Parliament to give their view on Scottish Education to the International Council for Education Advisers panel. The pupils were given a brief tour of the Parliament before meeting with the panel in one of the committee rooms. The panel consists of education experts from around the world and had gathered in Scotland to advise the government on how to further improve Scottish Education. The pupils were split into groups with some of the panel members joining each group and were given the opportunity to speak freely about their experience of the Scottish Education system. Towards the end of the discussions they were joined by the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney and the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon and were able to put their views to them directly. 
New Letters to Parents
We have added 2 new letters which you can see on the Letter to Parents page Letters to Parents
BOROUGHMUIR HIGH SCHOOL – AFTER SCHOOL STUDY SESSIONS
In preparation for exams many subjects provide voluntary after school study sessions. The classes running are listed in the attached documents. Pupils should check with teachers to ensure the classes are running at the stated dates/times.
What Are You Going to Choose?
Calling all Secondary Pupils to ENGAGE with the Future! What do you want to study, be, do? Get expert advice from the professionals to help you decide.
• WHEN? 7 March 2017, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
• WHERE? Best Western Braids Hill Hotel, 134 Braid Road
• WHO? Janet Archer, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Scotland
Kevin Hardwick, Personal Chair in Molecular Genetics,
The University of Edinburgh
Harris Cains, Business Development Manager, RF Com Ltd
Issaq Ahmed, Consultant Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeon,
The University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian
Sheila Roberston, Principal Procurator Fiscal Depute,
High Court Unit, Crown Office
• HOW MUCH? Donation. Tickets available at: Engage Tickets
‘ENGAGE’—A Boroughmuir Parent Council Initiative Connecting Pupils to Professionals
Also open to pupils from James Gillespie’s and George Watson’s schools
Junk Kouture Grand Final
For the second year running Boroughmuir pupils have succeeded in getting through to the prestigious Grand Final of ‘Junk Kouture’. The pupils from S/3, Beth Moar, Isla Weir and Laura Gancheva created ‘Fire and Ice’ a spectacular celebration of recycled fashion.
‘Junk Kouture’ is open to all secondary school students in Scotland. The challenge is to rework junk and used materials that are beyond their intended purpose and to craft them into eye-catching bespoke fashion designs. Jemima Harrison and Natalie Grzesiak also entered the competition with their creations, The Regal Recycler, and The Trash Star.
Beth, Isla and Laura are one of eighty finalists chosen from a hundred and eighty entrants. The Royal Glasgow Concert Hall Buchanan St Glasgow, is the esteemed venue for the final. You can further boost the girl’s chances by voting on line. The on line vote is worth 10% of each Grand Finalists mark. The public can vote once a day every day from 9.00 on Monday 30th January 2017 via the Junk Kouture Facebook page.
Coding & Robotics in Computing Science
Mrs Dighton’s S3 class have been taking part in a Pilot project to use Marty the Robot to learn the basics of robotics and coding using Python. Marty the robot was created by the Edinburgh based company Robotical and we have been given 2 Marty’s to use in the classroom as part of the project. As you can see from the video it is great fun!
Higgs Prize for Physics
The 2016 Higgs Prize for Advanced Higher Physics was won by a former pupil Charlotte Facherty
This is an annual Prize, first awarded in 2013, for the top-performing male and female candidates at Advanced Higher Physics, at a publicly-funded school. The prize itself is a unique visit to the CERN international research facility near Geneva, to meet Scottish researchers as part of CERN’s annual undergraduate summer school programme. The Scottish Government covers all related expenses for the winners to make this visi.
Charlotte received her certificate from the Science Minister, Shirley-Anne Somerville, who then took both winners and their parents for lunch in the Scottish Parliament.
Charlotte is actually the second Boroughmuir pupil who has won the Higgs Prize – Lucy Willets-White was one of the inaugural winners in 2013. So the school and our Physics Department are rightly very proud!
The Boyd Anderson Trophy
Clad in the new Boroughmuir Ski Race Club attire, it was almost a sweep of the board in the Boyd Anderson Race on Wednesday 7th December.
The Boyd Anderson Troohy Team(Lachlan Stephen, Robbie Innes, Ben Flockhart and Jude Guy) took 1st place and retained the trophy for yet another year. The Boys’ team category (Greg Manson , Harry Small, Niall Urquhart and Iain Roberts) took 2nd place, whilst the Girls’ team category (Isla Leach, Maddie Stewart, Olivia Henderson and Danni Ford) took 1st place. Lachlan Stephen was the fastest racer in the whole competition.
We had 16 racers competing, biggest entry for Boroughmuir so far.
Some excellent skiing and for some of the competitors it was their first time ever in a ski race.
So well done to all racers and looking forward to the new season starting.
