New Boroughmuir High School

 We have been advised by our contractor, OHMG, that due to the adverse weather conditions over the last few months the construction work on the new school building will finish five weeks later than they had anticipated and will now not be completed until 28 October 2016.  Unfortunately this means we will not be able to move into the new building after the October break as had been planned and, as it is our intention to move over a school holiday period to minimise disruption to pupils, this means the opening of the new school will now be at the start of the new school term in January 2017.

 Although this delay is obviously disappointing, there will be opportunities between construction work finishing on site and our move date that will allow us to set up familiarisation visits for pupils and staff in the run up to the opening.   As you may have seen for yourself the new building is now very much starting to take shape and I am confident that our new school will provide a fantastic teaching and learning environment and the wait will be worthwhile.

 David Dempster

Former Boroughmuir High School Pupil, Iain Innes (2010 to 2015), has been selected to represent Team GB at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer which start tomorrow. Team GB’s allocation is one male and one female under 18 skier so Iain is delighted and honoured to be selected. He travelled to Lillehammer on Monday morning along with the other 15 members who will represent Team GB in freestyle skiing, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey skills challenge, luge and skeleton.

Iain will compete in the alpine skiing events; slalom, giant slalom, super-giant slalom and super combined. Although Iain has had international medal success competing for Britain previously at the Andorra Trofeu Borrufa races, and has skied for Britain for the last five years, he cites this as his greatest achievement to-date and is looking forward immensely to representing Team GB.

Iain’s first event is on this Saturday 13th February at the Hafjell ski resort 16 km from Lillehammer, when he races in the high speed “Super G” event where speeds in excess of 65mph are expected.

Announcement by British Ski and Snowboard: http://www.teambss.org.uk/news-info/news/team-gb%E2%80%99s-winter-stars-tomorrow-announced-lillehammer-2016-winter-youth-olympic-games

Announcement by Team GB: http://www.teamgb.com/news/welcome-to-lillehammer-2016

See our Exam information page for new info.

In a bid to provide additional support to pupils in preparation for exams many subjects provide voluntary after school study classes.  You will find the programme here

A braw night was had by all at the Boroughmuir Rugby club on Friday night.

People in attendance were treated to readings of Burns by members of our head team as well as some Highland Dancing by pupils.

Well done to all the Bard would be proud!

Watch the video of Lauren Dixon wining silver in the U17, 800m at the Scottish Athletics Championship last weekend – great effort!

Stuart Crawford, Sophie Annan , Jessica Damen, Ellen Smith ,Anna and Jenny Galloway represented the school  at the Scottish School Swimming Finals in Glasgow on Saturday .  Only to top fastest swimmers in the country are selected to race in this event and all swimmers did extremely well to qualify ..

Everyone swam really well with Jenny coming 14th in her 200 Breastroke ,Sophie coming 11th in 200 free style and 28th in 100 Breastroke , Anna coming 18th in her 100 Backstroke and Ellen ( just back from ski trip so well done!) coming 10th in 100 Backstroke and 8th in 200 Backstroke. Top 10 in both events -excellent  swimming Ellen with  PB time also .
Big congratulations  to Jess And Stuart for  getting on the medal podium !!
Stuart coming in a fantastic 3rd place in 200 Backstroke  and 8th in 100 backstroke ! And well done to Jessica getting two top 3 wins with Bronze in 100 Butterfly and Bronze in 200 Butterfly !
The team were a credit to the school and well done to everyone who competed!

A group of S2 girls along with some P7 pupils from South Morningside Primary attended this event at the National Museum.  The focus was to engage and inspire girls to think about careers in science, engineering and technology.  Women from these industries described their experiences.

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The Design and Engineering Department organised a recent visit to the Forth Replacement Crossing Education Centre for all 32 National 5 Engineering Science students. This was designed to help broaden their depth of learning for the context and challenges unit.

The trip started at the Contact and Education Centre which serves as a focal point for community engagement and education during the Queensferry Crossing’s construction. Former Boroughmuir pupil Tommy Reynolds, currently a 4^th year mechanical engineering student on placement with JACOBS, gave a presentation to our students, explaining the background of the Forth bridges, the requirement for a new crossing and the unique issues that this development presented to the various engineers on the project.

The group were then fortunate enough to be taken on a guided tour of the works. This started on the South side of the bridge where the students were able to witness the huge development of the new road network that allows access to the bridge. The tour then progressed to the Fife side of the Forth, where the students witnessed the giant steel sections for the carriageway and the facilities where concrete is applied to them at the port of Rosyth. Finally we drove down to the construction site at North Queensferry where the students were able to see cranes in operation on the north pillar.

This was a highly informative and worthwhile tour. It brought the engineering context and challenges part of the National 5 course to life and helped make it more relevant and accessible to the students.