On Thursday 10^th March Boroughmuir High School is hosting the inaugural TEDx Bruntsfield event in St Oswalds.  This event will be followed by an Ignite Edinburgh event in which 10 pupils from Boroughmuir will get up on stage and give a talk about something that they are passionate about.

The TEDx has a very mixed group of speakers including the Head of an Autism Charity, Head of Innovation for PwC, the first Briton to dive to 100m on a single breath and 2014 Women of the Future Arts & Culture Shortlist Nominee.  The full list of speakers can be found on the website below.

https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/16300

The TEDx event will start at 4pm in St Oswalds Hall and tickets for the full TEDx event can be obtained using the link above.

Boroughmuir pupils will be participating in an Ignite Event following on from the full TEDx event at approximately 18:30.  In this event the pupils will be giving 20 slide, 5 minute presentations on any topic that they are passionate about.  We have 9 presentations from Boroughmuir pupils (S1 pupils to S6 pupils) on subjects as varied as drumming, fairytales , feminism and the numbers 2 and 73!

Tickets for parents and friends of the pupils participating in the Ignite event can be obtained in school via the pupils.  If any parent wishes to see the whole TEDx event then they would have to purchase a ticket using the link above.

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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!