Saint Ninians High School

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Saint Ninians High School

• Bishopbriggs, previously Kirkintilloch

Created by Amy Brogan, Aileen Park and Diane
Ramsay
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3 Stars represent the Trinity
Kirkintilloch means Castle on the Hill
The 5 pointed stars represent the first 5 books
taken from the Old Testament
Our school is named after our local Catholic
Church
The Fish is an old Christian symbol
Caritas means Charity/Caring
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Bishopbriggs

• Bishopbriggs is situated 8 miles north of
  Glasgow.
• It is the principal town in East Dunbartonshire
  and has a catchment area of approximately 45,500.
• There are 5 partner primary schools in the area
  associated with our school
• St. Agathas St. Flannans Holy Family
• St. Josephs St. Machans

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Our School
We recently moved from this building
To this building in order to allow a rebuild on
the old campus!
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St. Ninians High School

• Founded in 1874 and during the war the school
  housed people who were made homeless.
• There are 752 pupils who attend the school.
• There are around 90 teachers and support staff at
  our school.
• Our school is named after Saint Ninian

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Education Days

• Food Challenge Initiative. Pupils set up their
  own manufacturing companies and produced various
  types of chocolate truffles.
• S1 Languages Day. Teams of 10 pupils each
  produced a book and acted out a play in front of
  their peers based on vocabulary learnt with help
  from Student Teachers.
• S1 and S2 English intervention days. The teacher
  showed the pupils all the different ways of
  learning.

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Morgan Stanley School of Excellence

• In January, our school won the Morgan Stanley
  Award for a School of Excellence and received
  5000.
• The aim of the project is to bring together the
  Art and Business Studies departments within the
  school.
• They came up with the idea of creating designs in
  Art and learning how they would sell them in
  Business with the help of two young girls from
  the bag selling business, Boo Boutique.

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Charity Work

• Our school has a well deserved reputation for
  charity work in and around the community.
• At Lent we raise money for SCIAF and at Christmas
  time we hold events to raise money to provide a
  Festive Lunch for local pensioners.
• At Christmas time we also hold an event called
  Operation Homeless. This is where we collect
  canned food and distribute them to the homeless
  people of Glasgow.

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SCIAF Fundraising

• Silver Pile
• Charity Five-a-side football
• 24hr Fast
• Giant Easter Egg Raffle
• Rich Man Poor Man Lunch
• Cake and Candy stalls
• We raised a total of 5100

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Activote

• With the money we received from school of
  ambition we bought about 8 Activote sets
• We have a video showing one of the teachers in
  our school using one of these.

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St. Ninians out and about

• Its not the first time St. Ninians pupils have
  visited the Shetland isles. In October 1962 a
  group boarded the Dunera and set sail for
  Lerwick.
• In July 2008 we are going to Madagascar.
• We have also organised trips to

France Madagascar Pila, Italy Croatia New
York Japan
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French Immersion - Paris

• A group of 6 teachers and 36 3rd year pupils are
  going to spend a week in Paris in June this year.
• The aim is to have a complete immersion in
  French, see the sites, visit Disney and to
  complete challenges in French to improve French
  and to improve ICT skills as a daily blog and
  podcast will be posted online as a diary of the
  trip.

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School Trips
Italy
Tanzania
Australia
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Rewards Ceremonypromoting positive behaviour
Reach for the Stars is a reward system that uses
praise to create a positive self image among
pupils. At the end of each term success is
celebrated at a Ceremony for S1 and S2. The event
is a lively occasion with music and educational
games with each pupil receiving a personal letter
from the Head Teacher containing details of their
individual performance and certificates and
prizes are distributed for pupil achievement. In
our latest ceremony the Real Radio presenters
gave out prizes.
Caring
Prepared
Reach for the Stars
Responsible
Positive
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School Show

• Each year the teachers from the English and Music
  department come together with pupils and produce
  what is known as The School Show
• They have been very successful in the past and we
  are hoping that this years production will be
  just as successful.
• Last year we did Calamity Jane and this year we
  are doing High School Musical.

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The School Show
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• Thank You for watching our presentation
• We hope you liked it

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Quiz

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