School Dux For 2011-2012

Congratulations to Lewis Thomson who has achieved the recognition as School Dux Medallist for this year and Iona Kimmitt and Lauren Yuill  who have gained the award of Proxime Accessit.

 House Captains

As a result of interviews conducted last week the school is delighted to announce the following appointments for Session 2012-2013

Bruce House Captains: Roslyn Ivatt and Natalie McDonald

Stuart House Captains: Daniel Mongan and Jade Falconer

Wallace House Captains: Robyn Clark and Mandy Hunter

 Ross Harper Scholarship

Congratulations to our current Head Girl, Clare Heggie, who has been awarded the first ever Ross Harper Legal Scholarship. As part of their 50^th anniversary celebrations the legal firm have decided to support a student through their law degree and Diploma in Professional Legal Practice with the offer of a traineeship with the firm upon successful completion of the academic elements.  Clare will begin her studies toward the LLB in September atEdinburghUniversity.

 Website Eamil Alert

Parents and cares can now subscribe to the school website in order to be updated of any new information posted.  Select SUBSCRIBE at the bottom of The Home Page And Complete The Details Required.

 Bannockburn‘s Roving Reporters

Congratulations to Bannockburn High’s BBC News School Reporters who recently took part in the national BBC news day on the 15th of March. It was an exciting and sometimes pressured day trying to make reporting and broadcasting deadlines but the pupils worked well together and some excellent news articles were produced. The pupils researched and wrote articles on news stories relevant to them including University Fees and the Scottish independence referendum. The articles are available to read on the school website. The group were assisted by BBC journalists and gained worldwide coverage on the BBC website, BBC News channels, BBC radio programmes and on the red button on BBC 1. We also had the unique opportunity of sending two of pupils toLondon to work with the BBC and interview the three party leaders. We were the only Scottish school to be selected and our pupils were fantastic ambassadors not only for the school but forScotland. Well done!

 Working Tgether To Make A Difference

Our active GSF group have been organising a form class challenge where form classes set themselves a fundraising target so they can buy a gift which will help reduce maternal mortality, i.e a £15 birthing kit. Pupils have been coming up with creative ideas like being sponsored to wear your pjs to school and seeing who can bring in the most silver coins etc. This is the final push as we count our final total on Friday 30th March so keep up the good work. We have a non-uniform day planned for the last day of term, Friday 30th March, and pupils can pay £1 to wear what they want (apart from football colours) this is to help the GSF group reach their goal of raising £1,174 to kit out an entire maternity ward in the Developing World which would enable 50 babies to be delivered safely. You are proof thatBannockburncares!

 Easter Holidays

The school will be close on Friday at 3.35pmfor the Easter break and re-open to pupils on Monday 16^th April at8.55am. 

 London May 2012

A reminder to parents and carers that payment for the excursion should be made in full by Friday 30^th March to Mrs Millar in Room 104.

 Peers In Schools Visit From Lord Mar & Kellie

The school hosted a talk from a member of the House of Lords on (Friday) to encourage students to engage more with the political and parliamentary process.  Lord Mar and Kellie met with Higher Modern Studies, Politics and History pupils as well as Advanced Higher Modern Studies for an hour to talk about the work and role of the House of Lords. This was followed by a question and answer session on various aspects of the parliamentary process and life at Westminstergenerally. The visit was arranged through the Lord Speaker’s “Peers in Schools” programme, which has been running across the UKsince 2007 and has so far involved around 15,000 young people.  This continuing outreach programme sends members of the House of Lords into schools and colleges across the country to give talks in support of the citizenship curriculum.  For further information, see the Lord Speaker’s web page at www.parliament.uk/lordspeaker .

 Global Student Forum

On Friday the Global Student Forum Group members organised a successful soup lunch for staff to fundraise & raise awareness of the issue of maternal mortality in the developing world. The lunch was popular with the staff who enjoyed the selection of soups made by the GSF team, the lentil soup was particularly popular. We raised over £150 for this event. This is one of the events we are organising throughout the month of March to raise funds to equip a maternity ward in the developing world. Thanks to all the staff for their support.

 Sound Sleep
Congratulations to the House Captains who all delivered an excellent presentation on sound sleep, as part of health and wellbeing experiences, at the house assemblies last week. This week S1 and S2 form classes have been completing a sleep diary to see if they are meeting the requirednine to nine and a quarter hours. These results will then be collated and evaluated to make targets for improvement if required.

 BannockburnPrimary Orchard

Claire Don and Hannah Paterson, two S3 pupils who represented the Bannockburn High Eco group helped to plant 12 fruit trees in the grounds of Bannockburn Primary on Friday 2nd March. They helped plant 12 fruit trees a mixture of apple, pear, plum and cherry.

 LondonMay 2012

A reminder to parents and carers that payment for the excursion should be made in full by Friday 30^th March to Mrs Millar in Room 104.

S2 Parents Evening

The S2 parents evening will take place on Monday 12^th March between4.15pm and6.45pm.  Pupils should make appointments with relevant members of staff prior to the evening.

 Global Student Forum

Our GSF group are hard at work raising awareness of the goal to reduce the number of mothers dying in pregnancy and childbirth. Some of the group went on Monday to give a talk to the Last Monday group at St Ninian’s United Free Church of Scotland. The audience were very interested in the issue and kindly gave the GSF pupils a donation towards their fundraising. If you would like the GSF group to deliver a talk for your local group please contact the school office to arrange it.  The GSF group have planned a series of events in school for ‘Mothers’ March’ including pupils registration class challenge, staff v pupils football, homemade soup lunch for staff, bake sale, non-uniform day and sponsored walk which will support a number of good causes.

 BBCNewsSchoolReport

OurBBCNEWSSchoolReport group are gearing up for our final news day on Thursday 15th of March. Pupils have just received a goodie bag of reporters id badges, pens and posters in preparation for the big day. Check out our news next week for details of a unique, exciting opportunity which some of ourBBCNEWSSchoolReport group got to take part in… more information to follow.

 RDA Sccess

Alexander Dunnachie (S2) has just received his Riding for Disabled Grade 3 Horse Riding Profficiency award.  Alexander attends RDA every Tuesday afternoon and assists with the care and attention of the horses and equipment as well as learning to ride.

 S1 Science Projects 

All S1 pupils have been working hard on their Alternative Energy homework projects recently. The majority of pupils have made a great improvement from their first project – well done everyone!

The best project from each class has been judged and the following is a list of prizewinners:

1B1   Gemma Pettersen

1B2   Conor Derrick

1S1   Ellie Harris

1S2   Anna Burnett

1S3   Ryan Brown

1W1  Charley Howland

1W2  Emma McEwan

Congratulations to all of these pupils from the Science Department!

 S3 Exams

The S3 exam diet will take place between 7^th and 15^th  March.  During this period pupils in S3 will complete an exam in each of their subjects.  Pupils were issued with information regarding the exams on Friday and were reminded that there is no study leave for S3 and pupils should attend classes as normal.  Exams will take place during class time.

 LondonMay 2012

A reminder to parents and carers that payment for the excursion should be made in full by Friday 30^th March to Mrs Millar in Room 104.