Cardinal Winning Secondary School

Enjoy your summer holidays and we will see you back on Wednesday 15th August.

We would just like to say

HAPPY RETIREMENT

to

Mr Gerry McDonald our wonderful Head Teacher

We will miss you very much but wish you a happy retirement and all the very best for the future.

From all the staff and pupils at Cardinal Winning Secondary

Residential Trip to Rome

Our pupils and staff of Cardinal Winning Secondary are having the most amazing time in Rome, here are a few photos:-

City of Glasgow College Awards - 2018

Well done to Amber, Shannon, Amilton, Jay, Ross and Dominic for scooping top awards for catering this week.

First Minister Meets Cardinal Winning Pupils

Our Depute Headboy and Depute Headgirl, Craig Lockhart and Codie Caldwell represented our school at the Annual Cardinal Winning Lecture held in Glasgow University on Saturday 2 June and met with, and had tea with Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and with Education Secretary John Swinney.

Dates for your Diary

Thursday 31st May - Sing-a-long Show - 7.30pm in Cardinal Winning Secondary

Monday 4th June - 1st Year visit - Stirling Castle

Thursday 7th June - Parents Evening (S4, S5, S6, O2) - 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Monday 11th -15th June - Rome - Sedior School Residential Trip

Thursday 14th June - National Mass in Falkirk - 100th Anniversary

Monday 18th June - ASN Mass in St Andrew's Cathedral - 7pm

Tuesday 19th - Archbishop Mass - Reception of Sacraments for Manatza Bizabani and Patrick Joyce - 11.00am

Wednesday 20th June - Awards Ceremony 11.15am

Friday 22nd June - Leavers Mass 10am

Monday 25th June - HT's Assembly - 11am and BBQ in the afternoon - former pupils welcome

Tuesday 26th June - End of Term - Close at 1pm

Residential Trip to Blairvadach - S1

Great pictures of our S1 pupils having a great time at Blairvadach.

Cardinal Winning Secondary School

Presents........

SING Along with the Musicals!

Thursday 31st May 2018

7.30pm

Tickets:               Adults: £4                 Children: £2

£500.00

 Huge thanks to Asda and for everyone who voted in the Parkhead store with their green tokens.  Cardinal Winning Secondary was nominated by one of our parents and we are glad to announce we won.

CANCELLED

Apologies for any inconvenience this event has now been cancelled.

You are invited by our Parent Council to join them for a fundraising Afternoon Tea.

Date: Saturday 9th June 2018

At: St Joseph's Hall

Time: 1pm - 4.40pm

Please note the following for our upcoming Parents' Evenings as the dates have been amended:

Parents' Evening S1-S3 & O1

Thursday 17th May 2018 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Parents' Evening S4-S6 & O2

Thursday 7th June 2018 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm

 Pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary enjoying their break at Centerparcs.

New Independent Living Base

This week the new independent living skills room was set up in Cardinal Winning Secondary.  This room will be used by teachers to develop the life skills of pupils to ensure they are properly prepared for living independently and in the community.

Have a great holiday.

  Pupils return Monday 16th April.

Please follow this link to watch this simple but inspirational video.

#wouldn't change a thing!

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/carpool-karaoke-downs-syndrome-video-viral/

INFORMATION FOR FORMER PUPILS

A new course is now available at Anniesland College for 2018-19 for ASL students who have been out of school for a number of years and are interested in employment.

Opening Options to Work is an 18 week programme for supported learning students, which aims to prepare students for employment.

The course runs 2 days per week in the Anniesland Campus.

There is further information on the programme on the college website:

https://www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk/courses/76570-adult-vocational-options-work-skills/1579

We would like to say a huge THANKS to St Nicholas Care Fund who have very generously awarded us a grant of £4000 towards our upcoming residential trip to Rome.

£450

 Pupils, parents and teachers managed to raised a fantastic amount bag packing at Asda last week.  This will help go towards our residential stays for our lovely pupils.  Massive thanks to all our lovely volunteers and to Asda for the bag pack.

Arnold Clark Installs CCTV in Cardinal Winning

Thanks to Arnold Clark for purchasing and installing CCTV Security Cameras in our school.  This very reputable car dealership who have several showrooms in the locality of our school heard about our recent break-ins and read the articles in the Evening Times.  Deciding to take action the contacted Mr McDonald and agreed to pay for and install several security cameras around the school which operate day and night.  The cameras were installed in January but already have been used to identify intruders trying to force entry which has led to an arrest.

Mr McDonald says staff and pupils feel grateful to Arnold Clark Corporate Services for taking such a personal interest in our school and making us feel safer and more secure.  The cameras will record all intruders within our school campus and help us work with Community Policing to apprehend people who wish to steal from our children or destroy their work. 

MAKE YOUR GREEN TOKEN COUNT

Next time you are in Asda Parkhead, please vote for us with the tokens your receive at the checkout. 

We could win £500!!

Huge thanks to all our lovely pupils, parents, friends and staff who attended and helped at our Bingo Fundraiser last night.  We managed to raise an incredible 

£1375

From all the staff and pupils at Cardinal Winning Secondary

A great time was had by all in our Santa Dash on Friday our total raised so far is

£1189

This is just amazing we are overwhelmed by your generosity.  Here are some pictures of our wonderful pupils.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along and supported our Christmas Fayre on Wednesday.  We are delighted to announce our total raised :

£2200

This is a massive total for our school and we cannot thank you enough for your continued support.  This will help to towards Residential Stays for our lovely pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary. 

Thank you for making a difference.

Merry Christmas 

3A Christmas Crackers

This Christmas, why not order your Christmas crackers from the 3A class…

All our crackers are hand built and contain a joke, a hat, a snap and delicious quality street chocolates! They are available in two colours- Red/Green or Red/white.

Each cracker costs £1 and all profits go to school funds.

If you would like to order some of our beautiful Christmas crackers, filled with delicious quality street chocolates, please fill in the order form below and return to a member of the 3A class or pop your order in the order box at the school reception.

Halloween at Cardinal Winning Secondary

The pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary enjoyed a frightening afternoon dressing up at the Halloween Party.  Dancing to Thriller, being wrapped up like a mummy and having an all round spooktacular time.....

Cardinal Winning Secondary School

Results of the Pupil Leadership Roles 2017-18

Head Boy

Jay Martin - 43

Paul Conlin - 40

Mitchel Burns - 38

Head Girl

Sophie McGarry - 70

Morgan Steel - 53

Deputy Head Boy

Craig Lockhart - 39

James Muir - 21

Kieran Drennan - 20

Amilton Mbali - 23

Jack Lawson - 28

Deputy Head Girl

Cody Caldwell - 65

Tina Hill - 58

We would just like to say a huge thanks to everyone who came along to our MacMillan Coffee Morning today and well done to Mrs Scullion and pupils for organising this event.

  It was lovely to see so many parents and friends joining us at Cardinal Winning Secondary to support such a great charity.

You helped us raise

£370

Thanks again for your support we really appreciate it.

We are holding a MacMillan coffee morning on

THURSDAY 28th SEPTEMBER, 10.45am

Please come along and support a great cause and enjoy a tea or coffee and choose from a fantastic selection of cakes all prepared in Cardinal Winning by Mrs Scullion and pupils.

Hope to see you there.

We are always ready to welcome new members of our Parent Council at Cardinal Winning Secondary.  We meet once a month in school for about an hour and a half and it's fairly informal. Why not come along to our next meeting and see for yourself all contributions welcome!

NEXT MEETING:  27th September 2017, 1.45pm

 Please vote for Cardinal Winning Secondary by clicking the link below: 

http://www.dywglasgow.com/voting-dyw-glasgow-opportunity-fund/

Cardinal Winning & their business partnership with CCG have been shortlisted for the DYW Opportunity Fund to enable our young people to participate in supported work placements within the company.  It will take 20 seconds and might mean a huge difference to our S6 students. It will help to ensure work experience placements with Campbell Construction.

Voting closes on 5th September 5.00pm

THANK YOU

Meet our First Year Pupils for session 2017 in 

Cardinal Winning Secondary

This session we have 22 new pupils in Cardinal Winning Secondary and they all enjoyed a great start to the new term.

They have given our school the thumbs up.

Archbishop's Mass - 14th June 2017

New Playground for Cardinal Winning Pupils

Susan Wilson the Tesco Community Champion visited our school today to officially open our new playground.  Susan has been a fantastic help getting donations for our playground and introduced us to Tesco Bags for Help.  We were very fortunate to be awarded £10,000 from the Tesco Bags for Help and were able to purchase swings, a wobble bridge and line markings for our new tricycles.  The pupils just love all the new equipment and have been enjoying them since April.  We are very grateful to Rona Sweeney who took the time to apply for the grant and can honestly say this has made a huge difference to the pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary.

SUMMER BBQ AT CARDINAL WINNING SECONDARY

Centerparcs March 2017

Here are some pictures of the residential trip in March to Centerparcs:

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Race Night on Friday.  We raised a fantastic amount of

£1074

Mother's Day at Cardinal Winning Secondary

On Thursday 23rd March S4/5 Hospitality pupils prepared and served a fantastic lunch to mothers and CCG Guests.  Thank you to everyone who came along we hope you enjoyed it. 

 Cardinal Winning Secondary - We Are Very Good

'Any Head Teacher would be proud to be told by the HMIE that his young people are achieving very well and that they are given valuable supports to help them in their life after school.  But, I feel particularly proud that in Cardinal Winning we have created a community where young people feel happy, thrive and are healthy and feel valued.  In Cardinal Winning we first of all ensure children enjoy school, have fun and grow in confindence.  We then develop the skills they need for life, especially independent life.  And most important of all we develop their vocational skills to help them gain employment or achieve positive destinations.'

Mr G McDonald HT

'As Chair of the Parent Council of Cardinal Winning School for the last 5 years I have been fortunate to watch not only my own child, but many others grow their social and life skills in a structured but caring environment setting them on a firm road for their futures.  My daughter would much rather be at school than at home!'

Mrs Anne MacKinnon (Chair, Parent Council)

'Before I came to Cardinal Winning I was nervous, anxious, struggled learning new things and meeting new people.  Now I am confident, have developed new skills and I can help other people with their problems.  Instead of being worried and confused myself I can now help other people when they feel this way.

Aidan Logan (CW Pupil)

The letter and more detailed summarised inspection findings will be available on the Education

Scotland website at https://education.gov.scot/reports/glasgow-city/8442347

Evening Times article -  http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15133680.Glowing_report_for_Tollcross_school/

Cardinal Winning Secondary

Junk Kouture Competition - February 2017 

Paul Conlin and Sophie McGarry successfully reached the final of the Junk Kouture recycled fashion competition. Both pupils had a great day, and enjoyed the whole experience once again!

We are delighted to announce we came 2nd in the Tesco Bags for Help voting and have been awarded an amazing

 £10,000

We are so pleased to have been selected by Tesco for this award and we look forward to making improvements to our playground.

Pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary received the cheque for £10,000 from Frank McAveety Leader of Glasgow City Council and Susan Wilson Tesco Community Champion.

Transitions Conference For Parents and Carers

Friday 2^nd December     10am - 12pm

Speakers:

Keith Etherington – In Control

Michelle O’Connor – Social Work

Lesley Hurst - Lawyer

Selina Di Ciacca - Parent

Lilian Smith – Glasgow Centre of Inclusive Living

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Following the Speakers the audience are invited to a marketplace of option providers to support ASL young adults in our Gym Hall at 11.00am.

Glasgow Kelvin College

City of Glasgow College

Community Lifestyles

Quarriers

Glasgow Disability Alliance

Young Scot

Values in to Action

Common Knowledge UK

Enable

National Autistic Society

Sense Respite

In Control Scotland

Neighbourhood Networks

Fair Deal

Greater Easterhouse Money Advice Project (GEMAP)

Lifelinks

CROWNE PLAZA & CARDINAL WINNING SECONDARY PARTNERSHIP

We are delighted to welcome Crowne Plaza as we sign our Partnership Agreement today.

Crowne Plaza and Cardinal Winning Secondary have an agreement to work together to form an effective school/business partnership with the objective of improving the opportunities, choices and skills for young people within the workplace.

PUPILS LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS 2016

On 8^th November there was a fantastic turnout for the elections for Head Boy and for Head Girl when the whole school community voted for their choice of Pupil Leaders within our school. Hundreds of votes were cast after pupils had listened to speeches and presentations from the candidates during a morning assembly. The Candidates had been chosen after being interviewed for the roles.

The Result of the Election for Head Boy is as follows:

Aiden Logan 72

Jay Martin 31

Paul Conlin 29

The Result of the Election for Head Girl is as follows:

Chantelle Markward 68

Morgan Steel 50

Nicola Ferris 14

The Election results mean that Aiden Logan has been elected as Head Boy and Chantelle Markward has been elected as Head Girl.

Jay Martin has been elected as Depute Head Boy and Morgan Steel has been selected as Depute Head Girl.

Paul Conlin and Nicola Ferris have been elected as School Captains.

Congratulations and Well Done to all our pupils leaders.

Zombies Invade Cardinal Winning School

On 31st October Cardinal Winning had an invasion of Zombies!  Following our fantastic Halloween Party last Friday run by S4 Enterprise Group our Science and Technical Departments ran a STEM activity where children were learning of the contribution of science & technology in the modern world.  

We would like to thank students and staff of Kelvin College and Balfour Beatty Construction for their contribution to this wonderful day.

To see more photos click on our Cardinal Winning TV

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came along to our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Thursday 29th September.  We raised a fantastic amount of :

£385.50

Huge thanks to Trades House for presenting Cardinal Winning Secondary with a cheque for £1100.

This will be used to purchase new tricycles for the playground.

1K a Day

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning the pupils of Cardinal Winning take part in the 1K a day challenge before starting their lessons.  The pupils have the choice to run or walk the 1K and as you can see they are really enjoying this activity which promotes health and well being and is a lot of fun. 

Welcome to Cardinal Winning Secondary

1st Year Pupils - August 2016

We would like to welcome our new 1st Year pupils to Cardinal Winning Secondary.

Eric and Paddy Scoop Top Awards

Eric Kwok receiving the Student of the Year Award from Natalie McGarry

At this year’s Award Ceremony in Cardinal Winning school captains, Erik Kwok and Paddy Swan received the top Awards. Both boys leave at the end of this session and they were delighted with their success. Erik was presented with the Student of the Year Award whilst Paddy received the Award for Personality of the Year. Craig Lockhart was given the Sports Personality of the Year for the second year in succession whilst Cole Ralston won the Caring Cup. The Awards were presented by Natalie McGarrie MP, and Peter Mullen Actor. A special Award to honour the memory of deceased PSA Mr Jim Devanney was presented to Jack Kerr S5, by Mr Devanney’s wife Sadie.

Headteacher Mr McDonald said afterwards ‘ There is great excitement every year at our Award Ceremony and this year was no different,  we have some really worthy winners and the whole school is proud of their achievements.’

We would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who came along to our School Show and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.  It was a great success and I think you will agree the pupils and staff did a fantastic job entertaining everyone.

We managed to raise a fantastic £1200 from the night which is an amazing amount.  We really do appreciate your support at these events as it goes a long way to providing residential stays for our pupils.

'STARS IN THEIR EYES'

Wednesday 1st June 2016 - 7.30pm

Tickets now on sale - Going fast - £5 Adults/£3 Child

This is an event not to be missed and you will be entertained from start to finish with our 5 fantastic contestants, school choir, band,  dancers and some very funny auditions and bloopers reel.  Not to mention a chance to win a prize from the raffle or you may be lucky enough to be the winner of the signed Celtic Top.

We look forward to seeing you their. 

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to our Bingo Night on Wednesday, raised an amazing amount of:-

£632.00

Well done to all the pupils, parents and staff of Cardinal Winning Secondary who took part in various fundraising events including sponsored silence, sponsored walks, dress down days and raffles.  Happy Days are a great support to Cardinal Winning Secondary

Mr Devanney R.I.P

With great sadness and a heavy heart we announce the departure of our friend and colleague Jim Devanney who passed away on Holy Saturday.  Jim has been a valuable member of Cardianl Winning Staff since in opened 5 years ago.  Jim leaves behind his wife Sadie, son and 3 daughters.  He was universally respected by all in our school and he loved Cardinal Winning Secondary as much as we loved him.

May he rest in peace.

Unfortunately it has not been possible to arrange requiem services for Jim prior to the end of term. The arrangements are as follows:

OnThursday 3rd March 6 visitors came from Iceland took part in our Vocational Training Carousels and met with Natalie Shepherd our Industrial Partner from CCG.

S3 Pupils sampled the Vocational Training Options they will have next year.  Each pupil enjoyed a taster course in:-

 Construction   Hairdressing    Hospitality    Digital Media  Car Valeting

The Carousels were enjoyed by our visitors every bit as much as our Third Year pupils.

Week beginning 29th February we will celebrate once again World Book Week.  This year our theme is Vikings.

As well as workshops on drama, art etc that the pupils will be working on throughout the week, we will have the pleasure of Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre performing a show for the pupils

'Myths of the Vikings'

We would like to say a huge thanks to ASDA Parkhead Store and in particular John Flannigan, Community Life Champion for allowing Cardinal Winning pupils to bag pack and raise funds for residential trips. 

 We managed to raise a massive

 £721.28

To everyone who came along to our wonderful Christmas Fair and helped us to raise a massive

£1835.57

What an amazing total, this will go a long way towards outings for the kids to enjoy.  We would also like to thank all the teachers and pupils who worked so hard making lots of lovely Christmas Crafts to sell on the day and to all the parents and visitors who very kindly handed in donations and came along to the fair.

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Santa with his 2 helpers Miss Sheridan and Mrs Taylor our Christmas Fair Organisers.

TOTAL - £1850

We would just like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who very kindly sponsored our Monster Walk on 30th November.  This is a great boost towards our fundraising for residential stays for the pupils of Cardinal Winning.

HALLOWEEN AT CARDINAL WINNING SECONDARY

What a fantastic time pupils and staff had on Friday 30th October.  Everyone took part in the sponsored Monster Walk around Strathclyde Park and many of the pupils were in fancy dress. 

  We would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who very kindly sponsored pupils for this event and we will announce our total very soon.  All monies raised will go towards funding future residential trips for pupils.

The walk was followed by a Spooktacular Halloween disco in the school.  Staff and pupils had made a huge effort decorating the hall which looked amazing.  All the kids had a great time dressing up which you can see from our pictures below:-

Partnership Agreement

Mr McDonald, headteacher was delighted to sign a partnership agreement with a local construction company which will allow greater support for senior pupils in Cardinal Winning in vocational training.  The agreement signed by Lyn Stoddart of CCG paves the way for more industrial visits, work experience placements and more customers for our hospitality and catering services provided in our school.

Cardinal Winning Secondary scoops the Scottish Education Commonwealth Games Legacy award! The winners of the accolade were unveiled at a glittering ceremony held at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow on the 10th of June.

 Click here to read all about it!