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Cardinal Winning News

CARDINAL WINNING SECONDARY

Christmas Edition
December 2017

Christmas Fayre Raises over £2000!
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 the total raised was £2200.
Ms Harte and her team organised all of the usual stalls including Bric-a-brac, tombola, arts & crafts and the crowd pleaser—the chocolate fountain. The patrons also got to throw snowballs at Mr Watt and Mr McDonald this raised a significant amount of money.
This is a massive total for our school and we cannot thank you enough for your continued support. This will help towards Residential Stays for the pupils of Cardinal Winning Secondary.

The Crown Plaza Party
On the 4th of December all of the 1st year were invited on a trip to The Crown Plaza to have a Christmas party. The Crown Plaza is a big hotel in the centre of Glasgow. It was a party only for schools. There were lots of children and lots of chocolate and sweets. The children danced on the dance floor and everyone was running about having fun. It was a Great Party!
By Connor McLaughlin 1C

A Word from Mr McDonald
Once again we come to the end of term, one which has brought lots of successes but also some upset. Firstly it is great to see how well our First year pupils have settled and how well they are developing friendship groups in our school. They have certainly made a great impact and like to make full use of all our clubs, badminton, cycling and Friday afternoon activities. We all enjoyed a brilliant St Andrew’s Ceilidh and S4 had a great trip to Aviemore. The Christmas Fayre was our most successful fundraiser ever and it was well supported by parents. On a sad note however Mrs Elliott has been very unwell and we continue to pray for her recovery. Unfortunately we have also been troubled by frequent break-ins to the school which have resulted in the loss of equipment including IPads and laptops. The press coverage of this however has resulted in a kind response from the public. A number of generous visitors have donated money and one local business donated Christmas presents for our pupils. Perhaps best of all Arnold Clark has kindly offered to install CCTV cameras to improve security around the school and to ensure that future intruders will be identified and brought to justice. We have been uplifted by the generosity and kindness from people who don’t even know us!
May I wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a wonderful year in 2018.

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Job Club
The Cardinal Winning Job Club will continue to run on Tuesday & Wednesday Lunchtimes with Nicola from Enable. Bring your Lunch along to room 18 and Explore the World of Work!
During the sessions you will consider your options for just now and for when leaving school, learn how to Jobsearch, complete CVs, fill out application forms, set up and use email, look into volunteering, clubs and training, telephone skills.
With specific workshops to be announced in the new year, on topics such as Skills & Qualities and Attitudes & Behaviours in the Workplace.
The club will run every second Tuesday all 5th & 6th year pupils are invited.

Football Report
At the halfway point in the season Cardinal Winning sit in third place in the league just four points off of first place.
We have attended every tournament and managed to fulfil all of our fixtures with the team of both boys and girls from across all of the year groups.
Abercorn continue to set the pace at this level but head to head we are able to compete against them successfully.

Aviemore report.
On Tuesday the 28th of November the annual S4 trip set off for their residential. Nine of our pupils set out supervised by Mr Leonard, Mr Thorpe and Mrs Brady.
After a very picturesque drive into the highlands we arrived at our accommodation at Badaguish residential centre just outside Aviemore, this was our base for the rest of the week. On Wednesday morning the pupils took part in team building challenges at which some of them excelled. We followed this with a guided tour of the Highland Wildlife Park in the afternoon, and I am pleased and amazed to report we managed to sneak out without adopting the extremely cute Arctic Foxes, Red Pandas or Snow Monkeys.
On the Thursday we began our day with a visit to the National climbing facility at Glenmore Lodge which all pupils seemed to enjoy very much. We followed this by catching the Cairngorm Mountain Funicular railway to the summit of Cairngorm mountain, we had access to the area outside the station which was about 4/5 feet deep in snow which our pupils were delighted to explore at some length. Before hypothermia set in we manage to head inside for some warming hot chocolate and some souvenir shopping.
Thursday was completed by a trip into Aviemore for the traditional fish and chips from Smiffy’s a local institution followed by some intense tidying and cleaning ready for our return to school on the Friday.

Glasgow Bus Tour
On Tuesday the 24th of October all of S1 went on a school trip to learn more about Glasgow and what is around us.
The school mini busses dropped us all off at George square Glasgow city centre, we all went on a Glasgow sight seeing tour bus.
Our first stop was the Riverside Museum, we saw lots of old fashioned cars, old shoe making buildings, especially the old train station and coal/morning milk trucks.
We looked about much more and had a great time, after we looked inside the Riverside museum we got a lovely tour of the tall ship, inside the tall ship there was loads of cool and interesting artefacts.
We all started to get a bit hungry so we got a little snack and waited for the sight-seeing bus to pick us back up again, our second destination was to the Kelvingrove Art gallery museum, My favourite thing there was the Stuffed animals some were even from hundreds of years ago. After having a nice look about the Kelvingrove Art gallery we all had an amazing picnic then started to head back to our school.
It was an amazing fantastic day.
By Emily 1c.

++ Dates for your diary ++
Return to school - Thu 4 Jan 2018
Second mid-term - Mon 12 Feb 2018, Tue 13 Feb 2018,Wed14 Feb 2018 (In-service day) Spring Holiday (Easter) - Good Friday 30 March 2018 - Easter Monday 2 to Friday 13 April 2018 (inclusive) * Please note that schools will close at 2.30pm on the last school day before the holiday*

Cardinal Winning Secondary 32 Fullarton Avenue Glasgow G32 8NJ Phone: 0141 778 3714 Fax: 0141 778 6483