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CARDINAL WINNING SECONDARY

Summer Edition
June 2017

Welcome! Franck & Michael
On Friday the 16th of June this year Franck Tchounang and Michael Green were welcomed in to the Catholic Faith by Archbishop Tartaglia in St. Joseph’s church next door to the school. The mass, organised by the staff and pupils of Cardinal Winning School, saw Franck and Michael baptised, confirmed and receive their first communion. The whole school attended the mass along with Frank and Michael’s family and friends and members of the parish. The mass was an emotional affair and there was ‘not a dry eye in the house’ as the boys were baptised. Michael and Frank looked resplendent in their Kilts and full regalia as they enjoyed their after party which included a fantastic buffet and a barbeque and activities for the whole school. Thanks to everyone who helped organise what was a great day for the boys and everyone at Cardinal Winning.

Caritas Award 2013—2017
Cardinal Winning Secondary School entered the Caritas Award programme for the first time in 2013. This year we had four pupils entered for the award.
The sixth year pupils at Cardinal Winning Secondary School were among over 1000 young people from across Scotland whose service in their school. parish and community was be recognised at the Benedict XVI Caritas Award ceremony in the SECC in Glasgow on the 8th June .
The four successful candidates who received their award at the SECC are Karen Hosie, Giovanni Di Ciacca, Linda Curran & Alice McKinnon, many congratulations to them and their teacher Ms Graham. This was a terrific achievement for them and the school.

A Word From Mr McDonald
Every year I see our pupils growing, developing and getting more and more talented. This year we had residential stays in Blairvadach, Aviemore, Lochgoilhead not to mention two trips to Center Parcs and a trip to Poland. Added to this we had more than 60 different outside educational visits that pupils were involved in as well as visits from visiting artists, theatre groups and Pantos. We performed in our own school show and took part in many sporting events. This year once again our teachers have worked flat out and they have exhausted themselves working to make our pupils better readers, better at maths, more financially capable, more independent. When our inspectors arrived in November they described pupils as confident, positive, polite and engaged in their learning. The inspectors also said that our school was a place where young people feel safe, valued and happy. And most of all they praised the quality of our attainment and our achievement. As Headteacher I was so proud. Many thanks to all parents and our school partners who gave us the support we needed to achieve this.

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3rd Year Scientists
3A have been learning about useful and harmful microbes. They looked at the microbe Bacteria in more detail, and this led onto them participating an a CREST Award project called Squeaky Clean.
Following our STEM day, they visited Kelvin College to find out how Bacteria can be found/grown using AGAR plates. They then used these skills to investigate if different cleaning products were really that good at cleaning bacteria. This included finding out if different Fairy liquid colours cleaned plates the same, or if antibacterial hand sanitizer is really better than good old fashioned soap.
They are about to present their findings to their core teacher Mrs Elliot very shortly!
They are also participating in an online public engagement event that gets scientists talking to school students all over the UK. The pupils get to ask the Scientists questions about science in general, their research, the universe and beyond. Students will the get to vote for their favourite scientist to win £500 to spend on further public engagement about their research.
Scientists get to develop their communication skills, gain a fresh perspective on their work, and find out what young people think about science and the role of scientists.

Achbishop’s Mass
Our Caritas pupils led a group of pupils from Cardinal Winning School at the Archbishops Mass for children with additional support needs.
The theme for the mass was ‘Come to the Water’. Cardinal Winning school supplied the banners, welcoming ushers, alter servers and readers for the mass as well as signing the Our Father. All of our pupils who attended the mass represented the school brilliantly and were a credit to the school. They also took part in an impromptu rendition of Rise and Shine after the mass reflecting the good time that was had by all!

Christmas Show
2016/17 was another successful year for the Music Department in Cardinal Winning Secondary School!
Christmas time welcomed another fantastic and very unique Christmas Performance which was put together by the S4 option class and featured pupils from all year groups. The show, which was hosted by the Kelvin Liu and Kieran Drennan (both of which were under the disguise of Santa Claus) took the audience on a trip around the world on an exciting educational adventure about how Christmas is celebrated all over the globe. Massive well done to all those involved – and a special shout out goes to a very talented group of breakdancing, singing elves who made an unforgettable appearance!

Other Music News...
Cardinal Winning Secondary welcomed a new instrumental instructor, Mrs McGeown, to Cardinal Winning back in August. Mrs McGeown specialises in teaching Woodwind instruments so we now have a number of pupils learning instruments such as the Recorder, Clarinet and Saxophone!
The pupils from S1 right up to S6 have begun to embrace Music Technology this year – creating exciting and very impressive projects such as radio podcasts and sound for film. A big well done to all of those involved!

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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.

HMIe Result—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 especially 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 confidence. 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.'

Junk Kouture
Junk Kouture is a national contest which encourages young designers in second level education to create striking couture designs and impressive works of wearable art from everyday junk that would normally find its way into the bin. Junk Kouture aims to inspire and ignite passion in these teenagers while at the same time subtly educating them about the importance of recycling and reusing waste.
Paul Conlin and Sophie McGarry successfully reached the final of this year’s Junk Kouture. Both pupils had a great day, and enjoyed the whole experience once again!

BBC Visit
Our digital media group had a great visit to the BBC studios at the Pacific Quay.
They got to see many of the behind the scenes and spoke to many of the staff about technical aspects of broadcasting in both television and radio. The group left inspired by the visit with the belief that a career in broadcasting was well within their reach.

CROWNE PLAZA 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.

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Duke of Edinburgh Award
A group of 4th and 5th year pupils completed the Duke of Edinburgh Award for the first time in Cardinal Winning this year.
The DofE is the world’s leading youth achievement award. The pupils involved were Jamie McCarron, Franck Tchounang, Nico Richmond, Abbaas Mohammed, Jack Lawson, Richard Muir and Craig Lockhart.
In order to pass the Bronze Award the boys had to complete four sections; volunteering, physical, learning a new skill and an expedition.
Over the year the group have volunteered at numerous lunchtime clubs, learned to canoe, learned pool lifesaving skills and enjoyed a whole host of other experiences Our years’ work culminated with a 12km walk, an overnight camp in Dunkeld and then a 10km walk the following day. During this time the group had to navigate the walk using a map and route cards (and carrying a 15kg rucksack), pitch their own tents and cook their meals on a small outdoor stove. No mean feat! Well done to all involved.

Football Report
This year once again the Cardinal Winning took party in he inter-school league with sadly mixed results. However the average age of the team was the youngest in the league with a number of S1 pupils debuting over the course of the year. We also had girls representing the school and more than holding their own. Next year with the benefit of the experience gained and natural wastage amongst the other teams I expected results to be more in our favour

Commonwealth Afternoons
On Friday afternoons for the whole session, our whole school has participated once again in our commonwealth afternoons. All pupils had the option of taking part in organised training sessions in a variety of sports such as football, badminton and cycling. As part of our health and wellbeing curriculum for excellence most sessions were run by a qualified sports coach with many pupils getting certificates and awards in their chosen sport. Pupils visited many different venues for their sporting activities such as Glasgow Green, Gorbals Leisure Centre and the Time Capsule. The cycling was a this year’s big success with two groups attending Freewheel North at Glasgow Green. A group of the pupils have been working towards their Bikeability award. As well as learning new sports all pupils had great fun in the process.

PSE Classes
This has been another successful year for the PSE classes. S1 continued the schools long standing partnership with Poppy Scotland to raise a 3 figure sum for the Poppy Appeal.
S2 received visits from the Glasgow city council Road Safety department to reinforce the safety message given out in class. The S4 group enjoyed a trip to Aviemore to help with their inter-personal skills, this year for the first time the trip included a visit to the top of Cairngorm mountain which was a great experience for the pupils, and which seemed to be very popular amongst the children.
In senior school many pupils achieved National 3 qualifications and a new unit will be introduced next year to increase the range available to the post 16.

Post 16s @ Centre Parcs
Last week the post 16 pupils enjoyed a visit to Centre Parcs in Cumbria. Some of the highlights included, Mr McDonald getting a hole in one on the adventure golf and Jordan Cullen winning the ten pin bowling! Everyone was exhausted by the end of the week- the sign of an active holiday!

++ Dates for your diary ++
Leavers & End of Session Mass Tuesday 26th June at 12.00am in the Assembly Hall
School closes Tuesday 27 June 2017 at 1.00 pm
Return date for teachers Friday 11 August 2017
Return date for pupils Tuesday 15 August 2017
In-service days Friday 11 August 2017, Monday 14 August 2017
Friday 13 October 2017

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