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| Welcome to John Ogilvie High School |
John Ogilvie High School is a 6-year comprehensive dedicated to the academic and spiritual development of all our pupils. We remember at all times that our pupils have wide -ranging interests and abilities and we believe that by valuing and celebrating the achievements of all pupils they will grow in confidence and so value the contribution they can make both to the life of the school and to their community. |
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| John Ogilvie High School and St Andrew's Hospice |
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John Ogilvie High School has been in partnership with St Andrew's Hospice for the past 6 years and continues to raise money by a number of fund raising events such as the 6k run at Strathclyde Park and climbing Ben Nevis. Please visit the St Andrew's Hospice website and find out more about this amazing oganization. |
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| St Andrew's Hospice website |
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| St Andrew's Hospice |
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Some of our Senior students handing over a cheque for £5300 to Lucy Mitchell from St Andrews Hospice Schools Liaison Team. The money was raised on this occasion from the Ben Nevis Challenge in June when 63 staff and students from John Ogilvie scaled The Ben in support of their Business Partner, St Andrews. Lucy thanked the School for its outstanding support of St Andrews and gave the senior students an insight into the work of the organisation and urged then to continue with their wonderful support both through events such as the forthcoming 6K at Strathclyde Park on the 21st September and as Official Ambassadors for the Hospice.
In the pic are left to right are the Charity Champions for this event in terms of the money raised, handing over the cheque to Lucy Mitchell.
Rachel Cavanagh, James Stark, Nathan Hunter, Shannon Balfour, Michael Duffy, Sophie Buchanan and Mrs Nicole Whyte from the teaching Staff
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| School Grounds |
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Pupils at John Ogilvie High School recently received a community grant from Action Earth to make improvements to the school grounds and local area.
John Ogilvie pupils and staff were joined by parents, local volunteers from the Friends of Udston and Glenlee Woods, fire fighters from Fire Scotland's Hamilton HQ and primary seven pupils from St Blane's Primary school. The volunteers and pupils had a great time planting trees, shrubs and bulbs that should provide the school grounds with year round colour and will hopefully attract biodiversity into the area. Pupils from the S2 interdisciplinary projects will have the opportunity to continue this project in the coming months.
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| HMIe Inspection |
We are delighted to have received such a positive report from Her majesty’s Inspectorate for Education. The inspection involves the school being scrutinised in relation to 5 key areas of its work and it is given a rating for each of these areas. The 6 possible ratings are Excellent, Very Good, Good, Satisfactory, Weak or Unsatisfactory and the inspection team then identifies the Key Strengths of the school and finally identifies Areas for Development. As you now know, the inspectors have placed us in the Very Good category for all 5 areas of the inspection. Effectively, what that means is that it is recognised that there are Major Strengths in all areas of our work which cover.
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| Our Planet Earth (IDL) |
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S2 IDL pupils were recently visited by Julie Richmond, South Lanarkshire Councils carbon reduction officer. Julie explained to pupils the Councils policy on carbon reduction including the use of environmentally friendly electric cars. Pupils were offered a demonstration of the car and commented how quiet the car was! Our pupils also continued to maintain our school grounds by planting more shrubs, herbs and bulbs. Our ‘bee and butterfly’ gardens that were planted in June are flourishing. Pupils have been monitoring these areas report frequent visits by bees and some very beautiful butterflies!
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| JOHS Newsletter Dec 2014 |
 The John Ogilvie High School Newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF file by clicking the image.
If you want to add something to the next newsletter please contact Mr Russell.
Email
crusse@johnogilvie.s-lanark.sch.uk |
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 |
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John Ogilvie hosted the 2015 SLC Holocaust Memorial Event on Tuesday 20th January. In one of the presentations the reflections of 18 SLC S6 students on their visit to Auchwitz-Birkenau were shown in 3 parts. Links to the 3 testimony discussions below.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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South Lanarkshire Council has recently submitted the Follow Through Report for the 2013 Inspection. Following the highly successful report in April 2013, the Authority letter below confirms that the school has made very positive progress in the two areas in which we were asked “to continue” to develop. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Staff for their work in ensuring that the school continues to go from strength to strength throughout what has been a very challenging time for Scottish teachers. My thanks also for the continued unswerving support and trust of the parent body.
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| First Direct Bank |
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First Direct Bank has once again supported the work of the school by awarding us a grant for £5,284 to support the Health and Well Being projects across the school. More specifically the money will fund at least 2 disabled sports wheelchairs as well a range of important and much-needed sporting equipment .
In the picture Linda McInulty, Operations Manager for First Direct and Leanne Kerr, Recruitment Consultant are seen handing over the cheque to David Robertson from the School Fundraising Committee. Also pictured are Sports ambassadors, Ryan Ferrey, Stephen Gemmell and Sophie Young and Kyle McAteer from the Under 16 Football Squad as well as Daniel Amato and Emma Rooney who are delighted with the news that the school will now be providing sports wheelchairs for disabled athletes.
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| JOHS Leadership Elections 2014/15 |
On Tuesday 9th September, following nominations from fellow students and Staff, 21 S6 students presented themselves for competitive interview for the positions of head Boy and Girl and Deputes in the Leadership Team. After a morning of excellent presentations from all the students, the Panel appointed the following students:
Head Girl Erin Slaven
Depute head Girls Erin Duffy and Niamh McConville
Head Boy Nathan Boland
Depute Head Boys Joseph Kellachan and Ross Shevlin
Leadership Team picture the students are Left to Right: Ross Shevlin , Niamh McConville, Erin Slaven, Nathan Boland , Erin Duffy and Joseph Kellachan.
However, all 21 of the candidates will form the Extended leadership Team for 2014/15
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