Summer 2012 - Newbattle Community High School
Summer 2012 - Newbattle Community High School
Summer 2012 - Newbattle Community High School
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Page 2<br />
<strong>Newbattle</strong> News<br />
www.facebook.com/newbattlehigh<br />
Well done to the Senior Boys’ Basketball<br />
Team who finished second in<br />
their league and missed out on being<br />
at the Scottish Cup finals by one<br />
game. The boys did really well this<br />
year and are inspirational to the new<br />
S1/2 boys’ teams, as well as now<br />
having two newly qualified referees -<br />
Darren Gould and Neil<br />
MacKinnon. The MVP player of<br />
Basketball 2011/<strong>2012</strong><br />
this season has been awarded to<br />
Darren Gould who has scored an<br />
amazing tally of points for <strong>Newbattle</strong><br />
<strong>High</strong>. Seniors now focus on their<br />
exams and all games now are for the<br />
S1/2 Boys.<br />
Training night is Monday 1530 to<br />
1630 or Wednesday lunchtime.<br />
See you there!<br />
Mr Foley Head of PE<br />
Our Trip To Dynamic Earth<br />
Ms Terris and Mr McMillan took Ms<br />
Terris’ S3 Intermediate 1 class on a<br />
class trip to Dynamic Earth in December.<br />
We went because we were<br />
studying evolution and the Big Bang<br />
theory and we learned a lot about<br />
these topics during our tour. When<br />
we got there we were told to wait on<br />
an elevator that came every seven<br />
minutes to take us back millions of<br />
years. We learned about the start of<br />
the world and how animals fit into<br />
their surroundings in a really good<br />
3D experience. After the tour we<br />
then went to a workshop to learn<br />
about the Big Bang theory and made<br />
little spaceships out of Lego! The<br />
pupils represented <strong>Newbattle</strong> well<br />
and were very well<br />
behaved throughout.<br />
Ms Terris, RMPS<br />
<strong>Newbattle</strong> Netball has had another<br />
successful season with the S3 team<br />
playing in the Scottish Cup and competing<br />
against Glasgow teams:- the<br />
heartland of Scottish Netball. As the<br />
only <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Midlothian playing<br />
competitive netball we started this<br />
season's competition against previous<br />
<strong>Newbattle</strong> Netball 2011/<strong>2012</strong><br />
winners Peebles as well as Craigmount<br />
and Berwickshire. After the<br />
first round, <strong>Newbattle</strong> qualified to<br />
play in the knock out stages where<br />
they were faced with Eastwood <strong>High</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>. <strong>Newbattle</strong> proved to be the<br />
stronger team and won this game 18-<br />
12. This allowed <strong>Newbattle</strong> to move<br />
on to the quarter finals, where we<br />
travelled to Coatbridge to play St Andrew’s<br />
<strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong>. This was a hard<br />
fought game finishing at 20-20. All<br />
of our players worked extremely hard<br />
and showed great team spirit but in<br />
extra time St Andrew’s took the lead<br />
with the final score of 24-22. Thank<br />
you to all players from S1-S6 for the<br />
great commitment and team work<br />
again this season. For all pupils interested<br />
in joining netball for next season<br />
please ask your PE teacher.<br />
Well Done!<br />
Mrs A. Alexander, PE<br />
Your <strong>Newbattle</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong>...
Change language