S1 were recently involved in a STEM day to promote sustainability and the potential uses of renewable energy. Visitors from ‘Tomorrow’s Engineers’ delivered an interactive session which involved pupils competing to build a solar powered car and using their scientific knowledge to judge voltage and distance. All pupils got involved and enjoyed the session…definitely some …
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Christmas Concert
Staff and pupils from Park Mains High School entertained an assembly hall full of parents, grandparents and people from the local community at their annual Christmas Concert which took place in the school on Tuesday 6 December. Everyone who attended enjoyed listening to and watching the fabulously talented staff and pupils from the Choir and …
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Christmas Concert at Barsail Primary and Rashielea Primary
On Friday 9th December forty five pupils from Park Mains High School visited two of their local primary schools within the catchment area Barsail and Rashielea. The pupils organised and performed in a Christmas concert for each primary school with the Wind Band, the Senior Choir and soloists performing Christmas numbers that included Rudolph the Red Nosed …
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S6 Advanced Higher Geography – University Visit
AH geography pupils attended an open afternoon and lecture on ‘Climate Change and Coastal Vulnerability’ at the University of Glasgow Wednesday 14th December. This will assist them with a section of their course this year.
S4 Art and Design – Kelvingrove Visit
47 S4 Art & Design pupils visited the Kelvingrove Museum to view an exhibition of Posters by Anton Mucha. They also took the chance to visit the Charles Rennie Mackintosh gallery also within the museum . Both exhibitions provide valuable background for the S4 Art Nouveau study which is part of the N4/N5 Art & …
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Renfrewshire Road Race
Park Mains High School entered teams in the recent Renfrewshire Road Race Championships 2016 at Linwood On-X. We had a very successful day overall and here are our results. Euan Birch was 3rd overall in the S1 race. 1st year boys won the team Championships 1st year Girls were 2nd team 2nd year Girls were 2nd …
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Staffing Update – December 2016
Due to the increase in roll this season we have appointed another English Teacher (Miss Dyer), a Maths Teacher (Mrs Flannigan) and a part-time Science Teacher (Mrs Metivier) on a temporary basis. Mr Campbell was successful in being appointed to Acting Principal Teacher of Maths at St. Benedict’s High School and we wish him well …
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School Website – Pupil Achievements
From the last newsletter it was proposed that a launch of PMHS Twitter and Facebook would occur sometime this term. Unfortunately, this has not been possible but we are hoping that a launch in early January will enable parents to access any updates to the website via these social media formats. Please continue to notify …
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Activities Week
Parents were recently asked to complete a brief survey on revised proposals for activities week (2017/18) and the school would be grateful if you haven’t yet returned this survey to do so by the end of term.
The “Voice” of the School Community
On my return, I was keen to “take the temperature” of the school in terms of the views of pupils, parents and staff and I have recently held focus groups for parents and staff which have been informative in determining where we are as a school in terms of strengths, areas for development, the school …
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