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Official twitter for Brannock High School - Our Vision is for everyone in our Community to be KIND, HAPPY & SUCCESSFUL. We value RESPECT, HARD WORK & AMBITION.
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Today marks the end of an era at Brannock High. Our longest serving teacher - Mr Willie Douglas, retires today after 40 years of service to the school. A legend of Brannock, he will be sorely missed. Congratulations on your retirement Mr Douglas! 👏 🎉
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Class of 2022! You have all been superstars and great ambassadors for Brannock High School! Have a wonderful night at prom - you all deserve it! 🎉 ⭐️
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A huge congratulations to Kai Meechan, 3A!! He is now British Boxing Champion, 35.5 KG. Kai trains with Keir Hardie Boxing Club! Be very proud Kai! What an achievement! Proof again, that if we believe we can, We will!!⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Goodbye to our wonderful pupils leaving Brannock High today. We all wish you the very best in your future endeavours and can’t wait to hear about you changing the world! 🌎 👋
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Tonight is Senior Prize-Giving and the trophies are all polished and ready to go 🏆 We can’t wait to celebrate some of our young people and their amazing achievements!
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After 14 years at the helm of Brannock High, Mr Robert Colquhoun is retiring as Head Teacher. All pupils, staff, parents/carers & friends in the Brannock community wish a long and happy retirement.
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
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Official photo from the
@ScotParl
of Brannock High receiving our Level 1
@VisionSchools
award. Only the second school in
@nlcpeople
to achieve this. Proud of our amazing young people and staff who helped contribute towards this.
@S_A_Somerville
@Chitgrrl
#HolocaustEducation
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Congratulations to Gemma and Emma on their fantastic silver medal for Team Scotland in Hungary! We are so proud of you both, demonstrating your hard work, dedication and motivation! Outstanding!
#excellence
#SheCanSheWill
#ActiveGirls
🥈 🏴
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Class of 22
Signing off in style, water credit our S6 were today as they completed their final timetabled day in Brannock HS. We wish them every success and happiness as they go and forge their path.
#marginalgains
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That’s a wrap!
Brannock Sports Day 2022 is finished and the results are being calculated. Well done to all our wonderful pupils for their excellent attitude, sportsmanship, behaviour and competitiveness in making this day special! Thanks too to all staff who helped run the event!
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We are beyond proud of Gemma and Emma who competed in the World Acro Championships in Portugal today an placed 1st in their Dynamic routine. Combined with their balance routine tomorrow will hopefully see them reach the final on Sunday! Well done and good luck! 👏 👏 🤸♀️
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"Take what you need" drawers have now been rolled out across the school containing toiletries, snacks and stationary. All pupils can access the resources in rooms 28, 40 and in the pupil support base. Please see Miss MacDonald for more information.
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That’s it - Class of 2024 - you made it! The hard work, friendships and memories you’ve made will last a lifetime. You should be so proud of all you have achieved! Good luck, keep in touch and go change the world! 🌍
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Take what you need drawers are located around the school. They contain toiletries, stationery and snacks to help set you up for the school day ✏️🍏🥣
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BRITISH CHAMPIONS! 🥇
Gemma and Emma absolutely smash the
@BritishGymnasts
British Acro Championships, winning gold in the 13-19 group. We are so proud of them for all their hard work!
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CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY - Friday 11th December. Wear a Christmas Jumper and donate £1 for our St Andrew's Hospice Charity Appeal.
#ChristmasJumperDay
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Powerful, thought provoking, hard hitting, insightful and honest, a truly valuable presentation today for our S4 pupils from award winning author of ‘The Young Team’
@G_Armstrong21
. Thank you Graeme for sharing your experiences and inspiring our young people.
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KIND-HAPPY-SUCCESSFUL
Fare thee well to our wonderful S6. An absolute credit to themselves, their families and our school today, and for the last 6 years. Wishing you all the best in your next chapter. Remember our door is always open!! (except between the hours of 1800-0700)😉
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Today at 11:00am our Brannock community will fall silent to mark Remembrance Day. Miss McMillan & her team have created a Wall of Remembrance with handmade poppies from pupils/staff around the school. This beautiful foyer display marks this important day.
#RemembranceDay2021
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After 29 years at Brannock as FH Tech and recently, Depute Head, Mr Clive Gibb retires this summer. All in Brannock Community wish him a long and happy retirement!
“It’s time to say goodbye... goodbyes are sad & I’d much rather say hello... to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell
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Absolutely honoured to sit down and talk to one of our pupils today who has been through a stem-cell transplant and is on the road to recovery. Hearing her amazing and brave story and getting to look through her memory box reminded us of just was a super-hero she is 💖♥️💖
#brave
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After 27 years at Brannock, as a PE Teacher, then PT PE and recently, Depute Head Teacher, Mr Allan Baird retires this summer. All in Brannock Community wish him a very long & happy retirement!
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne
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A final silver medal for this amazing team at the World Acro Championships in Portugal! A massive congratulations to Gemma and Emma and their whole team for such a fabulous performance! We are all so proud - well done! 🥈 👏
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Congratulations 👏 We are so proud of both Gemma and Emma who always represent themselves so well!
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Thanks to all who attended our outdoor Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony this morning. Our pupils did a brilliant job of leading this event. Thanks to all representatives from our wider school community who designed pebbles as an act of remembrance.
@HolocaustUK
@VisionSchools
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How amazing do our S6 pupils look in their new leavers hoodies? As they prepare to spend their final few months at Brannock, there’s lots of fun activities and hard work ahead! Future engineers, doctors, teachers, business owners might come from this wonderful group of youngsters
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It was a SPOOKY SPECTACULAR STAFF gathering today! Help us decide the best staff costume. Vote by commenting below on your favourite costume… 🎃
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Congratulations to our Senior House Captains! These pupils demonstrate the values of our school and participate in
#brannocklife
Well done to you all and good luck as you lead your house to success!
#arran
#bute
#lewis
#mull
#leadership
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Congratulations to Nicola and Rachel on achieving their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award! Well done 👍⛺ 🥾🗺
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Happy Christmas from all at Brannock High School. 🎄
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The Duke of Edinburgh group welcomed Rhonda Jones from
@YAMSCharity
this afternoon to receive a cheque for £980, raised during Mental Health Awareness Week. Fantastic effort 👌 Amazing local charity 👏 Well done to all involved 👍
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School starts back tomorrow and we hope our pupils are all ready! S2-6 pupils will follow their timetable from June as it remains the same. If they require a new timetable, they can pick one up in the foyer at 8:45am. S1 pupils should meet Mr Bradshaw in the canteen, at 8:55am.
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Congratulations to Gemma in S1 who, with her partner, today won silver at the British Acro Gymnastics Championships! An amazing achievement for all their hard work in training! Well done! 🤸 🤸🏻♂️🤸♀️🥈
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As we draw to a close this afternoon and reflect on the term, we want to say how proud we are of our young people for their hard work and resilience. From all the staff at Brannock, we want to wish all pupils, families and partners a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy Christmas from all at Brannock High School. 🎄
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Respect
Brannock High School being only the second in
@nlcpeople
to recieve a Level 1 Vision Schools Award for Holocaust Education. Presented by
@S_A_Somerville
at the Scot Parliament today.
@VisionSchools
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A massive well done to all of our pupils this week for wearing our protective masks in the correct areas of the school. We need to keep this going and keep one another safe.
#keepsafe
#keepLearning
#HappyWeekend
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Don’t they scrub up well! Staff get allowed out for the night to celebrate our wonderful leavers at prom last night! With thanks to the staff at
@DTStrathclyde
for making the night so special.
#prom
#Classof2022
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Great to welcome former pupil Amy Muslek back to the classroom! She's delivering consultation sessions on GIRFEC, Scotland's plan for the wellbeing of young people 👏 😁
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All set for the Senior Award Ceremony tonight to recognise some of the fabulous achievements of our young people. It all kicks off at 7pm for a night of entertainment! 🥇 🏆 👏
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Happy Pi Day! Today at lunchtime it’s Pie the Teacher. Pupils have been voting all week on which teacher they wanted to get a pie in the face! Have the teachers been extra nice all day to avoid it?
#PiDay
@BrannockMaths
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An early start this morning for our young people but an exciting day ahead at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Keep an eye on our Twitter today for lots of updates and photos 🎢 ☀️
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There's something strange going on at Brannock today - aliens, skeletons and witches have taken over our teachers! But it's ok - Mr Hasselhoff-Bradshaw will save us all 🏊♂️🥽 More fun pictures to come!
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We are looking forward to welcoming back all our pupils on Monday - with an extra special welcome to all our new S1 Pupils! Your school is ready…are you?
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To all our Brannock Community - parent/carers, pupils, staff and partners. We wish you the happiest of Christmas holidays and hope you can find some joy, some relaxation and some happiness to end this year. Let’s look forward to the positives that 2021 will bring
#MerryChristmas
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Some really fantastic costumes today from S6 pupils and staff to try to bring the week to a fun close! Let's have a twitter competition - Who wore the best STAFF costume and who wore the best PUPIL costume! Vote in the comments to award house points for best costumes!
#vote
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All at Brannock want to wish our senior leavers the very best of luck in whatever you do. Whether it’s college, training, university, work or something else, you will be amazing & we are so proud of the young adults you have become! Take a bow Brannock Leavers!
#brannockbest
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Thank you to the Wee Mobile Foodbank and Miss Stirling's mum for generous bread donations for breakfast club ❤
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A spooktacular evening for our Halloween Disco 🎃 Thanks to our senior leaders from the Prom Committee and Mrs Dow for organising a great night 🎊🙌
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Happy
#piday2022
! At lunchtime it was Mr Lockie and Mr McConnachie that faced a pie in the face from our excited young people! Thanks to
@BrannockMaths
for organising and our staff victims. All money raised will be donated to
@TheBHF
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Huge "Thank You" to our wonderful cleaning staff, organised by Joanne and her family for another well stocked breakfast cupboard. These guys have always been so generous in supporting Breakfast Club. We appreciate it so much ❤😁👏👏
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Welcome back to school today to all our new S1 pupils and returning S2 and S3 pupils. It's been a sunny day and lots of happy faces ready to get back to work.
#schoolreturns
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On route home after a fantastic trip to London. Super grateful for the amazing group of young people who were outstanding from start to finish. They even gifted us some lovely
@HotelChocolat
chocolates for the train home. Best young people ever!
#TeamLondon
❤️
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Former pupil
@kevinflynnbakes
doing us proud on
@BritishBakeOff
! Congratuations Kevin from all at Brannock High School!
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Another very generous Breakfast Club donation from our amazing cleaning team. Thank you so much Joanne and crew! 😊🙏🍞❤
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Congratulations to our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze achievers! This year was very different and adaptations had to be made so, well done to you all for your perseverance and commitment! 👏👏 😷💪
#DukeofEdinburgh
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Mr McConnachie presented these S2&3 pupils with their Emerald North Lanarkshire Challenge certificates today. Well done to all for completing volunteering, physical and creative challenges. You are Superstars! 🌟🌟🌟
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A member of our local community took this wonderful aerial photograph of the school from a helicopter. it shows the fantastic facilities that we have at Brannock High, with the new addition of our community blue MUGA park. Thanks to Mr Penman for passing this photograph on.
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With thanks to the hard work and dedication of Mrs Whelan, Mrs McMillan and the pupils of the Brannock Hive, we raised over £400 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at
@RHCGlasgow
through our Easter raffle and tombola. Well done to all involved. 🥚🐰
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Introducing our S1 House Captains who all embody the spirit of Brannock! Congratulations to all our successful captains and we look forward to your brilliant leadership this year! More captains to be announced this week!
#achieve
#commitment
#leadership
#arran
#bute
#lewis
#mull
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As part of our Leaver's Ceremony, we also awarded our Dux and Proxime Accessit awards. Huge congratulations to 🌟Alina & Summer🌟 who are our Proxime Accessit winners for 2021 & to 🌟Rachel🌟 who is our Dux! All 3 have shown hard work, dedication & determination
#BelieveAchieve
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We’ve got a sunny day for sports day at Dalziel Park today and our athletes are ready for action!
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139 free breakfasts served up this week at
#breakfastclub
🥛🍞🥞😋
2 newbies this week, Miss Coffield and Mr Mullen joined the team 💪
If anyone would like to donate any breakfast foods please let us know! Happy Friday everyone 😄
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Absolutely fantastic Mayah 👏👏 what an inspiring young girl we are lucky enough to call one of our own. Keep up the hard work and we will all be supporting you throughout your journey 🥳🎤🎸
A teenager from Motherwell is topping the country music charts with her debut single. 14-year-old Mayah Herlihy has soared to the top of the charts, beating the likes of Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. 🎶
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From all at Brannock High, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. Here's our Brannock Staff Choir with their rendition of War is Over.... Enjoy!
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Our pupils were delighted to meet with Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
@S_A_Somerville
today to share the ways in which their learning is being supported through the Scottish Attainment Challenge.
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Well Done to all our fabulous online learners today - what a start to the term you've made! Despite all the issues with Microsoft Teams we faced - you did it! We are all very proud of you
#achieve
#believe
#lockdownlearning
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Work on our new multi use, all weather games area has begun! We hope to share the progress pictures with you on this journey but this is an exciting development for our PE Department and enhances the already amazing outdoor facilities we have at Brannock High!
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Another 1st Place 🥇 in Portugal this morning for our Gemma and Emma, in the balance routine this time! Takes them into the semi finals tonight! What an amazing team! Good luck 👏 👏
We are beyond proud of Gemma and Emma who competed in the World Acro Championships in Portugal today an placed 1st in their Dynamic routine. Combined with their balance routine tomorrow will hopefully see them reach the final on Sunday! Well done and good luck! 👏 👏 🤸♀️
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Outstanding! What a wonderful performance from our Future Fridays team to bring home the trophy! We are so proud of you all 🏆 ⚽️ 👏
PROUD TEACHER MOMENT 🥹
What an outstanding group of boys I have the pleasure of teaching! Bringing back the first ever Future Friday Cup back to
@brannock_high
🏆⚽️
The boys should be so proud of themselves, played amazing football, scored 19 goals and kept a clean sheet 💪🏼
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A moment taken today to remember our dear colleague Liz who would've celebrated her 70 birthday today.
Today we remembered our colleague Liz Donnelly who passed away suddenly in January. Today would have been her 70th birthday. We raised a cup of tea to her and thought about our happy memories. We have now planted a tree in the school grounds in her memory 💜 💜
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That's breakfast club stocked up for the next year then! 😊 A huge thank you to our fantastic cleaners, Joanne and Crew for their generous support ❤ We appreciate everything you do for us 👏👏👏
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Congratulations to our very own Gemma and Emma as part of Team Scotland’s medal haul in Budapest!
Acrobatic | 4 Medals in Budapest 🥇🥈🥉🥉
Congratulations to all the gymnasts, coaches and support staff who travelled to compete in Budapest this weekend! 🏴👏🏻
The team secured four medals in the finals, and everyone put in a great effort to perform to their best! 💚
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Good Morning! Thanks to Tesco Express Carfin for the donation of pastries and breads 😋 Served up by our fantastic Duke of Edinburgh volunteer
#breakfastclub
#haveagreatday
😁
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Another busy breakfast club this morning with pupils enjoying tasty treats from our friends
@CarfinTesco
and donations from the super cleaning staff 😋 Over 150 pupils access free breakfast every week and enjoy a bright, welcoming start to the school day! 🌞
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Blackpool Trip - Buses have departed. Stopping at Gretna. Hoping to back at the school 830/900pm.
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Our fantastic parent council are running this Winter Clothing Initiative. See details below and we would welcome any donations.
#Equity
🧤🧣
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We are so proud of Megan for writing her book “Broken Pieces”. Putting her time in lockdown to good use, Megan’s book is the story of a young girl adjusting to a new life after a traumatic accident affects her family. You can buy a copy on Amazon!
Talented Lanarkshire teen delighted as lockdown novel is published
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Ambition
Congratulations to all our 'Above & Beyond' winners for this month. Each one of them are living our values and realising our Vision of Kind, Happy and Successful young people. 🤝😊🏆
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Through to the finals tomorrow in Portugal! Keep going Gemma and Emma - we are all behind you! Good luck to this amazing team! 🤞 🤸♀️
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A smashing intergenerational evening at Cinderalla, Motherwell Panto (oh yes it was!) with Brannock High DofE group and Residents of McCormack Gardens 🤩🧚♀️👠🪄
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One of our S6 pupils, Callum, is part of
@climate_nl
group working with peers to promote climate change. This week, as part of COP26 activities, he will co-present a workshop to S1-S3 pupils from across NLC, also taking part in a discussion with host Dr Heather Reid.
#leadership
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We love to hear about all the inspiring adventures of our former pupils. We want to say a MASSIVE congratulations to
@MissJBarrPE
on her graduation yesterday and wish her well in her future as a PE Teacher! Well done Jodie! 🏃♀️ 🤸♀️ ⛹️♀️🤾♀️🏊♀️
The most special day yesterday finally getting to celebrate graduating from
@EdinburghUni
👩🏼🎓🤍🖤
#EdinburghGrads
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And the winner of the staff costume competition……. Eddie Mercury! Outstanding effort from Mr Kean, incorporating a bit of Chemistry 🧪 too! Thanks to everyone who voted!
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RESPECT-HARD WORK-AMBITION Achievement Certificates for October have now been emailed to both pupils and parents/carers. 277 young people recognised for their achievements during October. Fantastic 👏👏👏
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Future Fridays! Our first afternoon of Digital Illustration, thanks to
@peacadh_arts
😃 We did pretty ok! 👌Looking forward to more next week.
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*Respect * Hard Work * Ambition*
So proud of all of our 'Above & Beyond' winners who were nominated by our staff. Rewarded with a Hot Chocolate and Certificate. Well done.👏
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Parents/guardians of S1 pupils:
As mentioned in previous correspondence, Brannock issue each new S1 with school blazer. Information regarding this will be sent home with the S1 pupils tomorrow.
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Yes sir, we can boogie! Scotland are playing in their first major tournament in 23 years on Monday! Pupils and staff can wear Scotland colours or tartan on Monday to help celebrate this momentous event!
#boogie
#comeonscotland
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RESPECT - HARD WORK - AMBITION Achievement certificates for January have been emailed to pupils and parents/carers today. 253 pupils recognised by staff for their commitment to learning and the Brannock Community. Recognition Boards have also been updated - celebrating success 👏
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Congratulations to our S1 Special Award Winners from yesterday’s fantastic Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to athlete Euan, winning the Andy Thomson Memorial Award and to Cole, Jesse and Katie Leigh winning our Brannock Values Awards.
#proud
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Good Luck to Team Scotland, including our very own Gemma and Emma, as they head to Budapest to compete in the International Acrobatic Cup this weekend!
#dreamteam
#achieve
🏴
Acrobatic | Budapest International Acro Cup ✈️
A team of 21 gymnasts are on their way to represent Scotland at the 5th Budapest International Acrobatic Cup this weekend 👏🏻
We wish them all the best, and will be sharing updates from the competition! 📸
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Our new multi use games area is up and running and being used fully by our PE Faculty. In partnership with
@CNewarthill
we hope this area can become a facility at the heart of the community to develop active opportunities for our young people
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A big thank you to Miss Stirling for her hard work in organising so many opportunities for our young people as part of
@BrannockFridays
. And a big congratulations and welcome to Ms Green who is taking over the role of PT Future Fridays!
Brannock’s Future Fridays has a new face! As Miss Stirling moves on to her new PT role, we are delighted to announce that Ms Green is our new Principal Teacher of Future Fridays 🌟🙌🏼 we wish Ms Green all the best in her new role and watch this space for new and exciting updates.
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Congratulations to our S1/2 football team. What a fabulous performance on the pitch and off. Thanks to
@OLHSCumbernauld
for a fantastic match 👏 ⚽️
#respect
#dedication
Unreal performance from the S1&2 boys tonight, beating OLHS Cumbernauld 6-1 🏆
First time seeing most of the boys play, safe to say I was impressed 👏🏻
R.Strain ⚽️⚽️⚽️
C.MacFarlane ⚽️⚽️
A.Stark ⚽️
MOTM
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