April
Kingussie Creative Showcase
Kingussie Creative Showcase at the Iona Gallery on 4th April. Fantastic work created by our S1-6 Art, Design and Photography students. With live music from our very talented senior music students.
Rock Challenge 3 April performance at Eden Court
Huge well done again to all pupils involved in Rock Challenge. A huge thanks to all the staff who have helped and also Louise Ross and Scott Sangster. What a great team effort.
Mystickers Winners Term 3
Well done to our Mystickers winners for Term 3. Ross Haig, Gabi Nagle, Nicholas Harper, Emma Jones, Kaitlyn MacDonald and Hamish Henderson. Great Job
KHS Student Morven Bayton has been elected to the Scottish Youth Parliament 👏 Well done Morven!
Fergus Sherlock - Championship Racing
S1 student Fergus Sherlock had a good championship racing in his first year with the U14's out in France. Fergus managed two top ten finishes in his year group 7th in GS (2nd Scot) and 9th in slalom (3rd place Scot). Fergus is pictured with his coach former Olympian and former KHS student Andy freshwater.
Ali & Calum Douglas
The Douglas brothers continue to strive.
Both brothers were selected for the Scotland under 16 team who played Wales 🏴 over the Easter weekend. They Won all 3 matches in the series. Results were 4-2, 4-0 and 3-1.
Both are hoping to be selected to play England week after next.
(Calum is the goalkeeper ). Keep it up lads, we are all very proud.
MacBean Cup returns to the High School.
The school’s S.1 and S.2 shinty players travelled to An Aird, Fort William yesterday to compete against five other schools in the MacBean Cup 9 a-side shinty tournament. The opening game against the I.R.A saw us pepper their goal with shots. Unfortunately none of them were on target, as our players went for power rather than accuracy. The opposition deservedly found the net with an excellent angled shot. The next game was against home favourites, Lochaber. Despite an well-worked goal from Logan Warwick, we conceded two late goals. At that point it didn’t seem like we were going to have a great afternoon.
A change of tactics saw Logan dropping back to defence and then everything seemed to click for all the players. Rasmus Cheyne organised his defence superbly, with Cole MacCallum having an excellent tournament. The game against Glen Urquhart saw Cole and Logan pinch goals from close-in, but the highlight was a Charlie Campbell strike from distance. Logan Chisholm, Katie Slimon, and Kyle Clark covered lots of ground, either up front or in the centre. The game against Oban saw an even better performance, with Captain Calum Douglas scoring with a superb strike. Good work from fellow forward Svend Pedersen saw Hope Borthwick score twice in this game. Our final league game was against a strong Dingwall Academy side. However, there was no stopping K.H.S. Goals from Calum, then from battling full forward Bobby Russell gave us a 2-1 win and put us through to the final on goal difference. The star of this game turned out to be goalie, Fergus Sherlock who made two tremendous saves from deflected shots.
The final was against old rival, Lochaber H.S. Despite being the better team, we were unable to get past the home goalkeeper, the match finished 0-0 and we went to a penalty shoot out. Temporary Kingussie keeper Fergus then managed to stop two penalties, while we scored four out of four. All twelve players played their part in winning the trophy and deserved their medals. A bit like Mr Mackintosh, after a slow start, they got there in the end.
Their attitude, effort and behaviour were spot-on. Player of the tournament for our side was a difficult choice, but Charlie Campbell’s non-stop running, tackling and positive attitude means that he gets the award this time.
Drama Club at Inverness Conference
Six members of the School Drama Club travelled up to the Lochardil House Hotel in Inverness last week to perform at the Highland Senior Citizens Network Annual Conference. Well done to Remy Cain, Victoria Rose, Morven Bayton, Jemima Benbow, Harris Hansler-Ross and Finlay Bayton. They had written and produced a short play about Fire Safety for older people which they performed to a very appreciative audience, who laughed in all the right places and clapped at the end.
None of this would have been possible without the help of director Megan Shiells and assistant director, Jamie Jack; the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service; Mrs Fenton for driving and supervision duties; and particular thanks to Jo Cowan, the Co-ordinator for the Network (and former K.H.S pupil) for helping out with everything in many different ways. Hopefully, the Club will be involved in more projects with the Senior Citizens Network in the future.
All pupils are welcome to come along to the Club, which meets after school every Tuesday. See Mr Mackintosh for more details.
Winner of the BSCP Logo Competition - Megan Birkby
Congratulations to Megan Birkby who has been selected as the winner of the BSCP Logo Competition. Karen Derrick from VABS was in school today to give her a goodie bag including two tickets to next weekends Big Nature Weekend. Well done Megan for your creativity.
PICTISH AFTERNOON
A playful afternoon discovering the past as S1 pupils discussed Pictish history, recreated Pictish symbols and got the opportunity to carve stone and soap. Some also enjoyed engaging in 'living history' by dressing up and handling artefacts from the past. Many thanks to Julia Brunner and John Borland from Historic Environment Scotland for an exciting and engaging afternoon.
S3's Employability Skills
A massive well done to the S3’s for taking part in their Employability Skills Interviews. Students were interviewed alongside their Visual CV’s and discussed how their wider achievement opportunities link to employment through core skills.
A huge thanks to the careers advisors at SDS Inverness & Central Highland for holding the interviews and providing some valuable feedback to students.
