November
Wildscreen Festival
And the overall Back from the Brink film and photography competition winners are...
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✨ YOUNG PERSON: Xander Johnston AKA AntBoy with his film 'How to build an insect hotel'
Shinty in the Ardnamurchan sunshine
Twelve shinty players from the High school travelled through to Ardnamurchan High School yesterday for the Donella Crawford Girls’ Shinty 6 aside competition. Our two teams were in different groups, one playing five games and the other six.
Sixth year pupil Fin Anderson looked after one of the teams and they started really well with a 2-1 victory over Lochaber with Gabi and Rebecca scoring. However, it was Jill and Kelsey who were the stars of this game with their superb defensive work. In their next game the dynamic Leah powered the team to a 6-0 thrashing over one of the three Ardnamurchan teams. The next game was a narrow loss to a strong Plockton team, before a great game against Woodmill High school from Dunfermline. Despite losing 2-1, there were heroics in goal from Rebecca and superb persistent forward play from goal scorer,Amy. The final game was a loss to a very experienced Portree team.
The other team with the red strips started with a narrow 2-3 loss to Ardnamurchan (Hope and Sara scoring), before an 8-0 demolition of Oban. this featured 2 from Kirsty, 2 from brand new shinty player Katie, and 4 ( the first goal being a real “screamer”)from ace forward Sara. The next game was a 1-0 win over Portree, with the defence of Millie and Ellie being the key players in this game. They also played really well in the next game, a 1-1 draw with Uddingston, where we only lost due to a last minute kicked goal (which unfortunately the referee didn’t spot). Their final game was a superb performance in a 1-0 loss to eventual winners Culloden.
All the girls were superb in terms of their attitude, effort and behaviour, both on and off the pitch. Even their singing to Abba and Queen in the mini-bus was impressive!
iDEA Awards
Congratulations to both Oscar MiIbauer and Andrew Nowacki who worked incredibly hard on their iDEA award over the October break. Oscar is now the 2nd student at Kingussie High School to achieve the Silver Award and Andrew is well on his way to achieving it soon after getting the Bronze Award.
It really is a fantastic award that highlights a huge range of digital skills used in a range of careers. It can be hard to show potential employers your digital skills but taking along your iDEA Record of Achievement and certificate can give you that extra edge!
KHS S3 Student Charlie Campbell did a great job piping in delegates for the VisitCairngorms Cairngorms Business Partnership annual conference this morning. Well done Charlie.
Scottish Youth Parliament and Climate Change
KHS pupil Morven Bayton doing an amazing job talking to the VisitCairngorms Cairngorms Business Partnership Conference in Aviemore about the Scottish Youth Parliament and Climate Change.
Highlands and Islands School swimming competition
Well done to Abbie S4, Max S5 and Harvey S3, representing Kingussie High School, at the Highlands and Islands School swimming competition at Inverness on the 6th November. Max won a gold 🥇 in the 200m freestyle and bronze 🥉 in the 100m freestyle while Harvey won bronze 🥉 in the 200m breaststroke. They were all a credit to their school.
Further congratulations to Max who has qualified for entry into the Scottish Schools Swimming Finals which will be held in Tollcross on Saturday 25th January 2020 in the 100m Freestyle.
Senior Football Team Win
Senior boys team go top of the group with 4-2 win over Grantown Grammar ⚽⚽⚽⚽
Goal scorers- Owen Donaldson, Ross Peters, , Kepa Salazar Roy, OG.
Men of the Match- Dafyd Simon, Sorley Thomson. 6/11/19
KHS Senior hockey team through to the Semi Final of the Aspire Cup!!!
After losing our first game to a fantastic Renfrewshire combined schools team, the girls were brilliant in our second game of the pool stage which ended a 0-0 draw against Millburn. The girls played some brilliant hockey in the Millburn game and had numerous chances to win it but just couldn’t get the ball in the net.
To decide who would go through from our pool in 2nd place we had a penalty shoot out against Millburn. We won it in sudden death with Kimara making some brilliant saves and Katie and Hannah scoring two penalties!
The girls then faced Dingwall in the 3rd/4th play off where they won 1-0 with a superb Katie Lowther goal after some great passing and dribbling from our own half!
The girls were brilliant all day and did themselves and the school proud!!
Bring on the Semi Final in February!!! 🏑🏑
Bronze DofE
This year we had a record number of pupils in S3 gaining their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award - these are just some of those young achievers... #DofE 8/11/19
The Science Elective class visit the Highland Wildlife Park
The Science Elective class visited the Highland Wildlife Park today to present their research on animal enclosures. Well done to the group for their hard work and thanks to Jasper Hughes and the HWP staff for hosting the event.
S1 football festival at the Aviemore astro pitch
Along with Grantown G.S, we hosted the latest S1 football festival at the Aviemore astro pitch on Wednesday afternoon. Freezing temperatures and low mist greeted the players from Inverness Royal Academy, Charleston Academy and Lochaber High School. The K.H.S boys turned in a number of really gutsy performances against these large schools and were unfortunate not to pick up any points. Keeper Jamie Y made save after save, while defenders, Archie, Lewis, Oscar and Carrick, never stopped battling away. Midfielders, Alfie, Ollie, Andrew, Jamie J. and Ricards deserve loads of credit for their willingness to chase and tackle. Charlie and Jason, struggled to see much of the ball in these games, but really shone in the exciting 1-1 draw against local rivals, Grantown. Jason certainly deserved his spectacular goal. Manager of the tournament was Mr Ash for his tactical genius in the last game, while player of the tournament was Carrick for his determination. 17/11/19
Gymfest 17th November
KHS pupils and future pupils performing at Gymfest with the Kingussie Gymnastics club. Special mention to Jill Brodie, Megan Short and Abbie MacLeod for the excellent choreography. Also thanks to ex-pupil Shannon McWhirter. Amazing effort from all involved😁😁
Heriot Watt University
Kieran and Iain are busy getting their physics lab work done at Heriot Watt University today. Here is the annual photo with the James Watt statue! 18/11/19
Newtonmore Shinty Club win North Division One title
Well done to KHS students, present and past, who are part of the Newtonmore Shinty Club that helped beat Aberdeen University by a five-goal margin to win the North Division One title 👌
New High School Shinty Ambassadors appointed
The Camanachd Association have selected two new Shinty Ambassadors for Kingussie High School, Somhairle Thomson and Joe Donald. Both senior students took part in a detailed training weekend in Inverness. They have now started their roles within the school with Somhairle talking to the Badenoch Shinty Memories Group and their guests, who visited the school yesterday. The boys' targets are to promote the sport of shinty within the whole school community.
Army Cadets swimming championships
Well done Harvey Richards for representing Scotland in the Army Cadets swimming championships in Liverpool this weekend and winning a bronze 🥉medal in the junior boys backstroke and getting your Scottish colours.
KHS students redecorate the living room at Mains care home in Newtonmore
Students were ‘put to work’ this afternoon helping to redecorate the living room at Mains care home in Newtonmore.... although I’m not sure we can call it ‘work’ when they were all having such fun! A great chance for us to contribute to our local community. The new abstract artworks will be a colourful addition to the newly painted neutral walls.
Now on sale in Grassroots Garden shop in Kingussie, lovely little lavender bags collected from Kingussie High School garden and made by senior pupils, Finlay, Ethan and Kyle. Donation £1 with monies going to Learning Support Department Excursions. Many thanks to Iona Malcolm for her support with our project.