October
Emma Jones S3
At the end of her first season competing for Elgin Athletics Club, KHS Student Emma Jones (S3) is ranked 4th for Triple Jump, 9th for High Jump and 13th for Long Jump for her age group in Scotland. Emma came 4th in Triple Jump and 7th in Long Jump at the Scottish National Age Group Championships and was overall Under 15 athletics winner at Nairn Highland Games. Emma was also 1st Lady at Rogart Highland Games Hill race and 2nd lady at the local Creag Beag Hill Race, running for Highland Hill Runners. Amazing achievements, well done Emma you are an inspiration to us all.
Also in the photo is Lucy Jones (S1), the youngest future official, starting out as an excellent pull through on the tape
Hope Borthwick selected to play for the Under 14 North Team
Following the u14 select, which took place the week before, KHS student Hope Borthwick from the Badenoch team was asked to play for the north team, this game will take place on Sunday before the u17 game in fort William. Congratulations Hope, fantastic achievement 👌
Badenoch District Select Team
Students from KHS travelled to Fort William to take part in the regional under 14’s North Select.
Coaches Iain Borthwick, Dallas Young and Sean Latimer selected a Squad from the Badenoch area.
On the day they took part in three matches in the League programme were firstly they played Inverness Area where they went down 3-0. The second match was against Sky & Wester Ross Area were they went down 4-1 with two late goals. In the final match they played Lochaber Area were they came from two goals down to draw 2-2.
Coaches Borthwick and Young were pleased with the contribution from all players throughout all matches and congratulations goes to Inverness Area on their overall victory.
Shinty Festival in Inverness.
Recently some S1 and S2 shinty players took part in a shinty development festival at Charleston Academy in Inverness. The two teams of high school pupils played each other as well as teams from Charleston, Grantown, Oban and Plockton. Well done to Ollie, Jason, Gabi, Orla, Lewis, Jamie and Keiran who made up one of the teams; and to Kirsty, Miko, Anthony, Archie, Iona, Jess and Alfie who were the other team. Thanks to Somhairle Thomson for helping out with the organising and coaching.
S. 1 Football team take part in their first tournament
The first of the S1 Highland 9 aside football tournaments took place at Charleston Academy last week. The High School played against two Charleston teams, Grantown and Lochaber. All fourteen boys got lots of time on the pitch. They played four twenty minute games in a row, with no break in-between, so their fitness levels were really tested. Star performers were goalkeeper Jamie, the hard working Archie and the powerful Richard, but all the boys did really well. The next tournament should be in November. A reminder that training with Mr Ash and Mr Mackintosh is on every Monday from 4 - 5 pm.
Saltire Award to Aidan Woods
Well done to KHS student Aidan Woods👌 fantastic work, we are all very proud of you.
Senior girls are unbeaten at the first hockey festival of the year.
The Senior girls were unbeaten at the first hockey festival of the year. The girls were a credit to the school and played some great hockey! It was great to see a fantastic number of girls from 4 different schools having fun and enjoying their hockey!!
Well done girls!
Congratulations to Lily Carswell
Congratulations to Lily Carswell who’s design was chosen for the Sustrans cycle milepost at Kingussie train station- it looks fantastic!
Sustrans volunteer’s Fay and Liz along with co ordinator Cosmo have been busy this weekend painting the cycle network sign post at Kingussie railway station in the famous red and blue based on designs from Kingussie High School pupils. Great job guys - thank you 🚴♂️👍
Fantastic achievement well done to KHS students Katie Wallace and Harvey Richards
Well done to all the Army Cadet swimmers. The 1 Highlanders which the Aviemore detachment are part of are the 2019 Scottish Champions 🏆🏴🏆
Harvey Richards in S3 Tromie came 1st place in the Junior Backstroke so along with the others who came 1st or 2nd place will be going to the Nationals in Liverpool on the 22-24 November 2019.
The KHS S1-3 hockey girls were incredible tonight!!! They all worked so hard, playing some fantastic hockey along with plenty of smiles and laughs! They did themselves and the school proud.
An enjoyable day in the Scottish Parliament last Friday with four Higher English students. We got a tour, before participating in three workshops (on Report writing, Speech writing and Bills & Legislation). A really useful and well organised day. Well done to Zoe, Max, Fiona and Charlie for getting up early to travel down to Edinburgh with Mr Mackintosh.
Excellent day of cultural immersion at the Edinburgh Galleries and National Museum with Art, Design and Photography seniors. We have collapsed onto the train after a busy day. Lots of amazing opportunity to practice our visual literacy and analysis skills ready to put into practice back in the classroom.
iDEA bronze & Silver award
Congratulations to Megan Vis who is our first S1 this year to achieve the iDEA bronze award.This is a fantastic achievement and in record time! Since February, we have had a range of students completing Bronze and Silver by displaying their great digital skills. All of S2 have an account from last year and if any student (in any year group) would like more information on how to get involved please see Mr Bailey-Young for more information.
Kingussie Senior football team win local derby
Kingussie Senior football team win local derby AND secure sponsorship from Wildland Limited for new strips and warm up jackets.
A big thank you to the company and Thomas MacDonell(Director of Conservation & Forestry-pictured centre of team photo) for coming along to present the strips at last nights game vs Grantown. Statement from the company below.
The senior team won the game 6-2:
Scorers were:
Ross Peters x2
Owen Donaldson x2
Dafyd Simon x2
Men of the match: The defensive back four of- Urdin Salazar Roy, Dylan smith, Richie Irvine and Sorley Thomson.
STATEMENT FROM WILDLAND LIMITED:
“Wildland Limited is pleased to be able to assist Kingussie High School on this occasion with a donation of £1300 towards the costs of new strips and warm up jumpers for the football team. We hope that the donation helps promote sports both within the community and at school and helps the team to go on and achieve great things.”
*A finally a big thank you also to formal pupil and footballer Struan Ross for helping secure the sponsorship.
Kingussie Golf Club Junior champion
Congratulations to KHS student Iain Fraser Kingussie Golf Club Junior champion (scratch and handicap). Iain also won the Rutherford Cup, Millennium Trophy, Rotary Precision Cup and May medal. Well done
Well done to North U17 shinty squad
Well done to North U17 shinty squad who last Sunday won 5-0 (final goal from KHS student Sorley Thomson was Badenoch’s contribution to the scoreline). Great achievement Sorley Thomson, Cameron Leiper and Struan Robertson along with former pupils Struan Ross, Xavio Vastano and Declan Brannan. Great inspirations.
Hope Borthwick and her team mates in winning the North Under 14
Well done to KHS student Hope Borthwick and her team mates in winning the North Under 14. Amazing achievement Hope 👌 an inspiration to us all.
Congratulations to Callan Stuart and Brigitte Anderson on completing their Sports Leaders Level 4 Qualification
Term 1 House Winners are.......FESHIE!!!! well done Feshie house!
1st Place Feshie House - 32400 points
2nd Place Spey House - 28400 points
3rd Place Tromie House - 26400 points
4th Place Gynack House - 24600 points
Individual winners from each year group Girl and Boy are:
S1 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Mac Annand 2350 points
Lina Bailey 2250 points
S2 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Nayeema Sultana - 1500 points
Ross Haig - 1400 points
S3 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Carys Simon - 500 points
Arran Millar - 400 points
Have an amazing October holidays and don't forget to let us know of any achievements over the holidays.
S1 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Mac Annand 2350 points
Lina Bailey 2250 points
S2 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Ross Haig - 1400 points
S2 Winners with the most stickers logged are:
Nayeema Sultana - 1500 points
Xander Johnston (S2)
Nature Conservation
Volunteering & conservation work
Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms volunteer & butterfly conservation voluntary work (surveys etc)
Xander has just clocked up his 500th hour of volunteering / conservation work. (Sept 2019)
Over 200 subscribers on his YouTube channel including people from America
Posted his 34th video on his youtube channel in September 2019
Contributor to the RSBP state of nature report 2019 along with being quoted in the report itself. (released October 2019)
Awards and recognitions
Cairngorms Nature Young Ambassador
Scotland the Big Picture young rewilder
Awarded UK National Parks ’New Horizons’ for a person under 30 years of age who has made a significant contribution to a UK national park.- September 2019
Awarded RSPB Scotland Young Nature Champion - November 2018
Regarded as the youngest world wide expert on the Pine Hoverfly and a number of other rare and endangered species found in the Cairngorms.
TV appearances
Autumnwatch - October 2019
Springwatch - appeared twice including a live show appearance - June 2019
Countryfile - December 2018
Guest speaker
Speaker at James Hutton biodiversity seminar March 2019
Speaker at Butterfly Conservation Conference - October 2019
Music
Member of Feis Spe junior ceilidh band attending fortnightly practice sessions and performing at various events/venues around Badenoch and Strathspey
June 2019 - Grade 3 (Merit) - Scottish Traditional Fiddle
March 2019 - 2nd place and joint 2nd place in solo fiddle categories at the Badenoch and Strathspey Music Festival (Strathfest)
Other
3rd Prize in the High School S1-S3 Category of Badenoch Great Place, Great Art Competition 2019
Oral History Day
Some junior classes got the opportunity to meet Rob Ritchie, Joe Taylor, Michael Slaney and John Robertson to hear wonderful stories about war, shinty, local politics and punch-ups, ice trucker disasters, and honey bees. How can we ever forget Michael Slaney reciting 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee' - it was word perfect. Many thanks to all involved and AOC Archaeology Group and Badenoch Great Place Ambassadors
