Thurso High School

Ormlie Road, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7DS
Tel. 01847 893822 Fax. 01847 895509
E-Mail thurso.high@highland.gov.uk

A community working together to inspire learning and achievement.

• Standards & Quality  Report January 2010

Diary Dates

Lab in a Lorry visits the School

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Lab in a Lorry a mobile lab that gives young people the chance to explore science through hands-on experiments will be at Thurso High School on Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th March. S1 Classes will be visiting the lorry during their Science class time.

 The programme is guided by volunteers who want to share their passion for science and their curiosity about the world we live in. Lab in a Lorry is a partnership between the Schlumberger Foundation and the Institute of Physics.

Hats on for Haiti

Sponsored Walk for Haiti

Pupils and staff at the school raised £405 for the Haiti appeal by wearing a strange array of hats to school and paying for the privilege to do so.

Pupils from the Social Subjects Department wished to raise funds for the Haiti Appeal  and decided to have a sponsored walk.  Pupils walked/jogged round the running track for 20 minutes each and the total distance for all pupils was calculated. Parents and friends had to guess the total distance and a prize was awarded to the winner. A large amount of money has been collected and the final amount will be announced shortly.

'Purple Pinkie' Day

'thebandwithnoname'

Members of S6 Rotary Interact Club, which is part of Thurso Rotary, enthusiastically took part in the Rotary Club's 'Purple Pinkie' Project which runs this week.  The project has been set up to raise funds to go towards eradicating Polio in the remaining 4 countries which still suffer from the devastating disease.
For 50p pupils got their pinkies coloured purple and their donation went towards inoculation for those still at risk of contracting Polio.
Thurso High School raised £192.01 which is enough to save 960 children's lives, equivalent to whole role of Thurso High School.

Rock group 'thebandwithnoname' performed their cutting edge, high energy show to pupils in Thurso High School on Thursday the 18th February.  The band are a Christian band who love life and share a very positive message of hope, faith and good news through their music and lyrics.  Their concert venues vary from schools, theatres, prisons, nightclubs, churches and arenas to large open air festivals and even the Royal Albert Hall. Their music style which includes hip hop, nu metal, rap, grime and crunk rock was very well received by an enthusiastic audience.  Earlier in the day members of the band spoke to pupils in the Religious Studies Department about their own personal experience of the Christian faith.

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