Thurso High School

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

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December 2009 Newsletter
 

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Nuvia Ltd Cheque for
Student Planners

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Photograph showing Peter Hardyman, representative from Nuvia Ltd presenting a cheque for £350, to pupils at Thurso High School towards the purchase of Student Planners. Nuvia Ltd has for a number of years sponsored the planners, which are customised to the needs of the school and which the pupils find invaluable. Thurso High School would like to extend a big thank you to Nuvia for their continuing support.
 

Two fourth year students from Thurso High School, Beth Henderson and Tanya Verity, took part in the recent local heat of the future chef competition at the Burghfield Hotel, Dornoch  organised by Springboard. They had to produce a two course meal in 90 minutes and were up against stiff competition from all over the Highlands.

Congratulations to Beth Henderson who won a place in the Regional finals in Inverness to be held in January. Her winning dishes were:

Fillet of Pork with a Prune and Sage Stuffing served with seasonal vegetables - Chocolate Cheesecake with Blackberries.

Beth is the sister of the talented cook Amy Henderson S6 who worked her way to the finals of the Young Apprentice on STV winning a training course at the Jean- Christophe Novelli’s cooking school in London.

Brawn Visit Scotland's only Five car F24 Team

On Saturday 7th November, Craig Wilson, Head of Vehicle Engineering & Dynamics at Brawn GP dropped in to visit Thurso High School’s Young Engineers. Craig had been in Thurso as a guest of The Institution of Engineering & Technology North Scotland Network and delivered a lecture on F1 Technologies as part of their winter lecture series. At the High school Craig viewed the Young Engineer’s five Greenpower Formula 24 electric race cars and discussed performance tips and design modifications with the pupils.

Highland Golf Championships
Spey Valley October 2009

Five pupils from Thurso High School took part in the above championships in the October holidays and came back with the team silver for the U/16 age group and individual bronze in the girls scratch match.  Eleanor’s scratch 96 was one behind second placed Katie Masheteer Charleston Academy on 95 , whilst Jennifer Innes, Keith Grammar took first spot with gross 82.

The team who won silver consisted of Greg McEwan (nett 79), Mark Parsonage (nett 81) and Peter Sangster and Eleanor Tunn both (nett 84).  Just missing out on a team spot was Ross Munro.

Pictured left to right Peter Sangster, Eleanor Tunn and Mark Parsonage. Inset picture—Greg McEwan.

Twenty six High School pupils along with pupils from Halkirk, Pennyland, Miller Academy and Castletown travelled recently to Inverness to compete in the Highland Schools Swimming Championship. This annual event is held as a qualifying event for the Scottish Final which is to be held in Tollcross in Glasgow on the 30 January. The school had a successful day winning 11 Gold, 8 Silver and 5 Bronze individual medals along with 4 relay Gold and 2 relay Bronze. Twelve pupils have qualifying times for the finals – Rhona Cartwright, Shannon Noble, Ellie Spencer, Craig Spargo, Bruce Stewart, Robin Foster, Stewart Coulden-Smith, Jack Buchanan, Shaun Gray, Shaun Davidson, Chris Stanger and Rorie Stewart, and now they have an anxious wait to see if their swim times will be accepted for the finals.
Other swimmers to take part on the day were Mark Budge, Jamie MacKinnon, Euan Bremner, Tim Ridgley, Maisie Moran, Kelly Campbell, Louise Sinclair, Lorna nicoll, Kerry Moran, Lauren Yuille, Nicole Cowie, Jenna Cardosi, Rachel Swanson and Eilidh Geddes.

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