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A Word From Our

Head Teacher

The Spirit of Christmas was the name of this years school show and parents who managed to attend this years show would have witnessed the incredible way our children are learning in our school. They were able to showcase wonderful talents through song, mime, music, drama and comedy. More importantly they taught all who watched, a lesson about the real meaning of Christmas showing us that Christmas is about caring, sharing , love, family, peace and joy. These are the real gifts of the baby Jesus born for us in Bethlehem.

I would like to thank you very much for all the ways you as parents, support our school. For the attendance at Parent Evenings or Fundraising Nights, donations for raffles or support for our food collections. For sending your child in every day with school uniform and for letting us know when and why pupils are absent. By supporting us you support your child and help them to feel proud of their school.

On behalf of all my staff in Cardinal Winning Sec. may I wish you all a peaceful and holy Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year.

Looking forward to 2015,

Gerry McDonald

Headteacher

June/December 2014

On Tuesday 16th December, the pupils of Cardinal

Winning excelled themselves performing in the

fabulous evening performance of ‘The Spirit of

Christmas’ hosted by John & Christopher.

Over 50 pupils from across S1-S6 participated,

both on stage and behind

the scenes, working

together to prepare and

perform a varied and

exciting show where

pupils showcased their

talents in areas such as

music, drama and dance.

Highlights of the show

included the fantastic

S1 Shadow Theatre,

Glowstick dance and en

masse glockenspiel performance – a combined

effort of pupils all across S2 and S3, including

pupils from our Ogilvie base classes! Our Head

Girls also led the way with solo item highlights

- a fantastic musical performance from

Jennifer Power and hilarious comical poem

recital from Marcia MacKay. Well done to all

those involved – what a wonderful achievement!

Cardinal Winning Secondary

School presents…

The Spirit of Christmas

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On the 14th May Cardinal Winning Secondary School hosted a show from the Lions of Zululand. The Lions of Zululand are a cultural group of musicians and dancers whose aim is to expose to the world the wonderful richness of traditional. The Zulu culture.director Mdu Mkhise from Kwa Mashu has spent several years developing and training a wonderful, professional group of young people often from the poorest regions. The display enthralled the pupils

Halloween Party

This was a great success with lots of people dressing up for the party.

There was lots of games and competitions with great music and some fantastic dancing. Well done to the Enterprise Group (4A+4B) who did a great job, planning and organising this event.

Safari Park September 2014. In September S1-S3 went on Variety Club outing to Blair Drummond Safari Park. The pupils enjoyed a very exciting day . Ogilvie two thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the safari park with the school. The class enjoyed seeing all the animals. Jason loved the rhino best but we all agreed that the sea lion show was the

best entertainment. All the class were brave enough to try out some of the fair rides and the S4 boys even went on the boat trip to monkey Island. On the way back to the bus, Mrs Gibb could not believe how close we got to the elephant!! It was a great day, and lovely to share it with our friends.

Since then we have learned about the animals and have made a cartoon comic strip depicting our day.

Caritas Award 2014

Cardinal Winning Secondary School entered the 2014 Caritas Award programme.

The three sixth year pupils at Cardinal Winning Secondary School are among the number of young people from across Scotland whose service in their school. parish and community were recognised at the Francis Caritas Award ceremony in the SECC in Glasgow on the 2nd June .

The three successful candidates who received their award at the SECC were

and, congratulations to them.

This was terrific achievement for the

school.

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East 40

In the run up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, over 40 pupils from all across the St. Mungo’s learning community collaborated to write, record and release a charity single for UNICEF entitled, ‘Let the Games Begin.’

Led by the talented staff of St. Anne’s Primary school, and featuring members of a number of famous bands including Franz Ferdinand and The Frightened Rabbits, the single was released after an extensive tour of Glasgow and London and a number of press releases.

Musicians from Cardinal Winning who performed on the track were senior pupils Leigh Anne Byrne, Stephanie McCafferty and Jennifer Power.

Ethan Hoey and Rian Murray were also involved in creating the fabulous artwork for the single cover.

As part of the tour, the musicians visited London for a 3 day trip where they visited the UNICEF headquarters and toured famous landmarks including Number 10 Downing Street and The House of Commons. They also met and performed with Lulu!

On their return to Glasgow, East 40 performed their single at the Glasgow Green launch concert.

Later in the year, in the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games, East 40 were still in demand, performing in George Square at the switch on of the Christmas lights.

All of the pupils and staff involved in the East 40 project were recognised for their efforts in October of this year when the Lord Provost awarded them a special award for their charitable contribution to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Staff were invited to the prestigious Lord Provost’s dinner reception and pupils were awarded their very own dinner reception in the City Chambers!

Congratulations to all Cardinal Winning pupil’s involved in this amazing project!

Belgium Residential

1914-2014

The Belgium residential trip for our S5 & S6 students was the highlight of their learning for the year. They travelled to Flanders as part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1. They saw examples detailing the loss of life that was made to protect their future. Based around Ypres, our group visited a number of important historical sites including the Passchendaele museum & battlefield, Tynecot Commonwealth Cemetery, the grave of the 15 year old youngest soldier casualty and the moving ‘Last Post’ ceremony at the Menin Gate. We also managed to fit in trips to the Boudewjin Sea Park & Dolphinarium, the beautiful city of Bruges and Bobbejaanland Theme Park. As well as all this our students had the experience of an overnight sail to and from the continent between Hull and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A great time was had by all.

Christmas Fayre

S1 have been very busy this term working with S2&S3 organising the school Christmas Fayre on the 4th December 2014. We wrote to lots of companies for raffle donations and worked hard making posters and invitations.

The Fayre was a great success because we all worked together as a team and learned lots about working with money and organising events. The event raised over £1500 for school funds!

Cardinal Winning News

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++ Dates for your Diary ++

School Close for Christmas—Friday 19 December 2014

February Mid Term –Monday & Tuesday 9th&10th February 2015

April Easter - 2nd April to 17th April 2015

Return to school Monday 20th April 2015

May Day—Monday 4th May 2015

Parents Night S1-S3 Tuesday 5th May 2015

Parents Night S4-S6 Tuesday 19th May 2015

May Weekend—Friday 22nd and Monday 25th May 2015

School Closes for Summer—Wednesday 24th June 2015

West of Scotland Cross Country Championship 2014-2015

A number of pupils recently represented the school in the West of Scotland cross-country championships at Bellahouston. This was the first of three events. Well done to all pupils who participated in muddy conditions with a special mention going to Richard Muir who was placed second, Sarah McWilliams who was placed third and also to Paul Conlin who was third in their respective age groups.

End of Term Merit Reward Trip

Last week the 37 lucky pupils who earned

the most merits this term were taken to

Edinburgh Zoo as a reward trip. Even

though it was very cold both pupils and

staff had a great day. From karaoke on the bus to visiting the

pandas a great time was had by all. Well done to all successful

pupils for their excellent behaviour and attitude this term. There

will be another equally exciting reward trip next term which every

pupil will have the opportunity to aim for.

Football News

Well done to Cardinal Winning

Secondary Football team on this

year’s performances and some stand

out debuts. Special mention for

scoring debuts for Jay Martin and

Keiran Traynor. Erick Kwok has

done well starting as new team

goalkeeper. New blood in the team

include Amilton Mbali, Anthony

McWilliams and Richard Muir at the

back, Jordan Cullen in Midfield and

Keiran Traynor upfront. The team

are currently sitting 3rd in the league

and a few good performances

against the so called ‘Big Teams’

should rectify this. Keep up the hard

word team.

Commonwealth

Afternoons

Congratulations to all of the staff

and pupils involved in the

commonwealth afternoons this

term. All pupils have excelled in

Cycling, golf, football swimming,

judo and more. Lots of different

venues have taken part including the

newly refurbished Tollcross Leisure

Centre. Hopefully this initiative can

return in the new term with

everyone choosing their favourite

activity.

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