December 2009 Diary Dates
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Tue 1
  • Music Solo (Performing)
  • Safe Drive Stay Alive
Wed 2
Thu 3
Fri 4
Mon 7
  • S5/S6: Study skills week
  • S6: Advanced Higher Chemistry Practicals
Tue 8
  • Biology Lecture
Wed 9
Fri 11
  • S6: Advanced Higher Chemistry Practicals
Mon 14
  • S6: Corton Vale Prison Visit
  • S1 Ceilidh
Tue 15
  • S5/S6: The Abertay debate
  • S2 Ceilidh
Wed 16
  • Ninewells Carol Singing
  • S2 Geography visit to Dynamic Earth (to be arranged)
Fri 18
Mon 21
  • S2/S3/S4: Dundee Rep: Christmas Carol
Tue 22
  • School closes 12noon
Wed 23
  • Holiday
Thu 24
  • Holiday
Fri 25
  • Christmas day
Mon 28
  • Holiday week
What's next?
Mon 4 Jan
  • Holiday
Tue 5 Jan
  • Holiday
Wed 6 Jan
  • Spring term starts
 
News Highlights

Safe Drive Stay Alive

The entire S5 will attend a seminar on Safe Driving with peers from across the city...

Dress-Up Day 2009

Friday 4 December

Tickets (£1) on sale from register teachers.

Judging and prizes in the assembly hall at interval.

Pupils and staff donate £1 for the privilege of coming to school in fancy dress or their own clothes. The money raised goes to provide over 100 Christmas parcels for the elderly and needy in the local community; these are delivered by an S1 class accompanied by senior pupils.  Story and pictures:

2009 Christmas Market and Concert

Christmas Concert this year take place on

Wed 9 December 2009

Market - 6.30p.m.

Concert - 7.30 p.m.

Tickets are on sale from the Music Department priced

£3.50: adults and

£2.50: children/concessions (includes refreshments).

Before the concert, the Parent Council will be hosting a special Christmas Market in the school social area from around 6.30 pm.

Parent Council
2009 Grand Christmas Draw

The Grand Draw will be held on Fri 18 December… watch out for the books of raffle tickets.  Read more...

Parent Contact Evenings

4:30 - 7:00p.m. unless stated

Our first contact evening of the session is for S4.  Letters have been posted out to parents and pupils should be making appointments.

S1 Mon 30 November

S2 Mon 1 March

S3 Mon 18 January

S4 Mon 14 September

S4 Mon 22 March

S5/S6 Mon 16 November

P7 Information 7pm Wed 4 Nov

New S1 7pm Thu 17 June

 
Help us... help you

News via e-mail

Send an e-mail to

menzieshill@dundeecity.gov.uk

with your child’s name and class.

We will then email you school publications.

Menzieshill High School Homepage

Most of our news stories appear first on our website. Copy our website into your favourites and check it regularly :

http://menzieshill.ea.dundeecity.sch.uk/

Glow Report

We are encouraging all pupils to use their Glow account to access school information, homework and course revision materials.

Every pupil has a personal school email address which we will use.

Current Daily Bulletin

The Current Daily Bulletin for pupils is updated immediately on the website, is displayed in the middle social area and read out every morning in registration.

Every pupil has access to at least one of these sources.

 
School Events

2010 Menzieshill High School Calendar

Newsletter and Calendar

The Winter Newsletter will go out to parents in January.

You can download a copy of the 2010 MHS Calendar now...

‘Warm Bird ’ by Ainsley Connelly S5 was our choice for the Dundee City Council Education Department Calendar 2010.

We used his study for our 2010 Calendar which makes a useful first foot gift!

Excellence in Language Awards

Excellence in languages

Menzieshill High School awards languages prizes to pupils for excellence in French and German.

Winners for last term were: S1 Raegan Butchart, S2 Chris Vannart and Rachel Beattie and S3 Kirsty Smith and S1 Philip McLaren, S2 Ross Starke and S3 Bethany Digan.

News reports

Catch up on news and events from last term from departments:

  • English news report

Menzieshill Win Back The Cyclathon Cup!

Menzieshill Cyclathon Winners

Claverhouse Rotary Club President Nick Fleming presented Menzieshill High School with the Cyclathon Cup on Thursday, December 17. The school has raised a massive £2,550 with masses of pupils, parents and staff taking part. Credit goes to the Uganda Project and the USA trip youngsters who turned out in force for the event and the presentation...

2009 Sports Honours Board

Welcome to our new Sports Honours Board.

Well done to our young sports personalities who have performed exceptionally well at the highest level in their sport.

Featuring Sian Bruce,

Catch up on other sports news:

2009 Christmas Grotto

Hillside Nursery School

Santa has been visiting Menzieshill High School to use a special Grotto built for local Nursery pupils!

Second year pupils have constructed the Grotto for him and have adorned it with elf sculptures, a Christmas Tree and decorations.

The Grotto was on display in the main foyer on the night of the Christmas Market and Concert. Nursery children have visited from Menzieshill Nursery and Woodlea Nursery. 

Story and pictures...

Press-up Challenge winner

Press-up challenge winner

Sgt's Martin Keith and Craig McInnes of the Royal Air Force Motivational Outreach Team presented Menzieshill High School pupil Sarah Barclay with an early Christmas present of an iPOD Nano.

Dress-Up Day 2009

2009 Winners

Report and pictures of 'Dress as you please' day...

Christmas Parcel Delivery

Senior pupils, S1and S2 pupils and School and Pupil Support Workers from Menzieshill High School delivered 200 Christmas parcels in the local community.

2009 Christmas Card

2009 Christmas Card

Wishing you A Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Menzieshill High School Learning Community.

Thanks to Abbie Neave S5 for this year’s Christmas Card design and to Mr McIntyre for production work. 

Abbie’s work is an image of mixed media textile for her Higher Design Unit.

Read more ...

You are welcome to download a copy:

Autumn 2009 Newsletter

The Autumn newsletter has been given out to pupils.  Copies can be collected from th school office or download colour copy now:

Parent Forum: Raising attainment
Revision and Prelim exam preparation

Thu 3 December 2009

6.30pm – 8.30pm

You are invited to join us to experience study techniques related to revision and prelim exam preparation. The event will be held in School and will last around two hours. Refreshments, courtesy of the Parent Council, will be available. This will be of particular interest if your child is preparing for SQA exams. Whilst this will be of immediate interest to parents of learners preparing for S5/S6 prelims it will also be of benefit to parents of those in other years.