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Christmas Celebrations:
There was a real festive feel around the school last week as pupils from all year groups enjoyed the annual Christmas disco. Members of the sixth year transformed the dining room and house block into a bright and colourful venue, with decorations draped to produce a wonderful atmosphere. Everyone had a great night as they danced to popular Christmas classics. Thursday was also the day of the annual Christmas lunch in the dining rooms. The catering staff served a wonderful traditional turkey or steak pie lunch in the Xmas Meal Deal Special. Thanks to catering manager, Danny Muir and his staff for providing the delicious festive feast.

An Evening of Music for Christmas’:
This year’s Christmas Concert will take place in the school theatre on the evening of Tuesday 18 December, with a 7.30 pm start. Tickets are £4 each and are available now from Reception or at the door on the night. As always, the proceeds from our Christmas Concert will be shared between the school and St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie.

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Photograph shows Motherwell and Wishaw MSP John Pentland and USDAW Scottish Divisional Officer Lawrence Wason at an event in Holyrood with the shopworkers union, showing his support for Respect for Shopworkers Week.

Police are issuing a warning to members of the public in relation to a scam which has been highlighted in the North Lanarkshire area.  It has come to light that members of the public are being called by bogus telesales people and are being conned in to handing over money in return for a Payment Protection insurance pay out.  Community Safety Officer, Alan Mulholland said:

Please take a moment to watch this video. Clean Up Scotland is an anti-litter and mess and behavioural change campaign led by Keep Scotland Beautiful, Scotland's independent environmental charity. It seeks and has financial and non-financial partnerships with the public sector, voluntary sector and private sector.

Supported by Heather Suttie ( TV and radio presenter and environmental campaigner).

Inter House Public Speaking:
Houldsworth captured the Senior Inter House Public Speaking Shield after a wonderful evening’s entertainment provided by the intermediate and senior teams. Houldsworth’s intermediate speakers, Rachel Moon and Eilidh Murray joined forces with their S6 counterparts, Jon Connelly and Ricky Owens to be an irresistible force for the judges. Sneddon captured the runner-up position in the Intermediate side of the tournament, while Curran was second in the senior event.

On Friday the 9th of November Choose Life for North Lanarkshire Council in Partnership with Strathclyde Police, NHS Lanarkshire and local off sales met to highlight the new suicide prevention strategy of using carrier bags to promote the “Suicide Don’t hide it talk about it” message and the crisis numbers for Samaritans and Breathing Space.

Convener’s Award:
At the recent special presentation ceremony, five Clyde Valley senior pupils were proud recipients of the Convener’s Award for Academic Excellence in the 2012 SQA examinations. Jane Liddell, Head of Service, welcomed the gathering of award winners and senior staff from North Lanarkshire secondary schools. Councillor Jim Logue, Convener of the Learning and Leisure Services Committee then presented his special award to those pupils from across the whole of the Council who had attained either 8 Standard Grade Credit 1 passes, or 5 Higher Grade A passes. Jordan Dunnachie, Sarah Thomson and Kirstin Scott excelled at Standard Grade, while Grant Crichton and Glenn McBride performed impressively at Higher.
Pictured with their Convener’s Award (from left to right): Jordan, Kirstin, Sarah, Glenn and Grant.

Craigneuk started off in a strong position defending well in the opening minutes before Pele? went to header the ball out of the park but instead put it towards goal and  McMilan had to make a acrobatic save to avoid losing an early goal. A through ball from the midfield to McKnight was hit to hard for him to get on the end of. A save from McMilan fell to Moon who tried to pass the ball back to the grounded McMilan who could only knock it onto the bar. A long shot from Glasgow Uni hit the bar and fell to Murray who played the ball to Moon to knock the ball to safety.