12 January 2015

Year	Content                                                         Date 12.01.2015
S1	**NEW ITEM**   ECO Group   The ECO group takes place every Monday in the library at break time- new members are very welcome.  If you are concerned about the environment, fed up with all the litter and would like to make ‘Gillespie’s Greener’ please come along and share your views and thoughts.  Let’s make a difference -The ECO group.
S2	**NEW ITEM**   ECO Group   The ECO group takes place every Monday in the library at break time- new members are very welcome.  If you are concerned about the environment, fed up with all the litter and would like to make ‘Gillespie’s Greener’ please come along and share your views and thoughts.  Let’s make a difference -The ECO group.
S3	**NEW ITEM**   ECO Group   The ECO group takes place every Monday in the library at break time- new members are very welcome.  If you are concerned about the environment, fed up with all the litter and would like to make ‘Gillespie’s Greener’ please come along and share your views and thoughts.  Let’s make a difference -The ECO group. S3 Football Training will now take place on Tuesdays at Tynecastle High School on their 2G Astroturf. A bus will take players there at 16:00 and bring them back to school for 18:00. This will commence on the 13th January. Please ensure you have appropriate footwear. If you have any questions, please speak to Mr Carstairs in the PE Department.
S4	S4 – Modern Studies Trip to New York & Washington Reminder – 3rd payment due 1st January Please pass to Mrs Sinclair in the Classroom Assistants Office, Warrender or the Modern Studies Dept.
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S6
All years	**NEW ITEM** Word of the week from 2K2 gasteromycetes: (noun) Definition: name often given to a subgroup of fungi consisting of more than 700 species in the phylum Basidiomycota (kingdom fungi) Context: There was a gasteromycetes in my garden.     **NEW ITEM** South Africa Trip: Football strips and Dresses   Do you have any football strips, shorts, shinguards or formal/party dresses that you no longer use? If so, please bring them in!  Donations can be left at W22 in Warrender, or 2.5 in Darroch, or with any of the staff involved in the trip.  Thank you. S Charity       Senior Wind Band - will start on Monday 12th Jan after school in B3. New members are welcome to join. Please see Mr Hodge on Friday if you have questions.   Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin band recruitment The Big Band aims to bring 20 high-school aged musicians together approximately once a month during term time to learn new music, make group arrangements, and perform gigs. It's an informal tutored session, led by the fantastic musician and composer Mike Vass (www.mikevas.com).   With the Big Band we aim to take part in artistically exciting projects and have so far collaborated with the Tinderbox Orchestra, the EYG Archive Project and have supported the Remembered/Imagined project (from Mr McFall's Chamber), performing a BBC Performing Arts Fellowship Commission by Ailie Robertson. This year Mike Vass was commissioned to write a suite of new music especially for the band as part of a larger cross-arts project.   We feel it's important for EYG to exist as a community outside of our main events, giving our older participants opportunities for advanced learning, socialising, performing and volunteering. We encourage band members to take the lead themselves - putting forward ideas for arrangements, gigs, and new projects.   You can find out more information and term dates here: http://www.eyg.org.uk/index.php?lang=eng&location=big_band And watch videos of the band performing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDQjzs6Glo and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OwYkdDr94   Training String Orchestra This will start on Tuesday (13th January) in B3. All new members are welcome, please see Miss Millar if you have any questions.    ALL PUPILS All pupils that have an instrumental lesson at 8.50am MUST report to the office at the bottom of Bruntsfield House to register they are present.  Absence calls will go home to parents if pupils do not register.