22 June 2015

Year	Content                                                         Date 22.06.2015
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S4	Careers Drop-In   On Thursday lunchtime in the Library, the Careers Advisor will be available to talk to about careers, apprenticeships and education.  Open to all year-groups, no appointments needed!   Screen Education Edinburgh   Screen Education Edinburgh are running a BFI Film Academy Craft Residential filmmaking course from 30th July to 9th August, and we are inviting applications from young people, aged 16-19 across the UK to apply and thought that this would be of interest to the young people in your area.  Interested young people can read more and watch a short film about the BFI Film Academy Scotland Craft Residential, as well as download an application from here: http://wp.me/p3oHMX-Dn  Applications are open now and will close on Friday 26th June.  If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Academy Coordinator Kerri Rolland kerri@screen-ed.org
S5	Careers Drop-In On Thursday lunchtime in the Library, the Careers Advisor will be available to talk to about careers, apprenticeships and education.  Open to all year-groups, no appointments needed!   Screen Education Edinburgh    Screen Education Edinburgh are running a BFI Film Academy Craft Residential filmmaking course from 30th July to 9th August, and we are inviting applications from young people, aged 16-19 across the UK to apply and thought that this would be of interest to the young people in your area.  Interested young people can read more and watch a short film about the BFI Film Academy Scotland Craft Residential, as well as download an application from here: http://wp.me/p3oHMX-Dn  Applications are open now and will close on Friday 26th June.  If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Academy Coordinator Kerri Rolland kerri@screen-ed.org
S6	Careers Drop-In   On Thursday lunchtime in the Library, the Careers Advisor will be available to talk to about careers, apprenticeships and education.  Open to all year-groups, no appointments needed!   Screen Education Edinburgh   Screen Education Edinburgh are running a BFI Film Academy Craft Residential filmmaking course from 30th July to 9th August, and we are inviting applications from young people, aged 16-19 across the UK to apply and thought that this would be of interest to the young people in your area.  Interested young people can read more and watch a short film about the BFI Film Academy Scotland Craft Residential, as well as download an application from here: http://wp.me/p3oHMX-Dn  Applications are open now and will close on Friday 26th June.  If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Academy Coordinator Kerri Rolland kerri@screen-ed.org
All years	Eco Group   Eco Group meeting at break in the library on Monday. Everybody welcome to come and along-if you are interested in helping our new school staying litter free and want to be able to recycle the rubbish we make, come along and help make Gillespie’s green. Only you can make a difference.  INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS (all year groups)  Pupils must ensure that they have contacted their instrumental teacher regarding timetables for next year. This must be done before the last week of term. Lessons are still operating up until the alternative timetable and attendance is expected at these. Please check the timetables on the website and outside the music staff base.   M. Roskilly   ART DEPARTMENT  The Art Department would like to congratulate Fraser Broadhurst 3R4 and Isla Cortes Calder 3R3 for winning Special Merit awards in the S1/S2 category of the National Galleries Tesco Bank Art Competition for schools 2015. With over 6500 entries from across Scotland we are proud and delighted to have two pupils from JGHS represented in the winners exhibition that will be held in the Scottish National Gallery from June 6th – October 27th. The exhibition will then tour two other venues in Scotland until May 2016. Fraser and Isla will be attending their awards ceremony at the gallery this Wednesday, please congratulate them if you see them.   3K Fun Run   A reminder that all 3K fun run sponsorship money should be handed in to the PE department as soon as possible.  INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS  Now that the new timetable is in place, all pupils should check their instrumental lesson times for the rest of term on the noticeboards in Bruntsfield House.