Archive for the 'Healthy Schools' Category

Two Decades of Football

It was a step back in time for one special visitor to Musselburgh Grammar School this week. In the last week of term, former Deputy Headmaster Walter Roy was back at the town’s secondary school to help celebrate 20 years of volunteering by one of his past pupils.
Grammar school coach Scott Robertson has just completed [...]

Duke of Edinburgh Silver Training Walk

 
We have an extensive extra curricular activities programme at Musselburgh Grammar School. One of the initiatives that has really gathered momentum in the past 18 months is the schools Duke of Edinburgh Award Programme. W currently have 28 pupils working towards their Bronze Award and 24 pupils working towards their silver award.
On Saturday all of [...]

Badminton Success

Congratulations to Scott Fergus for winning the Silver medal in the U16 ‘D’ Singles at the recent Mid and East Lothian Championships. Any other pupils interested in playing Badminton should contact Mr Parker (Maths Department) or Mr Woodhead (Sports Co-coordinator).

Dancing Queen

Well done Abbie in 1G2 for her recent dancing success.
She won a Star Diva medal and a shield for her Acrobatics Gold medal performance.
Another great achievement for an MGS student.

Stop smoking poster competition

Well done to Marcus (1G2) who won the overall prize for the East Lothian Smoking and Health Partnership poster competition. Also, well done to Aaron (1G2), who has won the prize for S1 in the same competition.
Congratulations boys!!!

Mobex East Lothian

Mobex (Mobile Expedition Base) is a project co-ordinated by Volunteer Development East Lothian. Mobex is a mobile training resource for young people aged 12-25, offering outdoor adventure, creative arts and volunteering opportunities.
We are very pleased that Mobex will be working in partnership with Musselburgh Grammar School on Thursday afternoons to support a group of our [...]

S1 Lifesaving

 
During registration every morning Heads of House go around and visit register classes. One of the purposes of this is to hand out positive referrals and to celebrate other student achievement. In S1 the PE department run a short life saving module as part of the swimming course and this morning some students were getting [...]

Health Promoting Assembly

Friday started with an extended assembly. The focus of the assembly with Health Education and was opened by Cllr Peter MacKenzie. The school has recently gained the first level of accreditation of the Health Promoting Schools Award and we are keen to build on this work. During the rest of assembly students were given [...]