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S2 France Trip 2008

 
A group of our S2 pupils are away in France at the moment – they have been up-dating their section of the website with lots of photos and news as they go. It looks like they are having a great time!
Have a look at the S2 France Trip Home Page Here

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 [...]

2008 Modern Studies New York Trip

 

A group of Higher Modern Studies Students left for New York today. They will be writing about their experience over on the New York Web page – why don’t you pop in and leave them a comment.

Visit to the Scottish Parliament

Between preliminary examinations some of our senior pupils visited the Scottish Parliament today to meet our local MSP Kenny MacAskill. Here are some of the photographs from the trip below. The group also recorded the interview and they hope to turn this into a podcast.

He’s behind you!

Every year we reward S1 pupils with exceptionally high attendance an opportunity to go to the Pantomime at the Brunton Hall. This year we only had an allocation of about 90 seats and as attendance has been so good in S1 we took the pupils where their attendance had been above 99.2%. Next year we have decided [...]

Saturday Skiiing at Braehead

 

On Saturday Mr Brown took a group of students to the indoor snow zone at Braehead, Xcape in Glasgow. Skiing is a popular extra-curricular activity at Musselburgh Grammar School every term groups of students (and staff) have an opportunity to learn to ski.
The snowslope at Brahead was really popular and most of the group couldn’t [...]

National Mace Debating Competition

A team from Musselburgh Grammar Debating Society recently entered the English Speaking Union’s National Mace Debating Competition. The group entered the regional heats taking place in the English Speaking Union’s headquarters in Edinburgh.
The proposed the motion was “This house would introduce one years civic service for all school leavers” This is a very topical debate [...]

The Bar National Mock Trial Competition

Last Saturday a group of S5 students traveled to the High Court in Glasgow to take part in The Bar National Mock Trial Competition, organised by the Citizenship Foundation. The Bar National Mock Trial Competition has been running for 16 years, it involves over 2,000 students, 200 barristers/advocates and 90 judges from across England, Scotland, [...]

Duke of Edinburgh Award Presentation Evening

This year the school started the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award as an extra curricular activity for S3/S4 students.  Last Wednesday we had our first Duke of Edinburgh Award Presentation Evening to acknowledge the success of a group of students – full Bronze awards went to Debbie Cain, Deborah Calder, Emma Coull, Kirsten Coyle, Mhairi [...]

S3 Art and Design Outdoor Education Trip

A group of 13 S3 Standard Grade Art & Design pupils have just got back from an Outdoor Education Art & Design Trip.
Various areas in East Lothian were visited to give pupils experience of observing and recording what was around them and to explore the beauty of nature in it’s truest form. [...]