NBHS Transition projects 2010-11
These are in addition to and run alongside the usual transition programme
Malawi appeal - ongoing
 Last year over £10,000 raised for Mary’s meals and building a kitchen
 Nearly 900 backpacks sent to Malawi
 Music for Malawi NBHS group visiting primaries to show slides about
the visit in the summer – September/October 2010
 Further fundraising events in all schools planned throughout the year
Cooking local produce – September 2010
P4 classes from Law cook local produce in Home Economics to freeze for
school sale
North Berwick Nursery Christmas parties –December 2010
NBHS seniors prepare party food and help with the nursery parties
Anne Frank exhibition – January/February 2011
All primaries will be involved and will have preliminary lessons and then bring
P7 classes to this exhibition, which will take place in the two weeks including
Holocaust Memorial Day
P7 Enterprise Day – February 2011
All P7 classes come to NBHS for an Enterprise day. S3 pupils act as
facilitators.
Forest schools – March 2011
S6 pupils assist P7 classes at Law Primary in this six-week outdoor learning
course
Primary Sports days – May 2011
Senior pupils assist with the primary sports days
Club taster sessions – May/June 2011
P7 pupils choose to attend taster sessions for a variety of clubs on Friday
afternoons
P7 Activity Day – June 2011
A day of both inside and outside activities takes place to introduce P7 pupils
to their new classmates.
P7 Induction Days – June 2011
Two days where pupils follow a similar timetable to S1 and meet some of their
teachers
An evaluation is carried out at the end, which informs planning for next year
Youth Café transition – working with P7, especially the more vulnerable.
Previous years have included
 A film made by P4 and S1 pupils together for the seabird centre (Tern
around)
 A film made by S1 pupils (in the English department) about transition,
which is used in English lessons as an introduction to NBHS
 A play about transition by NBHS pupils with the Brunton Theatre.
 A Euroquiz run by NBHS seniors for P6 pupils
 P7 work and visits during Christian focus week
Partnership working
Joint CPD
 STRADA training for alcohol intervention – school staff, Youth Café,
CLD, Integration, Churches
 Transition/Moving on training – school staff, Youth Café
 Positive behaviour strategies – Learning assistants from NBHS and
Cluster Primaries
Healthy Respect drop-in
Run weekly, in school, by Youth Café and School Nursing staff
Events
 Malawi project – Primaries involved in fundraising and music for Malawi
concert
 Fidra Christmas Fair – local artists and businesses at NBHS
 Christian focus week – with Youth worker, Band and Cluster Primaries
 Local Food Fair – with local producers and planned with a group of
interested parents
 Clubs and sport activities – Active Schools Sports’ Co-ordinator
 SAFE week (Substance awareness for everyone) – delivered with staff
from Integration, School Nursing Service, Youth Café, Community
Wardens.
 Representatives of organisations were at the SAFE week market place
eg Volunteer groups such as VDEL and Duke of Edinburgh, Health and
Nutrition, CREW 2000, CLD, Sports’ clubs etc.
 The week ended in a Community Festival in the Lodge grounds, for
young people and families
 Outdoor Challenge – one for each year group throughout the session,
delivered by Outdoor Education staff and school staff.
Curriculum and extra-curricular – this year.
 Youth Café staff work with a group of disaffected girls and a similar
group of boys. They take trips away to outward bound centres and led
a trip to Germany in the summer. They also offer a Duke of Edinburgh
course at a different level from the school.
 Transition/Moving on – run for a group of selected S3/4 and another for
S5. Delivered jointly by Youth Café staff and PT Support, weekly at the
Youth Café.
 Hairdressing project – to be delivered by a former college
tutor/hairdresser and Youth Café staff, at school. Intermediate 1 or 2
course to selected pupils.
 Uprising East Lothian – work placements, work experience and
volunteering. Involvement in planning, building and running an indoor
adventure centre in North Berwick.