Barry and James (to use their more formal names) arrived last week amid great excitement and there was an official welcome ceremony held in the garden for all the children to meet the new pets.

Thanks to one of our parents, Mr James, Bazz and Jazz have a mansion of a hutch, where they can play safely and all the children can watch.

Despite the wind and the rain, the team of girls, parents and staff, completed the 6.2 mile route and were delighted to cross the finish line at Bellahouston Park.

For many of the girls, this was their first ever 10k, and a personal challenge that they were all determined to see through. Even with the miserable weather, the atmosphere was terrific and there were some truly impressive individual race times.

Thank you to everyone who supported the team along the route – the encouragement was much appreciated! Also thanks to all the generous supporters; the tired and sore legs are definitely worth it to raise money for Cash for Kids.

Team Craigholme

In order to complete their Intermediate 2 qualification, S5 and S6 pupils created their own design brief, taking into account the purpose for their product, the materials and ingredients to be used, as well as the techniques they would need to learn to achieve their final invention.

It is interesting to see how every pupil has created their own completely different and very personal designs and made some spectacular looking cakes.

Some of the fabulous creations are pictured here.

Walliams spoke of his love of Roald Dahl and how it was Dahl’s books that inspired him to write. Like some of our pupils, his favourite book was Alice in Wonderland, with David saying it’s a very strange book that he has reread several times.

He reminded pupils that inspiration can come from anywhere – his inspiration for his next book came from a contestant on Britain’s Got Talent!

You can watch the full webcast here.

Laura works with pupils of all ages, and the flute is offered as an instrumental lesson to girls from Junior 4 upwards. As well as tutoring individual pupils, girls can also be part of the school’s flute group and perform at events throughout the school year.

Laura has many international credits to her name; having studied flute with David Nicholson at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she continued her studies with Harrie Starreveld at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and then, having been awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, with Kate Lukas and Jacques Zoon at Indiana University in the States.

She has extensive orchestral experience and has performed in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan, including appearances at the Edinburgh International festival, St. Magnus Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival.

This week Laura will be visiting classes to speak to girls interested in learning the flute. If you have any questions about your daughter taking up this instrument, please contact Mr Donnelly, mdonnelly@craigholme.co.uk.

Evie Stickland (S5) led a team of Craigholme pupils from both the Junior and the Senior School, as they competed in the showjumping, dressage and team events.

Mhairi Craig (J7) led her horse Fairly Versace in the Attack and Turn Out and they were awarded first place. Mhairi also came second in the Intermediate Showjumping event, with Ella Gilchrist (S4) coming second in Dressage and her sister Hannah (S1) being awarded fifth place in this event.

As always, this was a great day out at Ingliston and the team of pupils had a wonderful time competing against their peers. There was a chance for the girls to compete as a team, as well as individually, and Equestrian Captain Evie Stickland led the girls superbly.

The I love  Craigholme t-shirts are available with the heart logo in each of the House colours – or if you are neutral to a House, you can get it with a Craigholme tartan heart instead.

Sizes start from age 3-4 and order forms can be collected from class teachers, form teachers or the School Office. We look forward to seeing all our girls
in their Craigholme t-shirts soon!

The letters were all of an outstanding quality and Miss Innes had a tough decision to pick one winner. In the end, it was too difficult and four girls were given prizes for their hard work and superb letters.

The four winners — Ailsa, Eve, Eilidh and Kenzie — were chosen because their letters were not only well presented and in the correct format but they were also informative, with excellent word choice and very funny!

Every girl put a lot of effort into their work and all the letters from J4 will be on display in the school shortly.

But, don’t forget the reason we are running is to raise money for Cash for Kids, a charity we all feel very passionate about. So if you’d like to show your support, you can sponsor Team Craigholme through our Just Giving page.

We hope to run faster and raise more money than ever for our school’s chosen charity, so thank you for any support you can give.

The five businesses set up their stalls in the Murdoch Room to impress the rest of the Craigholme population and, by lunchtime there was already quite the queue waiting to enter the sale.

All five stalls were kept busy throughout the lunchtime rush and some groups even took orders for more stock after running out.  Some of the most popular items on sale were hand painted mugs, notepads, delicious cup-cakes and customised bracelets.

All the money raised through this enterprise project will go to the school’s nominated charity, Cash for Kids.

A huge well done to all of S2 for taking part in the project and delivering fantastic results!