Lasswade Lockdown Fundraising

'Thank you' to our school community from our 2019-2020 S6 School Captains for raising over £500.00 for 3 charitable causes.

Learning Mandarin at LHS

https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/confuciusinstituteforscotlandsschools/newsletters/   Ni hao ! Parents  will  already  be  aware  that  Mandarin  is  now  firmly-established  at the  school. All  pupils  –  beginning  with  their  S2  ‘taster’  course  –  receive  at  least  six  weeks  of  lessons  dealing  with  China’s  main  language  and  its  culture.  Many  choose to continue  and  some of  our  pupils have  passed  through  [...]

Going Further With Modern Languages – not able to attend ? Catch up here !

S2  pupils and  parents  who  were  unable  to  attend  last  night’s  information  evening  can  still see  highlights  of  the  event  (as  I  do  believe  we  are  trending on Twitter)  and  find  out  how  continuing  with  at  least  one more  Modern Language  into  S3  and beyond  can  bring  massive rewards  and give you an edge in [...]

‘Going Further With Modern Languages’ – S2 parents’ feedback

Eye-opening …  good  to see  how  serious  the school  is  about  MFL.  Very  professional. Inspiring panel of  speakers, thoroughly enjoyed it. Really inspirational.  Need  more  women  on the panel. Big thanks. I thought  putting  it  in the business  context really  worked  –  I work with  a  Pinsents  lawyer  from Glasgow,  currently  based  in  Paris. A [...]

Modern Linguists Representing LHS at Scotland China Education Network Youth Summit

8th Annual SCEN Youth Summit Points the Way Forward Students from nearly 20 schools from Scotland – including a large delegation from Lasswade High School, led by Ms Zhao, Ms Duan and Ms Liu – participated with many visiting students from Hong Kong as part of the Hong Kong Scotland School Improvement Partnership. https://www.scen.info The [...]

Creative Writers succeed in National Writing Competition!

Congratulations to six very talented writers from Lasswade High School whose work has been selected to appear in the national Young Writers latest writing anthology.

Wear Something Purple for Purple Friday

Lasswade High school is participating in LGBT Youth’s Purple Friday on Friday the 22nd February.

Human Utopia Return to Lasswade

Human Utopia recently returned to Lasswade High School to continue working with our pupils to help increase their knowledge of how to make positive changes to their lives.

Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2019

Lasswade High School Library has been generously donated a class set of the three books nominated for the Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2019 by the Scottish Book Trust.

Scottish Book Week Celebrations 19th-25th November

Lasswade High School was involved in celebrating Scottish Book Week this week with a wide programme of events and fun activities for students to take part in.

S2 Students hear important Knife Crime Messages

Our S2 Students attended a special assembly and performance on Monday 12th November in order to promote important messages about Knife Crime.

Lasswade Set to Celebrate BOOK WEEK SCOTLAND!

Next week at Lasswade High School it is officially Book Week, as part of the National Book Week Scotland celebrations. This festival of all things books and reading will run from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 November. At Lasswade, we will be encouraging students to Drop Everything and Read [DEAR] during registration, giving them the [...]

S2 Students Undertake Tree of Knowledge

There was a great opportunity for S2 students this week who undertook a Tree of Knowledge event!

First World War Remembered by Lasswade High School

For what was the one-hundred year anniversary of the end of the First World War, Lasswade High School put on an impressive programme of events to commemorate this important occasion.

Lasswade Wins Reading Challenge Twitter Competition

There was a terrific success for Lasswade High School’s S1 students this week.

Fantastic Entries to National Geography Competition

Lasswade pupils have created some excellent posters as part of the annual RGS Young Geographer of the Year Competition.

SPOTY Nominees Now Revealed!

After hundreds of nominations from across the school and community the final four nominees for Sports Personality of the Year have now been decided.