s been busy week, and, despite the current building challenges, our
We loved meeting our future S1 they seem t wait to welcome them into PL. We also really enjoyed sports day. Well done to all the many Rugby only girls team to play a competitive match.
Have a lovely sunny weekend!
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
P7 Transition Day
We had such a great time yesterday, with our soon-to-be S1s at the Lagoons in Musselburgh. Our P7s really did rise to the challenges they were given, and a lot of new friendships were made along the way.
Thank you to the many staff and friends of PL who made this possible, and we now can month!
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Sports Day
PLHS Sports Day took place on Thursday 1st June. It was a fantastic day with a great deal of talent on show, through running, jumping and throwing. A huge well done to all finalists and congratulations to the winners of each event who will get to represent PL at County Sports later in June. Please see photos for event titles and positions! Overall S1-3 champions will be announced in assemblies next week.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Karate Success
These events feature the best in the world at U21 level. Whilst Cameron didn in the world an amazing achievement, Cameron!
Cameron has also been training with Luigi Busa, the 2020 Olympic Gold Medallist, and we wish him all the best in his karate career beyond PL.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Girls’ Rugby Festival
On Monday 29 May we travelled with 11 Preston Lodge Girls to Leith Academy to play in their Girls’ Rugby Festival. Having established our girls’ team in January, we have been steadily developing as a group, and it was fantastic to get our first opportunity to play competitive touch rugby fixtures. This was a historic day as the first ever Preston Lodge High School Girls Rugby Team took to the pitch to represent the school.
We began the glorious sunny day by travelling on the 124 bus to Abbeyhill and walking down Easter Road to Leith Academy. Our hosts gave a warm welcome and the matches started shortly after 10:30am. In our first match we competed against a well established Leith team and came away with a narrow defeat, but gained a lot of confidence. Our second match was against a very strong Edinburgh Harlequins team but this did not dampen the girls spirits. We then faced St Augustine’s High School and had an excellent match, concluding our first victory, and at this point the girls were clearly gaining confidence with each match they played. Our last match was against Drummond High School where the girls managed to pick up their second win of the day, with some excellent running rugby.
The girls were a credit to Preston Lodge throughout the day and have now had their first taste of playing rugby against other schools. We hope to see our Girls’ Rugby grow from strength to strength over the coming years. Thank you to PLRFC for their continued support and to East Lothian Girls for allowing us to borrow their kit.
A reminder that girls’ rugby is open to everyone from S1-S6 and you are welcome to come along to training in the PE Dept on a Thursday after school, 3:30pm-4:30pm.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
S1/S2 Youth Games
Congratulations to everyone who competed in our S1/S2 Youth Games on Thurs 25 proud of our competitors for their hard work and commitment they put on show which allowed us to achieve an overall finish of 4th place!
Our Event Placings were:
Golf 4th
S1 Rugby 2nd
S2 Rugby—6th
Badminton—6th
S1 Hockey—5th
S2 Hockey 3rd
Boys’ Football 1st
Girls’ Basketball 5th
Boys’ Basketball 4th
Girls’ Football 2nd
Connor Martin Active Schools Co-ordinator
Longniddry Primary School Sports Day
A huge thank you to the 13 S3 pupils who helped with Longniddry Primary School Sports Day on Thursday 25th May. The pupils helped run a variety of sports stations across the day. They also helped time races and record positions for the running events and record distances/ measurements for the throwing and jumping events. House points have been awarded to all the helpers!
Grange
Tom Robertson, Louie Thomson, Peter Bastick, Sadie Kavanagh, Izzy Ryan & Maddison Mclay
Seton
Daniel Scott & Lily Chater
Gosford
Struan Forrest, Evan Wylie, Thomas O'Hara, Alfie Letchford & Ailsa Stevenson. Christina Swan, PE.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
John Muir Way – ExPLorers: A School Fundraiser
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”
John MuirFantastic effort from Fran Robertson, ASN Auxiliary at Preston Lodge!
Fran has completed 84 miles of the John Muir Way wonderful Fran, and well done! Fran is sharing her house Gosford!
Thank you to everyone who has taken part so far and to our community who have endeavoured to join in over the summer months until our Student walks can go ahead, which are now scheduled for September.
Please don’ us on social media and tag us in your photos if you are taking part over the summer.
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@PrestonlodgeHS
#ExPLorers #johnmuirway
We would be grateful if you could help share our link with your friends, family and network to help us reach our fundraising target. John Muir ExPLorers: A school fundraiser | Localgiving
Julie Lowe, Head of Development, Preston Lodge Learning Foundation
Mentor Programme
This mentor & mentee pair enjoyed a karaoke session this week. Despite only meeting once before, they decided to break the ice by having a singalong together! In future sessions they’re hoping to do more singing and get creative with arts and crafts too.
ASPIRE Programme
This week on ASPIRE we were at Edinburgh College, Granton Campus in the Construction Department. The students worked well as team to create a production line, making cement moulds out of timer.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Youth Achievement Award John Muir
During Schools Of John Muir students learn about conservation and work on a few projects around school, including litter picking to clean up our halls, identifying insects that live in our fields, and building bug hotels to encourage more pollinators to live in our garden. Students then wrote articles about their experience:
'We built a bug hotel, which I thought was really cool...I plan to take my hotel home and place it up a bush in my garden and keep checking on what turns up.' -
Jordan McMillan
'When we were litter picking we mainly focused on helping the environment around our school. I hope future S2s continue to help keep the school clean and care about our environment.' - Denver
-Tia Gourlay'People just throw their litter on the ground even when the bins right next to them...You should litter pick because it isn't hard to do and can be fun.' - Murray
Clancy'We caught [a spider] then we looked at it under the microscope. It was scary and really fun.' - Hannah
StevensonThanks to all my students and I hope you keep up with helping keep our school clean!
Jillian Norrie,Chemistry
Teach the Teacher
The last of our NQT sessions was in Maths. Mrs McGregor refreshed our memories about BIDMAS by getting us to solve a Scooby Doo mystery using our Maths skills. We learned a fun song to help us remember the rules and enjoyed Maths shortbread (made by our mum). What a fun time we all had!
These lunchtime sessions have been great and we are so lucky to have had such a great group of NQTs with us this year. We are going to miss them next year for sure!
Julia Robertson DHTPreston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
Aspire
The Aspire group were taking part in their Construction course last week at Granton. Last week they were having a go at bricklaying. All the boys really enjoyed it, and learnt a lot from the lecturer. They have a good understanding of why they have to wear their PPE, and really got stuck into it!
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
School Lottery
Congratulations to our local weekly Preston Lodge High School lottery winner; Ms C, on Saturday 27th May 2023.
If you would like to help us raise essential school funds during 2023 and haven't signed up yet, you can visit our lottery here: https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/preston-lodge-high-school
There is a guaranteed cash prize every week, lots of other prizes and the chance to win up to £25,000!
Thank you for your support.
Preston Lodge is a community of learning. We value achievement, happiness and respect. 02 June 2023
