The school concert band travelled to Carlibar Primary School, Barrhead, on Sunday 1st December to take part in the Scottish Concert Band Festival. The band had been rehearsing for months, including sectional rehearsals at lunchtimes, to prepare 4 pieces for the panel of adjudicators. Bands are adjudicated against set criteria and we were delighted to be awarded a Gold Award, with special mentions to our percussion section. As a result, the band have been invited to the national finals in Perth Concert Hall on 15th/16th March 2025.
As well as the hours of practise that pupils put in to prepare for the performance, we would like to pay a special thanks to Mr McQueen, Mrs Woods and Mr Crawford for supporting our pupils along the way.
Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Kelly, Mr Purvis-Armour and Miss Hughes have taken 35 Drama students on a magic carpet ride to Disney’s “Aladdin” at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.
A sumptuous feast of magic and colour, the pupils enjoyed songs from the classic animation delivered by a West-End worthy cast of actors and a gravity-defying magic carpet.
The English and Drama Faculty recognises the importance of extra-curricular trips in allowing pupils to experience "A Whole New World" of applications of their subjects - trips like this allow us to stay "One Jump Ahead" in Developing the Young Workforce.
The review? It was genie-us, and our school's three wishes of "Respect, Include, Achieve" were granted in one terrific trip!
Once upon a time, the cast of Dalziel High’s school show climbed upon its noble steed and quested Far, Far Away in its staging of “Shrek: The Musical.” With music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, the show invited audiences inside the pages of the fairest fairytale of them all across four sold-out performances.
The tale begins when Shrek, a mean and green ogre, awakens one morning to find his swamp crowded with fairytale creatures displaced on the order of the vain Lord Farquaad. After an unwelcoming welcome to the perfect town of Duloc, Shrek and his loveable sidekick Donkey are sent on a fearsome quest to rescue Princess Fiona from a fiery dragon’s clutches and deliver her to Faquuad. But as love blossoms, spells are woven and burps rift, Shrek and Fiona come to understand the course of true love never runs smoothly. With wooden boys, wicked witches and ugly ducklings, this is a hilarious and heartwarming tale.
With Queen Kelly of the Drama Department sitting on the throne as director of a team of staff and pupils, nearly 100 Dalzielians became Dulocians, taking responsibility for sound, stage management, lighting, props and costume, ensuring that audiences lived happily ever after in a night of song, dance and laughter. Like so much of life at Dalziel High School, the school show breathes fire into our school values and remind us of all we can accomplish when we aim to respect, include and achieve - as the show reminds us, "we've got magic; we've got power... who are they to say we're wrong? All the things that make us special make us strong!"
A special thanks to our two main sponsors: Robertson Consultancy & Avec Associates Limited.
Twenty-nine of Dalziel High School’s Language Ambassadors took their skills into the community with a visit to Refuweegee, a Glasgow charity devoted to welcoming and supporting refugees in the city.
Accompanied by Ms Mason, Mrs Gonzalez Curiel and Mr Purvis, the students toured the charity’s office headquarters in the city centre and saw the good work being done each day by volunteers. They also created tote bags filled with donations and wrote welcome letters which will be shared with those who access the organisation’s services.
Afterwards, they visited Barça in Princes Square for an authentic tapas experience, tasting the cultures of Spain in a banquet of chorizo, patatas bravas and pollo con miel.
The pupils lived our school values, aiming to Respect, Include and Achieve by learning about how we can support those in our global community who face adversity to live happy, safe and productive lives.
After another successful SQA exam year for our S4 to S6 pupils, Dalziel High School is celebrating the extraordinary achievements of one of our new S6 learners.
Liam Logue, a 16-year old pupil from Motherwell, is celebrating this month after attaining an extraordinary set of S5 exam results, all with an A grade - in his fifth year, he studied ten subjects instead of the typical five, including two Advanced Highers in the Maths of Mechanics and Statistics and eight Highers in English, Chemistry, Human Biology, Physics, Computing, Accounts, Geography and Business Management.
“When I opened my exam results, I felt delighted,” Liam said. “It was a busy year and it was a bit of a risk to take so many subjects so I am glad that it all paid off. My parents are proud of me… but my parents would have been proud if I got ten Cs!”
These incredible results join his remarkable accomplishment in attaining Advanced Higher Maths in S4, for which he was awarded the Robert Birch Award for demonstrating outstanding talent in the subject. He was also proud to be selected as the S5 Dux and to receive subject prizes in Physics and Computing. Liam was also recently successful in his application for a highly-competitive Arkwright Engineering Scholarship and hopes to continue his study of STEM at university.
With his eyes already on future academic success, S6 Liam is now studying Advanced Higher Chemistry, Biology, Computing, Accounts, Physics, Economics and Geography. Still, Liam is keen to recognise the role of Dalziel High School in helping him make the most of his talents.
“Thank you to my teachers at Dalziel High School,” Liam said. “They have been very helpful and accommodating with my unusual timetable requests. They have been very supportive in helping me learn as much as I possibly can!”