Our school community is devastated to hear of the tragic news.
Our hearts go out to Saif's family & friends.
Saif was a respected and much loved pupil and we know that everyone will be very shocked by his death.
We will do all we can to offer support to our school community.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of one of our beloved members of staff. Mr Ged McKend, Principal Teacher of Pastoral Care of Cairngorm House died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday 29th June. Our thoughts & prayers are with Ged’s family at this sad time.
Very proud of former
@HillparkSec
pupil Calum MacLeod. First to score a century for Scotland against England in the cricket today. Picture courtesy of proud dad Donald MacLeod.
#ASPIRE
A very hard and emotional day for us at Hillpark & for our local community. Thank you everyone who came to give a very emotional farewell to Mr McKend or who have sent their condolences & well wishes to his family and the school. We appreciate all your thoughts at this time.💔
Guard of honour for our S6 Leavers today! You have been a wonderful year group. Thanks to Rory for his excellent bagpipe playing! 👏
#Classof2021
#leavers
#ASPIRE
Really sad day for our School Leavers 😭 hope we gave you as good a send off as it could be! Look after yourselves - all the best!
#Classof2020
#absoluteheroes
Thank you to Rory for getting us all in the mood to support our National team this afternoon 🏴. Rory performed at our main entrance and playground during lunchtime today.
#ASPIRE
#euro2020
#sco
A massive congratulations to Aimee Hughes on successfully completing her DofE Gold Award. What an amazing achievement, the first ever from Hillpark! Well done Aimee! 🥇
@GlasgowsDofE
@DofEScotland
#DofEwithadifference
1/4 A Celebration of the life of Saif Mohammed.
Hillpark will be celebrating the life of Saif Mohammed on what would have been his 17th birthday. Although a previous post suggested that everyone was welcome and that it would be taking part at 3pm in our basketball court, we have
Hillpark Pastoral Care past and present out to celebrate pride, Scotland and positive relationships with friends and colleagues! 🥰❤️😍🌈
#LGBTQ
#Scotland
#pride
#ASPIRE
Good luck to everyone receiving your SQA Results tomorrow 🤞🏼Whatever your result, we are so proud of all of you and thank all teachers, young people and families for all your hard work and support during the last session. 💜
#aspirehillpark
Information
@policescotland
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Congratulations to our amazing gymnast that performed
@PEPASSGlasgow
gym fest today!!! What a performance. Just watch and see!!! Well done Mrs Dunsmuir!!!!
Gus update. Now 12 weeks old and 3.7kg. Loves sleeping , looking like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth and enjoys holding on tightly to bottom of trousers and tips of fingers with sharp baby teeth. 🐶
The wait is finally over... the news is in. With nearly 2000 views on YouTube and over 1200 votes, the winners of Hillpark’s Got Talent have been announced.
In 3rd place is Leo Tinlin. In 2nd place is Mel Cassidy and the winner of HPGT 2020 is
Kingston Petersen.
Well done!
Lest We Forget. Support for Armistice Day remembering those who gave their lives for us. Rory our piper with Calum and Jamie encouraging others to donate to our poppy appeal.
Absolutely delighted to be handed over our new school pitch this morning. Not sure anyone is happier than Mr Byrne - think he may still be there! Thank you to all people and agencies that made this happen.
#ASPIRE
HILLPARK PUPILS ARE SECOND TO NONE 🙌🏻 Our kids were unbelievable from start to finish, total credit to the school 😁 Thank you all for a fabulous couple of days!!
#HillparkHeroes
#ManCityPSG
Congratulations to Rebekah in S4 for achieving an incredible 100% in her English prelim! 🎉 We hope you enjoy spending your vouchers on some new books to cosy up with over the festive season. 📚 🎄 You deserve it!
#ASPIRE
#celebratingsuccess
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1. We said goodbye to the class of 2022 today! 😢❤️ A big thank you to our teachers, families and friends for their support over the years also! 💗💗
Delighted to report 1st Bus have allocated designated school children only single deckers. Buses on the photo will not pick up members of the public so that pupils do not need to social distance on these specific buses. They will pick up at all usual stops.
Despite being another very challenging year, our S5 pupils continued to excel themselves academically. Due to this, we had an unprecedented 6 Proxime Accessits! Here is a photo of them all with our Dux. Individual photos to follow!
#ASPIRE
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Huge congratulations to our S2 pupils who won their first competitive game 🙌🏻🙌🏻 they absolutely smashed it winning 38-5 😆 Player’s player was Zoe Cairns and Player of the match was Beth Gilroy!
#activegirls
#hillparkPE
#hillparknetball
#undefeated
This is a short message from our Senior Leadership Team for all our P7 pupils who are transitioning into S1. This is the first video of many to introduce you to our wonderful staff here.
We are looking forward to meeting you all.
#ASPIRE
Well done to Hillpark pupil Rachel Waugh and her mum Lorraine and team for the fantastic work for NHS in producing scrub bags for staff at 15 different NHS outlets Any staff member who has spare/old duvet covers/pillow slips and wishes to donate please get in touch
#DYW
#Hillpark
3 and a half hours of facepainting later and we are finally ready for our halloween themed active girls day 🎃🙌🏻 All S1 - S3 girls get down here and join in with the activities on offer!!
What an amazing food bank collection - over 1250 tins for local people in need! Thanks to all our staff, pupils and families who gave so generously today! 💛 House competition results coming soon...
What an absolutely unbelievable achievement for our very own Robyn Wong who has been selected for the U17 Scotland Squad 🙌🏻 couldn’t be prouder!
#ASPIRE
#achieving
Brilliant news. We have been awarded our Bronze Charter for LGBT inclusion. Huge congratulations to the team and to Ms Bielinski in particular
#dedicated
#welldeserved
Thank you to our S1 for making the day a success.
The pupils looked fantastic in their uniform & are real credit to themselves in how they navigated their first day. We enjoyed getting to know them & look forward to working with them this session.They will all sleep well tonight!
A great first week of online learning and teaching 📚✏️📖 Our staff have been working exceptionally hard and there has been some really good engagement from our young people! Well done and keep it up! 👍 Let’s continue the momentum into next week 🙌
#ASPIRE
Thank you to all our staff, pupils, parents &carers for a fantastic job over the past few weeks. Despite unchartered times and the ever changing advice, you have all risen to the challenge and been fantastic.
Now, have a rest, recharge your batteries, stay at home and stay safe!
Another great day with Hillpark staff volunteers helping out with the local community food hub. Thanks to all those who could help.
#ASPIRE
@FARE_Scotland
Absolute scenes tonight as the senior footballers go through to the next round of the cup 🙌🏻 Goalscorer: Ben Kelly, Game winner: Lauchlan Ferguson, MOTM: Craig Taylor 😁
#WiderAchievement
#ExtraCurricular
#TeamPerformance
Thank you to everyone who donated to our 'bring a tin' this week. This will make such a difference to some of the most vulnerable in our community over the festive period. Thank you also to
@marksandspencer
silverburn for their kind donations.
Well done to pupils who accessed remote teaching and learning today! 👏 Despite some early challenges we preserved 💪 Thanks also to the monumental effort of our staff and the parents who supported this. We’re in this together! 💻 🤓 Can’t wait to ‘see you’ all tomorrow.
#ASPIRE
Great to have our senior girls basketball team back playing tonight. A good game against
@BarrheadHighSch
, we just managed to clinch the victory. Well done to everyone involved!
#hillparkpe
#aspire
A strange but oddly wonderful day. Thank you to staff and pupils for all your support this week. Food bank collection was fantastic
#othersfirst
Seniors final day
#aspire
#alwaysproud
First ‘No Stupid Questions’ session - Informal Q&A on LGBT issues with staff joining pupils from the Equalities Group for coffee and cake 🏳️🌈🍰☕️ Thank you to all who came along👍🏼😊
#inclusion
@LGBTYS
@StonewallScot
@tiecampaign
Time to say goodbye! After an unbelievable trip Team Malawi are beginning the long journey home.
Many friendships made along the way and I’m sure a few will be back in the future!
#warmheartofafrica
Merry Christmas from Hillpark Secondary. 🎄🎅 Well done to Eshaal Umar in S1 from Jura House, who was the winning entry of our Christmas Card competition, chosen by our Captains! 🏆👏 We wish you and your families well during this holiday season🙏
#ASPIRE
🚨 PE challenge 🚨 pair up with a sibling or a guardian and try and improve the accuracy of your heading!! You can tell by Miss Sweeney’s face this took a few attempts 😅 send in your attempts!
#HillparkPE
#accuracy
#lockdownchallenges
Huge Congratulations to our LCR team who completed the
#KiltwalkGlasgow
🏅and raised a staggering £3600 for
@scottishautism
👏👏🤩 THANK YOU to everyone who donated and supported us each step of the way 👏👏🤩🤩
Happy to help by handing over the school supplies that are not needed or being used whilst the schools are closed. They are most definitely needed by our front line workers.
#PPENow
A van load of PPE donated from all
@GlasgowCC
schools has now been delivered for redistribution to key workers and front line staff in the City. Thanks to all staff involved in opening schools, collection and redistribution. 👏
@maureen0207
@fifsross
#PPENow
Huge congratulations to Louise Cassidy and Nathan Moore from last year's S6 on successfully completing their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award! What an incredible achievement 🏅
@GlasgowsDofE
@DofEScotland
@aspenoutdoors
We are delighted that given updated COVID regulations, we will now be able to safely mitigate the use of our PE changing rooms. This will allow the wearing of full school uniform every day. Our full and updated risk assessment will be available on our website from Thursday.
10 brand new harps lined up and ready for S1 beginners. If you think you might be interested in starting harp lessons, see your music teacher next time you are in class! 🎶🎼
Opening night of our school show Little Shop Of Horrors was a huge success! Well done to all of our amazingly talented pupils, and thank you for all your support 🙏🏻🎭
Congratulations to our under 14 boys basketball team who won their first game of the season tonight. Also, congratulations to their senior coach Lewis!
#Aspire
#coachoftheyear
#Hillparkpe
Thanks to everyone who donated to Bring a Tin on Friday! We called over 800 items for local people in need. Collections will be distributed on Tuesday.
4/4 If anyone would like to make a donation in Saif’s name, please follow the link below to contribute to a charity close to Saif’s heart, Yemen Crisis Appeal –