PUPILS at Thurso High have bought two goats... and paid to help train a teacher and farmer in Africa.

TWO very successful pupil fundraising events have taken place at Thurso High School this term.

SIXTY pupils from Thurso High School attended a Comic Book workshop on Tuesday, March 17, run by Illustrator and former Marvel Comics editor Tim Quinn.

A NEW-look Thurso High website is now up and running.

THIS term has been a busy one for the Thurso High School PTA. The bingo night on Thursday, February 5, raised £261.50 for the school funds, with help from bingo caller John Glen and assistant Mary McPhee.

THURSO High fourth-year pupil Ashleigh Miller won a Wii games console and a cheque for the school when she created a picture for the Lyreco desk calendar in the annual competition.

STAFF at THS have been keeping up a fine menu of dishes for their charity lunch club in the C block staff room.

THURSO High first-year pupil Charlotte Gordon is a very keen writer and recently took part in the annual Pushkin Prizes competition.

PUPIL involvement in rugby had a boost last week when Technical teacher Richard Wooles took the first training session for boys this academic session with a view to building squads for all year groups next season.

THURSO High School pupils played against Wick High School in the MacRobert Cup area qualifier in Thurso.

CHRIS Morrell, a fifth-year pupil at Thurso High School, receives his ASDAN bronze award from head teacher Dr Fiona Grant.

THIS year saw the return of the popular Modern Studies Pupil Conference for Higher students.

THURSO High's PTA held its AGM at the beginning of May and the following were elected as office bearers: Heather Carberry (chairwoman), Annette Begg (vice-chairwoman), Susan Gerrard (treasurer) and Ken Murphy (secretary).

AS part of their Social Studies course, and with assistance from the Biology department, Thurso High's 1S3 and 1S5 recently completed a topic about recycling.

THE Religious Studies department at Thurso High hosted a return visit from Jim Clark, of the Leprosy Mission Scotland, on May 7.

THE winner of the 2008 Clarke Trophy, awarded in the Thurso High Pupil Debating Competition, was Amy Munro of S2.

AFTER a year of study, Higher History pupils at Thurso got the chance to take part in the annual Question Time with local MP John Thurso, under the guidance of depute rector Craig Omand.

PUPILS in the Technical department at Thurso High are now benefiting from new hacksaws provided by the PTA. Pictured are S3 Craft & Design pupils Peter O’Hare, Lewis Sutherland, Jamie Henderson and Sarah Newton getting to grips with the new saws.

TWENTY-THREE pupils from Thurso High travelled to the North of Scotland schools cross-country championships in Gordonstoun last month.

THURSO High School pupils Jamie Mackay, Stephen Clark, Matthew Mackay, Ryan Sutherland, Graeme Taylor and Mark Mackenzie successfully completed their one-day Sports Leader certificate last month.

TEACHERS Angus McBay and John Glen raised £200 during the school's most recent staff training day by making lunches for those attending events at the school.

ON Thursday, the last day of term, S6 pupils at Thurso High organised a well-attended talent show.

ALONG with many other Scottish schools, Thurso High is running a Food and Drink Challenge.

FORMER NASA Astronaut Duane "Digger" Carey paid a return visit to Thurso High last week as part of the annual Caithness Science Festival.

KEEN cooks at Thurso High School got some tips from an award-winning chef recently.

AUDITIONS were under way during the last week of term for the next Thurso High School show, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Pirates of Penzance.

THURSO High School fundraising committee presented a talent show on the last day of the Christmas term (December 20), in aid of a sheltered housing organisation. There were five brilliant acts from different years in the school.

AS part of Thurso High School's 50th anniversary celebrations, a group of seven sixth-year pupils are working on a project to make a DVD about how Caithness changed with the coming of Dounreay.

LOCAL businesses have come on board to help Thurso High School pilot a finance course for S3 pupils this year.

THE first meeting of Thurso High PTA in 2008 took place on Monday, January 14.

IN two weeks' time, 49 skiers and boarders will be setting out on the Thurso High annual winter sports holiday to the Aosta Valley in Italy.

THURSO High Schools sports season has kicked off with good starts in most of the events.

THURSO High School opened its door to pupils in August 1958, making this year the 50th anniversary of the school.

MEMBERS of the S6 fundraising committee at Thurso High handed over a cheque for £237.32 to Barbara Miller, of the Dunbar Hospital palliative ward, after raising the money by organising a Grease-based singing contest in October.

PUPILS and staff at Thurso High donned fancy dress to raise money for the BBC charity Children in Need on Friday, November 16.

A VISITOR to Thurso High gave the pupils of English class 2E2 some helpful hints when she cast a critical eye over their work on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

A CHEMISTRY graduate from Edinburgh University, Willie Bruce entered his first classroom as a trainee teacher in 1967, and remained in the profession until his retirement.

THE Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies class 3S7 decided to raise money for various causes listed on www.thehungersite.com during the course of studying a unit on world poverty.

College students tour school

S4 DRAMA students at Thurso High attended a workshop run by the Scottish Youth Theatre on Tuesday, November 20.

TWO collages have been completed by second-year pupils as part of the Highland Promise initiative.

AN initiative to make the school more eco-friendly is being undertaken at Thurso High, which is now part of an international group of schools working towards education for sustainable development.

ONCE everyone had arrived at the high school on Monday, September 3, we set off on the 2007 university trip. We pupils were accompanied by Mr Bruce, Mrs Mackay, Mr Omand and Mrs Groves.

THREE fourth-year students have done exceptionally well in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition 2007.

INFORMATION and images in the media of the crisis in Darfur prompted janitor Sandy Fraser to try to raise some funds to help.

THE School's "History of our school" project, compiled by last session's S2 media group, featured on BBC Radio Scotland's Highland Café programme on Wednesday, September 19.

SPORTS clubs and lunchtime and after-school activities are now well under way in Thurso High.

DRAMA group Out of Eden recently visited Thurso High School to perform a play entitled Decisions, Decisions.

THURSO High School played host to the Musikschule Hochsauerlandkreis Youth Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, September 26. The musicians are touring Scotland and wanted to share their talents with the pupils at the school.

SECOND-year pupils had a chance to perform an exciting range of physics experiments when Lab on a Lorry visited Thurso High School recently.

THE staff of Thurso High have taken part in the Macmillan Cancer Support's "Create a Huge Stir" campaign and have raised £75 this year with a very simple and quick collection at break time on September 28.

WHEELCHAIR athlete Gordon Smith, a former pupil of Thurso High, has received a cheque representing the proceeds of the school staff's "get fit scheme".

PUPILS have strengthened their links with the local support group People First.

THE Arthur Yates Memorial Shield is given to pupils for outstanding academic endeavour in the field of Modern Studies, writes Heather Morris.

A GROUP of fourth-year students welcomed two special visitors into geography teacher Robin Ward's classroom: Thoko Kanyalika, from Malawi in east central Africa, and Jennifer Natten of Edinburgh, who are living in Caithness for three months as part of the Global Xchange programme.

NEIL Henderson of S3 has been awarded a Certificate of Merit from the UK Maths Challenge.

LIBERAL Democrat politicians John Thurso and Jamie Stone, respectively the MP and MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, visited the school's history department recently to face a range of questions from Higher and Intermediate students.

NINE pupils from Westfield Designs, the S6 enterprise company of Thurso High School, have passed their University of Strathclyde business exam. One pupil, Neil MacDonald, achieved the highest result in the Highlands.

THURSO High School Board had a record attendance on May 21 when all seven newly-elected Highland councillors for the Thurso and Landward Caithness wards were present.