Meet Matthew! One of your house captains this year. He is thinking of becoming a teacher. He believes he can help Birnam win house championships this year. He also wants to help Birnam pupils have a great year❤️⚽️
@harrisacdundee
Meet Sarah! She would like to study philosophy at university. She believes that her determination will help Birnam win the house championships and she hopes to gain better communication skills ❤️🎶
@harrisacdundee
SURPRISE SURPRISE! Birnam won the House Championship!!! As well as the Sports Championship!!! 🥳🥳🥳Thank you to everyone that has helped make this possible.
#birnambesthouse
Meet Samantha! One of your house captains this year. When Samantha leaves she would like to study medicine. She believes her competitiveness could help Birnam win the house championships. ❤️🥋
@harrisacdundee
Meet your House Officials for the academic year of 2020-2021. We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming year just as much as we are! Hopefully we have a successful year and win the house championships!
#WeAreBirnam
❤️
@harrisacdundee
Meet Gabrielle! In the future she wants to take social or sports science at uni, and one day join the Police. As house captain she brings determination and hard work. She wants to learn the opportunities house captains experience and carry them into life. ❤️⚽️
@harrisacdundee
Hey Birnam! Here is our house captain virtual assembly video that will soon be shown around your PSE classes! Showcasing our aims and values, and letting you guys know about the members of our house and achievement forms.
#birnambesthouse
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We are very excited to introduce our new Birnam House Captains and Prefects for 2023-2024!! ❤️ We are all delighted to be representing Birnam and getting to know everyone this year.
#BirnamBestHouse
Meet Alex! In the future he would like to do a Criminology degree at University. His best skill that he thinks will help us win the house championship is organisation. He would like to improve his teamworking skills through being a house captain.❤️👾
@harrisacdundee
Today we visited the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Ninewells❤️it was amazing to see where all of our donations will go, thank you so much to everyone who helped us reach our grand total of £910!!!❤️❤️❤️
@harrisacdundee
@HarrisHomeEc
Meet Carrie-Anne! When she leaves school she would like to study criminology at University. She believes that she is ambitious and thinks it will be important in winning the house championship. ❤️🥋
@harrisacdundee
We are delighted to announce that our assembly came 1st place!🏆 Thank you so much to everyone that helped! We are proud to be Team Birnam!❤️
Well done to
@ForresHarrisAc
@TeamCawdor
and
@TeamKinloch
on your assemblies! We are so proud to be part of
@harrisacdundee
with you!⭐
Our house captains visited classes: 1Ba, 1Bb and 1Bc this week. We were delighted with the enthusiasm shown by the classes. Keep filling those achievement forms! And be sure to check out our Instagram page! 🤩
#BirnamIsTheBestHouse
#BirnamForTheWin
❤️
@harrisacdundee
Happy Monday! Our house captains, Samantha and Isla, have been working really hard these past two weeks on our house board. Be sure to check out our finished board! 🤩
@harrisacdundee
#BirnamBestHouse
#WeAreBirnam
❤️🤠
A very well done to everyone in Birnam for winning the house championship — especially to our house captains. Thank you for all you have done this year and we wish you the very best of luck with whatever comes next!
#birnambesthouse
Spooky season is upon us! Be sure to check out our board!
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light!” 👻🎃🧙♀️🧙🧙♂️✨🌕
@harrisacdundee
#BirnamBestHouse
🤩❤️
A massive thank you to all of the pupils, teachers and parents that made our year so enjoyable and worthwhile. We're really proud of what we managed to achieve this year - and of how we grew as a
#birnamfamily
Special thanks to our house mentors Mr Leslie and Mr Haxton.
Our lovely House Captain, Lizzie, went to visit the NICU yesterday to give some gifts to the babies. She enjoyed the visit and was really keen to hear about what kind of work goes on there ❤️
@harrisacdundee
@TeamCawdor
@ForresHarrisAc
@TeamKinloch
Although we have not been able to have assemblies in person but not to worry we have put together a little video for you all to sum up the successful first term back! We hope everyone has a lovely holiday and stays safe!
@harrisacdundee
🤩
#BirnamBestHouse
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A huge thank you for all donations of unwanted school uniform. Our very own House Captain - Christie led the S6 team today. All worked hard to sort the very genourous contributions.
#Birnam
#MakingADifference
A massive thank you to all Birnam pupils for this morning’s assembly, it’s always nerve-wracking for us to get up and speak in front of so many but you repeatedly support us and make it worth it.
Merry Christmas Birnam!
#harris
#birnam
#maroonmondays
A massive congratulations to one of our house captains, Samantha, who received an unconditional offer for one of the courses she wishes to study at University. Well done Samantha! 🥳
#BirnamBestHouse
#WeAreBirnam
❤️
@harrisacdundee
That’s a wrap! We were honoured to be your house captains this year! Thanks to everyone who submitted achievement forms we really enjoyed reading them. Good luck to the house captains for 2021/2022!
~Carrie-Anne, Isla, Sam, Gabrielle, Alex, Matthew & Sarah 🤩🤩
@harrisacdundee
Huge congratulations to Rosa Holm-Huxley and Jamie McLeod, two of our Birnam pupils, who have received unconditional offers for university! Well done to you both and good luck for Uni!
Hi all! Unfortunately we are not taking in paper versions of achievement forms, but, luckily we have created an online achievement form for
@BirnamHarrisAC
!
We would love to hear about your achievements! 👍
#BirnamIsTheBestHouse
@harrisacdundee
We are so excited to finally show you our first Birnam board! ❤️ We are so proud of how it turned out after all of the hard work put into it! Well done to all of the other Houses for their amazing boards :)
#BirnamBestHouse
THE END. a fantastic farewell. We appreciate everyone that has helped us through the year. We will miss everyone🥰🫶. From your house captains; Bea, Coel, Romilly, Finlay, Nazia and Lizzie . We love you all 🫶
Thank you so much to everyone that joined us for the Quiz Night this evening!⭐
We raised an amazing total of £506 for
@ProjectTrustUK
!
Well done to the winners of the quiz and raffle and thank you for all of your donations and support!❤️
@harrisacdundee
@RotaryDundee
Well done to Carrie-Anne Taylor in S5 who won achievement of the week! An amazing achievement of doing the 3 peak challenge in 24 hours!
#birnam
#marronmondays
The H.E. Dept have supported Special Care Baby Unit at Ninewells Hospital for 12 years. This year we have worked with Birnam pupils to pull together our annual Christmas donation. This video shows the great work going on behind the scenes..more to follow.
#charity
@NHSTayside
A memorial Concert for FP Zoe Matheson is taking place on Thursday 22nd Nov at 7pm in
@harrisacdundee
. This concert is organised by S6 pupils and friends of FP Zoe Matheson, who sadly passed away earlier this year. Tickets are £5. Purchase from
@HarrisAcMusic
&
@HarrisGuidance2
Meet Isla! One of your house captains this year. When Isla leaves she would like to study medicine. She believes that her creativeness will help Birman stand out. ❤️🎨
@harrisacdundee
Hello Birnam! We are very happy to announce that we are your new house captains for the 24/25 session. In order from left to right we are: Milo, Ella, Elsie, Izzy, Ewan, and Archie.
#birnambesthouse
Happy Friday! Hope everyone (especially members of the best house) has had a great 2nd week back at school! Our house captains have been busy working on our house board. Can you guess what our theme is?
#SneakPeak
🤪
#BirnamIsTheBestHouse
#WeAreBirnam
❤️
@harrisacdundee
We will have a stall at Parents evening tonight to raise money for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit❤️ Come along and buy anything from Home Baking to Baubles and Fresh Wreaths❤️
Massive well done to all s4-6 Birnam pupils to took part in the Varsity Cup this week! Congrats to all the other pupils who competed for their houses as well!! ❤️
@TeamKinloch
@TeamCawdor
@ForresHarrisAc
WE GOT SECOND ON THE BOARD!!! in honor of that here is a cute picture of Mrs.Taylor almost falling off a trolley this morning at the doors!! 🫶🥳
#birnambesthouse
#team
@harrisacdundee
Some of our Birnam prefects at the Christmas fayre earlier!🎄 We had such a fantastic morning and helped raise money for various charities at the
@harris_interact
stall with a raffle, guess Santa's birthday 🎅 and guessing how many sweeties are in the jar! 😁
Thank you to everyone that attended our Birnam Armistice Assembly! We enjoyed explaining what Armistice day is and why we all wear poppies. We were very proud to share the photographs and names of lots of our former Harris Academy pupils that fought and died in WW1 ❤️
Thank you to everyone that attended our Birnam Christmas assembly! We really enjoyed sharing the Christmas traditions of different people in our house and thank you so much to all of our musicians too!❤️
#merrychristmas
#teambirnam
We hope everyone has had the chance to look at our house board. Spooky Season is just creeping round the corner. Keep an eye out for our Halloween themed board this week! 👻
@harrisacdundee
#BirnamBestHouse
#TeamBirnam
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We had our very first Birnam assembly today!! Thank you to everyone who helped and supported us including our amazing first years and house leadership team! ❤️ We tried to show this video at our assembly but had a few technical difficulties...
Varsity cup started today with s4-s6 basketball! A big well done to everyone who came along to play for and support Birnam and the other houses❤️looking forward to next Friday lunchtime for s1-s3 basketball❤️
This week in Birnam❤️: Lots of planning for Monday the 1st of October, our first ever house official assembly! Designing our noticeboards! And collecting your wonderful achievements!
Birnam through the generations! Today we had the pleasure of showing old Birnam pupils our new school and be able to tell them about our experiences now and hear about theirs when they went to Harris! Thank you very much for coming!
#birnambesthouse
@harrisacdundee
330 lengths completed tonight at the sponsored swim ✅ Well done to Romilly, Tess
@TeamCawdor
and Ella
@VictoriaParkPS1
for this fantastic achievement!⭐
We have raised a huge amount of money for the charity
@ProjectTrustUK
!
Happy Friday! What a successful first term for Birnam! Thank you to everyone who has submitted achievement forms, they have been fantastic!
We’d like to thank Mr Haxton for your help this term!
On behalf of your house captains, have a lovely holiday!
@harrisacdundee
@MrHaxton
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A big thank you to everyone who spoke and performed at our Remembrance Assembly last week❤️and another thanks to everyone else who donated to the appeal❤️
#lestweforget100
#WeAreHarris
We have been very impressed with the achievements we have received this week! Here are some of the achievements submitted this week:
“I started playing football”
“I made lots of new friends at Harris”
“I attended a job interview and got the job”
“I cycle to school everyday”
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Happy Friday, Team Birnam! As we are edging nearer towards the end of term and October holidays🤩🤩Keep submitting achievements, it could be you passed a test in one of your subjects or learned something new in one of your classes! We would love to hear them! 😊❤️
@harrisacdundee
As part of our Christmas charity, the neo-natal intensive care unit, ourselves and
@HarrisHomeEc
need your help❤️If anyone can knit or know anyone who can we are looking for knitted donations for premature babies, such as: hats, mits, boots and blankets❤️
Candy canes and wreaths ordered, Christmas games ready, baubles baubling and Christmas cards being drawn. This week for Birnam has been very productive! ❤ Everything will be available as of next week. Thank you for everybody's amazing support! ❤
Happy Friday! We hope everyone (especially members of the best house) have a great weekend! Keep those achievements coming in! We would love to hear some more! See you all on Monday! 🤩
#BirnamBestHouse
#WeAreBirnam
❤️
@harrisacdundee
OUR HALLOWEEN BOARD IS UP!!! Go take a look at it. It’s along the dining center!! 🎃 👻 Thank you guys for all of your ideas!
#birnambesthouse
#coraline
#Slayed