Merchistonian Newsletter
November 2023 Time is ticking fast in the Academic Calendar and with the end of November fast approaching, the School will be shortly coming into the festive period. November has been a busy month across the board with fundraising events, thrilling sporting successes and a host of shortlisting and prize nominations: from STEM competitions to wellbeing & food awards.
Movember Fundraiser Spearheaded by Mr Buchanan, House Parent, Teacher of Geography and Head of PSHE, this year’s Movember fundraiser will aim to support the efforts of the Movember Foundation, which has been supporting and campaigning for men’s health for many years and has funded over 1,320 men’s health projects globally.
This year’s the Middle Years House Parents will be taking part in the It has also been a busy stretch in the classic Movember challenge of Admissions department both with a growing their ‘mo’ (moustache) for the variety of international events to attend entire month. For the pupils’ and our Scholarship Day, which took involvement, there are many activities place earlier in the month with a new and events planned across the School and refreshed approach to our and in House to raise awareness and scholarship awarding process. We were funds for this worthy cause. very impressed with calibre of our applicants, both internal and external The PSHE programme will also take a and across all disciplines. particular focus on Men’s Health and Mental Health for this month, to Another important appointment in the engage our students in the dialogue calendar for November is always our around these topics, which are Remembrance Service, which took particularly important in the context place on Sunday 12th. We were of an all-boys school. delighted to see the Merchiston If you would like to join or support the Community coming together to fundraising efforts for Movember, commemorate our fallen and you will please find out more and donate via find more information on the guest the link below. speakers and the Service further in this https://movember.com/t/merchistonnewsletter. castle-school?mc=1 merchistonians@merchiston.co.uk
EDITION #15
24.11.23
From Mr Gordon Cardigan We have recently received a message from Merchistonian Gordon Cardigan (MCS 1960-66) who has written a 91,000-word international thriller set between Rangoon, London and Edinburgh – the moving on to the insurgency infested jungles of the southern Burma/Thai border. Mr Cardigan would be interested in making contact with any Merchistonians in the publishing industry to discuss potential avenues for publishing. If anyone within the Merchistonian Community is interested in knowing more about the novel or is able to offer any support, Mr Cardigan is happy to be contacted via email at gordon.cardigan@gmail.com