As part of our Reading in Reg initiative and the Extraordinary Lives project, S1 pupils explored the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart. They then took on a STEM design challenge, creating paper aeroplanes while thinking about thrust, gravity, drag and more! ✈️📚 #STEM #IDL #Literacy

Our STEM captains explored Oobleck, a fascinating non-Newtonian fluid, with the STEM club this afternoon. Duncanrig truly has some wonderful STEM leaders! 🚀🧪✨ #STEM #STEMleaders #learning

Our fantastic S1 students recreating the cherry picker program that they started during our transition lesson. Our highest score so far is 118! @duncanrigsecondary.org

We are delighted and very proud to share that we have achieved the Unicef UK’s Rights Respecting School Award at Gold! 💛

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“It was evident that children’s rights are embedded across the school community and underpin every facet of school life” 💛 #Amition #Respect #Community

S2 & S3 pupils enjoyed the opportunity to go to The National Museum in Edinburgh as part of a STEM trip

Well done to Rona and Chloe for these amazing practice joints. Superb work!

We love code! Our National 5 class working on their programming tasks. @duncanrigsecondary.org

Yesterday our S3 group headed to Glasgow Science Centre for the Space Academy—an inspiring day of discovery and space science! 🌠🔭 #SpaceAcademy #GlasgowScienceCentre #STEMEducation

🧠 Exciting news! Our School STEM Calendar is out 🎉
🔬 Discover key STEM events, clubs, and activities happening
💡 Get involved, get inspired, and explore your future in STEM!
#STEM #InspiringFutures #STEMEducation #STEMClubs

🚀 S2–S3 pupils at Careers Hive!
🔬 Exploring STEM through hands-on activities
💬 Engaging with STEM professionals & their career stories
🌟 Building skills for future STEM careers
📍 At the National Museum of Scotland
#CareersHive #STEM #InspiringFutures

🔥Exciting day in STEM Club! We explored flame testing and discovered how different chemicals create those brilliant colors in fireworks 🎆 from copper’s cool blues to sodium’s bright yellows. Science really does make the sky light up! 🌈 #STEM #Chemistry #Fireworks

Well done to the amazing 1.7 who finished off their phone stands in style today. Well done also to the talented Isla who is September DET pupil of the month.

Congratulations go to our S2 pupils on winning the EK & Strathaven Schools Annual Esports Competition held at Strathaven Academy this morning.

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Best of luck to our four students representing Duncanrig in today’s Enterprising Maths Challenge 🍀
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S2 pupils had an amazing time at the Step Into STEM event at South Lanarkshire College! 👩‍🔬🔧💻 They loved meeting STEM employers and discovering all the exciting opportunities STEM has to offer! 🌟 #STEM #FutureInnovators #SouthLanarkshireCollege #STEMEducation #Inspiration #Teamwork