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moments she had found unwelcome thoughts substitution board with her number glowing Sometimes actions, decisions and events can
starting to invade her head like wasps around green, she waits apprehensively for the moment for better or worse change our lives forever and
a honey jar: You’ll never get back? What’s the when she will step back onto the pitch for the first afterwards leave us wondering What If? and If
point? Will I get back after so long away from time in twelve long months. A year of watching Only.
the game? However, hearing this moving story from the side-lines, skilled surgery followed One fateful moment changed his life for the
about her great-grandfather and the cruel end by endless physio sessions are now rewarded. worse, but an old black and white photograph and
to his promising career (something that could Occasionally frustrated, sometimes impatient his legacy have now transformed her own for the
today be prevented) has given her a new-found but unfailingly focused, her dreams and end goal good.
determination to fight and come back stronger. In never in doubt. As she waits for her cue to cross
that instant she realises how lucky she is to have the white line and make her long anticipated Eilidh Adams (S5)
the support and facilities to allow her to return to return to the pitch, she fleetingly remembers
playing the game and in doing so take over the her great grandfather and the photo and life- Having graduated from the Hibernian Women
reins and passion for playing from her ancestor. changing story which inspired her to persevere academy in 2019, Eilidh made her senior debut in
Today as the fourth official holds up the and to take the chance which he was never given. the same year.

100 not out for

P1 cohort

In February, P1 celebrated completing
their first 100 days of school. We had been
counting the days since August, to help us
with our counting up to 100.
We were lucky enough to have virtual
celebrations on Teams and have a ‘100 Party’
back in the classroom.
We decorated cupcakes with icing and
hundreds and thousands, counted out 100
Cheerios, created crowns and glasses, and
realised how long a chain of 100 cubes took
to make.
Mrs Judith Buttars leads a different sort of symphony

S1 historians

reimagine the

Renaissance

Josephine Waldhausen Gordon (S1)

Alastair McLellan (S1)

Catherine McGinty (S1)
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