News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 17 December 2009

Famous Mathematicians Project Winners

For the second year the Maths department have organised a Curriculum for Excellence ‘Famous Mathematicians’ project for first year pupils. This year’s winners were:

Class Winners:

1A Steffi Bain
Alanah Gough
Fraser Hyslop

1B Lucy Howatson
Laura Platt

1C Ian Naysmith
Innes Green
Ellen Boomer
Julianna Grierson

1D Caitlin Irving
Danielle Stewart

1E Brooke Smith
Harvey Tollick
Christopher Shearman
Iain Dalgleish

1F Tammy McGuiness
Rebecca Newbould

1G Amy MacGregor
Gabie Woolley

The overall winners were:

1 Tammy McGuiness
2 Steffi Bain, Alanah Gough
3 Brooke Smith

Christmas Projects in Business Education

This is a busy time for Business Education as various enterprise activities have a Christmas market. Santa’s Sweetie Sacks produced by S3 Business Management have been on sale at interval throughout the last two weeks. The S3 Finance and Enterprise Group have been working with the Art department to produce a 2010 Calendar. This shows Art work from all year groups. There are two types of calendar – A4 wall hanging and the CD style.

Fantasy Football – November Managers of the Month

Levi Carrick is the new leader of the league with 103 points. Mr Bell is second with Chris Gray third. Mr Herbert’s moment of glory only lasted one week.

November Managers of the Month

S1 Connor Rafferty
S2 Levi Carrick
S3 Chris Gray
S4 Dylan Tait
S5/6 Billy Ho
Parent Mr Tait
Staff Miss Manners

PSE S1 Christmas Posters

As a teambuilding exercise S1 Personal and Social Education classes produced Christmas posters with the assistance of their Register Teachers and Mrs McCutcheon.

3A visit Ecclefechan Day Centre

During our Personal and Social Education time we have been finding out what life is like for the old people in our community. We decided to do something nice to help our old folk and decided to visit Ecclefechan Day Centre on Thursday 10 December. All pupils contributed 50p to buy baking ingredients and stayed after school with Mrs Docherty and Miss Wells to bake some Christmas cakes for the people at the day centre. We decorated them nicely too!

During PSE on Thursday we went on the minibus with Mrs Docherty, Mrs Anderson and Mrs Boyle to take our cakes to the old people. They were so friendly and really welcome us. We took them all tea, coffee and cakes round their tables then sat down with them and had a cup of tea and a chat. It was really fun and interesting to talk to them and we have been invited back to visit another time which we would most definitely like to do. The class went because they wanted to do something nice for others at Christmas but it was also nice for us. The elderly and 3A enjoyed themselves and had a lovely day.

Ammie Patterson & Briagh Farish

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