News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 5 February 2009

SAGT World Wise Quiz

Last Friday Miss Harley took six pupils up to Lanark Grammar School to take part in the SAGT World Wise Quiz. This is an annual quiz where teams of three (one 2nd year, one 3rd year and one 4th year) go head to head, testing their Geography knowledge.

Once we had arrived at the school we were taken to the Geography department and given seats in the classroom and time to have our lunch. Once the other 6 teams had arrived just after 1pm the quiz started. There were 8 teams in total and we all took part in the ‘local heats’. The heats were split into 6 rounds each with different formats. In the first round we were given an OS map and had to follow a route filling in missing features and grid references. The next few rounds ranged from naming colours of the world to a case study of New Zealand. Soon enough the heats were finished and the results announced. Four teams out of the eight got through to the ‘local finals’. Unfortunately Miss Harley’s team of Jessica Campbell, Johnny Irvine and Harriet Fallows didn’t get through but Mrs Mitchell’s team of me, Peter Gardiner and Nathan Moloney did. The final was made up of four rounds. They consisted of watching a video clip on the world’s tallest structures and answering questions on it, then doing various timed questions on general geography, odd-one-out and deciphering altered geographical images. None of us thought we had done particularly well thinking we typically got the hardest questions but luckily our hard work revising previously paid off and we qualified for the finals which will be held on 13 March. Well done everyone and my team had better get revising again!

Jessie Liddon, S4

ECDL : European Computer Driving Licence

Congratulations to the following pupils who have already completed ECDL. Their logbooks have been sent to the British Computer Society and they will be awarded with their certificates soon.

Louise Copland
Kabir Arain
Lewis Bark
Rachael Darroch
Jemma Dunlop
Laura Frame
Joanne Howatson
Dora Lewis
Fraser McArthur
Ben Mailey
Craig Prater
Nicola Shortreed
Calum Tollick
Laurence Wilkinson

S2 English Reading Awards

The second part of the English Reading Awards took place for second year pupils. Over pupils received Bronze Awards for reading at least five books in second year. Special mention to Silver Awards – Hannah Shenton, Scott Glen, Nathan Moloney, Neil Porteous, Michelle Gillies, Gemma Waugh,Jay Bryson, Arron Brooks who read 15 books and to Gold Awards – Koren Boomer, Melanie Jardine who read 25 books.

Sports News

Scottish Shield Under-13 (Boys) - 3rd Round

Stranraer Academy 0 v 5 Lockerbie Academy
Goals: Luke Hammond (3), Dean Smith (2)
Man of the match: Kyron Jackson

An excellent effort by Lockerbie’s youngest team – notably all first year players. After the two hour bus journey the team prepared well pre-match and started quickly with Luke Hammond scoring two opportunistic goals. Despite steady pressure leading to many corners and half-chances Stranraer kept the score to 2-0, but rarely threatened Lockerbie’s well organized defence.

The second half started dramatically when straight from the pre-planned kick off Luke Hammond knocked a long ball to Dean Smith – one touch and the ball nestled in the net. Instead of fighting back, Stranraer were pinned back for the next 20 minutes and two more goals came during this spell.

Only in the last 10 minutes did Stranraer press as Lockerbie tired and all the substitutes came on.

A smashing victory for Lockerbie with a great team performance and another clean sheet.

Scottish Shield Under-15 (Girls) – 3rd Round

The U15 girl footballers played well on Thursday afternoon against St Aidans of Wishaw. Unfortunately the opposition were extremely skilled and very fast. Lockerbie Academy lost, however they scored two goals – one by Hope Chadwick and one by Alice Williams. The players were a credit to Lockerbie Academy. Well done!

Regional Badminton Championships

At the recent Regional Badminton Championships held at DGOne the senior team performed especially well and gained a number of Regional medals:

Medalists Under 19

Gold Medals Callum Tollick – Boys Singles Champion
Callum Tollick & Mairi Aitken – Mixed Doubles Champions

Silver Medals David Black & Hollie Dickson – Mixed Double Finalists

Bronze Medals Shona Common, Amy MacPherson, Callum Tollick, David
Black, Alistair Inglis, Martin Donaldson, Hollie Dickson,
Mairi Aitken