News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 25 February 2010

Malawi African Link Art Competition

As part of the Malawi African Link an art Competition was organised by Ms Duncan. Over 50 pupils entered and the standard was excellent. The final results were:

FIRST - Ashley Candler
SECOND - Callum Harvey
THIRD - Mhairi Burnett
Highly Commended - Gabriella Woolley and Ava Thomson

The finished pieces will now be used as a basis for a large mural which hopefully can be exhibited at the New School.

Scottish Secondary Schools, Under 16 Boys Sabre, Individual Fencing Championships

Congratulations go to Andrew Williamson, S3 who took part in the above competition at the beginning of February and won the Championship class amidst strong competition.

Andrew won all his 8 poule fights, with only one fencer gaining 3 points off him. He was seeded Number 1 after the poules. He was undefeated from start to finish.

The manner of his win was exceptional despite presently recovering from a knee dislocation injury and not fencing competitively since early December 2009. This was the very best win of his fencing career to date. Well done Andrew.

Fairtrade Fortnight

Lockerbie Academy became the first Fairtrade School in the Region in January 2010. Last Monday Fairtrade Fortnight started in the school with a number of events planned.

Firstly on Monday past there was a Fairtrade Fortnight Non-uniform day with the theme of Fairtrade being blue and green. The Malawi Rice Challenge was launched – where the school is trying to sell 90kgs of Kilombero Rice from Malawi. This will raise £230 – which will allow one secondary pupil to be educated in Malawi for one year.

Other events will include, Thought for the Day, with Fairtrade thoughts tannoyed every morning, The Big Swap and the Big Bru as well as sampling sessions for tea etc. There will also be “Chocolate Days” organised by the Fairtrade Tuck Shop, and lessons based around various web links.

On Friday Karishnam Sainathan from Bangalore will be speaking about managing an organic Fairtrade cotton project in their states in South India.

Faraday Engineering Challenge

A heat of the prestigious nationwide Faraday Engineering Challenge was held recently at Lockerbie Academy. Teams from five schools around Dumfries and Galloway competed in an event designed to test the pupils’ problem solving skills in engineering. The teams of six had to design a machine that would take as much water as possible out of a tank to simulate what would happen in a real life flood. The pupils had to design and manufacture the machine themselves under the watchful eyes of engineers from IET Faraday. After a day of excellent competition St Josephs College came first with Lockerbie Academy and Maxwelltown High School in equal second place. The Lockerbie Academy team was Christopher Shearman, Morven Beattie, Rhona Park, Adam Gilmour, Harvey Tollick and Holly Hunter.

Managers of the Month – Fantasy Football League

December

S1 Harvey Tollick
S2 Levi Carrick
S3 Nathan Moloney
S4 Euan Moffat
S5/6 Billy Ho
Staff Mr Ferrie
Parent Mr Tait

January

S1 Cameron McNay
S2 Finlay Brown
S3 Chris Gray
S4 Euan Moffat
S5/6 Billy Ho
Staff Mrs Anderson
Parent Mr TAit

Visiting French Pupil

Over this fortnight Miss Marzinotto of our Modern Language Faculty has had a special guest at school – her “sa petite soeur” - her wee sister Olivia.

Olivia has been shadowing Jessie Liddon of fifth year round her classes. Olivia is truly an honorary Lockerbie Academy pupil as she purchased a school uniform

Haiti Earthquake Disaster Appeal

The big bottle appeal for Haiti raised £282.25. Thanks to everyone who contributed – we hope it will help!

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