News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 25 June 2009

Head Boy/Head Girl and Deputes

Last week after a day of interviewing twenty-four prospective candidates the selection of Head Boy and Head Girl and deputes was finally announced for Session 2009-2010:-

Head Girl: Lynsey Armstrong
Head Boy: Tom McMinn
Deputy Head Girl: Hope Robertson
Deputy Head Boy: Duncan McNab

A few days later the second round of interviews took place with Heads of House and Principal Teachers (Pupil Support) to select the eight House Captains. Again there was an outstanding response from sixth year students with 34 students being interviewed.

Again this was a very difficult choice with superb quality of applicants, but the final choices were announced.

Annan House Captains: Allison Donaldson and Kate Shenton
Dryfe House Captains: Craig Irving and Hayley Jardine
Kirtle House Captains: Christopher McClune and Victoria Pollard
Milk House Captains: Dawn Anderson and Scott Irving

To complete a busy week, ninety prefects were appointed and will be detailed in future weeks.

Regional Athletics

Congratulations to all pupils who participated in the regional athletics championships . All pupils performed very well and there were some fantastic performances throughout the day. The school achieved the following:

6 First places (Regional Champions)
5 Second places
4 Third places

Regional Champions

Hope Robertson – Senior Girls 100m
Dean Smith – S1 Long Jump
Alice Back – Senior Girls Discus
Alice Back – Senior Girls Javelin
Scott Cochrane – S3 Boys Shot Putt
Danielle Beattie – S2 Girls 800m

Hope Robertson and Dean Smith both broke Regional Records.

Congratulations to all – a fantastic achievement.

The Sandra Marshall Memorial Prize 2009

The Modern Languages Faculty is pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Sandra Marshall Memorial Trophy is …Sophie Humes 1F. Second prize goes to Evelyn McLennan 1C and Third prize goes to Ellen Muir 1F. As a tribute to our former colleague, Sandra Marshall, who loved to visit France and who appreciated the French way of life, the language and culture, the Modern Languages Faculty runs a competition for S1 pupils. The pupils are asked to prepare a personal scrapbook throughout the session which includes creative artwork, written French, new vocabulary, family photos and background information. The end result is often outstanding and the effort which pupils put in to this project is exceptional. This project remains a firm favourite with our pupils. A huge thank you to our judges, Mrs. Morton, Mrs.Dougan and Miss Strawhorn, who all commented on the excellent standard of work produced by our pupils. Our congratulations go not only to Sophie, Evelyn and Ellen, but also to all of our S1 pupils who worked so hard on their dossiers.

Modern Languages Faculty - Winning French Dossiers 2009

The following pupils have produced outstanding dossiers in this year’s competition:

1/1
Holly McMinn
Emma Spencer
Derri Smith
Meg Scarborough
Lauren Moffat
Taylor Kerr

1/2
Kelly Wilson
George Carruthers
Liam Notman
Alan Miles

1/3
Zoe Forlow
Rebekah Hargreaves
Aidan Agnew
Evelyn McLennan
Amanda Connell
Hannah Macgregor
Emily Fradley

1/4
Lynn Paul
Megan Noble
Dean Smith
Kieran Walker
Mairi McCall
Bernadette Kirkman
Hayley Scott

1/5
Aylish Prince
Joe Good
Stuart Tuckey
Mackenzie Brown

1/6
Jodie Mason
Kirsty Johnstone
Taylor Stewart
Adam Wilson
Sophie Humes
Ellen Muir
Megan Finlay

Dates for the Diary