News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 12 March 2009

Fairtrade Fortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight culminated last Friday with a talk from Cornelius Lynch who is a Fairtrade farmer from the Windward Islands. The non-uniform day had a yellow theme and many students took a chance to wear yellow, occasionally using an old football away strip! Mrs Beck produced some amazing banana soup and banoffie pie and overall it was clear Lockerbie Academy was truly becoming a Fairtrade School.

Throughout the fortnight different pupils read out Fairtrade thoughts over the school tannoy. One example read by Ann-Marie Mooney last Thursday was as follows:

“Tea is a very popular drink in Scotland!

How many of us though, have stopped and thought of the poor people who pick the leaves of the tea plant? What are their lives like? How many hours a day do they have to work? What are their working conditions like?

Fairtrade supports a better life for tea workers by guaranteeing wages which do not fall below a certain level, freedom to join a trade union, and involvement in the running of the business. There are over 70 Fairtrade tea estates across Asia, Africa and Latin America”.

Tom McMinn produced a Fairtrade Quiz of 19 questions including:

“Which supermarkets stock only Fairtrade bananas?

a. Co-operative and Sainsbury’s
b. Marks & Spencer and Waitrose
c. Lidl and Tesco
d. Sainsbury’s and Waitrose”

Sporting News

Table Tennis

Calum Main and Rhian Williams representing Lockerbie Academy qualified in the top four of the under 16 schools championships held in the Bells Sport Centre, Perth, yesterday. This automatically selects them to play for Scotland in the International Senior Schools Championships that will be hosted by Scotland between the 26th and 28th June this year at the National Sports Arena Inverclyde, Largs.

Under 13 Football
Scottish Cup – Fourth Round

Lockerbie Academy 6 v 1 St Andrews & St Brides (EK)
Scorers: Sean Dunbar (3), Dean Smith (3)
Man of the Match: Danny Graham, Dean Smith, Kieron McCrudden

Well done to the young Lockerbie team who took on another team from the Central Belt and had an emphatic win. In the first half Lockerbie had most of the pressure and many near misses – however eventually after an excellent run by Luke Hammond, Sean Dunbar scored from close range. Lockerbie started strongly in the second half and moved two ahead with a Dean Smith breakaway. In very heavy conditions St Brides continued to work hard and after a good spell pinched a goal back. This seemed to rouse Lockerbie Academy who got stronger as the game went on and ran out comfortable winners 6-1.

Team: Jordan McGinlay, Connor Graham, Kieron McCrudden, Danny Graham (c), Kyron Jackson, Zak Caldwell, Levi Carrick, Luke Hammond, Dean Smith, Sean Dunbar, Eddie Booth. Subs: Bob McGowan (used), Ross Burgess (used), Lee Scott (used), Kerr Hogg, Robbie Carter.

Result of Gala Queen Nominations

The following five girls are going through to the final vote for Gala Queen:

Fiona Anderson
Eilidh Farish
Lois Pattie
Levi Pitt
Emily Rae

This will take place on Friday 20 March at 6.30pm in the Town Hall. Anyone from third year upwards can vote.

Fantasy Football : Managers of the Month

Mr Scott is still in the lead with 296 points. Second is Roisin Trant with Eilidh McNab third. Most points last week was Mr Herbert with 11 points.

Managers of the Month for February are:

S1 Kerr Hogg
S2 Chris Gray
S3 Ross Linton
S4 Richard Graham
S5 Roisin Trant
S6 Grant Bryson
Staff Mr Dickson
Parent Mr Bryson

Syracuse Scholars 2009-10

Congratulations go to Alistair Inglis and Stefan Hanley who have been selected to be the 2009-10 Syracuse Scholars.

Milk House Assembly : Fairtrade, Recycling and Respect

At the Milk House assembly last Thursday the themes of Fairtrade, Recycling and Respect were to the fore. The Milk pupils were organized in groups and made handbags and carrier bags made out of newspaper and sellotape as well as handles made from plarn (plastic bags cut in strips and woven into yarn).

During the event the pupils also completed a message board with various messages spelling out the word ‘respect’.