News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 18 March 2010

Sports Captains 2010

This years Inter house Sports are on Monday 22 March and Tuesday 23 March with competitions in Unihoc, Football, Basketball and Volleyball. There are junior (S1-3) and senior (S4-6) competitions.

This years Sports Captains are:

Kirtle: Heather McGregor, Jessica Campbell, Thomas Illingworth and Corey Crawford Dryfe: Fern Graham, Rebecca Porteous, Mark Porteous and Lewis Adams
Milk: Katherine Black, Rebecca Donaldson, Danny Collins and Kris Robson
Annan: Joanne Kerr, Hazel Scott, George Forrest and Greig Thorburn.

Can Cook Will Cook Competition

The final of this competition took place last week in the Home Economics Department. Working in pairs, S2 pupils had to produce a 2 course meal within 1 hour. The choice of main ingredients was limited to chicken, mince or salmon and this had to be accompanied by pasta, rice or noodles. As the school is a Fair Trade school, as many of the ingredients as possible were of Fair Trade origin.

Mrs Morag Cuthbertson, chef at the local Hightae Inn, had the unenviable task of judging the competition. The standard of cooking was excellent and the presentation of the dishes was impressive.Winners were –

1st Hannah McGregor (Dryfe) and Sophie Story (Annan)
2nd Tom Henderson and Adam Wilson (both Annan)
3rd Aidan Agnew (Annan) and Ellen Muir (Dryfe)

The winning dishes included Chilli con Carne, Spicy Meatballs with a Tomato and Basil Sauce, Thai Chicken Curry, Chocolate Fudge Cake, Strawberry Sponge Rounds and Strawberry Shortcake.

National No Smoking Day

Last Wednesday was No Smoking Day. 3H (Mrs Morton’s Reg. Class) put up a display on the notice board in the dining room. Please read what it says.

If you already are a smoker, please give it up. The notice board will tell you why you should stop this bad habit. Be a successful learner and give up smoking.

If you have not already started smoking, please do not start. The display will give you reasons why it would be silly to start smoking.

If you know someone who smokes, be a responsible citizen and try to get them to stop.

Sports News/Athletics

Danielle Beattie has been selected to represent Scotland at the Virgin London Mini Marathon on 25 April. This selection comes after a good result at the Scottish Cross Country Championships in Falkirk where she finished 3rd (2nd Scottish girl, as winner was from Preston). Danielle is the first selected member of the group of 6 girls in 13/14 age group and this is her first time representing Scotland.

Danielle was also running for the “West of Scotland” team at the UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships at Birmingham on Saturday 13 March.

Calum Main (S5) – Scottish National Table Tennis Championships

Calum played in both Junior and Senior events at the Scottish National Table Tennis Championships held in Glasgow on 6/7 March. On Saturday Calum competed in the senior events; the Mens Singles and Mens Doubles. (Calum is nearly 17 years old). He played scintillating table tennis, knocked out both the No6 and No8 seeded men to earn a quarterfinal place to meet Craig Howeison the Mens No.2 seed. Calum lost to Craig in the quarterfinal but Craig had to play exceptional table tennis to beat Calum 3-1.

Similarly Calum and his partner Scott Barton also a junior, caused upset after upset to finally meet the Scottish No1 men’s seed in the Doubles semi final. They were unfortunate to lose the semi pushing the No1 seeds to 5 sets losing 3-2.

However, Calum's main event took place on the 7 March - the Junior competitions. Calum and Scott (No1 seeds) eased into the Junior Boys final with relative ease, but the No2 seeds gave them heavy resistance in the final, however they overcame them to become Scottish Junior Doubles Champions. However, the blue ribbon event on the Sunday was undoubtedly the Junior Boys singles. Calum eased into the semi finals as the No2 seed, but was tested in a wonderful 5 set match against the Drumchapel Junior Nathan Courtney. This set up the expected final of Sean Doherty the No1 seed and Calum No2 seed. What a final, advantage swinging between them throughout the match it was a great 5 set final, but Calum's consistency and technique overcame Sean and he became National Junior Champion with a 3-2 win.

The icing on the cake came during the presentation ceremony with Calum awarded player of the season for his professional approach to his sport both in match play and training, and showing fairplay at all times.

Football Results

Under -13 Lockerbie Academy 5-2 Dumfries High
Lockerbie Academy 1-7 St Joseph’s College
Under -14 Lockerbie Academy 9-2 Dumfries High
Lockerbie Academy 9-0 St Joseph’s College

New School/Old School News

The new school is still on schedule to be ready for entry on Friday 28 May. However on Sunday 25 April 2010 there will be an “Open Day” at “The Old School” from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

Former pupils/teachers and members of the community are welcome to come to the old school. There will be informal tours and a chance to see your “old room”, photos etc.

After that weekend the school’s heritable items photos, trophies, paintings and Head Boy/Girl and Dux boards will be taken down.

Hope to see you on Sunday 25 April 2010.

Syracuse Scholars

The 2010/11 Syracuse Scholars will be Alison Donaldson and Duncan McNab.

Dates for the Diary