News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 25 March 2010

Calling All Former Pupils

In less than 65 days the old Lockerbie Academy will close and on the 28 May pupils and staff will move across to the brand new campus.

Former pupils and members of the local community are invited to the old school from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Sunday 25 April. There will be displays around the school as well as informal tours.

Everyone is welcome

Regional Cross-Country Championships

15 Pupils ran in the Regional Championships last Thursday, all acquitting themselves well. The weather was damp but pleasant for running in, if not officiating. 5 pupils gained Regional Badges.

Danielle Beattie 2nd S3 Girls
Jessie Liddon 4th Senior Girls
Jacqueline Pringle 4th S3 Girls
Zac Caldwell 5th S2 Boys

Leavers Hoodies

Last week the sixth year students received their Hoodies to mark their last year at school. The photo was taken for the S6 Yearbook, including a back view showing their nicknames.

S3 Lifeskills Learn Curling

For 10 weeks S3 Lifeskills students have been learning Curling. The students have been brilliant well behaved, enthusiastic and making great progress in learning the game. Thanks go to the Ice Rink for making the group so welcoming.

Poppy Poetry Competition

We have received a lovely certificate from POPPY SCOTLAND for entering a poetry competition last November. None of our budding poets were winners but the certificate acknowledges our entries.

Death in the Trenches

John Dupre

All of them are thinking of me,
I can feel it.
I see it in their eyes.
None of them can see me
Yet all of them know I am near.
I walk among them
Yet I do no work –
They do it for me.
They create my presence.
I supervise my work being done by them.
Both sides fear me –
I take no side.
I take them when they fall
Anywhere else they resist my presence,
But here they invite me.
They dig their own graves,
They call them trenches.
They don’t even know that all it does
Is make my job easier.
I am coming,
Coming for all of them.

Sports News

Football

Under -13 Lockerbie Academy 3-2 Annan Academy

Under -14 Lockerbie Academy 6-3 Annan Academy

Curling

Lockerbie Academy’s Curling Team of Stuart Hardie, Jamie Nairn, Samantha Howatson and Mhairi Paul reached the quarter finals of the Scottish Schools Championship last weekend at Murrayfield Ice Rink.

In the round robin section they came second defeating Arbroath, Pitlochry and Strathaven Academy, before going down to Hamilton Grammar in the quarters

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