News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 23 April 2009

Lockerbie Academy Sports Club Awards Ceremony

At this year’s Sport’s Club Awards ceremony the guest of honour was Steven Sloan, former pupil and midfield stalwart for Annan Athletic. Over 200 pupils attended the awards ceremony and Mr Ferrie was master of ceremony assisted by Ms Cook and Mr Dillon.

The Sports Club tries to encourage participation and achievement and awards are given at five levels from Level 1 for regular attendance at a club, to Level 5 which indicates playing for the school, representing the Region and captaining or going on to National Trials.

The first two sports outlined were Girls Football and Hockey, with hockey being disappointing with only four Regional teams, whilst the girl footballers had a good run in the Scottish Cup and one player Emma Jackson reached the late stages in the National Trials.

Ms Cook then produced a comprehensive Report on the Inter House Games which ran successfully earlier in the week.

The hockey and football matches were played in reasonable weather at King Eddy’s park and the primary school, resulting in Dryfe house leading the competition after the first day’s play.

On Tuesday, Kirtle house provided the main competition to Dryfe in the volleyball and basketball matches, keeping the overall result fairly close to the end.

Final results:

Winners Dryfe 184 points
2nd Kirtle 152 points
3rd Milk 136 points
4th Annan 106 points

The badminton class had had a successful season with great interest in S6 pupils and also younger pupils. The regional tournament saw a clutch of medals with Calum Tollick winning the Under-19 title for the second year running. The rugby club had a mixed season being able to run both Under-15 and Under-18 teams in the Scottish Cup, however they achieved few wins. Thanks went to Mr Dinwoodie for his assistance with the rugby club.

This year’s PE Performance Awards went to:

Higher – Nathan Muir
Standard Grade – Jessie Liddon

In the football club 2008-09 has been a great season. The Under-18’s reached the 3rd round of the Scottish Cup and finished 2nd in the Regional League. The Under-16’s also had a determined season showing a very good effort and the Under-13’s have so far won 13 out of 14 games, reached the Regional Cup final, won the Coca Cola 7s Regional section and have reached the quarter final of the Scottish Cup. Levi Carrick has been selected for the South West SFA Regional Squad and hopefully boys at all age groups will get into the Regional teams.

Special Awards were given to:

Sports Leaders – Nathan Muir, Grant Bryson, David Black, Jack Copeland and the girls Curling team who won the Scottish School’s Curling championship:

Lockerbie Academy’s team of Hannah Fleming, Kimberley Smith, Alice Spence and Kirsten McNay won the Scottish Schools Finals for a record seventh time. Hannah also followed in her brother, Gavin’s, victory in 1997 and her own success as lead in Clare Hamilton’s team in 2006.

In the final Lockerbie Academy beat Garnock Academy 7-3.

Lockerbie Academy 2, skipped by Stuart Hardie, and including Lisa Jardine, Samantha Howatson and Jamie Hardie gained good experience by coming in third in their Round Robin league section.

The gymnastics had Regional success with the team of Esme Green, Taylor Stewart, Mairi McCall and Hannah McGregor coming 2nd in the Scottish Schools heats.

Special Awards were also given to Hope Robertson (Athletics), Danielle Beattie (Cross Country), Jessica Campbell (Sailing), Kathryn Williamson (Air Rifle Shooting), Andrew Williamson (Fencing), Calum Main, Rhian Williams, Alice Williams, Garry Wright (Table tennis).

Finally the three main awards were presented. The Sports Team of the Year was the Under-13 Football team from a short leet of:

Girls Curling Team
Level 1 Gymnastics Team
Girls Under-15 Football Team
Boys Under-13 Football Team
Sailing Team

The Girls sporting personality was Hannah Fleming from a short leet of:

Rhian Williams (Table Tennis)
Mairi Aitken (Badminton)
Alice Spence (Curling)
Hannah Fleming (Curling)
Danielle Beattie (Cross Country)
Hope Robertson (Athletics)
Kathryn Williamson (Air Rifle Shooting)
Emma Jackson (Girls Football)
Jessica Campbell (Sailing)

The Boys sporting personality was Andrew Williamson from a short leet of:

Calum Main (Table Tennis)
Callum Tollick (Badminton)
Andrew Williamson (Fencing)
Garry Wright (Table Tennis)
Greig Thorburn (Football)
John Beardon (Sailing)
Fergus Barrie (Sailing)
Thomas McBride (Cricket)

At the end a vote of thanks was given to Steven Sloan, all the teachers who take extra-curriculur activities, the PE staff and Mrs Matthews and Mrs Gilliland. Overall a very successful season with lots of participation by pupils and achievement at National/Regional level. Roll on the new school when we will have even better facilities